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1 Address: No.4, South 4th Street, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing, Computer Network Information Center, CAS Tel: Fax: Website: Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences ANNUAL REPORT 2012 ANNUAL 2012 REPORT Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2 CONTENTS 2 To Users 4 Panoramic View of Informatization Supporting 6 Overview of CNIC 11 Scientific Research Network Environment 16 Scientific Data Environment 22 Supercomputing Environment 26 Propulsion and Propagation of e-science Applications 32 Informatization in Scientific Research Management 35 Internet-based Science Communication Center 41 Internet Fundamental Resources Service 49 Miscellanea 59 Appendix

3 2012 was the second year when Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS in short) implemented the strategy of Innovation 2020, as well as the second year when Computer Network Information Center of CAS (hereinafter referred to as CNIC) implemented the strategic planning of one clearly-defined development strategy, three major breakthroughs and five top priorities ( planning). During this year, CNIC made concerted efforts, carried out real practices and solid work, conscientiously implemented each task of the planning under the leadership of the leadership team, and completed 30% of the total tasks. Facing with the ever-changing informatization situation in China or even in the world and the fierce market competition, CNIC resolutely sought development aiming at the goal, and made some remarkable achievements in 2012 as follows: The network access of CSTnet grew by 8% compared to that of the previous year; the number of national domain names exceeded 7.5 million; the homemade SCE grid software by Supercomputing Center was output on a paid basis internationally for the first time to assist African Technology City in Sudan; breakthroughs were made in the CAS-Localities cooperation, and Dongguan Branch and Nanjing Branch of Scientific Data Center were put into operation, attracting local resources of more than 10 million RMB; on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of ARP, timely response and deepened efforts were made in terms of serving the decision-making demands of CAS leaders and the front-line research and managerial personnel; The high-level academic exchange activity the 445th Xiangshan Science Conferences themed Scientific Research informatization in the data-intensive era was successfully held; the first key fund project for cloud services of National Natural Science Foundation of China, i.e. cloud services and their key technologies for emergency management against unconventional accidents, was successfully approved; Dr. Yang Xiaoyu came to position as the first person in the Hundred Talents Program of CAS, which was a breakthrough in the introduction of high-end talent for CNIC; the certification in quality (ISO9001) and information security (ISO27001) management system was successfully acquired, and so on. No achievement can be made without the support of the users of CNIC. In spite of the great achievements, CNIC always remains calm, learns about and grasps the development trend of informatization in a timely manner, conscientiously analyzes its own position and environment, defines its orientation, keeps in mind the informatization demand of the whole CAS, thinks deep about how to improve services, and seeks the irreplaceable value of CNIC. Facing with a good many challenges, CNIC will strengthen development of its service products, integrate its informatization services, and keep improving its executive force at work. We are confident that the firstclass management of the whole CAS can be realized with the aid of the strong support from CNIC in terms of informatization. We sincerely appreciate the great support from all walks of life, and thank the users for their good suggestions about the development of CNIC. The users comments and suggestions are the driving force of our sustainable development. In 2013, we will continue the planning, put forth new spirit, gather positive energy, give play to the overall advantages in informatization support and service, provide more references for the informatization decision-making of CAS in terms of Innovation 2020, and provide better informatization services to users. During this process, we hope to, as always, gain support and guidance from users. Please send the feedback to us via the following ways: Tel.: support@cnic.cn, comments@cnic.cn

