CESNET Grid acitivities
METACentrum
The project METACentrum is the activity of the research intent CESNET that covers the majority of activities concerning Grids, super-, cluster- and grid computing and/or high performance computing in general in the Czech republic. The aim of the METACentrum project is to maintain current computational resources and to broaden available computational capacity of the largest academic centers in the Czech republic in the future. Systems administrated by the project creates virtual distributed computer recently called Grid.
International projects
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE III)
The EGEE III project develops the original goals of EGEE and EGEE II projects u2013 building of stable grid infrastructure based mainly at IA-32 and IA-64 (eventually AMD64) computers with the Linux operating system and interconnected with huge data storages for the needs of extremely demanding applications.
CESNET activities in EGEE:
- Grid operation: running CZ grid site of 560 CPUs and 30 TB storage space, maintenance and support of virtual organizations VOCE and Auger.
- Middleware development: responsibility for Logging and Bookkeeping (tracking grid jobs), and Proxy renewal services http://egee.cesnet.cz/en/JRA1/ deployed widely on EGEE infrastructure
EUAsiaGrid
Project goals are to promote awareness in the Asian countries of the EGEE infrastructures, middleware and services by means of specific dissemination activities, such as workshops, training events, conferences and hands-on demonstrations.
EGI_DS
The European Grid Initiative (EGI) Design Study represents an effort to establish a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe. Driven by the needs and requirements of the research community, it is expected to enable the next leap in research infrastructures, thereby supporting collaborative scientific discoveries in the European Research Area (ERA). CESNET is the coordinator of this project.
CESNET other acitivities
Because the areas covered by research plan are wide-ranging, we have split our efforts into the following research activites:
- Development of the NREN
- Optical networks
- Programmable hardware
- Network and traffic monitoring
- Network communication performance monitoring and optimization
- AAI and mobility
- METACentre
- Multimedia transmissions and collaborative environment
- CESNET CSIRT
- Application support
International projects
We gained significant international credit thanks to our results in the area of advanced networking technologies and applications. We participate in a number of international projects:
Multi-Gigabit European Academic Network (GN2)
The goal of GN2 project is to design and deploy next-generation European backbone infrastructure fulfilling the needs of scientists, researchers and educators. Main focus is given to ad hoc infrastructures (grids) built for the purposes of particular applications, to the user mobility in so called European Research Area (ERA), and to support dedicated high-quality end-to-end interconnections.
GLIF
The Global Lambda Integrated Facility is an international virtual organisation that promotes the paradigm of lambda networking. GLIF provides lambdas internationally as an integrated facility to support data-intensive scientific research, and supports middleware development for lambda networking.
Phosphorus
Its goal is to define, implement and make accessible a new integrated architecture for usage of common network resources and services and consequently to demonstrate it on a global testbed connecting Europe, U.S. and Canada by usage of some GEANT2, NREN, CBF and GLIF resources.
ORIENT
The project aims to create a quality infrastructure enabling mutual collaboration of European and Chinese scientists. The key component is the building of high-quality interconnection of European and Chinese research and education networks.
PlanetLab
PlanetLab is a global research network that supports the development of new network services. It is used to develop new technologies for distributed storage, network mapping, peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables, and query processing.
VINI
Virtual Network Infrastructure (VINI) is a virtual network infrastructure that allows network researchers to evaluate their protocols and services in the wide area. VINI allows researchers to deploy and evaluate their ideas with real routing software, traffic loads, and network events. To provide flexibility in designing various experiments, VINI supports simultaneous experiments with arbitrary network topologies on a shared physical infrastructure.
FEDERICA
FEDERICA (Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing network Architectures) is a European project which implements an experimental network infrastructure for trialling new networking technologies. A high level of virtualisation allows a wide variety of independent experiments to be performed, even if they are disruptive.