News: Seminar on promoting RENAM services at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Moldova State University

Seminar on promoting RENAM services at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Moldova State University

On November 14, 2024, RENAM delivered a seminar for the promotion of services in support of the research and education community in Moldova, the event was hosted by the Institute of Applied Physics of the Moldova State University.

Dr. Olga Shikimaka, Director of the Institute of Applied Physics, opened the seminar, emphasizing the importance of using e-infrastructure and leveraging the existing opportunities targeted at researchers.

RENAM specialists Alexandru Cacean, Nichita Degteariov and Valentin Pocotilenco gave presentations on a variety of services:

• eduroam – the secure, world-wide Wi-Fi roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. It allows students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across campus and when visiting other participating institutions by simply opening their laptop, mobile phone or other device;
• FileSender – a service that enables to send large files quickly and securely;
• eduVPN – a secure network connection service to access internal resources of the institution as well as services from different or remote locations;
• eduGAIN – a user authentication and authorisation service within the national identity federation LEAF (MoLdovan ResEarch and EducAtion Identity Federation), which simplifies access to national and European information resources for the research and education community (including access to EOSC EU Node services);
• digital certificate issuing service;
• access to computing resources (computational infrastructure).

Representatives of the institute’s administration and scientific researchers attended the seminar. The discussion that followed the presentations covered a variety of areas, such as the possibility of accessing EOSC EU Node services for scientific computing and data storage, organizational and financial aspects of access to the RENAM computing infrastructure, scalability of RENAM computing resources, technical aspects of the FileSender service provided by RENAM, how organizations can become members of the national identity federation LEAF, etc.