Greg Cole , Associate Director National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Introduction Nauka-Net CIV-Net Friends Grids The Future

US-Russia Science, Education and Civic Networking Initiatives

Presentation to US Embassy Staff, February 28, 2002

Greg Cole, Associate DirectorNational Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Principal Investigator, NSF Cooperative AgreementUS-Russian High Performance Nauka-Net (formerly FASTnet) Network

Natasha Bulashova, PresidentUS-Russia Friends & Partners Foundation

Introduction


Presentation Overview

• Nauka-Net - (formerly FASTnet) - high performance infrastructure linking our science and education communities (NSF, Russian MinIST, RAS)

• CIV-Net - 4 year program strengthening local community governance through local infrastructure development (Ford Foundation)

• Friends & Partners - broad community networking initiative (parent of all our other initiatives)

• Nauka-Grid, CIV-Grid - US-Russian grid deployment efforts related to high performance and civic networking initiatives

• The Future

Introduction


Presentation Motivation

• Educate/inform about important programs/capabilities

• Introduce their risks and rewards

• Discuss future developments and possibilities

• Solicit help in expanding knowledge and appropriate use of new communications capabilities

• Initiate discussion on minimizing risks, maximize rewards of improved communications infrastructure in context of US-Russia collaborative programs

Introduction


Brief History

• US base of activities at University of Tennessee until March, 2001 (moved to NCSA of UIUC)

• Russian base of activities at Pushchino Biological Center (IBPhM) until 1998 (moved to own non-profit foundation in Moscow)

Introduction

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“Friends & Partners”: hobby gone “haywire”

• Started from a single email in 1993; launched in January 1994

• Hobby effort to help introduce people in US and Russia using then-new Internet technologies

• An early example of Internet-based community building

• No politics, religion (and not a dating service!)

• Focus on science and education collaboration

Introduction


An early dream …

Introduction

…. problems …


A story of infrastructure development . . .

Introduction

• Early days: entire South Moscow region behind a single 19.2K modem

• First grant (from NATO) addressed this - and over 2 year period, increased speed to 256K

• Sun Microsystems donated workstation equipment to both teams

• US DOS grant enabled us to hire staff, provided some operations funds, helped legitimize efforts within our home institutions


Anatomy of a 50M file transfer . . .

• Compress file

• Uuencode it

• Split into 1000 uniform sized pieces

• Compress the 1000 files

• FTP the 1000 files

• Uncompress the 1000 files

• Join into 1 file

• Uudecode it

• Uncompress it

Introduction

Took all weekend

With new Nauka-Net, theoretically possible in 3 seconds (in practice, 2-3 minutes)


Addressing the US-Russian Link for S&E

Introduction


Nauka-Net (formerly FASTnet)

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AnimationS&E Traffic flowing across link between Moscow and Chicago on January 18, 2002 (24 hours)

1 minute summary per transition

Shows extensive reach of high performance S&E network in US (Universities, NASA, DOE, NIH, NOAA, USGS, others)

Shows growing reach of S&E network in Russia

Shows different types of traffic

Illustrates use of our monitoring/analysis system


The fastest route from Moscow to Paris (is via Chicago)

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STARTAP in ChicagoAll US domestic “next generation” S&E Internet networks “meet” (and exchange traffic) at the NSF-funded STARTAP in Chicago

Most of the world’s international “next generation” S&E Internet networks meet at STARTAP and exchange traffic with US domestic networks and other international S&E networks


Science Technology And Research Transit Access Point

www.startap.net

Japan

Korea

Taiwan

Singapore

Australia

ChinaFrance

Iceland

Sweden

Denmark

Norway

Finland

Netherlands

Israel

Russia

CERN

Canada

US Networks: vBNS, vBNS+, Abilene, ESnet, DREN, NREN/NISN

Chile, Brazil (FAPESP)

Who is Connected to STAR TAP?

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Starlight . . .

