Cineca is a non-profit consortium that supports higher education and research in Italy. It provides high-performance computing resources, software solutions for university administration and research management, and consulting services. Cineca's systems help manage key aspects of the Italian academic system like student data, courses, research outputs, and national assessments. It also contributes to international research collaborations through projects and organizations like PRACE, DuraSpace, and OpenAIRE.
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How Cineca supports Higher Education IT_ EUNIS-CZ Annual Congress_May 2015
1. How Cineca supports
Higher Education IT
Prof. Emilio Ferrari
Michele Mennielli
May 4, 2015
EUNIS-CZ Conference
2. Topics
⁄ CINECA: an overview
⁄ Systems and Services for Higher Education
⁄ HPC for Research Activities and Industries
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3. Not For Profit Founded in 1969
Cineca: the Consortium
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75 Members:
70 Universities
4 Research Institutes
Ministry of Education
>900 employees
FERMI: TOP500
HPC
EURORA: TOPGREEN500
IS
500 applications
All Italian Universities
Ministry of Higher Ed
5. Higher Education
• Solutions & Services for the University Administration
• Services for the Ministry of Education, University and
Research (MIUR)
Scientific Research
• High Performance Computing
• FERMI: in the TOP500 List
• EURORA: in the TOPGREEN500 List
• Scientific Visualization & Interactive Virtual Environments
Technological Innovation
• Data Center
• Information and Knowledge Management Services
• Health Care Systems
The Activities
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6. ⁄ CINECA: an overview
⁄ Systems and Services for Higher Education
⁄ HPC for Research Activities and Industries
Topics
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7. 1994
Cray T3D 64 – 1° Parallel System in Italy
2004
IBM CLX Xeon 1024
2007
IBM BCX AMD 5120 – 10 TeraFlop/s
2009
IBM SP6 – 100 TeraFlop/s
1975
CDC 7600 – 1° SC in Italy
1985
Cray X-MP / 48 – 1° Vector SC
1989
Cray Y-MP / 4 64 - IBM 3090 600 VF
1993
Cray C-90 / 2128
1995
Cray T3D 128
1996
Cray T3E 128 – 1° MPP System in Italy
1998
Cray T3E 256 SGI Origin 16
1999
Cray T3E 256 SGI Origin 64 - IBM SP Power 3 16
2000 Cray T3E 256 SGI Origin 128 - IBM SP Power 3 12
2002
IBM SP4 512 – 1 TeraFlop/s
2005
IBM SP5 512
2012
IBM BG/Q – 2 PetaFlops/s
1969
CDC 6600
The History of HPC
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8. Architecture: 10 BGQ Frames
Model: IBM-BG/Q
Processor Type: IBM PowerA2, 1.6 GHz
Computing Cores: 163840
Computing Nodes: 10240
RAM: 1GByte / core
Internal Network: Network interface with
11 links -> 5D Torus
Disk Space: 2.6 PByte of scratch space
Peak Performance: 2PFlop/s
Architecture: 1 rack
Model: Eurora prototype
Processor Type:
Intel Xeon CPU E5-2658 @ 2.10GHz
Intel Xeon CPU E5-2687W @ 3.10GHz
Accelerator Type:
Nvidia Tesla K20s
Intel Xeon-Phi 5120D
Computing Cores: 1024
Computing Nodes: 64
RAM: 16GByte DDR3
1600MHz per node
(5 nodes with 32 GByte)
Internal Network:
1 FPGA (Altera Stratix V) per node
IB QDR interconnect
3D Torus interconnect
Disk Space: 90 GByte SSD per node
Sustained Performance: 3,150MFlop/w
FERMI - IBM BG/Q EURORA
Cineca HPC Today
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10. Services Solution Consulting
HPC Service Provision
Disaster Recovery
Storage Service Provision & MGT
Parallelisation and Benchmarking
Storage Provision Application Service Provision
Pre-Post Processing interfaces for
Visualization
HPC Managed Hosting
Applications (in House/Host)
Remote Visualisation
Cloud Computing
3D Modelling
Collaborative Work
Product Integration by mean of
Complex Operational Chains
ICT, Design & Security Consultancy
Offers, Services & Tech. Transfer
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11. Services Solution Consulting
HPC Service Provision
Disaster Recovery
Storage Service Provision & MGT
Parallelisation and Benchmarking
Storage Provision Application Service Provision
Pre-Post Processing interfaces for
Visualization
HPC Managed Hosting
Applications (in House/Host)
Remote Visualisation
Cloud Computing
3D Modelling
Collaborative Work
Product Integration by mean of
Complex Operational Chains
ICT, Design & Security Consultancy
HCP on demand: logical partitions; core hours, cloud computing. For peak workload, for industries which do not
consider core business the management of HCP complex infrastructures’
Performance: HCP infrastructure life cycle less than three years, continuous upgrade.
