ICT current and future benefits for the community at UNAM Information and Communication Department Romo, Fabian. Director. Systems and IT Services

November 2015. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

Agenda 1. UNAM’s quick facts 2. ICT @ UNAM. Current status 3. Challenges. HPC as an example 4. Trends for ICT @ UNAM 5. Projects and perspectives UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

1. UNAM’S QUICK FACTS

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A glimpse of UNAM • 1575. Founded by Charles V as the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, based on Salamanca’s University model. • 1857. Closed by former president Juarez, due University’s filiation with the Catholic church. Splits in national schools. • 1910. Re-opened by former president Díaz, as part of Mexico’s Independence centennial celebration. Named “National”, leaving royal and pontifical titles aside. Laicism. • 1929. Declared Autonomous, meaning self decisions on academic issues, budget management and self government. • 1968. Students movements worldwide impacts UNAM, creating new educational models. • 2015. One of the largest institutions in the world oriented to three goals: education, research and culture. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

UNAM in numbers •

+375 k students – – –

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+40 K faculty – –

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120 K in high school 230 K undergraduate 25 K graduates / post-graduates (masters / doctoral grades) 75% part time / lecture teachers 25% full time professors and researchers

+8 K employees. 60% of the entire scientific research in the country 123 scientific and humanistic peer reviewed periodical publications National Library, National Newspaper Library, National Herbarium and other hundred national collections National Seismic Service, National Astronomical Observatory. 25 years in a row as one of the Top 5 Higher Education Institutions in the Hispanic world Alma Mater of more than five million Mexican professionals. 37 schools, 69 profesional studies programs (undergraduate) UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

2. ICT @ UNAM. CURRENT STATUS

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ICT @ UNAM in numbers. Network •

Internal network: RedUNAM is one of the largest academic networks in Latin America. – – – –

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Connectivity: One of the top Internet services in Mexico – –

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Running on Mexico City’s subway tunnels (Metro) Delta-like topology, connecting HPC clusters on top research facilities at UNAM, UAM, and CINVESTAV 72 fibers. Only 4 in use.

Voice: Largest one on an academic institution in the country – – –

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6.5 Gbps to commercial Internet (soon 10 Gbps) 10 Gbps to CUDI (Mexican NREN).

Metropolitan Delta: Dark fiber infrastructure – –

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+ 78 K wired points + 500 K WiFi accounts granted for free to the community +1.5 K AP widespread alongside 40 campuses and > 1000 buildings 40 Gbps backbone, all local networks no less than 1 Gbps.

+ 18 K digital extensions 750 mobile lines 150 VoIP device

Videoconference. First interactive network in the country – –

250 videoconference rooms (auditoriums, classrooms, labs, meeting rooms) Virtualized point to point and multipoint services.

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ICT @ UNAM in numbers. Computing •

Base computing. Largest inventory owned by a Mexican university – – –

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Specialized clusters: Institutional GRID for scientific research. – –

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+ 200 computing nodes, Private network at 15:1 compression rate 1 PB SAN storage, keeping safe UNAM’s digital assets. Second datacenter for DRP opening soon.

Software: Institutional coverage and resources efficiency – –

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ALICE cluster. 1024 cores, half PB for storage, serving as Tier-2 for LHC @ CERN Mexican Genomic HPC Network. Power IBM cluster, with 600 Power 7 and Power 5 cores.

Datacenter: First all virtualized, self service datacenter in an academic Mexican institution – – – –

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+ 85 K personal computers + 10 K mobile devices + 5 K high performance devices, from workstations to supercomputers.

On line store: Unique self service website for licensing and software download Agreements: competitive prices for full institutional coverage.

Virtual reality / Visualization: First HCI and BCI labs in the country – –

Immersion lab: 3D facility with sensor drived interfaces. Pasive and active modes HCI / BCI lab: Human / brain computer interface research powered by top GRID clusters for remote perception

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UNAM ICT regulatory body: CATIC (Advisory ICT Board) • Sets the policies and regulatory recommendations to define the ICT strategic plans about information and communication technologies. • Suggests general policies to guide, support and contribute into decision taking for the development, acquisition, administration and usage of ICT. • Creates special and / or permanent committees to research, analyze and integrate community’s request and opinions about ICT to sustain its own policies. • Promotes initiatives to keep up to date every UNAM’s ICT information such as hardware inventories, software resources, computer labs, agreements with vendors and similar organizations, telecommunications infrastructure, among others.

