Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 1. Continued
ULAKBIM
Turkish Academic Network and Information
Centre
Turkey
http://www.ulakbim.gov.tr
JANET
UK's Education and Research Network
UK
http://www.ja.net
BASNET
Education and Research Network of Belarus
Belarus
www.bas-net.by
JSCC
Joint SuperComputer Center
Russia
www.jscc.ru
RENAM
Research and Educational Networking Association
of Moldova
Moldova
www.renam.md
URAN
Ukrainian Research and Academic Network
Ukraine
www.uran.net.ua
Some of the services offered by Janet are as fol-
lows (JANET, 2009):
ers all across Europe to collaborate together in
e-Science projects. Some of the leading EU funded
research projects that utilise the networking in-
frastructure provided by the NRENs and GÉANT
are described in the next section.
•
Primary connections
are provided to all
government funded further and higher
education institutions.
•
Sponsored connections
are connections
of a third-party organisation's network to
JANET via a Regional Network Operator
or an organisation that itself has a Primary
Connection.
•
Domain registration
of
ac.uk
and
gov.uk
domains.
•
Video services
like JANET
Videoconferencing Service (JVCS) and
JANET Video Technology Advisory
Service (VTAS).
•
Certificate service
that provide users with
some assurance of the identity of the
server they are accessing.
•
Training courses
pertaining to services
offered by JANET. Some of the courses
provided by JANET are introductory
courses, technical courses, JANET service
courses, wireless courses, security courses
and videoconferencing courses.
EC FUNDED RESEARCH
PROJECTS SUPPORTED
BY NRENS AND GÉANT
This section focuses on six European e-Infrastruc-
ture and e-Science projects that are presently being
funded by EU's 7th Framework Programme. The
common denominator of these projects is that they
rely on the NRENs and GÉANT. The projects
referred to in this section relate to supercomput-
ing (DEISA-2), grid computing (EGEE-III),
particle physics (LHC), experimental network
infrastructure (FEDERICA), access to remote
instruments (EVALSO) and expansion of the
GÉANT network (BSI).
EGEE-III: The World's Largest
Multi-Disciplinary Production
Grid Infrastructure
Services similar to JANET are provided by
NRENs of other European countries. Table 1
provides a list of the NRENs and their respective
website URLs for reference.
GÉANT provides connectivity between the
aforementioned NRENs, thus enabling research-
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE - III (EGEE-III)
will expand and optimise the existing EGEE grid
infrastructure that was deployed during the previ-
ous EGEE-I and EGEE-II projects. The EGEE grid
infrastructure currently processes up to 330,000
computation jobs per day and supports thousands
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