(something much better than STAR TAP coming …)

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Nauka-Net Defined

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• Funding / History

• Partners

• Users

• Applications


MIRnet (predecessor to Nauka-Net)

• NSF Cooperative Agreement (ANI-9730330) to the University of Tennessee with matching funds from Russian Ministry of Science and Technology to Russian partners

• A 6 Mbps IP/ATM service (provided by Teleglobe) between STAR TAP in Chicago and the M9 switch in Moscow for purpose of linking high performance science and education networks in US and Russia

• A program to encourage applications of high performance networking for US-Russian scientific collaboration

• Network running reliably since July, 1999

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… problems …


FASTnet / Nauka-Net

• MIRnet has changed to Nauka-Net

• 155 Mbps MPLS service Chicago - Frankfurt

• 155 Mbps service Frankfurt - Moscow

• Routing nearly all S&E networks in Russia

• New partners: Kurchatov Institute, Joint Supercomputing Center, Russian Academy of Science, Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology

• New US home: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois

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Nauka-Net / CVETnet

• Contracts for new network signed October 1, 2001

• 45 Mbps began operating December 7, 2001

• Move to Starlight and upgrade to 155 Mbps: March 12, 2002 (under budget, 1.5 years ahead of schedule)

• CVETnet may represent next evolutionary advance (to lightwave switching)

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Network Topology

NAP in Chicago is represented with router and ATM switch connected to STAR TAP

NAP in Moscow is represented with router and ATM switch connected to Internet Exchange in M9 which is managed by Russian Institute of Public Networks.

NAP in Chicago is represented with router and ATM switch connected to STAR TAP

NAP in Moscow is represented with router and ATM switch connected to Internet Exchange in M9 which is managed by Russian Institute of Public Networks.

MIRnet at

Chicago

Moscow

M96 Mbps VBR-nrt

TransPACEuro-LinkANLvBNSNRENESNETNISNAbileneDRENSTARTAPRASCOMTeleglobedomestic

ATM

RASRBnetMSUnetFREEnetSINP

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Budget

• NSF Funding– $800K annually ($4.0

million total)

– $600K for transport (Chicago - Frankfurt)

– $135K operations ($65K overhead)

– $150K cost sharing

• Russian Funding– Russian Ministry of Industry,

Science and Technology

– Russian Academy of Science

– Funds transport (Frankfurt - Moscow)

– 2-1 match of US funding

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Development

F & PJan’94

KORRnetJun’94

NATOSep’95

CIVnetJan’97

NSF RFPJun’97

ProposalAug’97

Revised ProposalMar’98

Cooperative Agreement

Jul’98

TeleglobeSep’98

AnnounceSep’98

Moscow/MASSNov’98

MADAS 1.0Sum’99

IP UpJun’99

IP DownJul ‘99

LaunchSep ‘99

MeetingNov ‘99

RenegotiateFall/Winter ‘97

DemoFeb 22 ‘00

DemoJun ‘00

DemoAug 8 ‘00 MADAS 2

Sep ‘00

NewsletterSep ‘00

TeleglobeSep ‘00

ReviewOct ‘00

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Nauka-Net Defined

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• Partners

• Users

• Applications


Partners

• Original partners on proposal to NSF included Kurchatov Institute (Russian Institute for Public Networks), Russian Academy of Science, Russian MinSci

• Proposal was likely funded based on strength/relevance of these partners (NSF had worked with them on US-Russian Internet development since 1993)

• New partners appeared …(network politics fierce everywhere)

• All effort (for 2+ years) focused on returning control to those who could route all S&E networks in Russia

• Project managed on “the edge of failure”

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Partners / History

• November, 1999 - Efforts begin to correct problem• February, 2000 - first of many video-conference events/demonstrations

with Acad. E. Velikhov, Kurchatov Institute• March, 2001 - PI moves from UT to NCSA Access (in Arlington, VA)• April, 2001 - Acad. E. Velikhov signs as first international partner of the

NCSA• July, 2001 - Agreement signed with Acad. Velikhov, Acad. Osipov

(President of RAS), Acad. Savin (Director of JSC), Russian MinIST, NSF, NCSA establishing FASTnet

• July, 2001 - Agreement signed with Teleglobe• August, 2001 - NSF grant moves from UT to NCSA• October 30, 2001 - letter written from NCSA to MSU re: changes• November 2, 2001 - MIRnet ceases operation• November, 2001 - new “Access Center” begins operating in Moscow• December 7, 2001 - new FASTnet network begins operation• December 14, 2001 - official launch ceremony; Washington, Moscow

