Research, E-infrastructure and Future Internet in
Armenia
Yuri Shoukourian
National Academy of Sciences of RA
INET Armenia conference 8-9 October 2013, Yerevan
Keynotes
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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
Cloud technology 4
The Internet of Things 3
E-Infrastructure: network layer
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: Computational resources
• 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 eScience
– Computational resources: Total ~ 500 cores.
– Mainly local scientific communities are members and use the facilities of
the first Armenian national “ARMGRID.GRID.AM” VO.
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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: Advance services
Armenian Portal in central
repositories
Geoprocessing of Satellite Images
Research teams: Meteorology
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.
International collaboration
Réseaux IP Européens Network
Coordination Centre
Trans-European Research and
Education Networking Association
Thank you