International Networking and Cyberinfrastructure

December 10, 2003 Slide 1

International Networking and Cyberinfrastructure

Douglas Gatchell <[email protected]>Program Director International NetworkingNational Science Foundation, USA

• CISE Reorganization Status

• International Networking Solicitation

• Cyberinfrastructure

December 10, 2003 Slide 2

International Networking

• New solicitation• Priorities

– Enable and Enhance communications, collaboration and cooperation by connecting aggregation points

– Enhance connectivity to new regions– Support connections between share

cyberinfrastructure– Cooperate to support domain specific CI

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NSF Supported International Links

• TrasPAC– Tokyo-LA, Tokyo-Chicago

• Euro-Link– Chicago – Amsterdam/CERN

• NaukaNet– Chicago – Moscow & China

• AMPATH– Miami – Rio & others

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TransPac

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European lambdas to US–8 GigEs Amsterdam—Chicago–8 GigEs London—Chicago

Canadian lambdas to US–8 GigEs Chicago-Canada-NYC–8 GigEs Chicago-Canada-Seattle

US lambdas to Europe–4 GigEs Chicago—Amsterdam–3 GigEs Chicago—CERN

European lambdas–8 GigEs Amsterdam—CERN –2 GigEs Prague—Amsterdam–2 GigEs Stockholm—Amsterdam–8 GigEs London—Amsterdam

TransPAC lambda (yellow)–1 GigE Chicago—Tokyo

IEEAF lambdas (blue)–8 GigEs NYC—Amsterdam–8 GigEs Seattle—Tokyo

TransLight Lambdas

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AMPATH

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GLORIAD

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Cyberinfrastructure Characteristics

• Community-Focused– virtual organizations– distributed, – collaborative

• Scale and Scope– Multidisciplinary– International– Supporting data- and compute-intensive applications– High-end to desktop– Heterogeneous

• Common Technology & Policy Platform(s)– Interoperability– Supports characteristics above

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Evolution of the Computational Infrastructure

Supercomputer Centers

PACI

Terascale

1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010

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NPACI and Alliance

SDSC, NCSA, PSC, CTC

TCS, DTF, ETF

Cyberinfrastructure

Prior Computing Investments

NSF Networking

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Hardware

Integrated CI System meeting the needs of a community

of communities

Grid Services & Middleware

DevelopmentTools & Libraries

Applications• Environmental Science• High Energy Physics• Proteomics/Genomics• …

Domain-specific

Cybertools (software)

Domain-specific

Cybertools (software)

Shared Cybertools (software)

Shared Cybertools (software)

Distributed Resources

(computation, communicationstorage, etc.)

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Cyberinfrastructureconsists of …

• Computational engines (supercomputers, clusters, workstations, small processors, …)

• Mass storage (disk drives, tapes, …)• Networking (including wireless, distributed, ubiquitous)• Digital libraries/data bases• Sensors/effectors• Software (operating systems, middleware, domain specific

tools/platforms for building applications)• Services (education, training, consulting, user assistance)

All working together in an integrated fashion.

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In Ten Years, CI will be…

• rich in resources, comprehensive in functionality, and ubiquitous;

• easily usable by all scientists and engineers, from students to emertii;

• accessible anywhere, anytime needed by authenticated users;

• interoperable, extendable, flexible, tailorable, and robust;• funded by multiple agencies, states, campuses, and

organizations;• supported and utilized by educational programs at all

levels.

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Technical Challenges

• Computer Science and Engineering broadly• How to build the components?• Networks, processors, storage devices, sensors,

software• How to shape the technical architecture?• Pervasive, many cyberinfrastructures, constantly

evolving/changing capabilities• How to customize CI to particular S&E domains

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Cyberinfrastructure Early Adopters

• Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

• National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

• Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)

• Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF)

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TeraGrid (ETF) Configuration

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Extensible Terascale Facility

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100 Mpbs to 100 Million Homes

• NSF Funded Research Project (10/03) - $7.5M• Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, Rice, Fraser Research,

Internet2• Scope

– Economics– Technologies (Backbone and Access)– Protocols

• Requires a redesign of the access, metropolitan and backbone networks of the Internet

• Applications?

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Scaling – Homes

TODAY 500Kbps X 10 million homes | | *200 | *10 | | |FUTURE 100Mbps X 100 million homes

• Scale by a factor of 2000!• 1 million homes connected at 100Mbps == 100Tbps!!• At the network core petabits per second are required

December 10, 2003 Slide 20

NSF & CyberinfrastructureDouglas Gatchell

International Networking Program Director

NSF: National Science Foundation

CISE: Directorate for Computer Information and Science and Engineering

SCI: Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure

[email protected]

www.cise.nsf.gov