Information and Computing Infrastructure of JINR

Participating Countries and International organizations:

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, CERN, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, USA.

Issues addressed and main goals of research:

The purpose of the theme is to develop the network, information and computing infrastructure of JINR for the research and production activities of the Institute and its Member States on the basis of state-of-the-art information technologies in accordance with the Seven-Year Plan for the development of JINR. A particular direction within the theme is the development of the JINR MLIT Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex (MICC) presented as a Project.

Expected results in the current year:

1. Provision of the stable, safe and integral functioning of the JINR information and telecommunication network (backbone network (2х100 Gbps); transport network of the NICA megaproject (8х100 Gbps); MLIT mesh network (100 Gbps); backbone external telecommunication channels (3х100Gbps); Wi-Fi network at the Institute’s sites.

Provision of the full-scale and optimal operation of the guaranteed power supply and climate control systems of the MICC computing infrastructure. Commissioning of a new fire safety system of the MICC infrastructure.

Expansion of the performance and storage system of the MICC basic components, i.e., Tier1 center at JINR, Tier2/CICC, EOS system. Support and maintenance of user work with the EOS system. Development of the system of access to the home directories of JINR users (AFS), of the unified storage and access system for the MICC common software (CVMFS), transition to a new software system for working with tape robots (CTA). Creation and update of a polygon for debugging and testing new software for the uppermost components of the MICC.

Extension of the computing capacities of the cloud service for scientific and engineering computing due to integration with some cloud infrastructures of institutes of the Russian Federation collaborating with JINR and of other JINR Member States. Expansion of the number of users and participants of the DICE on the basis of the cloud resources of the JINR Member States’ organizations. Enlargement of the resources of the MICC cloud, including at the expense of the resources acquired by the Baikal-GVD, JUNO, NOvA/DUNE experiments, and their maintenance.

Development of low-level software for automating the process of data transfer both between the layers of the hierarchical data processing and storage system of the "Govorun" supercomputer and between computing sites included in the distributed environment to model and reconstruct events for the NICA experiments.

Support and maintenance of the operation of the WLCG virtual organizations, the NICA, COMPASS, NOvA, ILC and other experiments, local user groups on the MICC Tier1 and Tier2 resources.

Putting into trial operation and development of SPD experiment systems for: management of processing physical events mass simulation data; data management implementing the model and policy of working with them; data processing infrastructure monitoring. Connection to the load management system of the computing resources of the SPD collaboration: PNPI, St. Petersburg State University, Samara University, SPD Online Filter (prototype).

Expansion of the DIRAC-based distributed information and computing platform. Integration of new computing and storage resources.

Development and support of the current MICC monitoring and accounting system, inclusion of monitoring the parameters of new computing and engineering elements in the list of monitored services and hardware.

Creation of a prototype of an integrated system for monitoring and managing the MICC services and hardware on the basis of new technological approaches, including Big Data analytics. Deployment of the prototype of a Big Data user infrastructure to solve JINR’s urgent tasks.

2. Development and maintenance of the systems EDS "Dubna", APT EVM for NICA, ADB2, ISS, HR LHEP, CERNDB, EDS "Advance reports", JINRex at the request of end users. Development and commissioning of a new version of the PIN system. Maintenance of the JINR Information System for Scientific Certification (ISSC) and "Document Base". Transition of the functionality of the "Document Base" system into the EDS "Dubna". Trial operation of the localized server of scientific publications based on the Invenio-JOIN2 software program, provision of interaction with the PIN IS at the level of bibliographic metadata.

Transition of the "Dubna" program library to double precision and inclusion of the programs in the JINRLIB mathematical program library.

Modernization of the information and software support of central information servers, portals and databases to ensure the MLIT and JINR activities: maintenance and update of the MLIT portals, of the website of the JINR PEPAN and "PEPAN Letters" journals on top of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) software for managing the editorial process, of the websites "JINR Dissertation Councils", INDICO, "JINR Photo Archive", "Special Assessment of Working Conditions (SAWC)-Expert", etc. Creation and support of websites, including in hosting mode, at the request of the Institute’s structural subdivisions.

Commissioning and further development of user services of the web-based information and analytical system for managing network and other types of software licenses at MLIT.

Implementation of the hierarchical data processing and storage system in the information and computing system for radiobiological research to accelerate experimental data processing, development of web services to ensure convenient user work with the results of data analysis.

Trial operation of the "Personal Account" system of the account management service.

Development of the concept and creation of the technological basis for the "JINR Digital Ecosystem" platform. Integration of several services of the corporate information system that are functioning at JINR into the platform.

3. Holding of special courses related to data processing and analysis for megascience experiments, including the NICA project. Organization of tutorials on solving applied tasks on the basis of machine and deep learning methods, including in the JINR Member States in accordance with international cooperation programs.

Development of a polygon for intelligent cognitive robots and holding of laboratory workshops on robotics.

Collaboration