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Building the SEE human and eInfrastructure network MARNet/UKIM development Prof. Dr. Aneta Buckovska [email protected] MARNet MB Prof. Dr. Margita Kon-Popovska [email protected] MARNet MB About MARNet • MARNet is organizational unit of the Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje establish in 1994 year by auspices of the Ministry of research of R. Macedonia • Mission – Provide international and national networking services to the Macedonian academic research & educational community and support to their research and educational activities, – Promote and disseminate the use of ICT in the academic and research sector. • Role – – – – Connection to the international networks with basic IP provision; Maintain and management of the national DNS, International memberships, National academic network policy and development. MARNET actual/ potential users &MANI/GMON SEEREN/SEEREN2 connectivity Actual and potential users (estimation) Units Staff Academic & administrative University Ss Cyril & Methodius SKOPJE Staff Academic & administrative Staff Academic & administrative University SEE TETOVO 7 University TETOVO 4 Research /development units & companies Students MANI/ GMON 1 gbps yes yes yes yes 64 kbps yes 64 kbps no 40000 400 11 Students SEEREN2 34 mbps 2006 3600 34 Students University Ss Climent Ohridski BITOLA SEEREN 4 +1 mbps 2004-2005 Individuals 16000 300 5000 Staff Academic &administrative Students 12 Staff 200 Research / independent R&D institution 7 Staff 200 National and University Library SKOPJE 1 Staff 150 yes 128 kbps yes 2 mbps Faculty libraries, SKOPJE 53 Staff 70 yes yes yes University Library Bitola, 1 Staff 20 yes 64 kbps yes 64 kbps no Public libraries, Special libraries, Archives, Museums, Cultural heritage Research associations 145 Experts/librarians 900 10 Experts Middle schools (75 libraries) 100 Pupils 90000 ON NET gateway Elementary schools/ clones (340 libraries) 370 Pupils 270000/ 200000 ON NET gateway Government 1 Staff 300 yes ѕес no Global idea eInfrastructure + GRID + human network Towards e-Infrastructure and e-Science geographical coverage in the region GEANT (plan up to 100 GB in 7FP) . The vision… Source: GEANT The Vision Contribute to building up a Pan-EU eInfrastructure by expanding the eInfrastructure inclusion into South-East Europe Administrative Overview IST Programme (FP5) • Project name: SE European Research and Education Networking • Project Acronym: SEEREN • Call Identifier: IST-02-8-2B • Contract No.: IST-2001-38830 • Project type: Preparatory, accompanying and support measures • Start date: 01/12/2002 • Duration: 25 months • Total Budget: 1,297,481 Є • Funding from the EC:1,297,481 Є • Total Effort: 56.1 person-months • Project web-site: www.seeren.org On line Picture of the Interconnections Macedonia 4 mbps 2004 http://netmon.grnet.gr/seeren.shtml SEEREN2 http://www.seeren.org/ 6FP Start September 2005, continuation, upgrade, if possible lease dark fiber Macedonia 34 mbps 2006 68 mbps 2007 2.5М Є SEFIRE project (FP6) South-East Europe Fibre Infrastructure for Research and Education • Find potential owners of fibre in SEE The SEEFIRE Consortium consists of: TERENA (co-ordinating contractor) The Netherlands GRNET Greece CESNET Czech Republic new partner NIIF/HUNGARNET Hungary AMREJ Serbia and Montenegro DANTE United Kingdom RoEduNet Romania ISTF Bulgaria MARNet Macedonia ASA Albania BIHARNET Bosnia and Herzegovina Provide input for preparing the next-generation networks for research and education in the region. Duration: 12-month, start 1 March 2005 SEELIGHT SEELIGHT Project South-East European Lambda Network Facility for research and education HIPERB Hellenic Plan for the Economic Reconstruction of the Balkan Two of possible routes MARNet NATO NIG MANI and CISCO donation MANI- MARNet Advanced Network Infrastructure – – – – – Dec. 2002 –Dec 2004 Status: Operational Sept 2004 Budget: 200 K€ (NATO Science Programme funding) Objective achieved Established MAN in Skopje area based on wireless links and gigabit multilayer switches to interconnect University campuses’ LANs Participants: Faculties and Research institutes in Skopje MARNet GMON Law SEEREN GEANT MM Campus