Flexibility: pay per use, increasing of the costs driven by effective needs
Lower costs: economy of scale
Business continuity: UPS, Moto generators, graceful degradation, redundancies
Security: access physical security, logical networking security
Privacy: reserved file systems, file system encryption, NDAs’
Offers, Services & Tech. Transfer
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12. HPC International Activities (1/2)
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14. / European project, co-funded within the 7th Framework
Programme
/ a Collaborative Data Infrastructure that allows researchers to
share data within and between communities
/ European Project coordinated by the University of
Edinburgh and involves 45 partners
/ use of simulation services running on a High Performance
Computing cloud infrastructure.
HPC International Activities (2/2)
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15. ⁄ CINECA: an overview
⁄ Systems and Services for Higher Education
⁄ HPC for Research Activities and Industries
Topics
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16. Local Processes
National Processes
Annual Public
Funds
Delivery
Planning &
Promoting
Education
National
Research
Assessment
Exercise
National
Research
Grants
Delivery
Financial
Control
On Univ
Student
Management
Course
Management
Research
Management
Governance
Control
Monitoring of
Academic
courses (OFF.F)
Monitoring of
Students trends
(ANS)
Monitoring of
Research
Production
Assessment of
Research
Production
(ANVUR-VQR)
National
Reserach Grants
Delivery
(PRIN-FIRB)
HR & Financial
Data Analysis
(Personnel)
Financial
Management
HR
Management
Dashboards & KPIs - University Data Warehouse
Student & Learning
Management
Research
Management
Key Performance Indicators and Dashboards
The Italian Academic System
Supporting the Academic System
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17. Local Processes
National Processes
Annual Public
Funds
Delivery
Planning &
Promoting
Education
National
Research
Assessment
Exercise
National
Research
Grants
Delivery
Financial
Control
On Univ
Student
Management
Course
Management
Research
Management
Governance
Control
Monitoring of
Academic
courses (OFF.F)
Monitoring of
Students trends
(ANS)
Monitoring of
Research
Production
Assessment of
Research
Production
(ANVUR-VQR)
National
Reserach Grants
Delivery
(PRIN-FIRB)
HR & Financial
Data Analysis
(Personnel)
Financial
Management
HR
Management
Dashboards & KPIs - University Data Warehouse
Student & Learning
Management
Research
Management
Key Performance Indicators and Dashboards
Supporting the Academic System
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20. H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n
LEARNING
Lisbon Declaration (2008)
Researchers
Knowledge Sharing
International
collaboration
Joint
Programming
Research
Infrastructures
Bologna Process (1999)
3 cycle system
Mobility
Quality Assurance
Credit System (ECTS)
Comparable degrees
RESEARCH
EHEA (European Higher Education Area) ERA (European Research Area)
The European Area
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21. EUNIS
Board Member | Interoperability TF |
Business Intelligence TF | BencHEIT
TF
euroCRIS
Board Member | DRIS/Best Practice
TG | Architecture TG | CERIF TG
CHEITA
Leading Member | Benchmarking IT
Group | Research Group
Groningen Declaration
Founder Member
International Activities
DSpace
Steering Committee | 2 Committers |
Registered Service Provider |
DSpace-CRIS
EAIE
Student Mobility Standard: RS3G
OpenAIRE
National Open Access Desk
Pentaho
Member of the Advisory Board
Institutional Technological
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22. Cineca around the World
Students & Learning:
>50 Installations (Turkey, Romania, Albania, Haiti, Central Asian Republics)
Research (DSpace + DSpace-CRIS + IRIS):
>20 Installations (the 5 Continents and the World Health Organisation)
23. Students
&
Learning
78% of Italian Universities
> 1.4 Million Students
11 Albanian Universities
9 Turkish Universities
5 Romanian Universities
24. ESSE3 and the Bologna Process
- contains all data required by DS
- traslation of static & dynamic fields
- statistic engine for ECTS scale mapping
- generates automatically DS like certification
Diploma Supplement Two main cycles System of credits Mobility