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5 1BOPSBNJD 7JFX PG *OGPSNBUJ[BUJPO 4VQQPSUJOH Scientific Data Center Service contents Service name Cloud storage and backup service of SDC IaaS. 1. Massive storage infrastructure service Scientific database integration, publication and operation; data resources accumulation, etc. 2. Data application environment operation service Big data processing, scientific research application 3. Data intensive processing service Scientific data cloud management platform of SDC DaaS. 4. Scientific data cloud service Supercomputing Center Service contents Service name Advanced hardware resources; Abundant software resources, such as commercial, open-source and self-developed; Comprehensive system operation and maintenance management. 1.Service for High Performance Computing Provide plenty of self-developed software and tools in scientific computing, data processing, and visualization; also provide the service for consulting the parallel programming and the performance optimization. 2. Service for Parallel Computing Software Provide the visualization service for massive data, volume data, and molecular model, including the ways of remote visualization, consulting solution and software development. 3. Service for Visualization in Scientific Computing Provide the computing service for the national HPC grid infrastructure, the grid computing platform, and the user application, etc. 4. Service for Grid Computing Provide the service for HPC training, including the MPI programming, OpenMP Parallel programming, also including the parallel computing platform with installing, using and operating the Linux OS, Intel software tools, etc. 5. Service for HPC Training ARP Operation Support Center Service contents Service name Research institute VPN network PocketDisk IDS alarm 24h monitoring service; Research institute ARP core server equipment operating condition 24h monitoring service; 1. Monitoring service Provide hosting stations with ARP system operation environment and daily operation and maintenance service, guarantee safe and stable operation of system, and provide system operation state monitoring and daily problem support consulting services. 2. Hosting service Relying on technical support hotline, ARP operation maintenance platform and other methods, provide 128 ARP online units of the whole CAS with technical supports and consulting services for ten major application system and two platforms; 3. ARP application support service Relying on the two-level data center of CAS, provide daily data monitoring report, data analysis, trend analysis and other services to the management of CAS; 4. Information source service Provide guarantee service to website groups platform of CAS, and provide support service for website application of CAS. Provide sub-website administrators and information personnel with technical supports and consulting services through technical support hotline, technical exchange platform, etc. 5. Support services for the website of CAS and sub-websites (portal) of the units subordinated to CAS Provide secondary sub-website building, personalized function development, website revision and column making, website hosting, website operation and supporting services on the website cluster expansion platform and self-developed platform of CAS. 6. Secondary sub-website building service Provide various business operation training service to ARP and website groups users of CAS. 7. ARP and website groups training service China Internet Network Information Center Service contents Service name Operate and manage Country Code Top-Level Domain name (cctld).cn and Chinese domain name system, and provide global users with uninterrupted domain name registration, domain name resolution, WHOIS query and other services. 1. Domain name registration management and domain name root server operation Build up a world-leading Internet fundamental resource service which is highly efficient, secure and stable, support multi-level, multi-mode public-interest Internet fundamental resource service, actively seek breakthroughs in the core capability of China s network infrastructure resources and self-developed tools, and radically improve the reliability, security and stability of China s network infrastructure resource system. 2. Technical R&D and security guarantee for national network infrastructure resources Carry out multiple Internet network statistical researches on the Internet development status in China, depict the macro-development status of China s Internet network, and earnestly record its development trace. On the one hand, support the policy study of the state and government, and on the other hand, provide public-interest oriented researches and consulting services related to Internet development to enterprises, users, research institutes. 3. Internet development research and consulting service Track the latest development of Internet policy and technology, carry out business collaboration and cooperation with relevant international organizations and other countries and regions. Undertake major international Internet conference and events, and build up an open shared research environment and a platform for international exchanges. Facilitate the conversion and incubation of scientific research results, and serve the development of China s Internet cause. 4. Cooperation and technical exchange on open Internet

6 China Science & Technology Network Center Service name Service contents 1. Internet access service Provide users with access to China Science & Technology Network by optical fiber, digital circuit, DDN, etc. 2. Internet scientific research network service Provide high-speed sharing global scientific data resources to users through GLORIAD, HKOEP, Orientplus, etc. 3. CNGI/CSTnet Internet service of next-generation Provide CNGI technology consultancy and solution implementation service, IPv6 data transmission and network maintenance service and IPv6 application technology support service. 4. Internet data center (IDC) service Relying on the telecom-level computer room and abundant network resources of China Science & Technology Network, provide the government, scientific research institutes, enterprises and other organizations with high-quality, safe and reliable server hosting, hire, ASP and other value-added services. 5. Network management service Based on the comprehensive network management platform of China Science & Technology Network, realize the functions of resource management, traffic monitoring, performance analysis, fault positioning and processing, statistical analysis, etc, and provide virtual network management service by cloud service model. 6. Network security service Provide security services to the network information production, transmission, storage and processing, and provide security guarantee for the development of informatization. 7. Mail service system Provide uniform professional service with high reliability and security. 8. Video conference system service Provide video conference and desktop conference, site and remote guarantee, technical support and consulting and training service. 9. Scientific Research Online and Document Library Build teamwork environment, share opinions, document and chart; collate information and data, accumulate team knowledge base and database, organize items, share and edit document together, track version change; access to the resources via cloud application and mobile application. 10. Conference Service Platform Provide conference information cloud platform, realize conference customization and content release quickly. Conference organizer can create a conference website; release meeting information in real time; customize and manage conference registration, submission and accommodation flexibly. 11. Scientific Research Homepage Provide personalized scientific research homepage service for researchers, creating your personal academic contacts and spaces, sharing academic achievements, meeting more peers and expanding academic influence. 12. Scientific Research Information Application Cloud Platform Scientific research information application cloud platform services based on duckling platform provide integrated and informationalized solutions and private cloud services. 13. Cutting-edge network technology research and innovative experiment environment service In the light of problems and challenges encountered with Internet, carry out cutting-edge network technology study, and provide experiment environment and services for IT innovation according to the resources of Chinese Science & Technology Network. General Group for Advancing e-science Applications Service name f.tdjfodf Service contents 1. Comprehensive informatization planning and consulting service Provide comprehensive informatization planning and consulting services about technology, application, etc to organizations with the requirements of informatization inside CAS. 2. Design and compilation of informatization building plan Combining the actual needs and requirements of future development of informatization building units, provide users with informatization building plan design and compilation services. 3. Software and hardware integration and development to meet the demands of field scientific research applications Software and hardware integration and development for realizing data collection during field scientific research, e.g. video image collecting system, wireless sensor system, field inspection data collecting system, network building under field environment, etc. Internet-based Science Communication Center Service name Service contents 1. MN-based science outreach service Wap DIY tools for website construction; creation and publication of e-magazine based on ios system; development of intelligent terminal applications based on Android system. 2. Science & technology video service HD video shooting and making; mobile studio and multi-media studio; online live service. 3. Design and fabrication service Cartoon; 3D visualization; interactive games; digital exhibits; website design and fabrication. 4. Website building tools and environment service Cooperative creation platform for scientific outreach; website building tools; access statistics tools; graph processing tools; 3D panorama producing tools; 3D object making tools; scientific outreach grid resource storage and service; fundamental environment for scientific outreach website operation service. 5. Internet-based Science Communication Video channel; virtual science tours; stories on frontier and hot science topics; scientists view and general introduction to science outreach topics; digital science outreach resource network; interactive community and SNS platform. 6. E-Learning service Courseware recording and editing tools; customerized E-Learning software system; online learning and training management cloud service; serial training and education courseware; E-Learning solutions.

