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Information, Computer and Network Support of JINR's Activity

• Development of the JINR external telecommunication links: lunching and maintenance of the reliable functioning of the 10 Gbps high-speed JINR-Moscow data link on the basis of SCC "Dubna". Optimization of access to the Russian and global networks (RBNET, RUNNET, RUHEP, RASNET, GEANT3). Construction of a system of IP-telephony in JINR. Securing reliable operation of JINR connections with Tier1 centers: CERN - for CMS experiment, FZK (Karlsruhe) - for ALICE experiment and SARA (Amsterdam) - for ATLAS experiment. Start-up of the project on the development of the corporate network of JINR and its Member States.
  
  
• Provision of secured, reliable and failure-tolerant work of the JINR backbone main communication facility; modernization of the power supply of the central LAN facility. Provision of the reliable and effective operation of the Institute's gigabit network highway. Stage-by-stage transition of the JINR Backbone to a data transfer rate of 10 Gbps.
  
  
• Development and maintenance of a reliable functioning of the JINR Central Information Computing Complex (CICC). Rise of the CICC performance and disk space increase for data storage needed by ATLAS, ALICE, CMS experiments and other projects of the Institute. Provision of support of general purpose software, monitoring operation nodes, information support, user registration, and consulting service of the JINR CICC. Development of the distributed and parallel computing paradigms. Provision of efficient data flow control for processing, storage and effective search within mass memory systems. Realization in JINR CICC of the prototype of a dynamic center for data processing using the principles of "visualization" and service - oriented architecture.
  
  
• Further development of the hardware and software environment for information, algorithmic and software support of the research activities under way at JINR and JINR Member State institutes on the CICC basis. Technical support of the JINR website. Modernization and support of other information servers of JINR and LIT. Development of retrieval systems at JINR sites. Creation of a website of the editions of "Physics of Elementary Particles and Atomic Nuclei" and "Particles and Nuclei, Letters" journals. Creation and support of information systems and databases in cooperation with other JINR subdivisions, including administrative structures. Development of the system of libraries of electronic documents related to the JINR scientific and administrative activity. Development of the system of electronic libraries of scientific periodical publications with access to full-text electronic versions of journals on JINR research field. Development, creation and support of informational websites of various workshops and conferences as well as support of sites of JINR subdivisions and sites of conferences in a hosting mode (by request). Further development of the JINRLIB library: update of the library with new programs created at JINR; development of new programming systems, first of all, freely distributed ones; improvement of the quality of statistics of the Library's programs use; development of dynamic WEB-applications. Support of the international program libraries CPCLIB, CERNLIB. Support of the specialized WWW-server, provision of electronic access to programs and documentation. Information and technical support of the users.
  Creation and development of parallel analogues for traditional programs of numerical methods, where the MPI package is supposed to be the basic tool of paralleling, and the multicore processors are the basic computing platform. Research on the efficiency of solving computing tasks on the JINR CICC clusters. Consecutive development and modification of re-engineering technology of distributed computations: further modification of the F2F converter; adding means of automating routine works while translating Fortran programs under package MPI control. Application of re-engineering technology to the solution of a number of large computing tasks. Implementation and development of paperless electronic document circulation information system at LIT. Development of training courses and practical classes on advanced information technologies.
  
  
• Development of the JINR Grid segment as part of the global Grid infrastructure with a full-function set of services: a) raising of infrastructure WLCG at JINR, b) support of basic services of the RDIG infrastructure, c) development of the system of monitoring and accounting the resources of the Russian LCG/EGEE segment; d) support of Web-portals for the projects WLCG and EGEE in Russia. Development and support of the middleware and applied software of the Grid-systems: a) certification and testing of new Grid-components, b) improvement of instrumental means for monitoring the task performance within the Grid-environment (Dashboard, CMS Production, FTS, Condor-G, MCDB). Creation of a Grid-infrastructure within the joint Grid-projects with South Africa, Romania, Czech Republic and Ukraine. Participation in the projects SKIF-Grid and GridNNN (Construction of a Grid-system of the national nanotechnological network). Development of a research Grid-structure for testing new components of the middleware of Grid-structures, development of methods of "gridification" of applied software and for work in the field of interoperability of various Grid-systems. Support and expansion of opportunities of the HEPWEB system by introducing new generator programs, development of special opportunities for specific experiments on LHC (by request). Development of the training system on Grid-technologies on the basis of the Grid-laboratory and further development of its technical basis. Continuation of work within the project "Dubna-Grid". Expansion of the JINR segment in frames of the system of metacluster computations "Dubna-Grid".
  
  

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