Social Sciences MM GMON Gigabit MARNET Metro Optical Network Economy NOC & Campus Nat. Sciences and Math. m) (~1k Philology Philosophy SM MM Si Si SM rS M Op tica l Fi be Si rS M l Optica M M MM M Fiber S Si MM – Op er l Fib tica lF ibe – Campus Architecture and Civil Eng. ca – Optical Fiber SM Building II Start: Apr. 2003, Duration 18 months Budget: 190 K€ (Austrian Government Grant) Main Objective: To establish MAN in Skopje area based on optical fiber links that will interconnect University campuses’ LANs Participants: Faculties and Research Institutes in Skopje Op ti – Building I Campus Agriculture M Electrical Eng. M MM Si Mechanical Eng. MM Technology Si Campus Technical Eng. Campus Medicine Medicine Pharmacy SM Dentistry MM single mode optical fiber connections multi mode optical fiber connections copper pair cable Gigabit Metro Optical Network Facts & Figures Owned by MARNet - University Sts Cyril and Methodius Total length: 17 km Throughput: 1 Gbit/sec Optical cable with 12-18-24 fibers More than 95% students and academic staff of the University are covered MARNet development underpinned by SEEREN/NATO NIG MANI/GMON Bandwidth December 2004 . SEEREN/MANI Up to 2004 % No. of institutions % 8 17% 4 8% 10% 5 10% 4 8% 14 29% 12 25% 10 21% 8 17% 3 6% 2 4% 256 1 2% 1 2% 0 0% 2Mb 7 15% 1 2% 1 2% 4Mb 0 0% 14 29% 6 13% 10Mb 4 8% 0 0% 0 0% 1GB 0 0% 4 8% 21 48 100% 48 100% 48 No. of institutions % No. of institutions N/A 9 19% 33.6 5 64 Jun 2005 SEEREN/MANI/GMON MARNet users connectivity to NOC institutions 44% 100.0 SEE-GRID FP6 project • SEE-GRID – Start: May 2004, Duration 24 months – Main Objective: To migrate and test Grid applications developed by pan-European Grid efforts in the regional infrastructure. To demonstrate one more Grid application of regional interest – Total budget around 1M eur – Participants: CERN Swiss, Tu, Cro, Al, B&H, Bg, MK, S&Mn, Gr, Hu and Ro. • Third parties – Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics – Faculty of Electrical Engineering National GRID Infrastructure – Clusters installed MK-01-UKIM_II Grid Cluster MK01 MARNET Part of MK-01-UKIM_II (WNs) PMF Part of MK-01-UKIM_II (CE, UI and SE) grid-wn0.marnet.net.mk grid-wn2.marnet.net.mk grid-ce.ii.edu.mk grid-ui.ii.edu.mk grid-wn4.marnet.net.mk Switch Switch grid-wn1.marnet.net.mk grid-wn3.marnet.net.mk grid-wn.ii.edu.mk grid-wn5.marnet.net.mk grid-se.ii.edu.mk 1 GB backbone Dual Itamium-2 HP Donation 6x HP Workstation PC (P4, 3GHz, 512MB, 40GB HDD) 1x Dual Itanium-2 HP RX-2600, 2GB RAM, 210GB HDD) 2x HP Workstation PC (P4HT, 3GHz, 512MB, 160GB HDD) 1x Workstation PC (P3, 800MHz, 256MB, 40GB HDD) ETF MK03 Grid Cluster • Start with 3 clusters M01 (6 nodes), M02 (3 nodes) and M03 (3 nodes) with CERN (Red Hat) Linux 7.3 and LCG_2 GRID middleware grid-ce.etf.ukim.edu.mk grid-ui.etf.ukim.edu.mk Switch grid-wn.etf.ukim.edu.mk GEANT Cluster MK01 (HP Donation) Worker Nodes Law SEEREN Cluster MK01 Central Element and Storage Merge the MK01 and34MK02 clusters into the new MK01 cluster under Mb its Scientific Linux 3.0.3 and LCG-2_4_0 throughout Economy MM Campus Social Sciences M NOC & Campus Nat. Sciences and Math. m) (~1k Philology Philosophy M • Building I SM MM Si Si Optical Fiber SM Building II – La se r Preparation and upgrade from RedHat Linux 7.3 to Scientific Linux 3.0.3 and installation of LCG-2_3_0 – Upgrading to LCG-2_4_0 – Certification of RA, GIM and two host nodes grid.-ce.ii.edu.mk and grid-se.ii.edu.mk Production phase of the cluster iber al F Campus Architecture and Civil Eng. SM 15 c Opti al F iber s M SM er M lF ib M MM Si M O pt ica grid-se.etf.ukim.edu.mk SM Optical Fiber SM Si 5M bp Opti c Campus Agriculture Comm. Tower Technology MM ROUTER MM Si Si Mechanical Eng. MM Electrical Eng. Campus Technical Eng. Campus Medicine Medicine • Cluster MK03 Si Si L3 Switch NOC L3 Switch Campus L2 Switch Wireless Terminal Pharmacy optical laser connection Dentistry wireless connection 26GHz SM MM single mode optical fiber connections multi mode optical fiber connections copper pair cable 3x Workstation PC (P4HT, 1.8GHz, 512MB, 40GB HDD) National Grid Initiative -MARGI MARGI – Macedonian Academic and Research Grid Initiative was launched at ‘Ss. Cyril and Methodius’ University