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Fotis Fotis Karayannis Karayannis Infrastructures Planning and Development Manager Infrastructures Planning and Development Manager Greek Research and Technology Network Greek Research and Technology Network – – GRNET GRNET Presented by Presented by Dr. Dr. George George Bonas Bonas MoCo MoCo Secretariat Secretariat e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean region Monitoring Committee for the Euro- Mediterranean Cooperation in RTD Istanbul, 6-8 November 2008
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FotisFotis KarayannisKarayannisInfrastructures Planning and Development ManagerInfrastructures Planning and Development Manager
Greek Research and Technology Network Greek Research and Technology Network –– GRNETGRNET
Presented by Presented by Dr.Dr. George George BonasBonasMoCoMoCo SecretariatSecretariat
e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean region
Monitoring Committee for the Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in RTD
Istanbul, 6-8 November 2008
The Eumedconnect2 networkThe Eumedconnect2 network
11 countries connected7 wholly reliant
Serving around 2 million users, 700 institutions in 7 countriesNetwork traffic growing over 50% per yearOver 100 projects connectedENPI funding: 4M Euros for 2 years
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The only large-scale R&E e-infrastructure serving the Mediterranean region
Eumedconnect (2004-2007) funded by EuropeAid / EUMEDIS (10 M Euros)
Eumedconnect 2 started in November 2008: Still low speeds (34-155 Mbps)
Do we need to start thinking about Eumedconnect3…
The EUMEDGRID Grid computing eThe EUMEDGRID Grid computing e--InfrastructureInfrastructure
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MA-GRID
INFN -Roma3
INFN -Catania
INFN - CNAF
ULAKBIM
CYNET
IUCC
GRNETUniv. of Tunis
Un. of Malta
ERI/EUNCERIST
HIAST
24 EUMEDGRID sites have been deployed in 13 countries, giving a total of 575 connected servers (CPUs) and about 84 TBs of storage capacity
JUNET
EUMEDGRID project was funded by DG INFSO (~2M Euros), from Jan 2006 to Feb 2008
The The LinkSCEEMLinkSCEEM projectproject
Preparing for a Supercomputer in Cyprus (CSRTC facility)Also delivering a network study in Eastern MedFunded by the European Commission (DG-INFSO) – 1M EurosA consortium of eight members under the coordination of the Cyprus InstituteStarted on April 1st, 2008 with a duration of 18 months
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Next steps?Next steps?
A high-capacity Eumedconnect3? At gigabit speeds?Using fibers from the power lines?The Arab Network Access Point initiative?Lobbying required at political level and telecom level for this to materialise
The CAMREN consortiumConsortium of Arab Mediterranean Research and Education NetworksSimilar to the GEANT NREN PC
A Eumedgrid2 project?Continuation proposal rejectedAnother proposal to be submitted
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