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Kurchatov Institute

Evgeny P. Velikhov

Academician

President, RRC Kurchatov Institute

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New Access Center


Kurchatov Institute

Alexey Soldatov, DirectorResearch and DevelopmentRRC “Kurchatov Institute”

President, RELCOM

Developing Nauka-Grid Program

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Russian Institute for Public Networking

Russian Backbone Network (RBnet)

Alexei Platonov, Exec. Director, RIPN

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Joint Supercomputing CenterRussian Academy of Science

Gennady P. Savin

Academician

Director, JSC

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Friends & Partners Foundation

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• Originating member of Russian MIRnet team

• Worked with US staff for 8+ years on many US-Russian networking, information system and community development projects

Natasha Bulashova, President, F&P

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Nauka-Net Defined

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• Partners

• Users

• Applications


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Nonproliferation and Arms Control Projects: US-Russia

Since February, 2000, MIRnet has been used by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to support its various collaborations with the Kurchatov Institute and other Russian research laboratories. In June, 2000, peering arrangements were put in place enabling all DOE laboratories in the US to use MIRnet. The primary applications discussed and observed related to US-RF programs are in nonproliferation and arms control. Several video-conferencing demonstrations have been held - including with senior US government leaders - to demonstrate the utility of high performance networks in supporting existing US-RF collaborative efforts. All of these demonstrations have been coordinated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Kurchatov Institute.

Oak Ridge - Kurchatov Institute traffic from February, 2000.

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Weapons Disposal: Reactor Physics / Thermal hydraulics Analyses for Plutonium

Disposition The US and RF are engaged in a cooperative program to dispose of weapons usable plutonium in pressurized water reactors in both countries. While plutonium fuels have been routinely used in western pressurized water reactors (PWRs) in France and Germany, such fuels have not been used in Russian reactors (VVERs). For the past four years, ORNL has been responsible for transferring technology for mixed oxide (MOX) fuel to Russia and Kurchatov Institute has been responsible for educating ORNL staff as to the design and operation of VVERs.

MIRnet has supported this cooperative program through video-conferencing, ftp, use of the Centra Symposium web-based teaching package,

whiteboard, and applications sharing.

Academician Ponimarev-Stepnoi (seated, on screen from Moscow) of the Kurchatov Institute addresses the June 13, 2000 video-conference involving participants from Moscow, Washington, Argonne National Lab in Chicago and Oak Ridge. Included was Howard Baker, former US Senate Majority leader, heading up a Blue Ribbon Panel observing US-Russian programs.

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US-Russia Materials Protection, Control & Accountability programThe objective of the lab-to-lab MPC&A Program is to enhance, through U.S.-Russian technical cooperation, the effectiveness of nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting in Russian nuclear facilities. The enhancements are implemented by Russian institutes. The U.S. laboratories provide funding for the Russian institutes through laboratory-to-laboratory contracts.

The two partnering institutions, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, have used MIRnet since February, 2000 to support a variety of applications - including video-conferencing (demonstrations, seminars, contract negotiation), large database (200+ Mbytes) transfer,

radio propagation analysis, and application sharing.

US participants interact with Dr. Evgenii Velikhov, President of the Moscow Kurchatov Institute, and other Russian academicians during the February 22 video-conference between Moscow, Washington, Knoxville and Oak Ridge. In addition to the video-conferencing, a demonstration was conducted of application sharing

for joint control of a radio propagation analysis

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NASA-Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) CollaborationFTP dominates as the primary application between hosts on NASA’s high performance NREN network and the Russian Space Science Internet. With daily flows occasionally reaching 500 megabytes or more, MIRnet supports a wide variety of NASA-

RSSI programs and activities.

Traffic from NASA hosts to RSSI hosts is shown above. The primary application is ftp which often

exceeds 256 Megabytes transferred daily.

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NASA Utilization since January 1, 2002

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NASA Utilization since January 1, 2002

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Traffic flow to Russia from US

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Traffic flow to Russia since January 1, 2002

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Sample Academic Partnerships Utilizing High Performance Services

• Experimental High Energy Physics High energy physicists in the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University use MIRnet for collaborating with US partners at the Fermi National Accelerator and the Stanford Linear Accelerator. Data is shared and analyzed from experiments performed in the particle accelerators for the purpose of obtaining insight into macroworld structures.

