marwan moroccan nren - arab states research and education

MARWANMoroccan NREN

Redouane Merrouchmerrouch@marwan.ma

e-AGE18 – Amman 2-3 December 2018

Organization

MARWAN Department CNRST

Research Funding :• Call of Projects

Resource Sharing :• UATRS : Sharing of heavy equipment

(Chemistry/Biology/Materials Science)• IMIST : Access to Technical & Scientific Information • MARWAN : e-Infrastructures & e-Services

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Mission

E-Infrastructures :• MARWAN NREN• HPC (MAGRID / MAGRID CA)• Cloud for Research & Higher Education 2019?

E-Services :• Roaming Wifi : EduRoam• Identity Federation : EduIdm• Digital Certificates : TCS• EduVPN 2019• SOC for Research & Higher Education 2019?

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MARWAN NREN

• Start : 1998

• Funded by the Ministry of Higher Education, CNRST &

Universities

• All education and research institutions can be connected to

MARWAN

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Objectives

Provide connectivity to Moroccan universities

Offer federated services

Increase exchanges between universities

Connect to regional network to facilitate universities’

participation in international scientific collaborations

Reduce the global cost of the connectivity

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Evolution

1998

• MARWAN

• Backbone : Copper Leased Lines / ONPT / Access : 64 – 512 Kbps

• Funding : Ministry of Higher Education + Universities

2005

• MARWAN 2

• Backbone : FO VPLS-L3 / Maroc Telecom / Access : 2 – 34 Mbps

• Funding : CNRST + Universities

2010

• MARWAN 3

• Backbone : FO VPLS-L3 / Meditel / Access : 34 – 100 Mbps

• Funding : CNRST + Universities

2017

• MARWAN 4

• Backbone : FO VPLS-L2/ INWI / Access : 100 Mbps – 5 Gbps

• Funding : Ministry of Higher Education

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Ressources

34Mbps

x68

x3

x50

0,5 Mbps

1,5M€

4

2M€

6 100Mbps

2,5M€

7

5Gbps

3M€

2,1 M€1998

Equiv.

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x1,25

x1,3

x1,2

MARWAN MARWAN 2 MARWAN 3 MARWAN 4

Bandwith Budget Staff

95% of the budget goes to telecom operators

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GEANT Connectivity

34 Mbps

2005

155 Mbps

20102006

40 Mbps

2012 2013

1 Gbps

2018

MARWAN 2 MARWAN 3 MARWAN 4

Catania PoPRE + Internet

Madrid PoPRE

ASRENLondon PoP

RE (VPN)

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MARWAN 4

U N I V E R S I T YU N I V E R S I T Y

U N I V E R S I T YU N I V E R S I T Y

VPLS INWIUniv1

Univ.n

Etab1

NOC-MARWN&Services

@

CPE L2CPE L3

10G

10G

IGW Rabat

FW

PE

DDOS

5G

200M

ASRENGEANT

IGW Casablanca

1G

5G

100M

9Network Demarcation INWI/MARWAN

Coverage

Marwan 4 connects all the higher education and

research institutions in Morocco :

• 200 institutions connected (80 links / 30

cities)

• 15 000 professors and researchers

• 800 000 students 10

Services

• Connectivity :

• High Bandwidth Access (100 Mbps –

5 Gbps)

• Internet Access : 2 x 10 Gbps

• GEANT : 1 Gbps

• IPv6, QoS & Multicast

• e-Services :

• EduRoam

• Identity Federation (EduGain)

• Trusted Certificate Service (TCS)

EduRoam

EduGain

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Services

• High Performance Calculation (HPC)

• MaGrid (2005)

• MaGrid CA (EugridPMA)

• New Datacenter & HPC Cluster (2018) :

• 760 Cores (68 Tflops)

• 5,2 TB Memory

• 102 TB Storage

• 100 Gbps OPA Network

N

N * GE management link

N * BMC link

N

N * 100G OPA linkN

6

1* GPU node

2* Big memory node

2* Login/Management

1* Storage node

MM

9

10

CX

110 G

E

Module

CX

820 O

PA

Module

16

6

1 * E9000

Chassis

16 * Compute

node

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Challenges/Constraints• Governance / Strategy :

• Marwan is not a legal entity

• Completely dependent on the CNRST and Ministry’s strategies

• Budget :

• Source of funding

• Limited budget

• Human Resources :

• Difficulty in recruiting

• Difficulty in retaining

• Universities use :

• Low use of the services offered by Marwan

• Internet access is the main preoccupation for Universities

• Telecom Environment :

• No Infrastructure Operators, and only Telecom Operators 13

Usage Rate

• Connectivity :

• High bandwidth access

• Internet Access

• Regional Connectivity

• IPv6, QoS & Multicast

• e-Services :

• EduRoam

• Identity Federation (EduGain)

• Trusted Certificate Service (TCS)

• High Performance Calculation

(HPC)

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Future Prospects

• December 2021 : End of the 5 years contract of MARWAN 4

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2022MARWAN 5

Connectivity Provider

e-Service Provider e-Service Provider

@

5%

95%

5%

https://cnrst.ma https://marwan.ma

Thank you for your attention !