International Workshop on

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HEPGRID BRAZIL GRID and Digital Divide
International Workshop on African Research
Education Networking
Alberto Santoro UERJ - Brazil
September 25-27 2005 CERN
Outline I Introduction II - T2HEPGRID
BRASIL Other News III - Conclusion
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I - INTRODUCTION

• Brasil and Africa has a long Cultural tradition
  
• The roots of Brazilian Music, Food, dances,
• have a strong component of African culture.
• By the way, this is true for all Latin
  American
• Networks is an open opportunity to Cooperate
• Brazil X AFRICA X EUROPE X USA need
• cooperate more, in Science, and Computing
• GRID.
• I sincerely think that Digital Divide can be
• our common start point

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• I will try to show what we are doing in
• Brazil in Grid for HEP and Digital Divide.
• Our project in Brazil is being developped
• not so fast as we would like it.
• Links/Networks is being upgraded in the whole
• country also not so fast as we would like
• but it is much better than 3 years ago.
• New projects has being helpful, like GIGA
• from RNP, Direct Collaboration with RNP
• providing new link to Grid projects.

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II -T2-HEPGRID BRASILOther News
short summary
http//www.hepgrid.br
I will forget today old history and will get only
the more recent events involving HEP. I have
limited my talk by Brazilian HEP projects only.

• 1999- First contacts with Grid ideas.
• End of the Client/Server Cluster
• 2000- Presentation of the first Brazilian HEP
  project for a Tier 1 several Tiers 2

Jobs was submitted remotely and results sent
directly to FNAL/ Dzero.

• After 2 years we consider completely out of
  date.
• Follow new strategies.

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T2HEPGRID BRASIL - short summary

• 2001- Presentation of a New Project
• - Aproved! 500 Machines ?
  But...Dollar increase of a factor 3
• and we could buy only 100 Double
  CPU Machines.
• - First meeting with Harvey Newman in
  Rome (LP2001)
• 2002- The first part of the financial support
  delivered.
• - bureaucracy impose us about 2
  years of delay to our projects
• - Need to create infrastructure.
• - Link provided by REDE RIO at 2
  Mbps!

• 2003- Starting to buy the machines and build the
  Group
• Again here CALTECH group has been
  very helpfull- Thanks!
• 2004- Hepgrid and Digital Divide Workshop UERJ,
• Rio Feb. 16-20 See
  http//www.lishep.uerj.br/
• - by december 20th. inauguration of our
  Tier 2

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Harvey Newman
T2-HEPGRID TEAM
A.Santoro
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São Paulo Regional Analysis Center

• FAPESP Thematic Project Implementation in 3
  Phases - They are operating with D0SAR

Phase 2
Phase 1
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2005- May 12 HEPGRID Workshop for CMS

• Brazil/Caltech collaboration 2002-5 in Data
  Analysis, Physics, Cyberinfrastructure
• Federate with Caltech T2 connected to the T1 of
  Fermilab
• T2-Hepgrid Brazil become member of the GriPhyN,
  ivgdl, Grid3, OSG,...
• Colleagues from other Universities start to use
  our Cluster for Local production of Monte Carlo
  Students are producing Monte Carlo events for
  analysis on CMS environment
• RNP decide to provide our connectivity From Now
  till October 100 Mbps, From October 10 Gbps but 1
  Gbps exclusive for T2-HEPGRID Brazil.
• Let us show a bit the progress of RNP

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• RNP is the Brazilian national research
• and education network
• maintained by the Brazilian government
• provides national (inter-state) and international
  connectivity for more than 200 universities and
  research centers through the provision of
  advanced networking infrastructure
• collaboration links to other similar networks
  internationally (Internet2, GÉANT, APAN,
  RedCLARA)
• commodity links to the commercial Internet
• supports the development of advanced networking
  and its applications