• Investigation of Magnetospheric Perturbances Moscow State University and the Space Physics Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan are using MIRnet in support of a joint project involving a heavy computational component and the creation/maintenance of a shared cosmophysical information database addressing experimental and theoretical research in the area of magnetospheric and space physics.

• Research of on-line collaboration methods in distance learning technology development Based on the collaboration of Ural State University, Perm State University, and North Caroline State University in the framework of their 1997-2000 project “Collaboration in the field of distance learning in the area of business management” supported by the US State Dept., the project is exploring methods of remote collaboration via video- and audio- data exchange (mBONE and H.32x).

• US-Russia Collaboration in Plasma Astrophysics Project is multi-disciplinary, involving specialists in numerical magnetohydrodynamics, plasma physics, and astrophysics. Russian scientists work at Cornell during one-month visits, and the US scientists visit Russia on a regular basis. Collaboration on developing 2D computer codes between Keldysh Institute and Cornell.

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US-Russian InternetPhysics OlympiadIn April '00 high school students in Novosibirsk and St.-Petersburg (Russia) combined with students in Seattle and San Diego (America) to participate in an internet-based science competition. Each of eight teams were composed of four American and four Russian students. Each pair of team halves were linked with their own private chat and whiteboard connection so they could consult in solving the problems. They were presented with questions and then submitted answers through an internet-based platform which was controlled at a central site; the system delivered each team's answers to separately located panels of judges.

Novosibirsk State University and Cornell University propose to use MIRnet to enhance opportunities and expand participation.

Seattle, Washington

San Diego, California

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Novosibirsk, Siberia

Sixty Four Students

And a Significant Number of Physicists and Technologists

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U.S. Users (October, 2000)

• Traffic to U.S.– 93% educational

– 7% .gov/.mil

• Traffic from U.S.– 92% educational

– 8% .gov/.mil

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DOE (15,533)

NIH (4,606)

NASA (3,234)

NOAA (2,941)

MIL (956) Other (404)

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DOE (43,093)

NIH (29,038)

NASA (39,632)

NOAA (1,668)

MIL (8,993)USGS (2,886)

US Government agency use of MIRnet (megabytes transferred since July, 2000)

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Russian Users via MIRnet

Moscow State Univ.In: 30.4%

Out: 24.8%

ChernagolovkaIn: 24.5%Out: 6.1%

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MEPHIIn: 8.0%

Out: 2.3%3

Novgorod State Univ.In: 0.4%

Out: 0.2%

Yaroslavl’ Reg. Net.In: 0.7%

Out: 0.6%

Ural State UniversityIn: 2.7%

Out: 3.8%

RAS Ural Reg. Acad. Net.In: 1.4%

Out: 0.6%

Chelyabinsk FREEnetIn: 3.0%

Out: 0.6%

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MIRnet routed institutions in Moscow

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Nauka-Net utilization today

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International Traffic Flow to Russia

#1 U.S.

63% (508 G)

#7 Canada

3% (22 G)

#6 U.K.

3% (24G)

#5 Netherlands

3% (27G)

#3 France

4% (33G)

#12 China

0.4% (3G)

#13 Japan

0.3% (2.8G)

#2 Sweden

12% (99G)

#4 Finland

4% (31G)

Primary Country Providers of Traffic to Russia from July 1 - October 15, 2000

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Nauka-Net Traffic to Russia by Country 2000 - 2002

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Nauka-Net Traffic from Russia by Country 2000 - 2002

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Nauka-Net Traffic from Top Russian Institutions

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Nauka-Net Traffic from Russia to US

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Nauka-Net Traffic from US to Russia

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Nauka-Net Traffic by Top Users Today

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Nauka-Net Web-Site

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Nauka-Net Administrative Data Analysis System (NADAS)

• Tracks all MIRnet usage

• SQL database fed every 10 minutes from Cisco Netflow data

• All non-proprietary software tools

• Analysis by countries, domains, hosts, protocols, time periods, traffic volume

• Generates standard graphics and allows user-based queries

• http://www.mirnet.org/madas/reports/

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Russian Use by Institution (% total)

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Ural State Univ(Ekaterinburg)RU Space Science Internet

MIRnet Multicast Service

Russian Academy ofScienceMEPHI

FREEnet

Chernogolovka

Moscow State Univ

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Univ of Wisconsin

Univ of Chicago

UW-Madison

Brown Univ

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UIUC

Georgia Tech

MIT

NLANR

U.S. Top 10 Institutions (% total)