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25. - implements DM509 and DM270 Italian laws (in place since 1999)
- supports the 3+2 model and the 1+2+2 model
- offers total configuration for course types
- gives complete support to Doctorate and Masters
Diploma Supplement Two main cycles System of credits Mobility
ESSE3 and the Bologna Process
26. - implements the ECTS system and the specific requirements of
Italian law for credit system
- provides tools for analytic credit transfer beetween different
careers of the same person
- supports the credit recognition process for international mobility
students
Diploma Supplement Two main cycles System of credits Mobility
ESSE3 and the Bologna Process
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27. - provides specific functions for student mobility outgoing and incoming
- describes all the exchange programs beetween partner Universities
- provides online application form for incoming
- provides online selection process for outgoing
- implements credit mapping from trascript of record
Diploma Supplement Two main cycles System of credits Mobility
ESSE3 and the Bologna Process
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28. Master Files and Configurations
Academic Processes and Student Life-cycle
Online Services (Web ESSE3)
DATA
STRUCTURES
MINISTRY
DATA
STUDENTS
MASTER
ORGANISATION
STRUCTURES
ACADEMICS
MASTER
PROGRAMMES
MASTER
REGULATIONS
MASTER
ONLINE
SURVEYS
ADMISSIONS
ENROLLMENT
STUDENT’S
ADMIN
TUITIONS
EXAMS
MANAGEMENT
STUDENT
CAREER
GRADUATION
INTERNSHIPS
& STAGE
POSTLAUREAM
PLACEMENT
CALLS
& RANKING
CERTIFICATES
INTERNATIONAL
MOBILITY
REPORTS &
STATISTICS
GATEWAY
MULTICHANNEL
DEVICES
PROCESS
CONFIG.
STUDENT’S
GUIDE
REGISTRED
WEB AREA
STUDENT
WEB AREA
TEACHER
WEB AREA
OTHER USERS
WEB AREA
WEB
COMMUNITY
SERVICES
Online Services (Web ESSE3)
Academic Processes
Master Files and Configurations
Student Life-cycle
ESSE3: Solution Map
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29. 83 CRIS
46 Universities (U-GOV RI)
> 1.5 Million Research
Publications
9 Universities (SURplus)
10 New Installations (IRIS)
18 Universities Abroad
(IRIS & DSpace-CRIS)
30. International Activities & Research
Sharing our experience
euroCRIS
DuraSpace
OpenAIRE
&
Pentaho
/ Board Member
/ CERIF TG
/ Architecture TG
/ DRIS-Best Practice TG
Open Source BI solution
Advisory Board/ Steering Committee
/ 2 DSpace Committers
/ DSpace-CRIS
/ DSpace Registered
Service Provider
Open Access in Europe
NOAD
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31. Collect institutional research output for evaluation and assessment purposes
Measure research results for benchmarking
Disseminate data to
enhance impact and
visibility
Preserve ICT investments
and maximize ROI
The institution’s perspective
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32. The IT’s perspective
Research Governance: business processes, management, reporting, integration
Institutional Repository:
Publications and Research Data
CRIS: people, units, projects, interactions, reputation, cooperation, dissemination
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33. Workflows mapping
business processes
System Integration
(legacy, national, …)
Reports &
Analytics
WHAT IRIS ADDS
The Cineca’s perspective
Dspace extended to the CERIF entities
To better support:
(People | Units | Projects | etc.)
Interactions
Reputation
Dissemination
Institutional
Repository
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34. Workflows mapping
business processes
System Integration
(legacy, national, …)
Reports &
Analytics
WHAT IRIS ADDS
The Cineca’s perspective
Open Source
Dspace extended to the CERIF entities
To better support:
(People | Units | Projects | etc.)
Interactions
Reputation
Dissemination
Institutional
Repository
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How IRIS works
RM
(Resource Managemet)
AP
(Activities & Projects)
IR
(Institutional Repository)
Accounting
System
HR System
ES
(Expertise & Skills)
ER
(Evaluation & Review)
36. IRIS: Publications & Departments
Different Departments N. Of Publications
Trends
Years
Drag&Drop
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37. IRIS: Publications & Departments
Aggregated trends
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38. With & Without Impact Factor
IRIS: Impact Factor
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39. IRIS: different kind of publications
Dep.