7 Work Overview In 2012, CNIC made all-out efforts to implement the planning, and successively completed a number of important strategic layouts: It successfully finished the middle-term evaluation on the leadership team, and added two deputy directors for CNIC; it completed the work shift for principal leaders of the functional departments; it merged Collaboration Environmental Research Center and CSTnet Network Center; it prepared to construct Overall Operation and Maintenance Support Center to strengthen overall planning for the operation and maintenance support services; It founded Fundamental Construction Division which was fully devoted to the fundamental construction during the planning period; it prepared to construct e-science Open Laboratory, National Engineering Laboratory for Internet Domain Name Management Technology and Internet Research Laboratory to deepen the open, collaborative and forwardlooking technology research; it joined the Zhongguancun Science City Project in Beijing and established Internet Service Innovation Park to facilitate the industrialization development. These series of reform measures are in answer to the challenges and opportunities confronted by CNIC, which have guaranteed and facilitated the considerable development of CNIC in Director Secretary of party committee Deputy director Deputy director Secretary of discipline inspection commission Deputy director Huang Xiangyang (second from left) Chen Hao (third from left) Chi Xuebin (first from left) Nan Kai (first from right) Responsible for the overall work of CNIC, holding a concurrent post of Director of China Internet Network Information Center, in charge of fundamental resource construction and service, informatization research support and service (including ARP, data, popularization of science, e-science), international cooperation, personnel, financial affairs, industrialization, overall operation and maintenance (including machine room operation guarantee and service), quality, intellectual property rights and achievements. Responsible for the work of the Party committee, in charge of fundamental construction, secrecy, administration, logistics and security guarantee. Holding a concurrent post of Director of Supercomputing Center, in charge of informatization research support and service (supercomputing), academy-region cooperation, postgraduate education, discipline inspection, supervision and audit, assistant administration in secrecy management. Holding a concurrent post of Director of CSTnet Network Center, in charge of informatization research support and service (CSTnet), informatization construction of CNIC (ARP), assistant administration in international cooperation and overall operation and maintenance.