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Russian Use by Protocol (% total)

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Other

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TCP-WWW

TCP-FTP

TCP-Other

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Outreach Activities

• Presentations

• Demonstrations• F&P Outreach

• Information Dissemination

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PresentationsInternet '98 Society Conference, Geneva, 1998Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, 1998Department of Energy, Oak Ridge and Knoxville, 1998Indiana University/TransPAC, Bloomington, 1998NSF and Russian Embassy, Washington DC, 1998 Teleglobe, Washington DC, 1998MIRnet team meeting, Moscow, 1998Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 1998 Russian Ministry of Science and Technology, Moscow 1998RIPN, Moscow, 1998Teleglobe, Moscow, 1998Institute Pushchino Biological Research Center, Pushchino, 1998RAS Siberian branch, and Novosibirsk State University, Moscow, 1998Kharkov State Technical University, Moscow, 1998Blokhin Oncology Scientific Center, Moscow, 1998Department of International Science and Technology Cooperation NSF, MIRnet, NASA, US Department of Energy, Washington DC, 1999F&P and ISI, Moscow 1999"Globalization of Education", Chelyabinsk and Samara, 1999Oriental Studies Institute, Moscow, 1999STAR TAP/HPIIS, Chicago, 1999INET '99, San Jose, 1999NTIA, Washington DC, 1999NASA, DOE, NSF, Washington DC, 1999ORNL, Oak Ridge, 1999Chautauqua '99 Workshop, (video conference) 1999Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, 1999Samara State Technical University, Samara, 1999Sergiev Posad, 1999Alliance of Universities for Democracy Conference, Budapest, 1999Annual American Association of Slavic Languages Studies, St. Louis American International Health Alliance, Washington DC, 1999ISAR, Washington DC, 1999World Bank, Washington DC, 1999

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Information Dissemination

• MIRnet Users Database System

• 1000 US-Russian Partnerships Described

• Partnerships Funded by NSF, DOE, CRDF, NIH, IREX

• US Russian/NIS Language Programs

• Searchable by Institution, City, Investigator, Keyword

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Information Dissemination

• Letter/Newsletter distributed to over 500 US-Russian partnerships

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Russian Institution Users

Institution Source Percent Destination Percent

Moscow State University 77,966 24.8% 298,249 30.4%Chernagolovka 19,178 6.1% 241,040 24.5%MEPHI 7,380 2.3% 78,194 8.0%MIRnet Multicast Service - 0.0% 52,818 5.4%Moscow Power Engineering Institute 1,966 0.6% 30,725 3.1%Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas 8,469 2.7% 30,217 3.1%Chelyabinsk FREEnet 1,990 0.6% 29,018 3.0%Ural State University (Ekaterinburg) 11,818 3.8% 26,363 2.7%State Public Scientific-Technical Library of Russia 461 0.1% 17,767 1.8%Russian Space Science Internet 4,521 1.4% 14,444 1.5%RAS Ural Regional Academic Network 1,733 0.6% 13,679 1.4%Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Biochemistry 3,232 1.0% 10,114 1.0%Plantetary Geophysics 200 0.1% 9,597 1.0%RAS Steklov Mathematical Institute 531 0.2% 9,021 0.9%Kurchatov Institute 7,480 2.4% 8,870 0.9%Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computers 486 0.2% 7,248 0.7%Yaroslavl Regional Network 1,951 0.6% 7,207 0.7%RAS Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics 669 0.2% 4,798 0.5%Semyenov Institute of Chemical Physics 1,901 0.6% 4,703 0.5%Zelinsky Instiute of Organic Chemistry 676 0.2% 4,497 0.5%Novgorod State University 496 0.2% 4,265 0.4%Nesmeyanov Institute of Elemental-Organic Compounds 636 0.2% 4,023 0.4%Other 160,548 51.1% 75,640 7.7%

