Development of educational and research segment of information society in Ukraine
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Zgurovsky, M.Z. 2010-12-06T11:49:57Z 2010-12-06T11:49:57Z 2006 Development of educational and research segment of information society in Ukraine / M.Z. Zgurovsky // Систем. дослідж. та інформ. технології. — 2006. — № 1. — С. 7-17. — Бібліогр.: 3 назв. — англ. 1681–6048 https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/13876 303.732.4 The Grid-infrastructure for support of education and research in Ukraine is considered. Main components of this infrastructure are: Ukrainian Research and Academic Network, 128-processor cluster supercomputer, the system of distance learning, distributed information resources in education and science, electronic libraries and the administrative and educational system “Osvita”. Grid-infrastructure provides the Ukrainian universities, research centers and virtual laboratories by the information and required computational resources. In conclusion an example of using the Ukrainian research and educational Grid-infrastructure for solving problems of ecological monitoring and telemedicine support for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant area was considered. Рассматривается сетевая информационная инфраструктура (Grid-инфраструктура) поддержки образования и научных исследований в Украине. Главными компонентами этой инфраструктуры являются Украинская научно-исследовательская и академическая сеть, 128-процессорний кластерный суперкомпьютер, система дистанционного обучения, распределенные информационные ресурсы в образовании и науке, электронные библиотеки и административно-образовательная система «Освіта». Данная инфраструктура обеспечивает украинские университеты, научно-исследовательские центры и виртуальные лаборатории информацией и необходимыми вычислительными ресурсами. Приводится пример использования ее в решении задач экологического контроля и поддержки телемедицины в районе Чернобыльской атомной электростанции. Розглядається мережева інформаційна інфраструктура (Grid-інфраструктура) підтримки освіти та наукових досліджень в Україні. Головними компонентами цієї інфраструктури є Українська науково-дослідна і академічна мережа, 128 процесорний кластерний суперкомп’ютер, система дистанційного навчання, розподілені інформаційні ресурси в освіті та науці, електронні бібліотеки і адміністративно-освітня система «Освіта». Ця інфраструктура забезпечує українські університети, науково-дослідні центри та віртуальні лабораторії інформацією і необхідними обчислювальними ресурсами. Наведено приклад використання її у розв’язанні задач екологічного контролю і підтримки телемедицини в районі Чорнобильської атомної електростанції. en Навчально-науковий комплекс "Інститут прикладного системного аналізу" НТУУ "КПІ" МОН та НАН України Теоретичні та прикладні проблеми і методи системного аналізу Development of educational and research segment of information society in Ukraine Развитие образовательного и научно-исследовательского сектора информационного общества в Украине Розвиток навчального і науково-дослідного сектора інформаційного суспільства в Україні Article published earlier |
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Развитие образовательного и научно-исследовательского сектора информационного общества в Украине Розвиток навчального і науково-дослідного сектора інформаційного суспільства в Україні |
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The Grid-infrastructure for support of education and research in Ukraine is considered. Main components of this infrastructure are: Ukrainian Research and Academic Network, 128-processor cluster supercomputer, the system of distance learning, distributed information resources in education and science, electronic libraries and the administrative and educational system “Osvita”. Grid-infrastructure provides the Ukrainian universities, research centers and virtual laboratories by the information and required computational resources. In conclusion an example of using the Ukrainian research and educational Grid-infrastructure for solving problems of ecological monitoring and telemedicine support for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant area was considered.
Рассматривается сетевая информационная инфраструктура (Grid-инфраструктура) поддержки образования и научных исследований в Украине. Главными компонентами этой инфраструктуры являются Украинская научно-исследовательская и академическая сеть, 128-процессорний кластерный суперкомпьютер, система дистанционного обучения, распределенные информационные ресурсы в образовании и науке, электронные библиотеки и административно-образовательная система «Освіта». Данная инфраструктура обеспечивает украинские университеты, научно-исследовательские центры и виртуальные лаборатории информацией и необходимыми вычислительными ресурсами. Приводится пример использования ее в решении задач экологического контроля и поддержки телемедицины в районе Чернобыльской атомной электростанции.
