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The digital divide and the future of HEPGrid in México. Dr. Arnulfo Martínez Dávalos Instituto de Física U N A M. Income and education. GDP : ~$920 billion [13th of 225] Poorest 10%: 1.3% [97th of 155] Poorest 20%: 3.7% [99th of 155] Richest 20%: 57.4% [15th of 155]
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The digital divide and the future of HEPGrid in México Dr. Arnulfo Martínez Dávalos Instituto de Física U N A M
Income and education • GDP : ~$920 billion [13th of 225] • Poorest 10%: 1.3% [97th of 155] • Poorest 20%: 3.7% [99th of 155] • Richest 20%: 57.4% [15th of 155] • Richest 10%: 41.7% [15th of 155] • Research expenditure: 0.4% [48th of 69] • Years of schooling (avg.): 7.2 [35th of 102] • Scientific literacy: 42% [27th of 27]
Internet use • Personal computers: 5.7M [14th of 162] • Internet users: 3.5M (USA 165M) • ISPs: 51 (USA 7000) • Internet hosts/10^5 p.: 5.7 (USA 295) USA has more PCs than the next 7 countries combined (jp,de,uk,kr,fr,ca,it)
CUDI and e-Mexico • Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet (www.cudi.edu.mx) • Its mission is to promote and coordinate the development of telecommunication networks and computing for educational and scientific purposes in Mexico • e-México (www.e-mexico.gob.mx) • The project’s main objective is to broaden the scope of public services and to provide information in four basic categories: education, health, economy and government, using ICTs
CUDI Members • Academic Associates: 17 (all major Universities) • Institutional Associates: 5 (Avantel, Telmex, Enterasys, Cisco, CONACYT) • Academic Affiliates: 28 (including Cinvestav!) • Corporate Affiliates: 2 (Marconi, VCON)
CUDI Backbone SDSC UTEP Tijuana Cd Juárez HOUSTON vBNS REYNOSA Monterrey CANCUN Guadalajara México 155Mbs
COMMODITY INTERNET Monterrey Tijuana BACKBONE Guadalajara México VPN Access nodes (Members) ATM ATM+IP IP 2Mb/s Affiliated nodes Academic Nodes
TELMEX AVANTEL 155Mb México D.F. CONACyT ILCE ITESM Edo Mex IPN UAM UNAM BUAP Puebla Pue. UDLAP UAEM Cuernavaca Mor. CIC UV Jalapa Ver. Mexico City node
Distribution by subject Physical Sciences (2002)
Distribution by institution Physical Sciences (2002)
Institutes with HENP interests • BUAP (Puebla) • Cinvestav (D.F. and Mérida) • IF-UASLP (San Luis Potosí) • IFUG (Guanajuato) • IF-UMSNH (Michoacán) • ININ (Edo. de México) • ICN-UNAM (D.F.) • IF-UNAM (D.F.)
Theoretical Physics Experimental Physics Solid State Physical Chemistry Condensed Matter Complex Systems 150+ research staff ~50 research areas ~240 projects 4 (small) accelerators Microscopy Lab. SAXS, XRDS The Institute of Physics, UNAM www.fisica.unam.mx
We have: ~600 computers PC’s, WS’s Unix, Linux, *BSD, Win*, OS X Gigabit network Clusters (6) Teaching Lab. Working on: Videoconference Mass storage Wireless network TV-física VoIP Computing Infrastructure
5 Beowulf 4 Alpha + 16 PIII 10 Ath + 6 G4 + 16 G3 52 nodes 88 processors 1 OpenMosix 20 nodes 10 Athlon XP 2100+ 10 P4 3.0 GHz Clusters at IFUNAM
Scientific Computing • Local projects • Nanoscience Research Network • Microscopy Virtual Lab. • Pyramid of the Sun (MC: muons) • Medical Physics (MC: PET, RNS ) • International collaborations • ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) • AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) • MammoGrid?
World Wide Collaboration distributed computing & storage capacity LHC: > 5000 physicists > 270 institutes > 60 countries
Network monitoring CERN Instituto de Física, UASLP @ IFUNAM
Special thanks to Carlos López Nataren Supercómputo Javier Martínez Mendoza Seguridad Neptalí González Gómez Redes