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40. IRIS: National Assessment
(Researcher View) To the Ministry
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41. IRIS: National Assessment
(Governance View)
To the Ministry
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42. The History of DSpace-CRIS
CINECA is a registered service provider at DuraSpace
Long-term collaboration with DSpace community (Committer Group)
Hong Kong University: from DSpace IR to CRIS (2009) – the HUB
Nov. 2012 Jan. 2014June 2013 Aug. 2013 Sept. 2013
First release:
DSpace 1.8.2
Second release:
- DSpace 1.8.2
- Fix Release 1.8.2
Upgrade
release:
- DSpace 1.8.3
- Security fix
First release (beta):
- DSpace 3.2
Technical
documentation
Release
DSpace 4.1
June 2014
Final release
DSpace 4.2
Nov 2014
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43. DSpace-CRIS Data model
Standard Dspace --> publications & dataset
APPROACH
DYNAMIC
FLEXIBLE
NOT HARDCODED
UIs
FEW PREDEFINED
ATTRIBUTES
ENTITIES
FEW PREDEFINED
DSpace-CRIS --> other CERIF entites:
/ ResearcherPage
/ Project
/ OrgUnit
/ 2nd Level Dynamic Object
DEFINE ANY
ASPECTS
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44. Case Study #1: the HKU HUB
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51. DSpace-CRIS latest releases
It is possible to (public API):
• Login through ORCID*;
• Claim profile through ORCID;
• Register/Associate an ORCID to your own DSpace-CRIS profile
First release
(part of the 4.3 version)
DSpace-CRIS 5.1.0
Release
* Authentication code is based on the work found on DSpace 5 and Dryad project
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52. Highlight CRIS database
macro areas
DSpace-CRIS for euroCRIS
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53. OrgUnits & People
DSpace-CRIS for euroCRIS
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54. Projects & Events
DSpace-CRIS for euroCRIS
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61. DSpace-CRIS: importing BIO info
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62. DSpace-CRIS e ORCID: next steps (1)
With the collaboration of The Hong Kong
University (HKU) and The Hong Kong Polythecnic
University
DSpace-CRIS 4.3.1 DSpace-CRIS 5.1.1 (June ‘15)
PUSH – services (members API)
DSpace-CRIS 5.1.2 (end ‘15)
Advanced PULL – services (members&premium API)
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63. DSpace-CRIS e ORCID: next steps (2)
– Research’s bibliographic data
(including the possibility to activate synchronisation for single field)
– Publications
(with the possibility to chose the publications to sync)
– Projects
(with the possibility to chose which projects to sync)
PUSH local
information to
ORCID
PULL extended
information
from ORCID
Propose to import records in DSpace-CRIS
when login-in looking to the Researcher’s ORCID
profile
Or
Automatically (notification and preferences
allowed) when ORCID premium membership is
available
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64. Governance
> 10 BI Applications developed
> 400 Business Metadata objects
> 30 Universities
> 100 BI Apps & What-If running
> 700.000 Reports per year
U-GOV P&C
> 2 Millions Payslips per year
> 2 Millions Account Operations
U-GOV ACC
U-GOV HR
65. Dashboards & KPIs - University Data Warehouse
Financial
Management
HR
Management
Student &
Learning
Management
Research
Management
Supporting the Governance
ODS
Data MartResearch
&
Projects
Analysis
HR
Analysis
Academic
&
Students
Analysis
Accounting
Analysis
Solutions
Dashboard &
KPI
What-IF Budgeting
Cost
Allocation
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66. Plan
Control
KPIs
Data Warehouse
Operational Data Store
Transactional DB
Reports for decision making
Implement Official KPIs checking
Normalization and aggregation of data
Day to Day reporting with Data Quality guaranteed
in the bottom layer
M
A
T
U
R
I
T
Y
Generate accurate reports for Official Institutions
Create Datamarts for specific areas reporting
Added value reporting & services from an ODS
avoiding access to Transactional DB
Historical and trending information
To provide a Data Quality solution creating value added
services
Vision and approach
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68. Research
Unit
Number of results
by field of
study/topic
Authors details
Yearly trend
Example Research:
Dashboard Research Performance
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69. Number of Employee
Vs Previous Year
Role
Employee number
Future Years
C
o
s
t
s
Example HR & ACC:
FTE per Unit & What-If
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