National eInfrastructure Seminar on infrastructures for research

data 17. February 2012petter.kongshaug@uninett.no

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UNINETT in 2 min

Establ as ltd company in 1993, owned by Ministry of edu and res (KD)

Primary customer: UH-sector < 100 employees Roles:

Coordinator of common services Provider of infrastructure and services

(NREN) Owner of UNINETT Sigma AS

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eInfrastructure <> ICT-infrastructure

Video-confWeb-meetingsVirtual organisationsCalendar

Library(BIBSYS)

Education

Administration

Documentation (Cristin)

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Research network, campus networks

Hybrid functionality 10-100 Gbps Redundance Eduroam Measuring poles Toolboxes UNINETT realtime NORDUnet>GEANT>global

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Feide authentication

The entire sector of education Institutional authorative data National log-in service Federated services (eduroam) Coop with public eID

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Sigma projects

Notur Compute power (gardar, hexagon,

njord/vilje, stallo, titan) Metacenter Advanced user support

Norstore Storage capacity Subject field support (bio, klima, …) Metacenter and advanced user support Cloud services

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UNINETT related activities

Network usage Tuning of data transfer

protocols Hybrid support

Feide Federated services

Architectures Information security

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UNINETT related activities- eCampus

New program financed by KD; 70 MNkr 2011-2015 Objective: to support education and research, to build

communities working together without the limits of time, distance and geography.  The aim of eCampus is to facilitate learning, teaching and research by

providing simple user friendly ICT tools for education and research

identify and provide ICT tools for research making it easy to access digital learning resources nationally

The work on best practice, deployment and use is focused in three areas

Lecture recording: auditorium setup, lecture capture, media management, distribution (podcast, mobile etc)

Distance collaboration: web meetings, video conferences, social media

Mobile solutions: reaching out to the devices in students’ pockets

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”Under construction”

Storage services By organisation, project/activity, or user High availability

Cloud services Commercial cloud

Negotiate price and functionality Community cloud

Full national/sector control Software, application or infrastructure as a service Could be a challenge to existing local ICT

ICT architecture Authorative data Interfaces Data object definitions/role definitions

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Conclusions

eInfrastructure is part of ICT infrastructure

Researchers should experience service homogeneity across infrastructures

An ICT architecture will help us on the way

UNINETT will coordinate the work needed

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