8 I. Business Development In terms of the CNGI project construction, CNIC undertook the China Next Generation Internet project of National Development and Reform Commission (i.e. the CNGI project). At present, it has completed the construction on schedule. It completed the construction of the 2.5G/10G backbone loop network and backup loop network and the construction of core nodes for sub-centers in 13 regions, completed the upgrade of the next-generation Internet for 10 large-scale scientific facilities and 30 field stations of 107 institutes, and connected with the domestic and international research networks at high speed, with a total bandwidth of 10Gbps. It completed the perceptible network management system and large-scale distributive perceptible monitoring system that support the IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, and successfully applied them to 98 participants of CNGI, including University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Space Science Center and institute of computing technology. It completed the entire-network deployment which supports the IPv6/IPv4 security system, and realized the monitoring and management over the network vulnerability scanning system, website vulnerability and Trojan scanning system, intrusion detection system, key resource boundary protection, patch service system and application monitoring system. It built up the research test bed for the next-generation Internet for 1 core node and 12 ordinary nodes, connected with domestic and foreign Internet test resources and facilities, and provided environment for the research of such key technologies as the analysis and design of the operable mobile IPv6 and long-distance high-bandwidth mass data transmission technologies. It constructed the distributive mass storage environment that covers the whole CAS and radiate to the whole country, with a disaster recovery capability of up to Levels 5-6, and developed and deployed the environment for the distributive storage application software. It completed the 7 nodes for research collaboration and environmental grid services, deployed the uniform research collaboration environment, with the number of passport holders of CSTnet reaching 47,000. It integrated the existing mail system and video conference system into an integral research communication system that is subject to centralized management and distributive arrangement and based on IPv6. Significant achievements were made in the following five major application demonstration projects: the China e-vlbi based on mass data real-time transmission demonstration, the long-distance experiment and data transmission application of the SSRF biomacromolecule station based on large-scale scientific facility remote control and shared demonstration, the flux observation & research network of the terrestrial ecosystem in China based on 5-step integrated application demonstration of research informatization, the synchronization test and comprehensive simulation for remote sensing groundbased observation in the Heihe River basin, and the monitoring over the ecosystem and wildlife conservation in the Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve. In terms of the infrastructure for research informatization, CSTnet established the core network in Beijing, connected to other 12 regional sub-centers and 20 independent institutes via the high-speed channel to form a backbone network and to cover more than 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of China. In 2012, the TEIN3 10Gb interconnection bandwidth from CSTnet to China Education and Research Network was put into operation. Supercomputing Center possessed special GPU high-performance computing clusters such as all-purpose supercomputers, Dawning, Lenovo and DeepComp, as well as the supporting storage and visualization equipment, forming the platform that supported high-performance scientific calculation. By the end of 2012, a total of 360 users (including grid users) submitted their assignments on DeepComp 7000, and the total machine hours were more than 60 million CPU hours (based on the Walltime statistics). The distributive mass storage system structure of Scientific Data Center consisted of the master storage center at Zhongguancun, Beijing, the general archive and backup center in Huairou District, and 12 regional storage nodes, providing storage and backup services for important research and engineering applications. By the end of 2012, the capacity built up for the data storage environment

9 was 13PB. The distributed regional storage nodes realized uniform management and operation services via the interconnection with the technology networks at a high speed of 1Gbit/s. General Group for Advancing e-science Applications played an important role in organizing, coordinating and supporting the e-science application and services. e-science Technology & Application published by the periodical editorial office had become an officially issued scientific periodical. In terms of informatization of scientific research management, the consistent operation and construction of the ARP system not only provided an informatization platform for the daily business processing in scientific research management, but also provided a convenient means to deal with the important management demands of CAS and the country. Stable customer bases were formed in the ARP system and website clusters. By the end of 2012, 132 institutes had joined in the ARP system, and 445 independent websites had been set up on the website cluster platform of CAS. In terms of Internet-based popularization of science, a networking scientific transmission platform, which consisted of the resource system and the service system for Internet-based popularization of science and the joint construction and sharing environment, and which integrated openness and interaction, had been preliminarily formed, and a brand of the Internet-based popularization of science of CAS had been created, and become the important force of the national Internetbased popularization of science. The portal website ( had an average daily visitor volume of more than 60,000, and increased by 11.2% on a yearon-year basis, with an average daily pageviews of more than 250,000. The Internet-based popularization of science platform of CAS (three-level service system) had an average daily visitor volume of more than 200,000, with an average daily pageview of more than 2 million. In terms of the Internet fundamental resource management, the national domain name had begun to step on a healthy and steady development by keeping strengthening the infrastructure construction, expanding applications and improving services. In 2012, by focusing on users rights and interests, a series of services were launched for the national domain name, including expanding the registrants to all natural persons, launching the applications in the e-business fields, significantly shortening the registration approval cycle and dramatically improving the performance of the global service platform. By the end of December 31, 2012, the number of registered CN domain names was 7,507,759, and the number of Chinese domain names was up to 283,484. Meanwhile, the study on the Internet and forward-looking technologies was deepened consistently, and the influence of China in the global Internet community kept improving.

