Masaryk University IT services
Břetislav (Bruce) Regner
regner@ics.muni.cz
Institute of Computer Science
Service hierarchy
• CESNET (Czech Education and Scientific
Network), CR
• Institute of Computer Science, MU/Brno
• IT departments, faculties
• Emploees (lab technicians, PhD students…) at
departmens
CESNET
Assotiation of Czech Universities and the Czech
Academy of Sciences
Founded 1996
– Resource sharing
– Independence
Funding
– Payments from members
– External funding
National (academic) IT services
– Networking
– Computing&storage
– Collaboration/communication support
– Security (CSIRT)
– Identity and digital certificates
Storage & Computing
16 PB storage (including tapes)
Coordinator of MetaCentrum (NGI, part of EGI)
– Computing resources
– National/European Grid Infrastructure
National e-infrastructure coordination (IT support
for R&D,„Big Infrastructure“)
Collaboration support
Video - and webconferencing
National (academic) installation of Adobe Connect
(MUST, Wednesday Morning)
Booking system
IP telephony (free telephony within CESNET, IP
telephony abroad)
Identity and certificates
eduID.cz federation (Shibboleth)
TERENA certificates (personal and server)
RT (Request Tracker) system
Institute of Computer Science
IT Service provider for MU (and Brno)
Central MU facilities
Close cooperation with CESNET
– Common projects
Faculties
IT departments
– Local IT support (installations, repairs)
– Local mail/webservers, local networks, …
Technicians at Departments
– Lowest-level IT Support or Specialized
Services
Identity management
UČO (University Personal Number)
Primary and Secondary Password
Identity Cards
+ CESNET EduID federation
Information systems
MU Intranet (INET) (MUST, Friday Morning)
– Developed by ICS
– Economics, accounting
– HR, personal data
– Project management
– Financial control
– …
Information systems
MU Information System (IS MU) (MUST, Wednesday
Afternoon)
– developed by FI
– Study administration (enrollment, exams, elearning,
timetables)
– Discussion forums, e-votes, document server
– … and much more
Libraries
(MUST, Wednesday Morning)
Support for library services (ALEPH system)
Information resources – e-magazines, scientific
publications (Wiley, Springer, Elsevier…)
Networking
Brno’s Academic Computer Network (BAPS) – 150
km of optical cables
10 Gbps Core Network
Customers (commercial): Courts, Schools, T-Mobile
WiFi AP – Eduroam and MUNI (captive portal)
VPN
MU network management and monitoring
Telephony – internal phone system
– free calls within the MU (and other
Universities in CR and Slovakia over CESNET)
– Cheap calls abroad (VoIP to peers, over
CESNET )
– Currently installing new Phone System
(support for Unified Messaging coming soon)
Data Storage
“standard”– small (20 GB/emploee), fast, reliable
– Samba, SCP
– Every Emploee
– Students/Partners on Demand
– Self-Service, Web Interface
“middle”– 100s of GB – best effort
BIG – 10s to 100s of TBs (CERIT SC in cooperation
with CESNET) (MUST, Thursday Afternoon)
Data Storage
OwnCloud (CESNET,„private dropbox“, 100
GB/person)
FileSender (CESNET, sending big files, 500 GB)
MS: OneDrive, Sharepoint
Google: Gdrive, GDocs
(Super)computing
CERIT SC (MUST, Thursday Afternoon)
– project/national storage and computing
center, part of national e-infrastructure
– 3,5 PB storage (incl. Tapes)
– 3500 processor cores
– Scheduling, job planning, resource allocation
Hosting and Virtualization
Webhosting (CMS Umbraco) (MUST, Thursday
Morning)
Linux hosting (Linux Account, OpenVZ containers)
VMWare virtualization system (100 cores)
Virtual machines on CERIT“cloud”– Open Nebula
over KVM/Xen/VMWare)
Audio/Video
(MUST, Wednesday Morning)
Lecture recording support, transcoding, publishing
Videoconferencing (Adobe Connect,
Tandberg/Polycom)
UltraGrid – support for Ultra-High Definition lowlatency
video – up to 4k, algorithm development
Central Computer Management
(MUST, Tuesday Afternoon)
Deployment – OPSI system
Management -Active Directory
Software
Campus-wide licences
– MS EES (Office)
– Servant Salamander
– Statistica, SPSS, SAS
– ArcGIS
– ASPI (juridicial SW)
Software
Concurrent licences
– Maple
– Matlab
MS Software - MS Select
Adobe -Adobe contract (Creative Cloud )
Antivir – NOD/AVG
Computer rooms
(MUST, Tuesday Afternoon)
About 1000 computers accessible for students
University computer centre – 130 computers
available 24/7 at Komenskeho square
Printing/scanning
IT Security
(MUST, Thursday Afternoon)
– Network Traffic Monitoring
– Incident Handling
– Research, Cooperation with Industry
– Cooperation with National Security Authority
and Police
Others
Large-format prints (up to A0)
Identity cards printing
ICS structure
Divisions:
Communication infrastructure
Computational and Storage infrastructure
Information Systems
User Support
Q&A?
Jméno Příjmení
jmeno@ics.muni.cz
http://www.ics.muni.cz/~jmeno