Research Information Infrastructure - RII

Advanced Research Information Infrastructure (RII)

Total Integration Delivers Optimal Environments

NEC is launching a suite of solutions for research institutions, including universities, to promote open science. By providing solutions through total integration that contribute to strengthening research competitiveness and ensuring transparency, NEC will support the efficient and effective development of research information infrastructure.

In recent years, the trend toward open science - sharing research data across society - has accelerated, and research institutions around the world face growing demands for managing, storing, and utilizing research data. From the perspective of further enhancing international research competitiveness and ensuring transparency of research results, there is an increasing need for proper data management, storage obligations, and stronger governance. However, many research institutions are still in the early stages of addressing these challenges and require systems that enable efficient and reliable operations.

In Japan, the National Institute of Informatics (NII) advances pioneering initiatives in building information infrastructure for open science. The NII Research Data Cloud (NII RDC) is being developed, and various services are provided through NII RDC. Additionally, individual research institutions are advance their own systems, but they face various challenges such as departmental system optimization, diverse data formats, security requirements, and integration with research processes.

In response, NEC launches solutions that enable efficient and effective research information infrastructure from implementation to operation.

We provide solutions for the appropriate and efficient use of research data throughout the entire process: generation, analysis, aggregation, management, publication, and utilization of research data.

NEC’s Solution Suite:

NEC Ultra-High-Speed Data Transfer System (UDTS): An ultra-high-speed data transfer system that enables efficient aggregation and sharing of large-scale research data generated by various experimental and measurement equipment and HPC simulations. It maximizes network bandwidth utilization and achieves high-speed disk-to-disk data transfer. This is an effective solution for scenarios such as sharing large-scale experimental research data, utilizing large-scale data aggregation infrastructure, and business continuity planning (BCP) measures.

NEC’s Solution Suite:

NEC Ultra-High-Speed Data Transfer System (UDTS): An ultra-high-speed data transfer system that enables efficient aggregation and sharing of large-scale research data generated by various experimental and measurement equipment and HPC simulations. It maximizes network bandwidth utilization and achieves high-speed disk-to-disk data transfer. This is an effective solution for scenarios such as sharing large-scale experimental research data, utilizing large-scale data aggregation infrastructure, and business continuity planning (BCP) measures.

NEC Data Provenance System for HPC: An HPC provenance management system that automatically collects and references provenance information such as input/output files and program execution information in HPC simulations. Researchers using HPC systems do not need any special processing during simulation execution and can easily reference provenance information. They can also share provenance information with others. This is an effective solution for improving research efficiency through clearer simulation reproduction procedures and easier identification of data to be preserved, as well as for presenting data as evidence for papers and utilizing it in collaborative research.

Data catalog and portal systems that promote research data utilization, including AI-powered capabilities, for collected and stored research data. As a portal for research information infrastructure, it promotes data aggregation and facilitates data utilization by users and administrators.

Resource pooling and remote resource utilization system using NEC's proprietary technology "ExpEther", which transmits IT equipment signals with high reliability and low latency. It enables the use of remote computing resources even for sensitive data that cannot be transferred.

We provide these solutions through total integration tailored to customer environments.