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This paper describes the role of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and their aim to provide a seamless, large scale, high-speed, low-latency network to accelerate scientific and education discovery for national, regional or global collaborative projects that are dependent on the use of modern high performance distributed computing systems (HPDCS) to process mathematical models, produce new knowledge and drive innovation when resolving complex problems. NRENs have become the mainstream of communication and collaboration to integrate the efforts of large geographically distributed teams of Virtual Communities (VC) that - train, teach and learn-, -create, use and share- knowledge, data, information and communications technology resources (e.g. computer and information systems, middleware, tools, instruments, data sets, repositories, applications and services) building e-infrastructures necessary to meet the collaborative projects’ goals. The paper focuses on the current status of the Mexican NREN: CUDI, its future organization and political support, necessary to provide seamless, large scale, high-speed, low latency and secure national backbone and international links providing connectivity, advanced network services and technical support to VCs and their e-infrastructures in collaborative R&E projects within the country, the LAC region and worldwide.
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The Case of National Research and Education Netowrks, John Dyer, Terena 2009.
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The term HPDCS was taken from the article “A Survey of Load-Balancing in High-Performance Distributed Computing Systems”, Z.F. El-Zoghdy, S. Ghoniemy that includes cluster, grid and cloud computing systems.
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http://www.eresearch2020.eu/eResearch%20Brochure%20EN.pdf e-Infrastructures can be defined as networked tools, data and resources that support a community of researchers, broadly including all those who participate in and benefit from research. Following this definition, the term e-Infrastructure comprises very heterogeneous projects and institutions within the scientific community.
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http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=132377 Suzi Iacono, acting head of the National Science Foundations's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Chameleon and CloudLab projects were financed with $10 M USD each.
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Digital Agenda for Europe. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm.
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http://www.dspace.org/ DSpace is open source software for digital repositories. DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets.
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https://web.ikp.kit.edu/corsika (Cosmic Simulations for KASKADE) a program for detailed simulation of extensive air showers initiated by high-energy cosmic ray particles. Protons, light nuclei up to iron, photons, and many other particles may be treated as primaries.
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Seminario CAE Colaboración LAGO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U3ra_7Pm9o.
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See Exposición Temprana de Nativos Digitales en Ambientes, Metodologías y Técnicas de Investigación en la Universidad H. Asorey, L.A. Núñez and Christian Sarmiento-Cano http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04916.
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Connectivity Agenda (Agenda de Conectividad 2008) was an initiative announced by the government (SCT) as a public policy to reduce the digital divide in Health and Education.
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Long-term lease (temporary ownership) of a portion of the capacity of a fiber optic cable it may include electronic equipment.
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2012–2014 Annual Reports of the CONACYT-CUDI agreement can be found in www.cudi.edu.mx.
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Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión de México, Artículo 213. El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, en coordinación con la Secretaría, establecerá los mecanismos administrativos y técnicos necesarios y otorgará el apoyo financiero y técnico que requieran las instituciones públicas de educación superior y de investigación para la interconexión entre sus redes, con la capacidad suficiente formando una red nacional de educación e investigación, así como la interconexión entre dicha red nacional y las redes internacionales especializadas en el ámbito académico.
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DANTE plans, procures, builds and operates large-scale, advanced high-speed networks for global research and education, including the pan-European GÉANT network. http://www.dante.net/Pages/default.aspx.
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*Not connected.
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+Not partner.
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Michael Stanton et al., RNP a brief look at the Brazilian NREN, pages 20–21. Accessed on 2015/10/13 http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228525420_RNP_a_brief_look_at_the_Brazilian_NREN.
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1 USD = 16.6036 Mexican Pesos = 3.8771Reais http://portalweb.sgm.gob.mx/economia/es/tipos-de-cambio/brl-usd/437-tablas-real-brasileno-us-dolar.html accessed on 2015/10/15.
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http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228525420_RNP_a_brief_look_at_the_Brazilian_NREN accessed on 2015/10/13.
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http://www.cudi.edu.mx/acerca-de-cudi/lista-miembros accessed on 2015/10/13.
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http://www.cudi.edu.mx/conexion/instituciones-conectadas accessed on 2015/10/14.
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Servicios de Cómputo Avanzado para América Latina y el Caribe (SCALAC) is a regional initiative to provide HPDCS services using infrastructure from the participating members and CLARA NRENs. SCALAC also aims to provide training an support to its members.
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A detailed description of the results of national and international collaboration of virtual research and education communities as well as e-infrastructure projects is covered in Part 2 of this article.
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The Mexican Constitution and the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law of 2014 indicate that CFE will give its title to provide public telecommunication services to the public entity, Telecomunicaciones de México.
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Villalón, S.L.J., Hermosa, C.C.L. (2016). The Role of National Research and Education Networks Providing Connectivity and Advanced Network Services to Virtual Communities in Collaborative R&E Projects. CUDI: The Mexican Case. In: Gitler, I., Klapp, J. (eds) High Performance Computer Applications. ISUM 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 595. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32243-8_3
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