Participating Countries and International organizations:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, CERN, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, USA. 

Scientific Programme:
Te purpose of the theme is to ensure the further development of the network, information and computing infrastructure of JINR for the research and production activities of the Institute and its Member States on the basis of state-of-the-art information technologies in accordance with the JINR Seven-Year Plan of development. A particular area within the theme is the development of the Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex (MICC) at LIT JINR, presented in a Project form. 

Expected main results in 2018:

• Provision of the reliable functioning of the JINR local network. Gradual transition of the JINR Backbone to 100 Gbps. 
  
  Provision of a reserved power supply and uninterrupted power supply of the MICC infrastructure. Modernization of the climate control in the computer hall to create optimal climate conditions for the equipment. Development of the project on fire safety for the MICC engineering infrastructure. 
  
  Phased introduction of IPv4 dynamic addressing (DHCP) for the further transition to IPv6 in the JINR network. Putting of the ``Personal Cabinet'' service into trial operation. Development of services of local and wireless registration and authorization. JINR e-mail service modernization. 
  
  Growth of the basic grid-component of the MICC, Tier–1 centre for the CMS experiment at JINR: CPU by 23%, disk storage by 20% and tape storage by 100%. 
  
  Extension of the computing resources and data storage systems included in the integrated component Tier–2/CICC - CPU by 27% and disk storage for 14%. 
  
  Increase of the computing power of the heterogeneous cluster HybriLIT by 20% through the addition of computing nodes with Intel Xeon Phi processors of a new generation (KNL). Extention of the software environment of the HybriLIT cluster with a new modules enabling the use of packages of applied software and mathematical software with advanced graphical interfaces. 
  
  xpansion of the cloud-based component foresees 28% increase in the number of cores, 30% for RAM and 33% for disk storage capacity. Increase in quotas for cloud resources for experiments at JINR (NICA, ALICE, BESIII, NOvA, Daya Bay, JUNO, etc.) and the JINR Member States 
  
  Creation and testing a cluster prototype of the monitoring system on the basis of Icinga2. Developing scripts to provide migration of the current configuration of the monitoring system into the prototype. Commissioning the service monitoring system and investigation of the possibility of predicting MICC malfunctions. 
  
  Technical implementation and pilot exploitation of the EOS file system based computing and the storage components for off-line cluster for NICA inside MICC. 
  
  
• Further development of the functionality of 1C Manufacturing Enterprise Management software: analysis and modernization of already established modules; analysis of the peculiarities and functionality of the 1C:ERP Enterprise Management 2 platform; preparation for the transition from 1C 8.3 to the 1C:ERP platform. 
  
  Expansion of the list of information systems connected to the gateway of data exchange and types of data transferred through the gateway. Completion of the modernization of the PIN system and its connection to the data exchange gateway. Completion of works enabling the highest possible gateway data protection from unauthorized access. 
  
  Development of the project management information system APT EVM for NICA securing better coverage of the regularly occurring new requirements on organization of planning and accounting, in particular, accounting the target funds of the Russian Federation, etc. 
  
  Completion of the development of system-wide modules for EDH "Dubna". The development and putting into service of new documents: "Executive order on the enlistment of people invited to visit JINR" and integration of this document into the CHI "Compulsory Health Insurance) system, "Executive order on secondment", "Invoice for vendor's payment". 
  
  Development of information services of the JINR Document Server: implementation of trustworthy records of Personalities, Grants; improvement of the information input module. 
  
  Development and maintenance of the hardware and software environments for information, algorithmic and software support of JINR’s activity. Support of program libraries JINRLIB, CERNLIB, and CPC. Provision of access to the software and data of NEA OECD Bank. 
  
  Development and maintenance of the central information servers and portals to provide information and software support of the activities underway at LIT and JINR. Development of the services provided to the users of the "Visitor center" portal; setting up a connection of the portal to a universal gateway for data exchange. 
  
  
• Conducting on the basis of the education and research grid-infrastructure, as well as cloud and the HybriLIT heterogeneous cluster regular training courses and tutorials for JINR employees, students and young scientists from the JINR Member States on advanced information technologies, including Big Data, distributed and parallel programming technologies, cloud and grid technologies.
  
  Organizing and conducting special courses by leading software developers. Conducting student schools on information technologies in frames of the conferences held by LIT JINR as well as special training courses in the JINR Member States in frames of the programmes on international cooperation.