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e-Infrastructure and Janet6 review and update Bob Day Chief Technology Officer [email protected] Janet6 backbone progress • dark fibre contract – SSE Telecoms – signed end July 2012 • optical equipment contract – Ciena – signed early September 2012 • roll-out – – – – fibre footprint and points-of-presence optical equipment final design and build IP and Lightpath equipment requirements Janet NOC staffing and process changes • communications – overview publications – online briefings e-Infrastructure additions • funding currently available – £10m contribution to “day 1” backbone – £12m to extend backbone to academic research sites of strategic importance and not already attached via dark-fibre – £4m to enable industrial access to and use of e-infrastructure • additional backbone sites – – – – – In agreement with the Research Councils genomics: Norwich and Hinxton campuses meteorology: Exeter (UK Met Office) “Thames Valley” triangle ... RAL/Oxford/Reading biomedicine: London (Francis Crick Institute) • Janet Aurora dark-fibre test-bed – continuation and re-configuration beyond October 2013 e-Infrastructure business planning • e-Infrastructure Leadership Council – early BIS draft under discussion – five-year plan (2012-2017) • funding for facilities to be used by academe & industry ... – – – – – – – software and algorithms cybersecurity, authentication, resilience high-capacity communications HPC hardware (ARCHER, PRACE) storage resources skills development, knowledge transfer data preservation • Council response to date ... Use of remaining existing funding? • ~£3m from backbone extension + £4m for industrial access • academic – further expansion of backbone footprint? – [individual HEI campus network upgrades?] • industrial – financial support to piloting industrial use of resources on Janet? • link to regional and national HPC? • link to TSB Catapult Centres? – resolution of state-aid and other regulatory issues • both – AAI: productisation & further development of Moonshot technology? – higher IA facilities for commercial data? – skills development for effective use of high-performance networks? Discussion Janet, Lumen House Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford Didcot, Oxfordshire t: +44 (0) 1235 822200 f: +44 (0) 1235 822399 e: [email protected]