• Encourages the pursue for internal and external financial sources to support ICT development at UNAM. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

3. CHALLENGES. HPC AS AN EXAMPLE

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High performance computing at UNAM •

First supercomputer in Latin America: Cray Y-MP (circa 1991)

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Currently fifth generation: Miztli – 138 TeraFLOPS. (circa 2013)

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Interim program in HPC, Virtual Reality and Scientific Visualization.

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+130 research programs based on HPC

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Academic Supercomputing Committee: Multidisciplinary body for policies and applications decisions.

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Tens of peer-reviewed publications every year as by-product of HPC usage.

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Top research areas: Chemistry, High Energy Particles Physics, Astronomy, Genomics, Mathematics, Engineering, Geophysics, Biotechnology.

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Brief history of HPC at UNAM • First generation. Sirius (1991) – Cray Y/MP 16. Vectorial, 4 – 16 CPUs. 1.02 Gflops 0.512 GB RAM, 19 GB HD

• Second generation. Berenice (1997) – SGI R1000. 40 CPUs. 15 Gflops 10 GB RAM, 170 GB HD

• Third generation. Bakliz (2003) – HP Alpha EV67. 32 CPUs, 80 Gflops, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB HD.

• Fourth generation. KanBalam (2007) – HP Cluster AMD Opteron dual core. 1368 CPUs, 7.11 Teraflops, 3 TB RAM, 160 TB HD UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

Fifth generation. Miztli Supercomputer • 314 HP x86 nodes “regular processing” – 2 CPUs Intel E5-2670 (8 cores, 2.6 Ghz) – 64 GB RAM – Infiniband FDR connectivity

• 8 HP nodes GPU – 2 CPUs Intel E5-2670 (8 cores, 2.6 Ghz) – 32 GB RAM – Infiniband connectivity – 2 Tesla M2090 cards UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

Fifth generation. Miztli Supercomputer (2) • 10 HP x86 nodes “special processing” – 2 CPUs Intel E5-2670 (8 cores, 2.6 Ghz) – 64 GB RAM – Infiniband connectivity

• 1 DDN Lustre storage for 220 TB (scratch) • 1 DDN Lustre storage for 500 TB (home directories)

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Fifth generation. Miztli supercomputer (3)

• Total: – 5312 CPUs – 138 Teraflops – 23 Terabytes RAM – 750 TB HD

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Miztli. Current status • • • • •

Fully operational on March 2013 100% busy on November 2015. 134 scientific research projects already running 38 million CPU hours already assigned 16 million CPU requested, in addition, on the last “call for projects”. Not covered due saturation UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

Miztli. Current status (2) August 2014. Operational load.

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Miztli. Current status April 2015. Operational load

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4. TRENDS FOR ICT @ UNAM

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ICT trends at UNAM. Cloud computing • Public cloud: – Cost and quality limitations on the broadband access in Mexico, – Use of public cloud services only on non-critical applications and services • • • •

Information backup DRPs Social networking Personal non-private data.

• Private cloud. – Efforts to guarantee better local conditions for computing; storage and general IT services – Relevant investments have been made in local networks and the institution’s backbone, reaching today from 10 to 40 Gbps in certain locations and conditions. – Private cloud is recommended for critical and non-critical services under the umbrella of RedUNAM and UNAM DataCenter, whom are managed by the ICT department. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

ICT trends at UNAM. Mobile • Mobile devices. – Omnipresent in the University’s campuses – More pressure on local resources such as WiFi Access and availability of power outlets for recharging. – Hardware and software are responsibility of their respective owners or licensees. – The institution could acquire these devices for several purposes such as investigations, education processes and administration tasks with no guarantee of service or stability (Best effort principle).

