Research, E-infrastructure and Future Internet in Armenia

Yuri ShoukourianNational Academy of Sciences of RA

INET Armenia conference 8-9 October 2013, Yerevan

Keynotes

• Internet penetration in Armenia. What next? • Security the Armenian web space? • e-Content for Armenia. How to enrich it? • What is net neutrality? How to assure the net

neutrality? • Cross-border issues, conflicts between

jurisdictions of neigbouring countries.

Twelve disruptive technologies that will

change life, economy in the futur

(from McKinsey)

Technologies - Internet

Mobile Internet 1

The Internet of Things 3

Cloud technology 4

Academic Scientific Research Computer Network of Armenia (ASNET-AM,

http://www.asnet.am) is a National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Armenia, which was established in 1994. ASNET-AM - interconnection 60 organisations in 5 cities of Armenia (Yerevan, Ashtarak, Byurakan, Abovian, Gyumri).

E-Infrastructure: network layer

• 2004 - the first HPC cluster (128 processors, Myrinet interconnection) entitled Armcluster in IIAP with the 523.4GFlops performance by achieved by High Performance Linpack test.

• Armenian National Grid Initiative (ArmNGI, http://www.grid.am) - a national effort of Armenia to establish a nationwide grid environment for computational science and research. The goal of the ArmNGI is to pursue a variety of scientific users in utilizing the Grid for their application. – Partners: SSC of MES RA, NAS RA, SEUA, YSU, YerPI, IIAP, Armenian e-

Science– Computational resources: Total ~ 500 cores. – Mainly local scientific communities are members and use the facilities of

the first Armenian national “ARMGRID.GRID.AM” VO.• Small clouds based on OpenNebula and OpenStack platforms have

been created. Integrated federated Cloud infrastructure in the Black Sea region (Black Sea Cloud Infrastructure, http://blacksea-cloud.net) mainly in Romania, Armenia, Georgia and Moldova is deployed.

E-Infrastructure: Computational resources

Topology of the Armenian National Grid Infrastructure

E-Infrastructure: Computational resources

Computing Infrastructure: Monitoring Tools

E-Infrastructure: Computational resources

E-Infrastructure: Advance services

Geoprocessing of Satellite Images

Armenian Portal in central repositories

The Weather Research and Forecasting numerical weather prediction model for the territory of Armenia has been implemented and operational used daily, which makes possible both the understanding and the prediction of mesoscale precipitation systems and promotes closer ties between the research and operational forecasting communities.

Research teams: Meteorology

International collaboration

Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre

Trans-European Research and Education Networking

Association

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