Total 314,288 100.0% 982,497 100.0%

Megabytes transferred July 1 - October 14, 2000

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US Institution Users

Institution Source Percent Destination Percent

NLANR 69,224 13.1% 5,540 4.3%University of Chicago 5,980 1.1% 5,208 4.1%Root Servers.net 11,109 2.1% 4,317 3.4%Penn State University 6,042 1.1% 3,701 2.9%University of Wisconsin 24,189 4.6% 3,279 2.6%STAR TAP 3,094 0.6% 3,091 2.4%Brown University 251 0.0% 2,927 2.3%Oak Ridge National Lab 1,170 0.2% 2,837 2.2%University of Illinois UC 13,131 2.5% 2,826 2.2%NOAA 1,248 0.2% 2,765 2.2%University of Tennessee 11,905 2.3% 2,738 2.1%Georgia Tech 28,450 5.4% 2,345 1.8%University of Southern California 449 0.1% 2,195 1.7%University of Texas 2,367 0.4% 2,078 1.6%MIT 28,648 5.4% 2,072 1.6%Ohio State University 1,754 0.3% 2,009 1.6%Georgetown University 143 0.0% 1,832 1.4%Argonne National Lab 8,659 1.6% 1,712 1.3%University of Michigan 5,400 1.0% 1,695 1.3%University of Virginia 683 0.1% 1,680 1.3%University of Kansas 4,197 0.8% 1,605 1.3%Rutgers University 1,019 0.2% 1,539 1.2%Other 297,532 56.5% 68,208 53.2%

Total 526,645 100% 128,200 100%

(megabytes transferred from June 1 - October 14, 2000)

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Benefits

• Increased network capacity for data sharing

• Some capacity available for richer communications (video-conferencing)

• Spurring development of high performance infrastructure in Russia

• Encouraging US and Russian partners to use advanced network technologies

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The Future

• Applications

• Capacity Expansion (FASTnet)

• Russian High Performance Network Expansion (Nauka-Grid, CIV-Grid, School-Grid)

• Extension to other NIS countries

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Russian High Performance Network Expansion

• Critical need to expand beyond Moscow region

• Success depends upon working with Russian academic network partners (RIPN/RBnet)

• Recent dramatic decrease in regional telecomm costs for educational/non-profit purposes will help

• Nauka-Grid is an umbrella program for furthering US-Russian efforts on high performance networking, computational science, and visualization projects

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Extension to other NIS countries

• Conversations with Ukrainian and Kazakh academic communities

• Interest from US scientists/health care community in Belarus

• Will revisit in the months ahead

Russia

Belarus

Ukraine Kazakhstan

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Access Facility in Moscow

• Needed for demonstrations re: scientists, ministries, others

• Space has been committed, renovated and is now being used by Kurchatov Institute

• Space in open area associated with principal US partners and primary Russian networking organization

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The Future

• Science & Technology Dialog– US-Russian IT Business Roundtable

– 8 Science/Education Roundtables

• Move to Starlight (optical switching facility in Chicago)

• Lightwave between Moscow and Chicago

• US-Russian Nauka-Grid, CIV-Grid Programs

• Expansion of high performance capacity in Russia (40,000 km of fiber (www.transtk.ru))

• US-Russian Education Channel

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Fiber, Fiber…Everywhere

•Lucent and NTT have single-laser 1000-wavelength DWDM working in their labs

•Fiber w/10 Terabit capacity per pair being laid in multiple 400-pair cables


US-Russian Civic Networking ProgramUS-Russian Civic Networking Program * Murmansk

* Samara * Vladivostok

(Far East)

* Novosibirsk (west Siberia) (2 proposals)

* Yakutia

* Saratov

* Sergeiv Posad

* Obninsk

* Bryansk

* Penza * Chelyabinsk * Tomsk

* Voronezh

* Troitsk

* Strezhnevoy

* Yaroslavl

* Pereslavl-Zalessky

* Kazan* Krasnodar

* Rostov-na-Donu

* St.Petersburg

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US-Russian Civic Networking ProgramUS-Russian Civic Networking Program

• Supported by total of $630K from Ford Foundation (and $70K from other sources), the three-year old CIVnet project is developing “model” civic networks in Russia working in partnership with similar U.S. efforts.