10 II. Scientific Research Projects and Achievements In 2012, based on its own orientation, CNIC took active measures and made full use of resources, and successfully acquired the projects of National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, National Natural Science Foundation of China, CAS and the local government projects. In 2012, there were 92 new projects for CNIC, with a total contract amount of million RMB. In 2012, CNIC incorporated the intellectual property rights into its key tasks, and carried out work actively in this regard. It applied for 63 patents in total (including 10 PCT applications) and acquired 7 patents. It applied for 42 software copyrights and successfully registered 38 copyrights. Project type Project quantity Total fund (10 thousand RMB) National projects Projects of CAS International cooperation projects Academy-region cooperation projects Independent projects of institutes Total III. International Communication and Cooperation In 2012, by adhering to the concept of Practical, Progressive, Open and Win-win, CNIC took active measures to explore new patterns on international communication and cooperation, made some new progress in terms of international and domestic communication and expanded the cooperation space. In terms of the international cooperation, based on its existing cooperative relations with the advanced scientific institutions in Europe and America, such as National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in the U.S. and Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) in Germany, it expanded its cooperative relations with developing countries, including the aid in the construction of the national grids in Sudan, the Internet technology training and cooperation in Southeast Asia, and the e-science talent training cooperation project with the National Laboratory of Science and Technology of Bioethanol (CTBE) in Brazil. In terms of international conferences and communication, the first session of Chinese-America-German E-Science and Cyberinfrastructure Workshop (CHANGES for short) was held at Juelich Research Center as scheduled on September 3-5. The conference was jointly sponsored by CNIC, JSC and NCSA, and about fifty experts and scholars in the field of supercomputing from China, America and Germany attended the conference. Following the American-Chinese Cyberinfrastructure and E-Science workshop (ACCESS), CHANGES has become another high-end communication platform among China, America and Germany where the latest academic thoughts, top information technologies and interdisciplinary applications were shared in the field of research informatization. The First Session of Chinese-America-German E-Science and Cyberinfrastructure Workshop

11 In terms of position holding in international organizations, researchers Yan Baoping and Nan Kai continued to act as the committee members of World Data System Scientific Committee of International Council for Science (WDS- SC) and Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA). In terms of the Internet community, researcher Li Xiaodong acted as the vice-president of ICANN, Zhao Wei from acted as the member of APNIC executive committee, Liu Bing, deputy director of, acted as the chairman of APIRA, Yao Jiankang, an engineer of, acted as the secretary of the IETF EAI workgroup and the evaluator in the IETF application area, Chen Ting from acted as the director of APTLD. These people took an active part in the conferences and relevant activities within the organizations, kept expanding the international influence of CNIC and, and kept exploring new space for international communication.

12 Mail System of CAS Video Conference System of CAS Desktop Conference System of CAS Conference Service Platform of CAS CSTnet is a not-for-profit academic research network under the leadership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). CSTnet Provides network management and security services, video conference system services, mail services, internet consulting services, etc. Besides, it serves as scientific research data center, conference services platform, duckling document library, laboratory information system, scientific research homepage, etc. CSTnet conducts research on e-science and network cuttingedge technology, as well as development of Duckling network collaborative working environment. CSTnet also provides fundamental information technology support and guarantees for national science and technology innovation and development. Website: Tel: Fax: Mail: webmaster@cstnet.cn Core Network and Applications of CSTnet

13 I. Infrastructure Construction CSTnet (China Science and Technology Network), established the core network in Beijing, formed a nationwide backbone network which interconnects 12 regional sub-centers and 20 independent institutes via high-speed channel, covering more than 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. In 2012, CSTnet achieved a gigabit connection to Education Network (TEIN3) and built 155M backup circuits between sub-centers in Wuhan and Xi an, Shanghai and Xinjiang, furthermore, the backup circuit and the main circuit of the sub-centers become a protective ring providing the backup protection for existing backbone channels in four sub-centers. II. Operation & Maintenance Support and Services 1. Network running status CSTnet uninterruptedly offered 7x24 network operation and maintenance service, timely response and handling fault and the more careful daily operation and maintenance in a whole year. 60,000 hosts, to discover 4600 vulnerable hosts, kept network security in good condition. 3. system status In 2012, system ran in safe and stable condition, the annual rate of 99.99% of system availability, spam filtering rate of over 90%, the total number of mailboxes over 170,000. Successful completion of system upgrade bought about user experience enhancement, the new mobile phone versions support, mail sessions and fulltext search function, and basic capacity of user s mailbox expanded to 5GB, hard disk capacity increased to 5GB, user of criteria total capacity of 12GB. Sending mails Receiving mails Spam mails Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec System Operation Data Statistics Figure of CAS hotline had calls the annual total, the length of total calls was more than 768 hours, and the number of trouble ticket handling was above In 2012, CSTnet kept the quality of carrier-class network operation, realizing an annual rate of 99.99% network availability (not including third-party causes and routine maintenance). 2. Network security status Security monitoring service capability has been further enhanced, monitoring range expanded to the whole network of CSTnet, monitoring capability extended to the terminal of users. In 2012, CSTnet discovered and handled 1714 network security incidents, scanned and assessed 4. CAS video conference system status In 2012, video conference system came into the IPv6 era, to achieve a comprehensive support in terminal and MCU. It supported video conference by the way of IPv4- Ipv6 mixed networks, mixing speed, mixing terminals, mixed protocol meetings, to enhance the user experience. Releasing video border gateway devices to solve NAT and firewall traversal issues of video conferencing applications and expand video conferencing scenarios. 5. Collaboration Environment Software Suit (Duckling) Duckling which is a collaborative work environment package independently developed by the CSTnet is a set of Internet-based tools and application development platform. The duration of 2012, based on Duckling platform, had

