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: 1. 1. 2010 – 30. 4. 2011

• Implementation phase: 1. 5. 2011 – 31. 10. 2013

• Sustainability phase: 1. 11. 2013 – 31. 10. 2018

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 599.285 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: 139.3 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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