Jan Gruntorád, CEO CESNET (eInfrastructure and Grids for e-Regions)

eIGeR project - summary EU Structural funds - Operational programme R & DI (Research and Development for Innovations) - 85%, administred and supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports – 15% The project is listed in national roadmap of large infrastructures (responds to the lack of data storage centers and computing resources) Monitoring indicator: number of organizations using the reconstructed e-infrastructure (target value 60) Preparatory phase: – Implementation phase: – Sustainability phase: –

eIGeR project – summary (cont.) The project is focused mainly for investment (advanced services and e-infrastructure applications are covered by complementary project) Total planned expenditure of the project: 754 million CZK / 27.9 million EUR* (of which eligible costs CZK million / 22.2 million EUR*) Total eligible investment expenditures: 493 million CZK / 18.3 million EUR* Total eligible non-investment expenditures: 41.7 million CZK / 1.5 million EUR* Total ineligible expenditures: million CZK / 5.2 million EUR* (*) exchange rate 27 CZK/EUR was used

Aims of the project: ● Qualitative and quantitative improvement of regional access to national and European research and development infrastructures ● Significant improvement of Communication Infrastructure in the regions in order to better utilize pan-European network GÉANT ● Building a National Grid Infrastructure (NGI) ● Create storage infrastructure for R&D ● Expansion of the existing system for remote collaboration ● Commissioning of new services (mainly in storage and computational domain)

Project activity Communication infrastructure: ● Increasing capacity of communication infrastructure and access interfaces (installation of terabit routers with 100 Gbps support) ● Acquisition and installation of terabit routers, network interfaces and DWDM system to locations Brno, Hradec Králové, Olomouc, Liberec, Plzeň, České Budějovice, Ostrava, Pardubice, Zlín, Ústí nad Labem and Jihlava ● Reconstruction / upgrade of main DWDM optical transmission circuit system Praha - Brno - Olomouc - Hradec Králové - Praha (it is possible simultaneously transmit 80 wavelengths - before the project was only 32) ● Reconstruction / upgrade of management and monitoring systems for DWDM and IP/MPLS networks ● Opportunity to build a user end-to-end channels with high throughput Increasing redundancy and complementing core network routers CRS-3/16 and main DWDM nodes

CESNET2 Optical Topology

CESNET2 IP/MPLS Topology

Project activity National Grid Infrastructure (NGI): Acquisition of computing cluster in Plzeň and its subsequent extension of accumulated funds Integration of the cluster into the NGI and EGI Acquisition of application software packages (compilers, debuggers, Fluent, Matlab, GPFS) Acquisition of GPU computing cluster for NGI in Ostrava Integration with other components of e-infrastructure (especially data storages and communication infrastructure)

NGI Resources

Project activity Data Storage Infrastructure: Building a system of three geographically separate data repositories interconnected by high-speed network (robust solution enabling backups at remote locations) Based on the HSM principle (Hierarchical Storage Management) - a combination of disk arrays and tapes Acquisition of HSM storage systems in locations Plzeň, Jihlava and Brno Total raw capacity about 21 PB Technologically heterogeneous infrastructure; standalone tender for every storage system

Data Storage Infrastructure

Project activity Collaboration environment: Increasing capacity and improving videoconferencing infrastructure in the regions Acquisition of webconferencing server Acquisition of multipoint videoconferencing unit - MCU Purchase of unit for sessions recording and streaming Acquisition of solution for videoconferencing software clients (H.323/SIP)

Project sustainability: Duration: 5 years from the completion of the implementation phase Commitment to keep the purchased equipment in operation (at least at the same technical level) Need to keep the target value of the monitoring indicator Any financial costs are covered by CESNET (operating costs as well as potential reinvestment), spending of subsidies only take place during the implementation phase of the project

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