14 8. Research Homepage Research Homepage which is one of research online services aims to provide scientists with research and personalized academic homepage services, bring about academic achievements aggregation, and releases members activities for research and academic institutions. Research Online Homepage developed the research online SaaS products (Research Online, and collaboration library (dlab) of independent deployment system, to achieve the application platform pattern of development. So far, passport users of Duckling platform exceeded 3.9 million people. 6. Conference Service Platform Conference Services Platform (CSP, provides a one-stop information platform and a comprehensive conference website for construction and management. Up to December 31, 2012, there were more than 35,000 conference participants registered, more than 75% of institutes covered, and 99.9% of the service availability. 7. Research online document library Research online documentation library, developed on the basis of Duckling, is a socialized collaboration platform for scientific research teams. It not only helps research teams to efficiently share ideas, documents and charts, but also provides a mobile client for viewing and sharing information anytime and anywhere. By the end of December 2012, users of research online document library amounted to 4817 people, 1120 teams, and total resources. You can simply create a personal academic contacts and academic space on the Research Homepage, share academic achievements, and meet more peers. Just one month after coming into use, there were 370 experts and scholars, including several academicians and researchers, coming from all over the country to create a personal academic homepage. 9. Customer Services CSTnet organized sub-center exchange monthly, timely solved feedback problems of sub-centers, actively collected users feedback and suggestions in order to better meet the requirements of users. Broad understanding of users needs, combined with industry s cutting-edge information, mobilized resources and technical strength, collaborated with research institutions and equipment manufacturers, and provided users with rich and practical training services actively. III. Domestic and International Communication In 2012, CSTnet carried out extensive cooperation and exchange activities at home and abroad, dispatched representatives to Chinese-American Networking Symposium (CANS2012), HPCC/TrustCom/ICESS/IUCC joint international conferences, GEC14 meetings. Based on CSTnet s GENI technology network node of Beijing, it considered as an important node participating in joint presentations in GEC14. CSTnet joined in the Eurasian advanced research network TEIN4 (Trans-Eurasia Information Network), becoming a full member of TEIN4.

15 February 11 to 15, 2012, CSTnet introduced the independent development of collaborative work software Duckling, and exchanged with international counterparts at 2012 CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) International Conference held in Seattle, USA. April and October 2012, the 22nd and 23rd PRAGMA (Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly) held in Melbourne, Australia and Seoul, South Korea, respectively. CSTnet of Conference Services Platform (CSP) provided sixth consecutive support for conference website. IAU Portal management platform for Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS PRAGMA 22 October 28 to November 2, 2012, the 23rd Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and 28th CODATA Plenary Session were held in Taipei. IV. Typical Cases 1. IAU 28th General Assembly August 21, 2012, the 28th General Assembly of International Astronomical Union (IAU2012) was held in Beijing. Conference Services Platform provided strong support for the conference website ( of construction and management 88 countries, more than 3,000 representatives of the online registration, collection of abstracts of more than 3,000 articles, more than 2,700 representatives through its online payment to pay conference fees, and providing expert online review and tour reservation functions, etc. The portal management platform for Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CSA running on April 5, 2012 officially, there were 691 members registered so far. It mainly provides real-time news releases, team collaboration platform for local branch, members online registration and exhibition, annual results submit and management, online survey of important events, polling management and other function. V. Key Projects and Achievements 1. Pilot/Special project of new generation of information technology research for the perception of China Pilot/Special project, maximized institutional advantage of CSA, is considered as organization of interdisciplinary, cross joint implementation of science and technology project. CSTnet has undertaken to integrate Web-based resources and research the key technology of service system with management and control. It focused on the development of environmental resources management for Sea Cloud innovative test, and the task of service system design in 2012.

