Building the SEE human and eInfrastructure network

MARNet/UKIM development

Prof. Dr. Aneta Buckovskaanbuc@etf.ukim.edu.mk

MARNet MBProf. Dr. Margita Kon-Popovska

margita@marnet.net.mkMARNet 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 IndividualsSEEREN4 +1 mbps2004-2005

SEEREN234 mbps2006

MANI/GMON1 gbps

University Ss Cyril & Methodius SKOPJE 34Staff Academic & administrative 3600

yes yes yesStudents 40000

University Ss Climent Ohridski BITOLA

11Staff Academic & administrative 400 yes

64 kbpsyes

64 kbpsno

Students 16000

University SEE TETOVO

7Staff Academic & administrative 300

Students 5000

University TETOVO

4Staff Academic &administrative

Students

Research /development units & companies 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

145 Experts/librarians 900

Research associations 10 Experts

Middle schools (75 libraries) 100 Pupils 90000 ON NET gateway

Elementary schools/ clones (340 libraries) 370 Pupils270000/ 200000

ON NET gateway

Government 1 Staff 300 yes ѕес no

Global idea eInfrastructure + GRID + human

network

geographical coverage in the region

Towards e-Infrastructure and e-Science

GEANT (plan up to 100 GB in 7FP)

.

The vision…

Source: GEANTSource: GEANT

The VisionContribute to building up a Pan-EU eInfrastructure by

expanding the eInfrastructure inclusion into South-East Europe

Administrative OverviewIST 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 linePicture of the

Interconnections

http://netmon.grnet.gr/seeren.shtml

Macedonia 4 mbps 2004

SEEREN2 http://www.seeren.org/6FP Start September 2005, continuation, upgrade,

if possible lease dark fiber

Macedonia 34 mbps 200668 mbps 2007

2.5М Є

SEFIRE project (FP6)

South-East Europe Fibre Infrastructure for Research and Education

• Find potential owners of fibre in SEEThe 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 Project

South-East European Lambda Network Facility for research and education

HIPERB

Hellenic Plan for the Economic Reconstruction of the Balkan

SEELIGHT

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

SiSi

SiSi

SiSi

CampusMedicine

CampusTechnical Eng.

Electrical Eng.

Mechanical Eng.

Technology

NOC &Campus Social

Sciences

Campus Nat.Sciences and

Math.

CampusArchitecture

and Civil Eng.

CampusAgriculture

SiSi

SiSi

Building II

Medicine

Dentistry

Pharmacy

Building I

Law

EconomyPhilology

Philosophy

SMsingle mode optical fiber connections

MMmulti mode optical fiber connections

copper pair cable

GEANT

SEEREN

SiSi

GMON Gigabit MARNET Metro Optical Network

– 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

Gigabit Metro Optical Network

Facts & FiguresOwned by MARNet - University Sts Cyril and MethodiusTotal length: 17 kmThroughput: 1 Gbit/secOptical cable with 12-18-24 fibersMore than 95% students and academic staff of the University are covered

MARNet development underpinned by SEEREN/NATO NIG MANI/GMON

.

institutions

MARNet users connectivity to NOC

BandwidthUp to 2004

December 2004SEEREN/MANI

Jun 2005 SEEREN/MANI/GMON

No. of institutions %

No. of institutions %

No. of institutions %

N/A 9 19% 8 17% 4 8%

33.6 5 10% 5 10% 4 8%

64 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%

b 0 0% 14 29% 6 13%

10Mb 4 8% 0 0% 0 0%

1GB 0 0% 4 8% 21 44%

  48 100% 48 100% 48 100.0

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

MARNET Part of MK-01-UKIM_II (WNs)grid-wn0.marnet.net.mk

grid-wn1.marnet.net.mk

grid-wn2.marnet.net.mk

grid-wn3.marnet.net.mk

Switch

Dual Itamium-2HP Donation6x HP Workstation PC (P4, 3GHz, 512MB, 40GB HDD)1x Dual Itanium-2 HP RX-2600, 2GB RAM, 210GB HDD)

grid-wn4.marnet.net.mk

PMF Part of MK-01-UKIM_II (CE, UI and SE)grid-ce.ii.edu.mkgrid-ui.ii.edu.mk

grid-se.ii.edu.mk

grid-wn.ii.edu.mkSwitch

2x HP Workstation PC (P4HT, 3GHz, 512MB, 160GB HDD)1x Workstation PC (P3, 800MHz, 256MB, 40GB HDD)

grid-wn5.marnet.net.mk

1 GBbackbone

ETF MK03 Grid Cluster

grid-ce.etf.ukim.edu.mkgrid-ui.etf.ukim.edu.mk

grid-se.etf.ukim.edu.mk

grid-wn.etf.ukim.edu.mkSwitch

3x Workstation PC (P4HT, 1.8GHz, 512MB, 40GB HDD)

• 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

• Merge the MK01 and MK02 clusters into the new MK01 cluster under Scientific Linux 3.0.3 and LCG-2_4_0 throughout

– 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

MK01

Technology

MM

EconomyLaw

Philology

Philosophy

SiSi

SiSiSiSi

CampusMedicine

CampusTechnical Eng.

Mechanical Eng.

Electrical Eng.

NOC &Campus Social

Sciences

Campus Nat.Sciences and

Math.

CampusArchitecture

and Civil Eng.

CampusAgriculture

SiSi

MM

SiSi

Building II

Medicine

Dentistry

Pharmacy

Building I

SMsingle mode optical fiber connections

MMmulti mode optical fiber connections

copper pair cable

GEANT

SEEREN

SiSi

Optical Fiber SM

Comm. Tower

wireless connection 26GHz

optical laser connection

SiSi SiSi

ROUTER L3 SwitchNOC

L3 SwitchCampus

L2 SwitchWirelessTerminal

Cluster MK03

Cluster MK01(HP Donation)Worker Nodes

Cluster MK01Central Element and Storage

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 servicesInfrastructure Current

NewEssential future

Potential future development

Will follow other NRENs

Giga Ethernet 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 x

Grid Production Services x

European Grid Projects x x

Middleware x

Planned Services

Infrastructure Current Essential future

Potential future development

Will follow other NRENs

User Authentication x

In house PKI development/deployment x

In house Certification Authority x

Directory Services 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 x

Charging/ billing systems 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

SEE-GRID: Contribute to building a Pan-EU eInfrastructure by expanding the “eInfrastructure inclusion” into South-East

Europe

SEEREN

Contract No.: FP6-RI-002356Project type: Specific Support Action (SSA)Start date: 01/05/2004Duration: 24 monthsTotal Budget: 1,215,000 Є

SEEREN

> http://www.see-grid.org

Access to advanced services

E-learning for Improving access to Information Society for SMEs in the SEE Area

EU Initiative INTEREG IIIB CADSES project October 2005- June 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!

• 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.

Xanthi

ThessalonikiIoannina

Patra

Crete

Mytilini

Chios

Samos

Larissa

Syros

Komotini

Alejandroypoli

Kavala

SerresSDHSDH

Athens

Kozani

Orestiada

Volos

Rhodos

Kokkini

Agrinio

Preveza

Beroia

LamiaLivadia

Florina

Xanthi

ThessalonikiIoannina

Patra

Crete

Mytilini

Chios

Samos

Larissa

Syros

Komotini

Alejandroypoli

Kavala

SerresSDHSDH

Athens

Kozani

Orestiada

Volos

Rhodos

Kokkini

Agrinio

Preveza

Beroia

LamiaLivadia

Florina

Bucharest

Skopje

Sofia

Tirana

BelgradeSarajevo

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, SEEGRID-SCI)

• 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.