Post on 09-May-2020
Major development of
the NIIF e-Infrastructure
by using Structural Funds
Lajos Bálint Tamás Máray
János Mohácsi
NIIF/Hungarnet
TERENA GA
Reykjavik, 24-25 May 2012
Practical experiences and lessons to learn
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e-Infrastructure development in Hungary
History: Europe Hungary
1980-1985 First experiments Awareness, learning
1985-1990 EARN IIF
1990-1995 EuropaNET NIIF
1995-2000 TEN (34, 155) HBONE
2000-2005 GÉANT HPC & grid & VC
2005-2010 GÉANT+ HBONE+
Major developments (periodicity of some 10 years):
1990-1995: Political changes (Internet) + DANTE membership
2000-2005: Liberalised DataComm. in Hungary
2010-2015: ???
2009-2010:
Critical shortage of development funds approached!
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Funding history
Annual operational costs regularly budgeted governmental funding from central stately budget (~5 MEUR/yr)
(year by year fighting for support)
Development costs just occasionally appeared ”milestones”:
- initial creation of first research network generation
- transient appearance of spare money from liberalisation
Opportunity of using structural funds for e-RI development:
• 2004 – 2006 (2007): 1st National Development Plan – NFT1
major NIIF efforts in vain (no NFT1 funding for e-Infrastructure)
• 2007 – 2011 (2013): 2nd National Development Plan – UMFT (NFT2)
elevated efforts, multilevel lobbying, political support …
… finally success (3rd round attempt!)
Basic issue: Delayed understanding of e-RI importance by governments!
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UMFT - “New Hungary Development Plan”
Related Operational Programs (finally having supported e-Infrastructure development)
TIOP – Societal Infrastructure OP - subprogram for Higher Education
KMOP – Central Hungary OP
TAMOP – Social Renewal OP
Total 3 yr UMFT funding for 2+1 NIIF development projects: ~ 4.7 BHUF (~ 18 MEUR)
= ~85% (>15MEUR) SF + 15% national matching money
(in accordance with EC-NDP rules)
+ >2 MEUR FP7 project funding by EC DG-INFSO
Challenges (on top of technical issues): • Unbalanced nature of OPs – but building balanced infrastructure
(SF rules to be refined wrt. convergence vs. central regions)
(conflict of EU–national–local aspects to be dissolved)
• Bureaucratic and slow procedures of project funding
(planning difficulties in a fast changing technical environment)
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Results of the development
• Complete renewal of the NREN backbone – optical/IP layer
• Complete renewal of the national HPC infrastructure
• Establishing a distributed storage infrastructure
• Complete renewal of the federal academic AAI infrastructure
• Complete renewal of the academic VC infrastructure
• Introduction of several new services
(by exploiting the new e-Infrastructure elements –
– e.g. cloud services, videotorium)
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HBONE+, the new optical backbone
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HBONE+ services
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Achievements – major e-Infrastructure features
• n x 10/40 Gbps hybrid network (IP + e2e) + related FP7 projects
• ~ 3200 km DF (CEF) backbone
• 40-100 Gbps experiments (CERN data center in Budapest)
• ~ 79 PoPs
• ~ 500 institutions (~ 700 access sites)
• ~ 700.000 users (7 % of population)
• Grids (+ related FP7 projects)
• NIIF cloud development, non-commercial (+ related FP7 projects)
• ~ 50 Tflops aggregate HPC (4 supercomputers, various architecture)
• ~ 1+1 PByte distributed storage
• advanced collaboration facilities (~ 150 HD VC nodes …)
• Data Infrastructure/repository development initiatives (Videotorium …)
• widening service portfolio
• federated national AAI (eduID)
• advanced CRM
• improved conditions of continuing EC project partnerships
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Conclusions
• Exploiting Structural Funds is essential for developing the e-Infrastructure in less developed member states – fight for them!
(advanced Research Infrastructures play key role in enhancing cohesion within Europe – repeated application for SF is needed)
• Project funding by FPs should be continued for supporting European level RIs like GEANT, PRACE, etc.
(Structural Funds alone can’t operate appropriately:
impact is maximised by combined FP&SF funding)
• National decision making is to be harmonised on how to use SFs
(needs European-level coordination and due stimulation)
• Horizon2020 will help by providing a pleasing framework for both
(combined FP&SF funding + stimulated local decisions on SF)
• Healthy combination of excellence, cohesion, and innovation goals
is a crucial contributor to improved funding of R&E in Europe
• Just a common wish and a joint will can motivate member states to
spend due portions of SFs on e-Infrastructure development
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Let’s see …
… and let’s cross our fingers …