• Goals:– Develop communications/information infrastructure in Russian

communities– Enhance access to enabling information / communications

technologies– Encourage local democratic reform by encouraging interaction

between public, private, education, health care, business sectors– Promote Local, national and international cooperation on “digital

divide” issues– Promote US-Russian cooperation– Develop based on Russian culture and community life

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• Sites selected through competitive, nation-wide, electronic solicitation (only electronic submissions accepted)

• Six cities chosen not on basis of need but rather likelihood of success and of providing useful model for others

• Strength of local consortia strong determining factor in selection

• $45K funding for first year, $25K second year, $15K third and subsequent years

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Motivation for Civic Networking

• Every voice has the right to be heard and should have the means to be heard.

• Communications systems and technology must therefore be affordable, accessible to all.

• To work best, communications must allow a flow from many to many, rather than from one to many.

• Communities must play an essential role in finding their own communications solutions.

The Bellagio DeclarationThe Bellagio Declaration

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A synthesis . . .

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The drive across America . .

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KORRnet: motivation

• Getting my Mom on the Internet . . .

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• Same ideas/technologies as Friends and Partners but for local community

• Development began in 1994; launched in 1996

• Provides community-focused information resource

• Email accounts, Internet access for 8,000 local citizens

• Public access sites in 22+ area locations• Internet publishing services for over 450+

local organizations• Participation/governance from throughout

local community• Victim of University “politics”

KORRnet: An Example

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CHIPS Project

• Computers for Homebound and Isolated Persons (CHIPS) project recently won Stockholm Challenge Award (highest international award given for community access projects)

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focusfocus

• Create community-wide Internet access with public access locations, training programs and daily support

• Foster development of community-wide information services and resources

• Require participation of local government, business, education, health care, NGOs, public safety in shared, open governance of the project

• Require information (who, what, where, when, why, (and finances)) about local government

CIV-Net



• Grand opening ceremony March 27, 1999

• CivNET Web site/server established

• 2 public access points (one is a 15 station facility inside local university)

• 112 organizations connected (150 additional expected by end of summer)

• 25+ training seminars - over 250 individuals trained

• Strong local academic support

Chelyabinsk

CIV-Net



• Grand opening ceremony April 3, 1999


• Six (6) public access points opened

• 27 organizations connected (28 in process)

• 10 individuals connected (110 expected by summer)

• strong local government support

• very strong chamber of commerce support and

involvement

• Publish newspaper “Sergiev Posad Week”

Sergiev Posad

CIV-Net



Intro

Sergiev Posad

22 October 1999 Sergiev Posad

CIV-Net



Samara

• Grand opening ceremony March 29, 1999


• 36 public access points identified (9 operating)

• 18 organizations connected (42 additional expected by end of summer)

• 10 station training facility open daily (from 4:00 - 8:00 pm) and staffed

• Local administration provided information on local region, economy, culture

• Extensive material “Samara ethnos and culture”

• Very strong NGO support (and need)

CIV-Net



Samara

CIV-Net



CIV-Net



Kazan Civic Networking team

Dmitry Vakhmyanin, Oleg Krasilnikov, Aydar Hamzin, Sergey Kiselev, Tatiana Volchenko

CIV-Net



http://cnk.kai.ru/

20 June, 2000Grand Opening of the Kazan Civic Network

Local media,Leaders of public organization,National deputiesTatarstan President Administration

CIV-Net



Obninsk Civic Networking team

CIV-Net



http://civnet.obninsk.org/

Open 2 public access centers

Pilot version of the ObninskCivnet web

Establish opportunities to have access to Internet any NGO

Volunteer WEBteam works with NGOs( works all week, including weekend)Provide training seminars(14 organization )

CIV-Net



Voronezh Civic Networking team

25 January,VCN is completely operational with new server in place, all telecommunication equipment operating and organizations already making use of services

April, 2000 Regional Children’sLibrary- access place for young people

CIV-Net



Running sub-project:WEB-workshop

23 persons were trained during May , 2000

Local radio program- since 21 May“Voronezh Civic Network”

Network bandwidth capacity increased by 4 times

CIV-Net



http://vcn.vorstu.ac.ru

Central Public access Center :

Web-workshop ( creating,designing and providing information resources

Full- time advisory service on maintenance of a network

Structure of server “VCN” was created

CIV-Net



• Future– Second US-Russian Civic Network workshop held in February, 2002

in Washington.

