1. Development of the e-Infrastructure in Macedonian Prof
Development of the e-Infrastructure in Macedonian Prof. Magita Kon-Popovska FINKI, UKIM
E-Infrastructure for Macedonian researchers

2. Outline European e-Infrastructures: prospects &projects
SEE region follow up and results
Macedonian achievements/challenges

3. The e-Science paradigm shift
towards a scientific Renaissance
Wim Jansen
European Commission -DG INFSO
Géant and e-Infrastructures

4. 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 data 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 (ERA)
EGI PRICE
GEANT

5. e-Infrastructures for science… ubiquitous research environments for accessing and sharing resources and tools…
Wim Jansen
European Commission -DG INFSO
Géant and e-Infrastructures

6. GEANT GN3 FP7 EC 4 year project 2009-2013 95M eur Cross border fiber
EU NREN Policy
coordination,
Innovate services,
Extend geographical
access
34 partners 32 NRENs,
40M users institutions

7. World R&E Communities Connectivity

8. Hierarchical network structure
Enabling centralized management,
End-to-end service provision
High network expertise

9. EGI-European Grid Initiative
EGI-InSpire FP7
4 years project
25M eur
Building and maintaining sustainable European Grid Infrastructure
50 Institutions in 40 countries, NGI

10. CHAIN project (Coordination& Harmonization of Advanced eInfrastructures)
CNGrid
NKN & Garuda
EUAsiaGrid
SAGrid & SANREN

11. PRACE Tier(0) Partnership for Advanced Computing in EU
Germany, IBM Blue Gene
1 Petaflops, cores
FP , 24 countries
CURIE France, Bullx86 modular system, 2 Petaflops

12. Some of global projects

13. FP 7 eInfrastructure projects
e-IRG (e-Infrastructure Reflection Group)
Inter governmental policy body that was founded to support the creation of a political, technological and administrative framework and shared use of distributed electronic resources across Europe (30 countries participate).
CLARIN Common language resources and technology Infrastructure)
Has established an integrated and interoperable Pan European research infrastructure of language resources and its technology, making them available to the humanities and social sciences research communities at large.

14. SEE & Macedonia eInfrastructure

15. SEE eInfrastructure activities – timeline: 10 years of close collaboration
Network Infrastructure
SEEREN1/2: regional inter-NRN connectivity and GEANT links [DG INFSO]  all countries in GN (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 43% funding for GEANT
National dimension crucial: Role of NREN
in MK this was UKIM/MARNET with participation of researchers from PMF and FEIT
MARnet target September 2012, 2 x 155 Mbps 15

16. SEEREN 1&2
4 mbps mbps mbps 2007
Funding: 3,5 M eur, Duration:4,5 year. From Mbps Sofia GEANT PoP

17. 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
eur
International & national DWDM interconnectivity

18. NATO NIG project NATO funding 204.000 eur 2004 year
1G fiber switches+ 2x32Mbps
wireless network
Project proposing
Projecting
Procurement
Deployment

19. GMON-Skopje Gigabit network
Austrian Gov. Grant
eur
2004 year
Proposing
Projecting
Procurement
Fiber optics owned by MARNet –
Ss Cyril and Methodius, University
Total length: 20 km
Throughput: 1 Gbit/sec
Optical cable with fibers
More than 95% students and academic staff of the University are covered

20. Skopje wireless network
Relay point МРТВ
Technical Campus
Civil Eng&Arch. campus
PMF campus.
Biotehnological campus
Laser link 155Mbps
10Mbps radio backup
2 optical fiber
UKIM
Medical Campus
NUB
IZIIS

21. Alvarion WalkAir 3000, sector 1

22. Alvarion WalkAir 3000, sector 2

23. Stip University network

24. Services planned/implemented during the SEEREN1&2 projects and beyond
EDUROAM (under GN3)

25. Video conferencing Educational Services ViCES
Serbia
Skopje
Network centre
Albania
Skopje
Skopje
Tetovo
Stip
Skopje
Bitola
TEMPUS
vices.marnet.net.mk

26. SEE Grid eInfrastructure activities – Timeline: 8 years
SEEGRID1/2: building regional Grid infrastructure within and beyond EGEE, building NGIs and user communities
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 (with 67% local funds)
HP-SEE: regional HPC interconnection and 2nd generation Caucasus link (ongoing )
Expected result: sustainable national HPC centers, long-term sustainable model with PRACE, links GEANT/EGI
National dimension crucial: Role of NGI
In MK this is MARGI – Macedonian Grid Initiative -
with leading role of researchers from FINKI
year &HP-SEE from 2010 26

27. Infrastructure deployment

28. Distributed responsibilities for Infrastructure management

29. 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 29

30. Size of Continuous Waveform Data
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
 2.44 TB
No. of stations
86  30

31. 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

32. Conclusion: we are going toward successful eInfrastructure, deployment in SEE
SEEREN1&2, SEE-LIGHT & BSI & GEANT
Comp physics,
Comp chem, Life sciences
Seismology, Meteorology, Environment
SEE-GRID
1 & 2 & SCI
HP-SEE
User / knowledge layer

33. EGEE (Enabling Grid for E- Sciences)
SEE eInfrastructure activities – time frame, convergence with EU projects
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
HP-SEE
(50% EC)
Pan-EU HPC Initiative?
SEE-GRID 1-2-SCI
(EC 100%, 75%)
EGI (EC 33%)
EGEE (Enabling Grid for E- Sciences)
GEANT (EC 43% int. interconnection)
GN3 (43%)
SEELIGHT (0% EC)
SEEREN 1, 1.5,2 (EC 100%, 70-80%)

34. SEERA-EI project
SEERA-EI: regional programme managers (relevant ministries) collaboration towards common eInfrastructure vision, strategy and regional funds, FP
Core Objective & Achieved 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
MoU for coordinated e-Infrastructure development (Grid, Cloud, and High-Performance Computing technologies, SEELight)
MoU to facilitate regional sharing of high-performance computing resources 34

35. Our achievements/challenges
Deploy own eInfrastructure part of the SEE/Europe including Grid and HPC facilities
Be partners in related projects consortiums and so
part of e-Science in SEE and wider
Still not all Academic and Research Institutions part of eInfrastructure (National backbone, University networks, shared facilities on national level)
Higher involvement of various user communities in exploiting eInfrastructure

36. THANK YOU