on April 15, 2005 National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) can be defined as concentrated efforts taken at National level in order to deploy, operate, and expand grid infrastructures in a coherent and coordinated way Ongoing/planned services Infrastructure Giga Ethernet Current New Essential future Potential future development x Lambda testbed Access x Lambda Service Deployment x Wireless LAN x Diffserv/QoS x MPLS Service Deployment x IP version 6 x Mobile IP x Multicast x Access for roaming end-users x 802.1x Authentication x Grid Service x Grid Software Development x Grid Production Services x x European Grid Projects x Middleware x x Will follow other NRENs Infrastructure User Authentication Current Essential future Potential future development x Planned Services In house PKI development/deployment In house Certification Authority Directory Services Will follow other NRENs x x x Caching/Indexing/Mirroring x Security x Other CSIRT/CERT services x Coordination of incident handling x Application level Teaching and learning methods x Video conferencing x Streaming media x VoIP x Management Traffic monitoring Charging/ billing systems x x Web Server content management x Web server usage analysis x Information Content Indexing x Disaster preparedness x Performance Emergency Responses Teams x The European perspective - eEurope Access to advanced services • EU Geant binds national networks and creates a high performance production network for Europe • EGEE will bind national Grid infrastructures - focussing all activities towards establishing a production quality Grid for Europe • Both together constitute the eInfrastructure Access to advanced services SEE-GRID: Contribute to building a Pan-EU eInfrastructure by expanding the “eInfrastructure inclusion” into South-East Europe Contract No.: FP6-RI-002356 Project type: Specific Support Action (SSA) Start date: 01/05/2004 Duration: 24 months Total Budget: 1,215,000 Є > http://www.see-grid.org E-learning for Improving access to Information Society for SMEs in the SEE Area EU Initiative INTEREG IIIB CADSES project October 2005June 2008 Goal …improving the access to knowledge and the information society of SMEs in South-East Europe, through close cooperation of academic and business communities at a transnational level, by transferring EU best practice training know-how and by developing national training strategies. Emphasis is given to SMEs from rural and distant areas in Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia-Montenegro. Future Plans • • • Build on the tremendous brain potential in the region; Focus not only on easing the digital divide, but on achieving it in a sustainable way! Bucharest Sarajevo Belgrade Sofia Go for new opportunities and projects towards the upgrade of networking infrastructure/equipment, under – FP6, FP7, NATO, ERDF, Government sponsorships, Vendor sponsorships, Bilateral programmes UNDP, EIB, WorldBank, USAID, etc. Tirana Skopje XanthiKomotini Serres Florina Kozani Orestiada SDH Alejandroypoli SDH Kavala Beroia Ioannina Thessaloniki Larissa Volos Kokkini Preveza Mytilini Lamia Livadia Agrinio Patra Chios Athens Samos Syros Rhodos Crete Conclusions • Thanks to SEEREN, SEEGRID, SEFIRE and wider international and national financial support, remarkable results were achieved: – – – • • • • eInfrastructure GRID cluster included in regional and European EGEE GRID network Human network in region Thanks to established infrastructure and human network, new joint international projects where enabled (SEEREN2, SEEGRID2, SEEGRIDSCI) Significant experience in management of the multi country projects were gained Complementing EC Framework Programs with regional/national initiatives (e.g. in the case of SEE initiatives like the Balkan Action Plan), EU structural funds, support/funding programs from global organizations like NATO, UNESCO, donations from industry HP, CISKO, SUN, etc., can contribute to the sustainability of the effort We expect further international support mainly through the joint projects in high performance networking, e-Science and e-Education and believe that sustainability will be achieved with expected Governmental financial support and MARNet own resources.