Розглядається мережева інформаційна інфраструктура (Grid-інфраструктура) підтримки освіти та наукових досліджень в Україні. Головними компонентами цієї інфраструктури є Українська науково-дослідна і академічна мережа, 128 процесорний кластерний суперкомп’ютер, система дистанційного навчання, розподілені інформаційні ресурси в освіті та науці, електронні бібліотеки і адміністративно-освітня система «Освіта». Ця інфраструктура забезпечує українські університети, науково-дослідні центри та віртуальні лабораторії інформацією і необхідними обчислювальними ресурсами. Наведено приклад використання її у розв’язанні задач екологічного контролю і підтримки телемедицини в районі Чорнобильської атомної електростанції.
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M.Z. Zgurovsky, 2006
Системні дослідження та інформаційні технології, 2006, № 1 7
TIДC
ТЕОРЕТИЧНІ ТА ПРИКЛАДНІ ПРОБЛЕМИ І
МЕТОДИ СИСТЕМНОГО АНАЛІЗУ
УДК 303.732.4
DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH
SEGMENT OF INFORMATION SOCIETY IN UKRAINE
M.Z. ZGUROVSKY
The Grid-infrastructure for support of education and research in Ukraine is consid-
ered. Main components of this infrastructure are: Ukrainian Research and Academic
Network, 128-processor cluster supercomputer, the system of distance learning, dis-
tributed information resources in education and science, electronic libraries and the
administrative and educational system “Osvita”. Grid-infrastructure provides the
Ukrainian universities, research centers and virtual laboratories by the information
and required computational resources. In conclusion an example of using the
Ukrainian research and educational Grid-infrastructure for solving problems of eco-
logical monitoring and telemedicine support for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
area was considered.
1. INTRODUCTION
For a long time, Ukraine and Russia had strong traditions in the field of cyber-
netics, mathematics and computer sciences. For example, in 1952 Ukraine was
the third after USA and Great Britain to build up the computer. In spite of some
social and economic problems, Ukraine has made some steps, especially after Ge-
neva’s WSIS-2003, in the direction of creating of the information society. This
aim was recognized as on of priorities of the state. First of all, a number of the
related laws were adopted. Among them — the Order of the President of Ukraine,
more than 30 legislations and laws, the State program “Information and commu-
nication technologies (ICT) in education and science for 2006–2010”. These legis-
lative acts are regulating the relationships between state institutions, professional
communities and business in the creating of all segments of the information society.
2. EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH SEGMENT OF INFORMATION SOCIETY
OF UKRAINE
The educational and research segment is one of the most important elements of
the information society. This segment includes two major directions: an extensive
implementation of information and communication technologies at all stages of
education and research process and the information management of this area. The
main objectives of the first direction include:
• Creation of Grid-infrastructure for support of education and research.
M.Z. Zgurovsky
ISSN 1681–6048 System Research & Information Technologies, 2006, № 1 8
• Infrastructural development of the Ukrainian research and academic net-
work and integration it to the European networks GEANT and GEANT – 2.
The second direction is aimed at:
• Implementation of efficient information management of the education and
research area.
• Development of facilities for storage, processing and open access to the
research and educational information resources (data bases, archives, etc.).
The largest components of the Grid-infrastructure for support of education
and research are (fig. 1): the Ukrainian Research and Academic Network [1], the
system of distance learning, distributed information resources in education and
science, electronic libraries and the administrative and educational system, named
“Osvita”
The architecture of Research and Academic Network (URAN) is shown in
fig. 2. The backbone of URAN is based on the main nodes in six largest cities of
Ukraine — Kiev, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Lviv, Odessa, and Donetsk. Totally,
20 out of 26 regions of Ukraine are connected to the network.
The total open access traffic of URAN has increased 50 times within the last
5 years, and today it constitutes 1.5 terabyte per month. In every region both the
optic fiber and satellite communication segments are developed, which ensure the
rate of data transfer up to 1 GB/s.
A selected way of the URAN infrastructure development is based on the
dark optic fiber cables. The signal to these fiber cables is supplied by the
customer (Customer Empowered Fiber — CEF). As seen from the experience of
many countries, for example, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, the Czech
Republic and others, this approach in the frameworks of one and the same budget
can increase the system efficiency by 100 times. Other advantages of CEF-
infrastructure have also been taken into consideration. It was also important for
us, that the European research multi-gigabyte network GEANT–v2 is mostly
based on dark fiber.
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One more important characteristic of URAN is its orientation to the project
“Porto Optica” (“optic doors”), which is initiated by the Association of research
and educational networks of the Central and Eastern Europe — CEENet and
aimed at decreasing of a “great digital divide”. The objectives of the project are:
• To study the possibility of development of regional and international
CEF-segments of the research and educational networks in Eastern Europe with
the aim of their connection to GEANT-2.
