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National Grid Infrastructure for Scientific Research in Belarus

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HPC/HTC resources and virtual services for Belarusian education, academic and industrial research community.

Brief description of the legal entity: The United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (UIIP NASB) is the leading Belarusian governmental institution for carrying out fundamental and applied research in the fields of information technology and computer science. The UIIP NASB has about 450 staff including 270 research workers: 18 scientists with DSc degree and 73 with PhD degree. Presently the UIIP NASB is an associate member of GEANT project, represents Belarus in TERENA, EGI and IGTF. Also the UIIP NASB is the Belarusian coordinator and principal executor of all the supercomputer state programs including joint Russian-Belarusian cooperation.

Brief history of the technology development: SKIF 2000-2004: Development and creation of supercomputer family SKIF; TRIADA 2005-2008: Development of applications based on SKIF supercomputers; SKIF-Grid 2007-2010: Development of Grid technologies and new generation SKIF supercomputers; Grid-CIS 2014-current: United Grid Infrastructure of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Short description of available resources: The UIIP NASB operates the Network of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (BASNET) that is connected to the pan-European research network GEANT (622 Mb/sec). The computing power is estimated under ___ TFlps with storage of around ___ TBs.

User communities

User communities are represented by scientific institutions and laboratories:

  • The State Scientific Institution "The United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"
  • The State Scientific Institution "The Joint Institute for Power and Nuclear Research – Sosny of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"
  • The State Scientific Institution "Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"
  • The State Scientific Institution "The Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"
  • The Scientific-Engineering State Unitary Enterprise "Geoinformation systems" of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
  • Belarusian National Technical University
  • Belarusian State University
  • National Scientific and Educational Center of Particles and High-Energy Physics
  • National Ozone Monitoring Research and Educational Center
  • National Hydrometeorological Center
  • The Laboratory of Systems Dynamics and Material Mechanics
  • The Laboratory of Technical System Synthesis
  • The Laboratory of High Performance Computer Systems
  • The Laboratory of Image Processing and Recognition
  • The Laboratory of Biomedical Images Analysis
  • The Laboratory of Information Protection
  • The Laboratory of Bioinformatics
  • The Laboratory of Protein Engineering

National Grid Competence Center

The State Educational Establishment "Belarusian State University"

http://bsu.by/

HPC usage:

  • Particles and High-Energy Physics computations using grid-technologies, Cern Tier 3 for CMS, ATLAS;
  • Atmospheric Modelling in Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) system;

Competence in science and engineering:

  • Numerical weather prediction and regional climate modelling;
  • Study of stratosphere-troposphere interactions and ozone-climate connections;
  • Chemical transport modelling (CTM) for air-quality research and forecasting;
  • Atmospheric radiation transfer modelling (RTM) for development and testing of observation instruments and techniques in remote sensing and atmospheric trace constituents measurements;
  • Monitoring of stratospheric ozone layer, measurements of stratospheric and tropospheric ozone and other trace atmospheric gases in Belarus (year round) and Antarctica (seasonal expeditions);
  • Study of stratospheric ozone layer responses to space weather (solar proton events);
  • Statistical analysis of climate data.


The State Educational Establishment "Belarusian National Technical University"

http://bntu.by/

HPC usage:

  • Studies of interactions of carbon nanotube arrays with biomolecules;
  • Modeling of gas adsorption on carbon nanotube arrays with interaction in adsorbed phase;
  • Modeling of resonant behavior of carbon nanotube arrays in high frequency electromagnetic fields for sensor and nanoelectromechanic applications;
  • Modeling of molecular imprinting;
  • FEM simulation of buildings crash, constructions’ behaviour under external forces and loads, multiphysics simulation of rocket micro engines*
  • Medical images processing for cancer diagnostics.

Competence in science and engineering:

  • Hierarchical approach to simulation of nanomaterials and nanosystems;
  • Quantum mechanics, molecular mechanics and combined quantum/molecular mechanics modeling (packages NWChem, NAMD, LAMPPS, VASP);
  • Ab-initio modeling methods developing;
  • Finite element method packages (LS-DYNA, ANSYS, Comsol, OpenFoam) for various applications.


The State Scientific Institution "The Joint Institute for Power and Nuclear Research – Sosny of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"

http://sosny.bas-net.by/

HPC usage:

  • simulation of nuclear facility, the safety analysis of nuclear facilities at all stages of the life cycle;
  • development of supercomputing and grid computing for modeling in nuclear physics and high energy physics;
  • research in nuclear physics, particle physics and the physics of the interaction of radiation with matter.

Competence in science and engineering:

  • nuclear physics and high energy physics.


The State Scientific Institution "The United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"

http://uiip.bas-net.by/

HPC usage:

  • Satellite Image Processing;
  • Engineering analysys.

Competence in science and engineering:

  • Geo-Data analysis;
  • Computer-aided synthesis of special production attachment;
  • Modeling and synthesis of combustion engines design;
  • Modeling of the functioning environment of the object to be designed;
  • Design process and situation modeling;
  • Recognition and processing of design situations;
  • Transformation of the 3D design description into a set of text and 2D graphic engineering documentation (assembly drawing, drawings and the list of parts etc.);
  • Engineering production processes modeling and development of integrated CAD-systems;
  • Artificial intelligence problems in design processes;
  • CAD systems for integrated design, production preparation of jigs and fixtures for drilling, turning, grinding, milling, gear and other machining operations;
  • CAD for automated design of jigs, fixtures and equipment for assembly-welding processes;
  • New design and models of internal combustion engines and machine drives.
  • Development and creation of high-performance configurations of hardware and software for computer systems;
  • MPI/OpenMP, C++ code development.

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