– FASTnet connectivity/routing for CIVnets (5 out of 6 currently);

– Russia-wide conference (Ford Foundation support) in August, 2002 with Russian Institute for Public Networks on development of CIV-Grid

– Expansion of project to additional communities in Russia (CIV-Grid)

CIV-Net

Introduction Nauka-Net CIV-Net Friends Grids The FutureCIV-Net


CIVnet program movie

CIV-Net


Friends and Partners

. . . started with a single email . . .

Friends


Friends and Partners (1994)

Friends


An internet based information sharing and An internet based information sharing and exchange service devoted to encouraging exchange service devoted to encouraging communications and exchange between communications and exchange between citizens citizens of the US and Russia (more broadly, between of the US and Russia (more broadly, between ““the west” and the former soviet union). the west” and the former soviet union).

Friends & Partners (an early image)

Friends


• An internet based information sharing and exchange service An internet based information sharing and exchange service devoted to encouraging communications and exchange between devoted to encouraging communications and exchange between citizens of the US and Russia.citizens of the US and Russia.

• Began in 1993-94 as effort to promote interaction and exchange Began in 1993-94 as effort to promote interaction and exchange between scientists and educators between Russia and the US - between scientists and educators between Russia and the US - using then-new Internet technologies.using then-new Internet technologies.

• Has broadened since 1994 to include non-government Has broadened since 1994 to include non-government organizations, businesses, news agencies, government agencies, organizations, businesses, news agencies, government agencies, women’s groups, social workers, health care communities, women’s groups, social workers, health care communities, churches, students, teachers - in short, anyone interested in churches, students, teachers - in short, anyone interested in promoting and participating in US-Russian exchange.promoting and participating in US-Russian exchange.

• Emphasis remains on promoting broad-based “grass roots” Emphasis remains on promoting broad-based “grass roots” community-building between Russians and Americans.community-building between Russians and Americans.

• F&P provides the soil of out of which MIRnet/FASTnet and F&P provides the soil of out of which MIRnet/FASTnet and CIVnet and the various Grid projects have grown.CIVnet and the various Grid projects have grown.

friends & partnersfriends & partners

Friends

Introduction Nauka-Net CIV-Net Friends Grids The FutureFriends


friends & partnersfriends & partners

• Launched on January 19, 1994 (strictly a hobby);Launched on January 19, 1994 (strictly a hobby);• Hosts over 100 Web Sites; over 50 Listservers; over Hosts over 100 Web Sites; over 50 Listservers; over

11,000 individual subscribers; chat rooms, etc.11,000 individual subscribers; chat rooms, etc.• 5,000,000+ accesses/monthly; 5,000,000+ accesses/monthly; • 1,000,000+ communications/monthly via listservers;1,000,000+ communications/monthly via listservers;• Active chat room;Active chat room;• Funded by US State Department, ISF, NATO, Sun Funded by US State Department, ISF, NATO, Sun

Microsystems, US AID, Ford Foundation, American Microsystems, US AID, Ford Foundation, American International Health Alliance, US National Science International Health Alliance, US National Science Foundation, Eurasia FoundationFoundation, Eurasia Foundation

• Support from University of Tennessee (Homer Fisher), Support from University of Tennessee (Homer Fisher), NCSA, Pushchino Biological Center and the F&P NCSA, Pushchino Biological Center and the F&P Foundation-RussiaFoundation-Russia

Friends


FPLib - Friends & Partners Literature

FPlib

• http://www.fplib.ru/ • http://www.friends-partners.org/literature/



Simple Words


The Grids . .

• Nauka-Grid

• CIV-Grid

• School-Grid (and «Simple Words» project, Junior Achievement)

• E-Russia program



F&P - The future

• Revive efforts on «super portal», community services

• Continue work on US-Russian S&E Infrastructure

• Continue development of Grids to improve US, Russian domestic communications and computing infrastructure

• Expand efforts to include cultural cooperation and exchange

• Continue efforts on Civic Networking / Community Development through CIV-Grid

• Work closely with Kurchatov Institute on «Simple Words» and other children’s initiatives

• Develop stable funding base to enable funding new, innovative and «off beat» initiatives in future


For more information

• F&P: – http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/

– http://www.friends-partners.ru/friends/

• Nauka-Net– http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/fastnet/

– http://www.friends-partners.ru/friends/ fastnet /

• CIVnet– http://www.friends-partners.org/civnet/

– http://www.friends-partners.ru/civnet/

Documents

Greg Cole , Associate Director National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)