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MARNET-Macedonian Academic and
Research Network
in SEE eInfrastructure projects
toward ERA
Margita Kon-Popovska,
MARNET MB
GN3/NA3/T4 Campus Best Practice Workshop in Macedonia 15.09.2011
Outline
European e-Infrastructures: prospects &projects
MARNET and SEE region follow up and results
Our achievements/challenges
The e-Science paradigm shift
towards a scientific Renaissance
Wim Jansen
European Commission -DG INFSO
Géant and e-Infrastructures
Pan-EU e-Infrastructures vision
The Research Network infrastructure
provides fast interconnection and advanced
services among Research and Education
institutes of different countries’
 Main Initiative: GEANT (GN3 project)
The Research Distributed Computing
Infrastructure (Grid, HPC) provides a
distributed environment for sharing computing
power, storage, instruments and databases
through the appropriate software (middleware)
in order to solve complex application problems
 Main Initiatives: EGI, PRACE (projects)
This integrated environment is called
electronic infrastructure
(eInfrastructure) allowing new methods of
global collaborative research - often referred
to as electronic science (eScience)
The creation of the eInfrastructure is a key
objective of the European Research Area
EGI
PRICE
GEANT
e-Infrastructures for science…
ubiquitous research environments for accessing and
sharing resources and tools…
Wim Jansen
European Commission -DG INFSO
Géant and e-Infrastructures
GEANT3
EC FP7
4 year project
95M eur
Reinforce
policy coordination,
innovate in use,
extend geographical
access
World R&E Communities Connectivity
EGI-InSpire
EU FP7
4 years
project
25M eur
Building and
maintaining
sustainable
European Grid
Infrastructure
PRACE - The Partnership for
Advanced Computing in Europe
Germany
France
CURIE
Tier(0)
SEE eInfrastructure activities –
timeline: 8 years of close collaboration
Network Infrastructure
SEEREN1/2: regional inter-NRN connectivity and GEANT links
[DGINFSO]  all countries in GN3 2009 (except AL and BA)
SEEFIRE: studying the feasibility of long-term solutions for dark
fiber backbone in the region
SEELIGHT: implementation of the lambda facility in SEE [Greek
Hiperb]  sustainable regional network
Result: partly sustainable national & regional networks, EC 50%
funding for GEANT
National dimension crucial: Role of NREN
in MK this was UKIM/MARNET with participation of researchers
from Institute of informatics
www.seeren.org
SEEREN 1&2
Funding: 3,5 M eur, Duration:4,5 year
2004-2009
Services planned/implemented during the
SEEREN1#2 projects and beyond
NATO NIG project
NATO funding
204.000 eur
1G fiber
switches+
2x32Mbps wireless
network
Project
proposing
Projecting
Procurement
Deployment
GMON-Skopje Gigabit network
Austrian Gov.
Grant
190.000 eur
Proposing
Projecting
Procurement
Video conferencing Educational Services ViCES
Serbia
Network
centre
Skopje
Albania
Skopje
Skopje
Tetovo
Bitola
vices.marnet.net.mk
Stip
Skopje
TEMPUS
SEELight regional project vision
HIPERB
Hellenic Plan for the Economic Reconstruction
of the Balkan
SEE-LIGHT: South-East European Lambda
Network Facility for R&E
Deployment of an advanced regional network
infrastructure (lambda network facility) for
R&E,
3 countries committed, others in progress
SEENet: a management body for SEELIGHT
Current status: Project starts in Serbia & is
on the way in Bulgaria
MK status: Available national 20% funds
300.000 eur (expected FINKI involvement)
International & national DWDM interconnectivity
SEE Grid eInfrastructure activities –
Timeline: 7 years
SEEGRID1/2: building regional Grid infrastructure within and beyond
EGEE, building NGIs and user communities [DGINFSO]
SEE-GRID-SCI: eInfrastructure for large-scale environmental science
user communities: meteorology, seismology, environmental
protection. Inclusion of Caucasus.
[DGINFSO]  All countries in EGI within the same timeframe as rest
of Europe
Result: sustainable national Grids, EC funding for EGI like rest of EU
www.see-grid-sci.eu
(with 67% local funds)
HP-SEE: regional HPC interconnection and 2nd generation Caucasus
link
Expected result: sustainable national HPC centers, long-term
sustainable model with PRACE and DEISA, mirroring GEANT/EGI?
www.margi.marnet.net.mk
National dimension crucial: Role of NGI
In MK this is MARGI – Macedonian Grid Initiative with leading role of researchers from Institute of informatics
2004-2010 year &HP-SEE from 2010
Infrastructure deployment
Distributed responsibilities for
Infrastructure management
Infrastructure operations and QoS
Core services deployed
redundantly, spread out
Overall availability of services 91.17%
Catch-All Certification Authority +
National CAs
Operational tools as shown on
previous slide
Grid Operator on Duty (GOOD),
Operations manual
Fully interoperable with EGEE,
overlapping
SLA definition, monitoring and
enforcement and corrective actions
Job success rate 94,27%
Key results: User communities support
Seismology (6 major applications), meteorology (2) and
environmental protection (8)
Cross-border user communities and beneficiaries
Very clear and efficient procedures for support
Seismology VO
Seismology VO offers the
researchers:
 Access to seismic data mirrored
from national research centers on a
timely basis
 Adequate computing resources
close to the seismology data
repositories
 Collaborative working environment
with both regional groups and
global organizations
Core: seismic data server
serving large seismic data sets
from sensors (TBs)
6 Applications
MK Application:
Automatic recognition of
Earthake locations
Size of Continuous
Waveform Data
No. of stations
2.44 TB
86
Key results: National Grid Initiatives
Before
SEE-GRID-SCI
During
SEE-GRID-SCI
Initiating and structuring NGIs
SEE-GRID pioneer of the NGI concept
Significant developments in a number of areas: organisational stability, operational maturity,
national-level support
Conclusion: we are going toward successful eInfrastructure,
deployment in SEE
Seismology,
Meteorology,
Environment
Comp physics,
Comp chem, Life sciences
User / knowledge layer
SEE-GRID
1 & 2 & SCI
HP-SEE
SEEREN1&2, SEE-LIGHT & BSI &
GEANT
SEE eInfrastructure activities – time frame,
convergence with EU projects
HP-SEE
(50% EC)
SEE-GRID 1-2-SCI
(100% EC – only international inter-connection)
Pan-EU
HPC
Initiative?
EGI (EC 33%)
EGEE (Enabling Grid for E- Sciences)
GN3
GEANT (EC of 50% int. interconnection)
SEELIGHT (0% EC)
SEEREN 1-2 (70-80% EC)
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
SEERA-EI project
One step more
SEERA-EI: regional programme managers (relevant
ministries) collaboration towards common
eInfrastructure vision, strategy and regional funds
[DGRTD]
Core Objective & Expected result:
Develop and strengthen the coordination and
cooperation of national eInfrastructures programmes
in the region of South-East Europe.
Ensuring long-term national-level funds and regional
funds to complement EC funds
Our achievements/challenges
Deploy own eInfrastructure part of the SEE/Europe
Be partners in related projects consortiums and so
Part of e-Science in SEE and wider
THANK YOU
and wish you fruitful work