StarLight, TransLight And the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)

StarLight, TransLightAnd the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)

Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin, Maxine Brown, Jason Leigh, Alan Verlo, University of Illinois at Chicago

Joe Mambretti, Northwestern UniversityLinda Winkler, Caren Litvanyi, Argonne National Laboratory

Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE (Canada)Kees Neggers, SURFnet (Netherlands)

Cees de Laat, UvAmsterdam

StarLight Chicago Infrastructure

SL Force10

SL OPSW

NL 15454

CA*net4 15454

UKLight

TransPAC

OC-48

10GE MREN

Abilene

2xOC-192to Amsterdam

3xOC-192to Canada, Seattle, Korea, Taiwan, and

NYC, Ireland

OC-192 to London

16x10GE96x1GE

16-processor cluster

ESnet, NREN,NISN, DREN, etc.

GE ElectronicallySwitched

GE OpticallySwitched

10GE ElectronicallySwitched/Routed

128x128Calient

Optical Switch4

8

Many Clusters

8

N

StarLightSummer 2004

10GEInt’l N

TeraGrid Juniper T640

Nx10GENxOC-192

To DTF/ETF

10GE

SL Cisco 6509

3x10GE80x1GE

10GE

DomesticMREN

N

GLORIADOC-3 toRussia

2

CERNOC-192 to

CERN

1Fermilab DWDM10GE Summer

10GE

CalTech Juniper T320

10GEN

OC-192

10GE NCSA

1x10GE1xOC-192

10GE

NationalLambdaRail

Nx10GE

10GE UIC

10GEOC-192

*Lights

• *Lights are bandwidth concentrators and exchanges (StarLight, NetherLight, UKLight, NorthernLight, Pacific Wave, NEOLight…)

• *Lights also deliver Grid cyberinfrastructure services such as computing, storage and visualization support

• *Lights disrupt old pricing structures from the traditional telcos, which kept the prices high

• *Lights will deal with big data streams and map them economically to the least expensive services they need

StarLight, the Facility

• A *flexible* facility for scientists *by* scientists• The world’s largest GE and 10 GE exchange for R&E

Production Networks• A MEMS-switched Optical Research Network Exchange• A specialized colocation space for new implementations

and integrations of infrastructure: – 40 racks for networking and computing, data management and

visualization support equipment

• Home to fiber and circuits from SBC, Qwest, AT&T, Global Crossing, Level3, T-Systems, Looking Glass, RCN, and I-WIRE, custom integrators, like MCI for DREN

• Advanced engineering and “resource coordinators”

StarLight Facility-ConnectedUS and International Networks

US National• NLR• ESnet (DOE) • “UltraNet”(DOE

soon) • DREN (DOD)• NREN (NASA)• NISN (NASA)• DTF/ETF• Abilene

US Metro/Regional• OMNInet• MREN (Midwest)• I-WIRE/DWDM• I-Light (coming)

• AMPATH (South America)

• ASnet (Taiwan)

• BELnet (Belgium)

• CA*net4 (Canada)

• CERN/DataTAG

• CERNET (China)

• GÉANT/Euro-Link (Europe)

• GEMnet (Japan)

• HARNET (Hong Kong)

Plus Abilene and CA*net4 International Transit NetworksPlus European transport via SURFnet/NetherLight

• HEAnet (Ireland)

• KOREN/KREONet2 (Korea)

• NaukaNET/GLORIAD (Russia)

• RENATER2 (France)

• SURFnet (Netherlands)

• TWAREN (Taiwan)

• TANet2 (Taiwan)

• TransPAC/NiCT (Asia)

• UKLight (UK)

What has Changed Since 2001?

• Waves became available at drastically reduced prices– NYC to AMS OC-192 $0.50/minute current pricing

• 1GE and 10GE switching/routing became possible and desirable

• StarLight constructed as to serve international, national and regional electronic and optical peering needs

• StarLight/Euro-Link partners formed GLIF• C-scientists and E-scientists are creating new tools

together so that future applications will be empowered to use self-collected information and make grid-compatible requests for resources

Thank You!

• StarLight and Euro-Link planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are made possible, in major part, by funding from: – National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-

9730202, EIA-9802090, EIA-9871058, ANI-0225642, and EIA-0115809– State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing– Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and

management• NSF/CISE/ANIR and DoE/Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight

and I-WIRE network engineering and design• Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, Olivier Martin

of CERN and Harvey Newman of CalTech for networking leadership• Larry Smarr of Cal-(IT)2 for I-WIRE and OptIPuter leadership.