• To be the development and beginning of operation of the CEF-
infrastructure of the national (including Ukrainian) research and educational net-
works.
Development of national research and educational networks remains in the
focus of attention of the European Commission and Trans-European Research and
Educational Networks Association (TERENA). But, first of all, it should be the
decision of the national governments.
The next segment of the Ukrainian Grid-infrastructure is the distance
learning system (fig. 3). This system comprises:
• Coordinating and providing centers.
• Distance learning and professional orientation centers.
• “Central and Eastern European Virtual University” (CEEVU).
• Educational and research institutions, who are developers and users of
distance learning resources.
At present, in Ukraine there are more than 20 regional nodes of distance
learning system, which are connected in the integrated medium by URAN net-
work.
The CEEVU project unites, under the aegis of UNESCO, thirteen partners
from eight countries of Europe. They are: Eastern European Networking Associa-
tion (CEENet,), Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria), Brno University of
Technology (Czech Republic), University “Polytechnic of Bucharest” (Romania),
Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania), State Engineering University of
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Fig. 3. Distance Learning System at the National Level
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Armenia, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), National Technical Univer-
sity of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (Ukraine), Lviv Polytechnic National
University (Ukraine), National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Insti-
tute” (Ukraine), Donetsk National Technical University (Ukraine), International
University of Finances (Ukraine), Virtual University of Europe – NETTUNO
(Rome, Italy). The directions of collaboration and main objectives of the virtual
university are the joint educational and research activities of all partners, devel-
opment and use of electronic educational facilities, distance learning in accor-
dance with the coordinated educational programs.
The partner-universities develop joint distance courses and arrange the
teaching process. The coordination center of CEEVU provides technical support
of the distance learning system. The information resources of the virtual univer-
sity have the distributed structure with the open access to users by connecting to
the servers of the university centers. Education is based either on the curricula of
the chosen university, or on jointly developed programs of CEEVU. Students are
free to choose either of these curricula.
The third segment of the Ukrainian Grid-infrastructure (fig. 4) provides the
Ukrainian universities, research centers and virtual laboratories by the informa-
tion and required computational resources. On the first stage it gives the op-
portunity of the remote access to the data bases in different fields, for example,
economics, natural sciences, ecology, medicine, telemedicine and others.
At the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sci-
ences of Ukraine two cluster architecture supercomputers (CAS 1 and CAS 2)
have been developed and put into operation [2]. On the second stage they planed
to be connected to the Ukrainian Grid-infrastructure by the research and academic
Databases in
Economics and
Management
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networks. It will allow research centers and universities from different regions of
Ukraine to be connected to these supercomputers for solving problems with great
volume of computations. In the construction of this supercomputers there were
used the distributed data bases and 15 new intellectual technologies developed by
Ukrainian mathematicians and engineers. The computational characteristics of
these supercomputers are represented in Table.
Computational Characteristics of the Supercomputers CAS-1, CAS-2 (64-digit
computation)
Description
Characteristics
CAS-1 CAS-2
Peak performance per 1 processor (Gig hertz = 1×109
hertz) 2,67 1,4
Integral operations per sec. (IPS) 1,34 ⋅109 5,6 ⋅109
Operations with floating point (FLOPS) 5,34 ⋅109 5,6 ⋅109
Total peak performance
Integral operations per sec. (IPS) 4,3 ⋅1010 3,58 ⋅1011
Operations with floating point (FLOPS) 1,7 ⋅1011 3,58 ⋅1011
Speed of the system bus 4,2 6,4
The cluster real performance at Linpack test (FLOPS) 1,125 ⋅1011 2,8 ⋅1011
The important task of this segment is also to transform the diverse digital in-
formation, which is produced by science, into knowledge. Generally, this process
is performed by the hierarchical procedure, shown in fig. 5. The main stages of
this p rocedure are:
Fig. 5. Transformation of Information into the Knowledge
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• Data selection (two important issues are to be considered at this stage:
1) how to select the necessary data among the distributed data holders, in order to
identify the necessity of object modeling for specific goals? 2) how to determine
the “weight” (significance) of each of selected datasets?
• Data integration (the datasets compatibility problem at this stage has to
be solved in terms of data standardization, termination, formalization, unification,
resolution, digitization,...).
).
• Object simulation (at this stage two issues are to be solved: 1) how to es-
tablish a relationship between the datasets and selected models? 2) how to deter-
mine the parameters of the models?
