1. AMRES – Combining
national, regional and
& EU efforts
Eastern Europe Partnership Event, 8 November 2011, Bucharest
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2. Who are we? - Why AMRES/UoB?
! In ’90s UoB (computer centre) was appointed by the
Government to develop and operate Serbian NREN.
Computer centres of other major universities (NI,
NS, KG) were also involved.
! UoB Computer centre (RCUB)
! Approx. 40 employees
! Two main teams:
! Networking (AMRES)
! Software – university IS, network monitoring tools, GN3
tools, other commercial software
! 2007-2010 – AMRES project financed by the
Government
! Recently Serbian Government made a decision to
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establish new legal entity called AMRES 2

3. AMRES development
• Internal infrastructure
• 2 Mbps towards GRNET
• more than 130 institutions
• Additional 2x2 Mbps
• small capacities (up to 2 Mbps)
• International cooperation
• Small capacity of the external link –
congestion • First step
• Significant digital divide
SEERA-EI PSC03 meeting, Belgrade, 21-22 December 2009

4. AMRES development
• Donation from Germany and Max Planck institute
• Support by the Ministry of Science • First regional project
• Leap frog – Gigabit backbone, dark fiber • 34 Mbps capacity
• Internal traffic increase • heavily utilized, but not congested
• External link still congested • Improved cooperation with end-
institutions and users
SEERA-EI PSC03 meeting, Belgrade, 21-22 December 2009

5. AMRES development
• New gigabit network – dark fiber • New FP 6 projects
• >20 gigabit intercity links many intra-city DF links • infrastructure
• 1 Gpbs CBF towards HUNGARNET • regional connectivity
• Backup Internet link through Telekom Srbija • GRID

6. AMRES development

7. AMRES network - current status
 AMRES:
! 155 member institutions
! 150,000 active users
! ~2200 km dark fibre links
! 20 cities covered
! Managed by UoB/RCUB and
other service centres
! CBF towards HU, BA, primary
Internet link towards HU (1 Gbps)
! Backup links and exchange over
Telekom Serbia and SBB (34 Mbps,
1Gbps)
! All the regular network services:
IPv4, IPv6, multicast, web, mail,
eduroam, DNS, domain registration,
VPN, videoconferencing, media
portal, server hosting, virtualization,
3-level NOC operating 24/7…

8. Current international projects
! FP7
! SEERA-EI
! HP-SEE
! GN3, active in
! SA2T3 - Perfsonar
! SA3T2 - eduroam
! SA3T3 – eduGAIN
! SA4T1 – Software governance – best practices
! SA4T2 – Software quality assurance
! JRA2T1 – Control and Management
! NA3T4 – Campus best practice
! SA3T4 - eduCONF
! NA2 - PR network
! Tempus: ViCES

9. AMRES legal entity
! Established by the Serbian government
! AMRES takes over all NREN tasks, rights and
obligations as of the day of the operational start.
! AMRES started operations on November 1st 2011.
! AMRES will have approx. 40 employees
! AMRES has managing and supervisory board
appointed by the Government
! University of Belgrade (Computer centre) remains a
crucial partner in NREN operation
! AMRES has Technical council consisted of service
centre employees
! AMRES will offload some of the service operation
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10. AMRES projects and plans: 2011 and beyond
SEELight project
! Financed by the HiPERB plan of the Greek
government (80%) and Serbian government (20%)
! December 2010 - contract for long term dark fibre
lease (15 years) signed. Fibres to be delivered by
December 2011.
! Rich and redundant dark fibre footprint with approx
4000km of dark fibre in 50 cities. Each city at least 2
institutions – totally 110 new institutions
! New CBF connections (Bulgaria, Romania and
Croatia)
! Next activities: DWDM equipment procurement (N x 10
Gb/s)
! L2/L3 equipment procurement.
! Operational start expected: April 2012

11. Grid resources - AEGIS
 AEGIS: Academic and Educational Grid Initiative of Serbia - http://www.aegis.rs/
! Founded in April 2005
! Mission: to provide reliable and
sustainable Grid infrastructure for
Serbian researchers
! Coordination: Institute of Physics
Belgrade
! 25 Members:
! 4 university computer centers
! 17 public research organizations
! 2 international collaborations
! 2 SMEs
! 60+ active users
! 6 Grid sites, 1094 CPUs, 30 TBs
! 6 completed FP6 and FP7 projects:
! SEE-GRID, SEE-GRID-2, SEE-GRID-SCI
! EGEE, EGEE-II, EGEE-III
! 2 active projects:
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12. HPC resources – Blue Danube
 Blue Danube Supercomputing Initiative - http://www.bluedanube.rs/
! Lunched in November 2008
! Mission: to establish the National Supercomputing and Data Storage
Facility and pave the way for the network of Serbian HPC centers
! Coordination: Institute of Physics Belgrade
! Current installation: PARADOX cluster
! 88 x ( 2 x quad core Xeon E5345 @ 2.33 GHz ) = 704 CPU (1 GB of RAM / core)
! 50 TB of disk space and Gigabit Ethernet interconnection
! Upcoming installation (2012):
! 3000 x86_64-based CPUs
! InfiniBand interconnection
! M2090 NVidia Tesla cluster
! LINPACK: 40 Tflops
! 3 active projects:
! PRACE-1IP, PRACE-2IP
! HP-SEE
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13. Plans: School network
! Around 3000 school buildings (2000 schools)
! Majority of schools connected currently via
commercial providers (DSL, 3G)
! When AMRES starts its operation the traffic
from schools will be routed to AMRES
! Content filtering equipment already in
place
! AMRES will take over the operation of the
school network in future
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14. Overview of investments in research and
development for the period 2001. – 2008.*
Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Total
Budget for Science 19,1 30,1 45,8 44,9 56,0 74,9 101,4 105,0 477,4
Estimate of total 1,91 3,01 4,59 3,86 5,60 9,0 13,2 15,5 56,7
investments in RTD
infrastructure
Investment in RTD 10% 10% 10% 8,6% 10% 12% 13% 14,8% 11,88%
infrastructure
Serbian budget that is spent annually on RTD ICT infrastructure is
estimated at 2 million euros (0.005% of GDP)
www.amres.ac.rs * Source: Serbia – ICT RTD Technological Audit, Mineco, 2010
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15. Regulatory Framework
! eSEE Agenda+ for Development of Information
Society in SEE 2007- 2012; (2007)
! Strategy for the Development of Science and
Technology of the Republic of Serbia
2010-2015, (2010)
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16. Main stakeholders
! Ministry for Education and Science
! Ministry of Culture, media and information
society
! National Council for Science and
Technological development
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17. Plans: Geant PoP and services
! 10Gbps Geant connection procurement
procedure almost finished
! Eduroam is being spread throughout the
country (currently 32 hotspots)
! Federated services under development
! Goal: Enriched service portfolio
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18. Thank you for
your attention!