• Mobile networks. – RIU (The institutional WiFi Network) must be kept offered for free to every member of the UNAM’s community (students, faculty, researchers, employees). – There is no pre-established blockage to Internet use over the RIU service – Access to local content must be enforced with help of technologies such as cache and proxy servers, reducing the impact in the broadband access. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

ICT trends at UNAM. Social networking • Applications. – Users are responsible for the content they publish on the social networks – Never could associate their opinions and other materials as an institutional point of view, keeping safe the institution from any third party claim. – Time spent in social networking is sole responsibility of the users. – No pre-established limitations are set on the use of these types of applications.

• Information. – UNAM Could use materials and or contents authored by the members of its community with the respective approval. – Members of the community could use UNAM’s proprietary content under the regulations and allowances provided in each one of the archives, web pages or other sources published by the institution. – UNAM enforce the usage of ICT resources and tools primarily oriented to fulfil the institutional objectives: to educate, to research and to promote the culture. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

ICT trends at UNAM. HPC •

Central supercomputing. – Is recognised the relevance of supercomputing to reduce the expenses in general associated to scientific research, among many other advantages to improve the results of that research nation and worldwide. – Provisioning of compute time in the supercomputer derives from the decisions at the core of the specialized multidisciplinary Supercomputing Academic Council, whom is responsible to call for projects, analyse their specific impact and goals and designate the resources from what is available. – UNAM will increase the investments in this arena not only in terms of infrastructure, but specialized human resources training and graduate / postgraduate permanent development.

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GRID computing. – Efforts will be increased for the collaboration in GRID projects – The sharing of software and hardware, as well as the continuous training for specialized GRID professionals must be reinforced by the collaboration in international projects – A training facility and more research in GRID will be settled at the University to help the development of these professionals throughout the country and Latin American region. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

ICT trends at UNAM. Data analytics •

Big data. – Computer science as well as scientific usage of ICT is the source basis for Big Data implementations in the institution. – A central infrastructure to analyse structured and no structured data could help to improve continuous developments in all academic areas. – New platforms for large amounts of data, besides the traditional databases, must be investigated, adopted and improved inside the University. – Services as data crawling and local search engines, specialized in association of educational content as by-product of the academic archives and online production could be achieved, making a full integration of the regular institutional activities with the scientific development.

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Data science. – In the short term a strong necessity of professional and data scientist will appear not only for the university’s purposes, but also as part of a new digital economy. – UNAM must be ready to educate that type of human resources providing the test bed and operational infrastructure to accomplish their training.

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ICT trends at UNAM. IT on education and culture •

Hardware. – Usage of thin clients, where applicable, is recommended. – Desktop virtualization must increase as far as improvements in local and wide area connectivity are implemented. – X86 keeps as the traditional architecture, however new trends in technology opens the near future insertion of new platforms, such as GPU’s, APU’s and ARM

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Software: – Institutional licensing is mandatory. – Those packages not available in the UNAM’s software store could be purchased individually.

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Networking: – Major investments have been made to improve connectivity to the Internet, also to provide better services locally, wired and wireless. – Most of the campuses in the metropolitan area of Mexico City could be connected to the Metropolitan Delta and associated to NIBA (National Network for Broadband Access) y collaboration with CUDI, local and federal government. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación

5. PROJECTS AND PERSPECTIVES

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TOP ICT projects •

LANCAD: National High Performance Computing Laboratory (UAM – CINVESTAV – UNAM). Expansion proposal

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Metropolitan Delta: Dark fiber on Mexico City for academic purposes (UAM – CINVESTAV – UNAM). Expansion proposalNIBA backbone

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High Performance and Scientific Computing Specialization. UNAM 2015.

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National curriculum for HPC / Big Data Science. Proposal.

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Mexican GRID. Proposal.

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HPC for research, industrial, social, financial and commercial development. Proposal.

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New technology and trends: Cognitive and aware computing, Learning Machines and Artificial Intelligence , Green computing, IHC, ICC, Virtual and Immersive Reality, Big Data, On demand Supercomputing, Shared Clusters, Scientific Gateway @MX, HPC IaaS. Proposals – under development

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Information security. Digital assets, digital heritage, data protection. Under development

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