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The digital divide and the future of HEPGrid in México Dr. Arnulfo Martínez Dávalos Instituto de Física U N A M
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Income and education GDP : ~$920 billion [13th of 225] Poorest 10%: 1.3% [97th of 155] Poorest 20%: 3.7% [99th of 155] Richest 20%: 57.4% [15th of 155] Richest 10%: 41.7% [15th of 155] Research expenditure: 0.4% [48th of 69] Years of schooling (avg.): 7.2 [35th of 102] Scientific literacy: 42% [27th of 27]
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Internet use Personal computers: 5.7M [14th of 162] Internet users: 3.5M (USA 165M) ISPs: 51 (USA 7000) Internet hosts/10^5 p.: 5.7 (USA 295) USA has more PCs than the next 7 countries combined (jp,de,uk,kr,fr,ca,it)
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Geographical distribution
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CUDI and e-Mexico Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet (www.cudi.edu.mx) Its mission is to promote and coordinate the development of telecommunication networks and computing for educational and scientific purposes in Mexico e-México (www.e-mexico.gob.mx) The project’s main objective is to broaden the scope of public services and to provide information in four basic categories: education, health, economy and government, using ICTs
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CUDI Members Academic Associates: 17 (all major Universities) Institutional Associates: 5 (Avantel, Telmex, Enterasys, Cisco, CONACYT) Academic Affiliates: 28 (including Cinvestav!) Corporate Affiliates: 2 (Marconi, VCON)
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CUDI Backbone CANCUN Tijuana SDSC Cd Juárez REYNOSA HOUSTON vBNS UTEP México Guadalajara Monterrey 155Mbs
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BACKBONE MéxicoGuadalajara Monterrey Tijuana VPN 2Mb/s ATMATM+IPIP COMMODITY INTERNET Affiliated nodes Access nodes (Members) Academic Nodes
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México D.F. Puebla Pue. Cuernavaca Mor. Jalapa Ver. IPNUAMUNAM CONACyTILCE UDLAP BUAP UV UAEM 155Mb TELMEXAVANTEL ITESM Edo Mex CIC Mexico City node
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e-Mexico Community Centers
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Centros Comunitarios Digitales
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Physics research in Mexico
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Distribution by degree
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Distribution by subject Physical Sciences (2002)
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Distribution by institution Physical Sciences (2002)
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Geographical distribution
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Scientific vs. Economic development
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Institutes with HENP interests BUAP (Puebla) Cinvestav (D.F. and Mérida) IF-UASLP (San Luis Potosí) IFUG (Guanajuato) IF-UMSNH (Michoacán) ININ (Edo. de México) ICN-UNAM (D.F.) IF-UNAM (D.F.)
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The Institute of Physics, UNAM Theoretical Physics Experimental Physics Solid State Physical Chemistry Condensed Matter Complex Systems 150+ research staff ~50 research areas ~240 projects 4 (small) accelerators Microscopy Lab. SAXS, XRDS www.fisica.unam.mx
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Computing Infrastructure We have: ~600 computers PC’s, WS’s Unix, Linux, *BSD, Win*, OS X Gigabit network Clusters (6) Teaching Lab. Working on: Videoconference Mass storage Wireless network TV-física VoIP
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FO backbone at IFUNAM
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Network Topology
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Clusters at IFUNAM 5 Beowulf 4 Alpha + 16 PIII 10 Ath + 6 G4 + 16 G3 52 nodes 88 processors 1 OpenMosix 20 nodes 10 Athlon XP 2100+ 10 P4 3.0 GHz
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Scientific Computing Local projects Nanoscience Research Network Microscopy Virtual Lab. Pyramid of the Sun (MC: muons) Medical Physics (MC: PET, RNS ) International collaborations ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) MammoGrid?
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ALICE (at LHC)
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World Wide Collaboration distributed computing & storage capacity LHC:> 5000physicists > 270 institutes > 60 countries
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Bandwidth utilisation
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Network monitoring @ IFUNAMIFUNAM CERN Instituto de Física, UASLP
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Ping plotter
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Special thanks to Carlos López Nataren Supercómputo Javier Martínez Mendoza Seguridad Neptalí González Gómez Redes
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