16 2. ITER international high-speed dedicated data network project Since 2008, CSTnet has undertaken international high-speed dedicated data network design, testing and construction of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) program, after three years of implementation, overfulfilled construction tasks of project such as infrastructure of network platform and software application platform, and passed the acceptance on the Ministry of Science project acceptance meeting in December China-EU cooperation project ORIENTPlus In 2012, CSTnet was responsible for circuit operation and maintenance work of China-EU research cooperation project ORIENTPlus, and made a substantial increase in the quality of operation and maintenance. At the end of October 2012, the availability rate of circuit remained stable at 100%. On the aspect of circuit usage, ORIENTPlus project vigorously promoted comprehensive cooperation between users of CSA and European in the scientific research field. Data showed that CSTnet s research flow reached 3.2TBytes, accounting for more than 75% of China s scientific research of total flow. VI. Training Programs for Informatization June 19th, Duckling collaborative research solutions seminar was held, It made a detailed introduction on collaborative research solutions, and made explanations and demonstrations on three core products, research and development of which based on Duckling research online document library, conference service platform, laboratory collaboration system. October 25 to 26, CSTnet held 2012 Duckling seminar in Beijing. The meeting involved a special report of Duckling 3 and open platform, and the exposition of technical architecture of Duckling 3, further development and cloud platform characteristics. November 26 to 29, 2012 CSTnet User Conference and network technology training held in Sanya, Hainan, the meeting made a number of important outcome, to play an important role at promoting various work to a new level for the new development situation of CSTnet.

17 Scientific Data Center (SDC) is originated from the Scientific Database Project of CAS, and is the supporting organization for the construction, management, operation and maintenance of CAS informatization data environment. SDC also takes the lead in the construction and operation of mass storage facilities, operation service of large-scale scientific database, technology research and support services of data-intensive scientific research environment. Website: Tel: Mail: Scientific Data Center of CAS

18 I. Infrastructure Construction (TB) In 2012, Scientific Data Center (SDC) developed Datacloud service integrated by cloud computing technology after the 12th five-year informatization plan of CAS started, and further enhanced the data environment public support as well as promoted IaaS of massive storage. By the end of 2012, the capacity of storage environment has reached to 13PB, and the distributed storage nodes realized the unified management and operation service through 1Gbit/ s high speed network interconnection technology Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Storage Growth in 2012 The distributed mass storage system architecture includes Beijing Zhongguancun primary storage center, Huairou archive center and 12 regional storage nodes, and it formed cloud storage network which widely used in CAS and accessed across the whole country, providing storage, archive, backup service for grand scientific and engineering projects. II. Operation & Maintenance Support and Service 1. Data Storage Service By the end of 2012, there were 60 research institutes established database mirror sites, the users from 40 units stored data, and the total use of storage space is more than 1.8 PB. Users can apply for different services, including mass data storage space, self-service online storage, system application hosting and mirroring, data archiving and preservation services, etc. 2. Data Sharing Service (1) Scientific Database Online Sharing The CAS Database Portal System, which led and operated by SDC, providing scientific database online sharing. By the end of 2012, the scientific database accesses added up to 45 million visitors, and the data download was more than 400TB TB Online Visit Statistics of SDC Users storage data kept growing in 2012, the average monthly net increase of storage space usage is about 30TB.

19 (2) Geospatial Data Steward Service Based on the self-developed geospatial data search system, data processing scheduling system and scientific data processing model integration platform, SDC provides geospatial data cloud services. Currently it has 1PB data gathering capabilities, and contains 91 original data products from 9 categories, integrated with 13 models of geological remote sensing image data processing and application. By the end of 2012, the integration of geospatial data cloud had 260 TB data volume, registered users, and data service steward received and provided project service for more than 240 cases. GB Per month: 1327 Per day: Per month: 6.5TB Per day: 217GB Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sep Users of Geospatial Data Cloud from Geospatial Data Cloud Downloads from Nov Geospatial Data Cloud Platform (