M. Stanton
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International connectivity

• Two kinds of traffic commodity (Internet1) and
  cooperation (Internet2, or Research and
  Education)
• Except for RedCLARA, all current connections are
  to the USA
• RNP operates
• 2 155 (Rio) 45 Mbps (SP) commodity to Miami
• 155 Mbps cooperation via RedCLARA (SP) to LA
  Europe
• Other Brazilian RE network connections
• 622 Mbps operated by ANSP (São Paulo state
  network)
• 155 Mbps operated by Rede-Rio (Rio de Janeiro
  state network)

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Project GIGA

• Objectives
• - Explore user control of optical fibre
  
• infrastructure
• - Interconnect 18 universities and RD
  centres
• in SE Brazil
• - provide Networking Research Testbed
  (NRT)
• for optical and IP network development
• - provide Experimental Infrastructure
  Network
• (EIN) for development and demonstration
  of
• applications
• OTHER IMPORTANT PROJECTS
• What is going on North of Brazil?

M. Stanton
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Suggestion2 for Fiber Installation
Suggestion1 for Fiber Installation
RNP LOCAL Network are paying Attention to this
Region Also
Manaus
Amazonas
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Belém a Possible Topology (30 km ring)
M. Stanton
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Situation of Local Access in Belém in Brazil in
2004
Annual telco charges for POOR local access US
241,000
M. Stanton
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Alternative Approach in Brazil Do It Yourself
(DIY) Networking (M. Stanton, RNP)

• Form a consortium for joint network provision
• 2. Build your own optical fiber network to reach
  ALL the campi of ALL consortium members
• 3. Light it up and go! Costs involved
• Building out the fiber using utility poles of
  electric company
• US 7,000 per km
• Monthly rental of US 1 per pole (25 poles per
  km)
• Equipment costs mostly use cheap 2 port GbE
  switches
• Operation and maintenance in Belém for 11
  institutions using All GigE connections
• Capital costs around US 500,000
• Running costs around US 40,000 p.a.
• Compare with current US 240,000 p.a. for
  traditional telco solution for 0.128 to 6 Mbps
  100-1000X less bandwidth

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Brazil RNP Natl Plan for Optical Metro Nets in
2005-6

• In December 2004, RNP signed contracts with
  Finep (the agency of the Ministry of Science
  and Technology) to build optical metro networks
  in all 27 capital cities in Brazil
• Total value of more than US15 millions
• Most of this money will be spent in 2005
• Many Future Projects. (http//www.hepgrid.uerj.br/
  ) Go to Information after click on Meetings, look
  for Brazilian Connectivity for e-Science (Michael
  Stanton)

M. Stanton
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Present Topologia of RNP
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SLOW? YES! But we continue our main project

• The purpose of HEPGRID-CMS/BRAZIL is to become
• At Regional Level, Federate with CBPF, UFRJ,
  UFRGS, UFBA, UERJ UNESP
• At International Level, Federate with Caltech,
  T1-FNAL, GRID3/OSG...
• Strong cooperation with CALTECH

Brazilian HEPGRID
On line systems
Soon not more a Dream!
T0 T1
2.5 - 10 Gbps
CERN
T1
UNESP/USP SPRACE-Working
T2 ?T1
UERJ Regional Tier2 Ctr
Gigabit
T3 ?T2
UFRGS
CBPF
UERJ T2?T1,100?500 Nodes Plus T2s to 100
Nodes
UERJ
UFRJ
UFBA
Individual Machines
T4
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Cluster Topology
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III - Conclusion

• Networks From RNP We will go to 10 Gbps.
• Got Certifications
• Other Brazilian regions, Very far of the big
  Brazilian cities Amazonas State
• Infraestructure of the University (UERJ) is being
  upgraded with Optical Fibers to expand good links
  in the future.
• All that demonstrate that RNP and Regional
  networks with exceptions, are taken seriously
  Digital Divide.
• Please, we have to understand, that, there are a
  lot of local effort! But,
• IT IS ALSO A CONSEQUENCE OF OUR MEETINGS IN
  RIO, WITH MANY AUTHORITIES
• WITH RNP!!! THANKS!