Development of Grid-infrastructure for educational and research segment of information society in Ukraine , with focus on ecological monitoring and telemedicine

Anatoly Petrenko, Prof., DSc,
Head of CAD Department of NTUU"KPI"
37 Peremogu St., Kiev-56, Ukraine, 3056

The Grid infrastructure provides networking, computing and data resources in such a way that they are readily available to users regardless of their geographical location and in this way improves the efficiency of scientific and industrial research. It additionally promotes networked collaboration of specialists in joint projects, allowing them to use the same infrastructure for solving different problems. So Grid plays to-day the role of universal infrastructure for the data processing with the great number of services, which allow not only solve the concrete applied tasks, but also help to search of necessary resources, to collect information about their state, to save and to deliver data.
Grid computing can give a new quality of solving next types of tasks:

• Mass treatment of large volume data flows;
• Many parametrical data analysis;
• Remote design and simulation;
• Realistic visualization of large data sets ;
• Complicated business tasks with the large volumes of calculations, etc.

Pre-conditions of creation of Ukrainian GRID are: the Government decision about National Grid development; Ukrainian Research and Academic Network URAN being connected to the European networks GEANT; the existing system of distance learning, distributed information resources in education and science including Central and Eastern European Virtual University; the Ukrainian branch of International Centers of Data (UB ICD) being established under the Agreement with the Geographical center of the Russian Academy of Sciences; the associate membership in EC project BalticGrid ( a part of EGEE program); the considerable national network computational facilities which incorporate three cluster architecture supercomputers (CAS 1 and CAS 2 at the Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and CAS 3 the National Technical University “Kiev Polytechnic Institute”. The last one is the most powerful and it consists of 168 processors (Intel Xeon ), has the real performance of 2 Tflops at Linpack test , the cluster storage system of 12Tb and data storage of 20 Tb.

Grid-infrastructure in hand is able to provide the Ukrainian universities, research centres and virtual laboratories by the information and required computational resources. As an example the system of ecological monitoring and telemedicine support for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant area is considered. It is devoted to analyse remotely health of various professional groups from 4300 persons, those working at the reactor, and it consists of two centres. One is the diagnostics and rehabilitation centre, which is situated in the town of Slavutych near the Chernobyl Power Plant and collects health data in accordance with individual programs of its patients. These data are transferred via URAN network to the International Centre ofTelemedicine, which is located in Kiev at the NTUU “Kiev Polytechnic Institute”, where the data being obtained are analyzed and the recommendation on prevention and treatment are worked out.