marwan moroccan nren - arab states research and education
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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
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NOC-MARWN&Services
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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
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1* GPU node
2* Big memory node
2* Login/Management
1* Storage node
MM
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CX
110 G
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Module
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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 !