20 3. Data Application and Technical Support SDC provides important support for scientific research informatization application, the major projects includes: In combination with CAS strategic pilot project, as the supporter of carbon cycle research information environment, SDC established terrestrial ecosystem carbon sequestration potential force and the rate of comprehensive simulation and integration analysis platform. According to the national science and technology support program, based on the demands of rural areas information service platform, SDC supported the key technology of cloud storage and cloud computing platform of rural information service. Under the support of key projects of Ministry of Environmental Protection, SDC supported the national ecological environment comprehensive evaluation system construction. 4. System Operation and Maintenance Service SDC successfully completed the NSFC information system operation and maintenance in 2012, solved the user s problem in 1 hour for 99.5% cases, and maintained a high level of system operation and maintenance service. III. Domestic and International Communication In order to promote cloud computing and storage service, SDC deployed distributed mass storage environment toward all over of CAS. Under the coordination and support of CAS branches, SDC reached agreement with 13 partners on the maintenance of data cloud service. were 14 researchers, data managers, and data scientists from 9 developing countries including Vietnam, India, Afghanistan, Thailand, Mongolia, Nepal, Indonesia, South Africa, Zimbabwe attended the training workshop. Graduation Ceremony of Training Workshop IV. Typical Cases 1. Join with local government to promote the industrialization development of information service Take the opportunity of CAS informatization and local cloud computing industry and under the support of CAS branches, SDC reached the collaboration agreement with the government of Dongguan, Jiangning Development Zone on the co-building of CAS data cloud nodes. SDC has the team of 17 people in Dongguan and 9 people in Nanjing, and provides data storage backup and application development and hosting. The International Training Workshop for Developing Countries on Scientific Data Management and Sustainable Development co-sponsored by Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and CAS, organized by CNIC, CODATA Secretariat, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University was held at CNIC on July 16-27, There Inauguration of Southeast Node of CAS Data Cloud

21 2. Information monitoring and analysis of food safety SDC applied for more than 10 national invention patents in the field of food safety information aggregation, analysis and risk profile. From 2007, SDC has developed cooperation with Beijing Food Safety Monitoring Center, Beijing Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention & Centers for Preventive Medical Research, and the management departments in charge of food safety in Shanghai and Guangzhou, provided the key technology and IT applications for some important events such as Olympics, Expo and Asian Games. V. Key Projects and Achievements Projects CAS 12th five-year informatization project Science and Technology Data Resource Integration and sharing Data resource center and key technologies Cloud services and key technology of the management for unconventional emergency CNGI Infrastructure construction and application pilot Project Basic Scientific Data Sharing Network Progress The project was formally launched, it focuses on promoting cloud storage environment construction, initiated data analysis application demonstration subproject, and published the application guideline of key databases. Under the support of CAS strategic pilot project, it is was started in The key project of NSFC cloud service. The total volume has reached to 13PB, and cloud storage software has started to run. 20 subprojects has completed acceptance.

22 VI. Training Programs for Informatization There were 3 training workshops for users and data workers. 21st -22nd March, the 11th Scientific Database and Information Technology Symposium 3rd-4th July, Basic Scientific Data Sharing Network Training 18th-19th October Technical Training of Cloud Computing Service

23 As the general center with supercomputing environment of CAS and the operation & management center of CNGrid, the Supercomputing center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (SCCAS) aims to provide supercomputing services and technology support for the research institutions of CAS. SCCAS is mainly engaged in the operation and maintenance of supercomputers, the research and realization of parallel computing and the visualization technology research. It also provides solutions for the complicated large-scale computing technology and its commercial application. Website: cscgrid.cas.cn Tel: Mail: Visualization of Global Ocean Circulation

24 I. Operation & Maintenance Support and Services In 2012, the DeepComp 7000 has served for 392 users, which includes 99 users outside CAS, and 293 inner users. The computing fields include computational physics, computational chemistry, materials science, life science, drug design, geophysics, fluid dynamics, climate modeling, astronomy, agriculture, and computer science fields, etc. 78.0% 77.5% 76.6% 77.3% 79.0% 78.1% 77.8% 77.8% 77.2% 76.2% 74.5% 74.6% Integral Utilization of DeepComp7000 from Jan. to Dec. in materials science aviation chemistry life science mathematics astronomy physics energy resources & industry geophysics information science Fields Distribution of Deep 7000 Users II. Domestic and International Communication To keep on enhancing the communication and cooperation among the domestic and international academies, SCCAS has held seven international conferences in All of the experts who came from different countries and international academic organizations approved that scientists had made more progress in this way. Date Place Conference Shenzhen GPU-SMP Germany ISC Nanjing ICT-HPCC Tengchong SCA Germany CHANGES Zhangjiajie HPC China U.S.A SC` In 2012, lots of famous experts from academic organizations invited by SCCAS came to China, including Research Center Jülich in Germany, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif in France, OakRidge National Laboratory in U.S.A, etc. Glad to see that, quite a lot high-level papers have been issued with cooperation, which positively developed the high performance computing.