TransLight/StarLight, GLIF and OptIPuter

TransLight/StarLight, GLIFand OptIPuter

Maxine D. BrownElectronic Visualization Laboratory

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGOmaxine@uic.edu

CANS 2006December 8, 2006

US National Science Foundation (NSF)Funds 5 IRNC International Networking Projects

• Support science and engineering research and education applications

• Enable state-of-the-art international network services• Share tools and best practices• Work on major events and activities (SC, Grid, GLIF)• IRNC is the international extension of US R&E Networks (national

and regional)

www.irnclinks.net

TransLight/StarLightMission Statement

• TransLight/StarLight works with US and European R&E networks:– to implement strategies to best serve production

science– to identify and best serve pre-production data-intensive

e-science applications, for they are the drivers for new networking tools and services to advance the state-of-the-art of production science; e.g., persistent large data flows, real-time visualization and collaboration, and/or remote instrumentation scheduling

www.startap.net/translight

TransLight/StarLightA Hybrid Network Consisting of Two Trans-Atlantic Links

GÉANT2 PoP @ AMS-IENetherLight

StarLight

MAN LAN

• OC-192 routed connection between MAN LAN in New York City and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange that connects the USA Abilene and ESnet networks to the pan-European GÉANT2 network

• OC-192 switched connection between NLR and RONs at StarLight and optical connections at NetherLight; part of the GLIF LambdaGrid fabric

www.startap.net/translight

TransLight/Pacific Wave10GE Wave Facilitates US West Coast Connectivity

Developing a distributed exchange facility on the US West Coast (currently Seattle, Sunnyvale and Los Angeles) to interconnect international and US research and education networks

www.pacificwave.net/participants/irnc/

• TransLight is a 10Gbps lightpath donated by Cisco and deployed by NLR that facilitates US, European and Pacific Rim network connections

• Enables participating networks to easily configure direct connections whenever needed

• Adds resiliency and stability to the North American segment of GLIF

= +

www.pnw-gigapop.net/news/translight_conn.html

GLORIADGlobal Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development

www.gloriad.orgGreg Cole, Natasha Bulashova, NSF Co-PIs

Global Lambda Integrated FacilityAvailable Advanced Network Resources − September 2005

GLIF is a consortium of institutions, organizations, consortia and country National Research & Education Networks who voluntarily share optical networking resources and expertise to develop the Global LambdaGrid for the advancement of scientific collaboration and discovery

Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA; data compilation by Maxine Brown, UIC.

www.glif.is

GLIF Working Groups

• Governance: To create an open, neutral community for anyone who wants to contribute resources and/or services (bandwidth, software, application drivers), to build the Global LambdaGrid

• Engineering: To define the types of links and the minimum/maximum configurations of Optical Exchange facilities in order to assure the interoperability and interconnectivity of participating networks

• Applications: To enable the super-users providing the application drivers; to find new e-science drivers; and, to move scientific experiments into production usage as they mature, and to document these advancements

• Control Plane and Grid Integration Middleware: To agree on the interfaces and protocols for lambda provisioning and management

www.glif.is

Annual GLIF Meetings GLIF 2006, Tokyo, Japan, hosted by NiCT and WIDE

www.glif.is

iGrid 2005September 26-30, 2005, San Diego, California

• 4th community-driven biennial International Grid event attracting 450 participants– An international testbed for participants to collaborate on a global scale– To accelerate the use of multi-10Gb international and national networks – To advance scientific research– To educate decision makers, academicians and industry about hybrid networks

• 49 demonstrations showcasing global experiments in e-Science and next-generation shared open-source LambdaGrid services

• 20 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, CERN, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, USA

• 25 lectures, panels and master classes as part of a symposium• 100Gb into the Calit2 building on the UCSD campus• All IRNC links used!

www.igrid2005.org

iGrid 2005 Proceedings Available!

Special issue on iGrid 2005: The Global Lambda Integrated Facility27 referred papers!

Smarr, Larry, Maxine Brown, Tom DeFanti and Cees de Laat (guest editors)

Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 22, Issue 8, Elsevier, October 2006, pp. 849-1054

www.elsevier.com/locate/future

OptIPuterRemoving Bandwidth as an Obstacle In Data-Intensive e-Science

• OptIPuter is an NSF-funded award to develop cyberinfrastructure to enable the real-time collaboration and visualization of very-large time-varying volumetric datasets for the geosciences and biosciences

• OptIPuter is examining a new model of computing whereby ultra-high-speed networks form the backplane of a global computer

NIH Biomedical InformaticsResearch Network

http://siovizcenter.ucsd.eduhttp://ncmir.ucsd.eduwww.optiputer.net

NSF EarthScope and ORION

OptIPuterArchitecture Bandwidth Matches Clusters to the Network

• Hardware: clusters of computers that act as giant storage, compute or visualization peripherals, in which each node of each cluster is attached at 1 or 10GigE to a backplane of ultra-high-speed networks

• Software: Advanced middleware and application toolkits are being developed for light path management, data management and mining, visualization, and collaboration

Fibers or Lambdas

Commodity GigE Switch

www.optiputer.net

OptIPuterEnabling Persistent Collaboration Spaces

OptIPortals Are 21st Century PCs with 10Gbps Network Connections

• Tiled-display installations at partner sites• Unified SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics

