Don Riley SURA IT Fellow

Southeastern Universities Research Association

Regional Vision and StrategyShould be the Driver

Wrap-up Session

SURA SE Networking Summit MeetingFebruary 21, 2007

Atlanta

Don Riley

SURA IT Fellow

Southeastern Universities Research Association

Going back to yesterday’s “But” talk by Ron Johnson, What were the key messages?

Backbones have been important, but . . .

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Backbones have been important, but today the most important things seem to be:

1) testbeds/research/R&D; 2) infilling the regionals with owned-lit, high function,

alternate-pathed, multi-homed connectivity; 3) interconnecting the neighboring regionals and

rationalizing their sharable infrastructures and services to reduce costs (e.g. commodity/exchange); and

4) leveraging the results to enable benefits to largest community: including K12, economic development, .com partnerships, state based health care(as that is how it is licensed), etc.

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SURA, its members, and RONs should continue to pursue the long-range RII vision --

work hard and together to: • establish owned-lit based local *loops* (RONs) for each state;• create an interconnecting, regional level, owned-lit

ringed/looped fabric with alternate-paths for all participants throughout the entire southeast;

• consolidate region hub nodes in strategic locations (DC, ATL, HOU, for example) - to get maximum bandwidth at lowest cost- to get maximum layer 1, 2, 3 interconnect/interoperate

capabilities - for interacting with all R&E and international backbones as

well as the core commodity internet exchange and transit infrastructure (e.g. extended TransitRail);

• Extend/distribute the super-regional gigapop fabric to include full function extended/distributed gigapop locations at state and sub-state levels.

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SURA RII

• We started back around 2000 to conceptualize what was needed and to see what was possible– We plotted locations of SURA region institutions,

federal labs and key computational resource centers

– Then we started “drawing lines” - to conceptualize what we’d like to achieve

– And we said “a great starting point would be if we could create a backbone thru the region” - and then start connecting things to that backbone….

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Univ of South Carolina

University of NC

Duke University

NC State Univ

Georgia Tech

Emory Univ

Clark Atl Univ

GA State Univ

FL Institute of Tech

FL International Univ

University of Miami

FL Atlantic University

Univ of South FL

Univ of Southern MS

Tulane University

Univ of New Orleans

Rice University

Univ of Houston

University of MD

Catholic Univ of A

Georgetown Univ

American Univ

VA Commonwealth Univ University of Richmond VA State University College of William & Mary Christopher Newport Univ Norfolk State University Old Dominion University

West VA University

University of KYUniversity of Arkansas

University of OK

University of MS

University of TX

Texas A&M

University of LA

Baylor University

OK State University

University of Central FL

East Carolina University

1 Louisiana Tech University2 Louisiana State University3 MS State University4 University of Alabama5 Univ of AL at Birmingham6 Auburn University7 Florida State University8 University of Florida9 University of Georgia10 Clemson University11 University of Tenn12 Virginia Tech13 University of Virginia14 James Madison University15 Mass Institute of Tech

SURA Member Locations

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University of DE

Univ of South Carolina

University of NC

Duke University

NC State Univ

FL Institute of Tech

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Univ of South FL

Univ of Southern MS

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Univ of New Orleans

Rice University

Univ of Houston

West VA University

University of Arkansas

University of OK

University of MS

University of TX

Texas A&M

University of LA

Baylor University

OK State University

University of Central FL

East Carolina University

Georgia Tech

Emory University

Clark Atl University

GA State University

VA Commonwealth Univ University of Richmond VA State University College of William & Mary Christopher Newport Univ Norfolk State University Old Dominion University Hampton University

FL International University

University of Miami

University of Maryland

Catholic Univ of America

Georgetown University

American University

George Washington Univ

George Mason University

Vanderbilt University

1 Louisiana Tech University2 Louisiana State University3 MS State University4 University of Alabama5 Univ of AL at Birmingham6 Auburn University7 Florida State University8 University of Florida9 University of Georgia10 Clemson University11 University of Tenn12 Virginia Tech13 University of Virginia14 James Madison University15 Mass Institute of Tech

= SURA member. = National Laboratory. = SURA HPC sites (CASC member). = SURA Medical Research sites. = SURA Grid computing sites. = SURA member in SCOOP. = CASC member (non-SURA)

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Stanford Linear AcceleratorNat'l Energy Research SupercomputerLawrence Livermore Nat'l LaboratoryLawrence Berkeley Nat'l Laboratory

Los Alamos Nat'l LaboratorySandia Nat'l Laboratory

Ames Laboratory

Brookhaven LaboratoryEnvironm Measurements LabPrinceton Plasma Physics Lab

Argonne Nat'l LaboratoryFermi Nat'l Laboratory

Nat'l Renewable Energy Lab

Pacific NW Nat'l Laboratory

Idaho Nat'l Eng Laboratory

University of KY

Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory

Non SURA member SCOOP locations shownUniversity of Maine (GOMOOS) - Portland, ME

Stennis Space Center, MS

University of Rhode Island - Kingston, RI

Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ

Woods Hole - Woods Hole, MA

SURA Members, Nat’l Labs and CASC Locations

AWG Conceptual Regional InfrastructureAugust 2001

SURA Region Map

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Update Today• We’ve got a backbone• We’ve got some regional networks (RONs)• But

– There are gaps: states without RONs, places RONs don’t yet reach, etc.– And we’ve got another backbone coming that we’re trying to sort out how

to deal with

• We’re not done, we need to stick to, but revise/update, the vision– Recognizing that things have changed and we need to think differently

than we were in 2001

• And we need to keep on working to make the lines we draw real….

• To extend the “core” benefits and opportunities throughout the region.

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SURA Region Fiber-based RON Map(as it exists today - from Quilt map)

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SURA Region Fiber-based Connectivity(the goal - concept)

Fill the gaps - even more “lines” are needed…..

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Design to Aggregate thru Natural Nodes• SERON design/develop a plan for the

region that would– Leverage existing investment in NLR

backbone and available waves/services for backhaul, etc.

– extend access/services throughout the region to the RONs

– Provide redundancy/resiliency– Minimize connection fees in aggregate– Meet needs of each RON, while

lowering cost, and providing “burst capacity” to everyone

• SERON as a group could contract with Internet2 for n (2 or 3 or more) connections for the region

• We could think of this conceptually as similar to what we did with A-Wave for international connectivity -- using NLR waves to create a peering/transit fabric to extend access to international networks thoughout the region.

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And….• This was just rough, quick conceptualization based

upon Ron Johnson’s talk and SURA RII history• Plus -- our discussions in Atlanta and Larry

Conrad’s Next Steps presentation• But….• There are gaps and details to fill in and more to

write• And… • you have to help write it and fill in the gaps….