• Information quality estimation and improving (Issues to be considered
at this stage: 1) what should be the quality of new dataset
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s?
In connection with the above, information and knowledge are interdepen-
dente. There is a cycle: Data → Information → Knowledge → feedback loops
and mutual beneficiating at each cycle. As a result, improving data and knowl-
edge availability brings many benefits to all participants by integrating everybody
into the Global Information Society.
The fourth segment of the Grid-infrastructure unites more than 200 elec-
tronic libraries in the field of education and science. They include:
2) what conditions
are to be provided to ensure a high quality of new datasets or knowledge? 3) are
there any ways of improving the dataset quality?
• Libraries of the universities (more than 100).
• Libraries of institutions of National Academy of Sciences (more than 50).
• Public libraries (more than 30).
• Libraries of distance learning centers (more than 20).
The system is built upon the unified operational, software and hardware plat-
forms based on the library system ALEPH and contains the information centers,
which are connected by optic fiber channels of data transfer of URAN.
The fifth segment of the Grid-infrastructure is the National educational and
administration system, named “Osvita” (fig. 6). It is a complex of administrative,
legal, software and hardware facilities, which ensure automation of a lot of ad-
ministrative functions and information processes at the national level and follow-
up of preparation of state documents on education. Here, their validity and integ-
rity is preserved, and reliable mechanisms are developed for protection of certain
segments of information and provision of open access to others.
3. EXAMPLE OF APPLICATION OF GRID-INFRASTRUCTURE
In conclusion let us consider an example of using the Ukrainian research and edu-
cational Grid-infrastructure for solving problems of ecological monitoring and
telemedicine support for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant area.
One of the problems arising after the Chernobyl catastrophe is the necessity
of continuous control over the state of the sarcophagus above the fourth bloc of
the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the continuous monitoring of the ecologi-
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cal conditions of adjacent territories. It carried out by the regional centers of
ecological monitoring (fig. 7).
The people working at the Chernobyl NPP live in the town of Slavutych, lo-
cated at the distance of 30 km. from Chernobyl and 130 km. from the capital of
Ukraine – Kiev city. More than 84 % of the inhabitants of this town belong to the
higher risk group regarding diseases and loss of the working ability. These people
need special, high quality medical service and consulting assistance. The obstacle
is the insufficient involvement of highly qualified medical personnel, due to the
remoteness from the regional center. The total number of those working at the
reactor is more then 4300 persons, out of them women - more then 1300. Practi-
cally, all the inhabitants of the town are in contact with ionizing radiation.
The purpose of the monitoring system is the analysis of health of various
professional groups, taking into account the risk factors. It will make possible to
work out individual programs of improving the health recovery. For efficient
medical monitoring the express diagnostics system and the system of remote
transfer of the analysis and research data are developing. It will make possible to
carry out consultations via telecommunication means. The interaction of institu-
tions of the Chernobyl Telemedicine System is shown in fig. 8. This system con-
sists of two main centers. One is the diagnostics and rehabilitation center, which
is situated in the town of Slavutych. It carries out monitoring of the main medical
factors of those working at the Chernobyl Power Plant and members of their fami-
lies in accordance with individual programs. These data are transferred via URAN
network to the International Center of Telemedicine, which is located in Kiev at
the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kiev Polytechnic Institute”.
Highly qualified medical personnel in the field of medicine are working in this
center. They will analyze the data obtained on each patient and work out recom-
mendation on prevention and treatment.
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4. SOME CONCLUSIONS
Achievement of the above indicated goals will allow:
1. Ensure the people’s right of open access to important scientific and edu-
cational information.
2. Sort out the social problems connected with providing equal conditions
for an access to education and science.
3. Create conditions for continuous life-long education.
4. Raise the efficiency of public administration of education and science.
5. Promote Ukraine’s integration into the global research and educational
area.
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Development of Educational and Research Segment of Information Society in Ukraine
M.Z. Zgurovsky
1. Introduction
2. Educational and Research segment of Information Society of Ukraine
3. Example of application of Grid-infrastructure
4. Some conclusions
Fig. 1. Grid-Infrastructure for Support of Education and Research
Fig. 3. Distance Learning System at the National Level
Fig. 4. Information and Computational Resources of Science and Education
Fig. 5. Transformation of Information into the Knowledge
Fig. 6. Educational and Administrative System “Education”
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