Environment) software (integrated with Rocks Viz Roll)

www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/optiputerwww.evl.uic.edu/cavern/sage

Source: Jason Leigh, UIC/EVL

OptIPuter Partners• UCSD• University of Illinois at

Chicago• University of California-

Irvine• San Diego State Univ• University of Southern

California• NCSA• Northwestern• Texas A&M• University of Michigan• Purdue University• USGS• NASA• CANARIE, Canada• CRC, Canada• SARA, Netherlands• Univ of Amsterdam,

Netherlands• KISTI, Korea• AIST, Japan

The OptIPuter exploits a new world in which the central architectural element is optical networking – creating supernetworks

CAVEwave™ is the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s very own 10 Gigabit wavelength on the NLR infrastructure, connected to the University of Washington in Seattle and UCSD in San Diego, enabling OptIPuter experiments. It was recently extended to the DC area to connect with NASA GSFC and Venter Institute

UCSDSDSUUCI

USC

NASA GSFCVenter Institute

TAMU

OptIPuter10GE CAVEwave on the National LambdaRail

Connections to European partners

Connections to Asian partners

CA*net 4 to Canadian partnersand JGN2 to Japanese partners

www.evl.uic.edu

UICNU

NCSA

OptIPuterDemonstration of SAGE Applications

MagicCarpetStreaming Blue Marble dataset from San Diego

to EVL using UDP.6.7Gbps

MagicCarpetStreaming Blue Marble dataset from San Diego

to EVL using UDP.6.7Gbps

JuxtaViewLocally streaming the aerial photography of downtown

Chicago using TCP.850 Mbps

JuxtaViewLocally streaming the aerial photography of downtown

Chicago using TCP.850 Mbps

BitplayerStreaming animation of tornado simulation

using UDP.516 Mbps

BitplayerStreaming animation of tornado simulation

using UDP.516 Mbps

SVCLocally streaming HD camera live

video using UDP.538Mbps

SVCLocally streaming HD camera live

video using UDP.538Mbps

About 9 Gbps in total. SAGE can simultaneously support these applications

without decreasing their performance

About 9 Gbps in total. SAGE can simultaneously support these applications

without decreasing their performance

Source: Xi Wang, UIC/EVL

What you will see this afternoon….

StarLight On the campus of Northwestern University

Northwestern University’sChicago downtown campus

• StarLight is the world’s largest 1 GE and 10 GE optical exchange for research and education networks (~70 1GE and ~50x10G)

• StarLight is a large research-friendly co-location facility with space, power and fiber that is available to university and national/international network collaborators as a point of presence/ GOLE in Chicago

• StarLight provides an optical infrastructure and proving ground for network services optimized for high-performance applications

• StarLight is a collaboration of NU, UIC, ANL, CA*net 4, and many others, with partial funding by NSF/OCI and DOE

www.startap.net/starLight

StarLight Connected Networks

MCNC/EnLIGHTenedMiLRMRENNational LambdaRailNISNOMNInetSouthern Light RailTeraGridTransLightUltraScience NetUSGSWisc Wave

National and Regional Networks

www.startap.net/starlight/NETWORKS Source: Linda Winker

ASNetCANARIECERN/LHCNETCERNET/NSFCNETCESNET (Czech Repubic)GLORIAD-China/CSTnetGLORIAD-RussiaGLORIAD-KREONet2/KORENHARNETJGN-II SINET SURFnetTaiwanLight/TWARENTransLight/StarLight IRNCUKLight

International Advanced Networks

Abilene

BOREAS

CAVEwave

DREN

ESnet

Fermi LightPath

HOPI

I-Light

I-WIRE

LONI

Electronic Visualization LaboratoryUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

• EVL established in 1973 − 33 years of interdisciplinary collaboration in Computer Science and Art

• Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin, Jason Leigh, co-directors

• Students in CS, ECE, Art+Design• Real-time Computer Science + Art

Networked Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics and Tele-immersive Virtual Environments Lightpaths and LambdaGrids

• Research in:– Advanced display systems– Visualization and virtual reality

software– Advanced networking protocols– Collaboration and human/computer

interaction

• Funding mainly NSF, ONR, NIH. Also NTT, General Motors

EVL is a network user !

www.evl.uic.edu

EVL Sponsors and Collaborators

• TransLight/StarLight is made possible by NSF cooperative agreement OCI-0441094 to University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

• OptIPuter is OptIPuter made possible by NSF award OCI-0225642 to University of California, San Diego

• StarLight made possible by NSF OCI-0229642 to UIC and Northwestern

• Equipment instrumentation development made possible by NSF awards CNS-0224306 and CNS-0420477 to UIC

• Additional UIC funding provided by– State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing

– Northwestern University for facility space, engineering and management

• US NSF/CISE and US DoE/Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and design

• Kees Neggers of SURFnet and Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE for networking leadership

• Larry Smarr of Calit2 for I-WIRE and OptIPuter leadership

Questions?

www.startap.net/starlightwww.startap.net/translightwww.optiputer.netwww.evl.uic.edu