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Enhancing e-Infrastructure: Funding, Challenges, and Strategic Networking Insights

This document provides an overview of the current state of e-infrastructure networking, focusing on Janet's initiatives and funding breakdown. Janet has a £26M investment with a £10M contribution to the Janet6 backbone, aimed at supporting key locations requiring additional fibre access and fostering industry connections. It highlights the importance of understanding evolving research requirements, building cases for provision, and promoting collaboration within the research community. Discussions around industry engagement, throughput challenges, and the role of Janet in supporting research are also included.

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Enhancing e-Infrastructure: Funding, Challenges, and Strategic Networking Insights

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  1. e-InfrastructureNetworkingDavid Salmon

  2. Topics • e-Infrastructure funding • What has Janet been doing ? • Emerging Issues • Some practicalities • Broader discussion questions... • input & issues from community ?

  3. Janet – e-Infrastructure networking • £26M With HEFCE Breakdown • £10M Contribution to Janet6 backbone • £12M Network provision within “classic” Janet community, including key locations which may need additional fibre access • £4M “Industry connection”

  4. e-Infrastructure Strategic Sites • Potential fibre / capacity requirements • Work with organisations to understand requirements • Build cases for provision • If approved, integrate provision with deployment of Janet6

  5. Gathering strategic requirements • Immediate focus on sites mentioned.. • Generic approach • Senior research management • Senior infrastructure management • Strategic view – 5+ years • Quantitative • Patterns of use • Locations, data volumes -> net capacities • Challenging !

  6. Patterns of use • Data movement – working patterns • How much – data volume ? • Beware Bytes vs. bits ! • How quickly ? • How often ? • Where to ? • National & International • Network engineers need bit-rates ! • Working with research communities to understandemerging/evolvingrequirements

  7. Norwich Bioinformatics Cluster • The Genome Analysis Centre - TGAC • The Sainsbury Laboratory • John Innes Centre • Institute for Food Research • University of East Anglia • Norwich Research Park

  8. Hinxton Genome Campus • European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute • The Sanger Centre • Babraham Institute

  9. Exeter & locale • Weather & Climate research • Monsoon HPC – NERC & M.O. • Met Office • University of Exeter

  10. Further South-West ? • Plymouth • University • Falmouth • University • Environmental SustainabilityInstitute • Exeter & Plymouth campuselements too • Goonhilly • Radio Astronomy Interest • CUGA consortium

  11. Results • Visits undertaken – first phase • Collating & chasing input ! • Document cases for approval • Within next week or two

  12. Expectations ? • Janet provision • meet acute needs in shorter term • broader provision within Janet6 • mechanisms • IP capacity to host organisation • some point to point services

  13. e-Infrastructure projects funded • HPC • 5 regional consortia • National facility – Hector / Archer • Dirac • Particle physics • NERC • STFC • RAL • Daresbury • will engage to discuss requirements & evolution

  14. Some implications

  15. Throughput challenges • Infrastructures can deliver very high capacities • Realising high-throughput end-to-end will takesome effort • Can’t just take systems “out of the box” and expect to get full line-rate data-transfers • This needs to be communicated & understood more widely • Janet & NREN community needs to work more closely with research communities to understand and solve issues.

  16. Achievable Throughput • What is realistic ? • Challenge: 1Gbit/s, 24hr ~= 10TBytes • Holistic approach • End systems - Hardware & Software - Both ends ! • Local networks • Wide area networks • Highlight successful examples • Technical case studies • Janet role ? • Co-ordination/collaboration • Advice & troubleshooting support ?

  17. Network structure implications ? • Large research communities • International/global overlays or private networks • Particle physics - LHC OPN (LHCONE) • Radio Astronomy – eVLBI, LOFAR, (SKA...) • Future – Bioinformatics ?? ELIXIR • Campus implications ? point to point services (lightpaths) more complex multi-homing – routing/switching issues

  18. Industry ? • Existing Janet policy • Supporting collaborative R&D • Business and Community Engagement (BCE) • Evolution - more needed ? • e-Infrastructure • “Open and accessible Janet”

  19. Connecting Industry – meaning ? • Network connections ? • Access to community systems & resources connected to Janet ? • Access to Janet community knowledge & expertise ? • Mix of all three... • BIS & HPC Consortia views ?

  20. Conclusion & seed discussion issues ? • Throughput performance • Your views on what Janet should be doing ? • Services multiplying • Campus issues & implications • Advice or information required ? • Other points ? • Janet supporting research

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