1. Progetto Piattaforme abilitanti per griglie computazionali a elevate prestazioni orientate a organizzazioni virtuali scalabili GRID.IT (Resp.: Prof. Marco Vanneschi, CNR/UniPi) Rimodulazione del WP1 Pisa, 27-28 Maggio 2002 – Riunione del CGCE Programma Nazionale della Ricerca 2001-03 Bando FIRB Progetto Strategico Tecnologie Abilitanti per la Società della Conoscenza Progetto obiettivo Reti e Netputing

2. 2 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 Relazione con lUdR CNIT Resp. UdR CNIT: Prof. Giancarlo Prati Articolazione su due workpackages WP 1 – Grid oriented optical switching paradigms (Resp. Piero Castoldi) WP 2 - High-performance photonic test-bed (Resp. Stefano Giordano)

3. 3 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 Istituzioni che partecipano al al WP1 Laboratorio Nazionale di Reti Fotoniche, Pisa Know-how: all 5 major areas of optical networks and photonic technologies (routing and switching, trasmission, amplification, systems) UdR CNIT at Università di Ancona Know-how: enabling technologies and OXC WXC architectures Università di Bologna Know-how: architectures for optical packet switching networks Università di Trento Know-how: traffic models and resource allocation University of Texas @ Dallas (UTD) Know-how: control plane and reliability for optical networks

4. 4 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 Sintesi amministrativa WP1 Responsabili di fondi di ricerca sul WP1 Piero Castoldi (Lab Naz. Reti Fotoniche) Franco Callegati (CNIT-BO) Andrea Fumagalli (UTD) Roberto Battiti (CNIT-TN) Gianni Cancellieri (CNIT-AN) Regole per autorizzazione spese e avvio contratti Proposta da parte del responsabile dei fondi con indicazione della motivazione e dellattività a cui afferisce la spesa Parere favorevole del responsabile di workpackage dopo essersi consultato col responsabile di attività Supervisione periodica (semestrale) delle spese in relazione allattività scientifica svolta da parte del responsabile di UdR Stato amministrativo del progetto Completata assunzione 2.3 giovani ricercatori finanziati al 100% (1.5.02, 1.9.02, 1.5.03) Grande attrezzatura: porte per router Juniper in acquisto Effettuazione delle spese di start-up per tutte le unità operative

5. 5 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 Sintesi economica WP1-WP2 Finanziamenti sul 1° anno (30%), da integrare col cofinanziamento Suddivisione delle spese (sui 3 anni) alle unità operative del WP1-WP2

6. 6 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 WP1 – Sintesi scientifica (1) State of the art GRID computing Connection of geographically distant machines (computers) for solving large problems Currently based on network infrastructure without QoS constraints (e.g., standard TCP/IP protocol) Intelligent Optical Networks Provide intelligent dynamic adaptation to grid application connectivity requests (e.g., bandwidth, dynamic logical topology, Quality of Service (QoS), reliability) Connection oriented switching paradigm (e.g., virtual circuit opposite to best effort IP) Novel optical layer components Objective Scaling typical performance of Local Area Network (LAN) computer clusters to Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN)

7. 7 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 WP1 – Sintesi scientifica (2) Proposed approach Utilizing Intelligent Optical Networks based on the GMPLS protocol suite for connecting grid nodes Expected results Guarantee requested connection QoS based on agreed classification Dynamic adaptation to changing QoS requirements of connections between GRID nodes (logical GRID network topology) Impact Mainly DIRECT and SHORT-TERM (applied research) on local and national grid network implementation As GUIDELINES for LONG TERM (fundamental research) for next generation optical grid networks.

8. 8 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 WP1 breakdown (2) WP 1 - Grid oriented optical switching paradigms (Resp. P. Castoldi) [70% of the total CNIT UdR funding] Activity 1.1 – Connections, topologies and network service models (Resp. R. Battiti) [Lab PI, TN] Activity 1.2 – Grid computing on state-of-the-art optical networks (Resp. P. Castoldi) [Lab PI, TN, UTD] Activity 1.3 – Migration scenarios to intelligent flexible optical networks (Resp. F. Callegati) [Lab PI, BO, TN, UTD] Activity 1.4 – Control plane and network emulation for optical packet switching networks (Resp. A. Fumagalli) [Lab PI, TN, UTD] Activity 1.5 – Enabling technologies for optical switching networks (Resp. G. Cancellieri) [Lab PI, BO, AN] 1° year2° year 1° year2° year3° year 1° year2° year 3° year 1° year2° year 8% 15% 17% Technical Board member: Dr. Luca Valcarenghi (assistant professor).

9. 9 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 WP1 breakdown (1) DELIVERABLES Short term (end of March 2003) A1.1 Realistic traffic models for grid computing transactions A1.2 Preliminary results on blocking probability, on the trade-offs bandwidth delay, on the performance of fractional restoration in optical networks. A1.3 Early results on the specifications for an OPS network supporting grid computing A1.4 Early results on architectures and control plane emulation in optical networks A1.5 Early results on enabling technologies and control of all-optical switching devices. May/June 2003 Technical report on early project results with emphasis on the flow of information on the interface between areas Previsione di impegno in mesi/uomo sul WP1

10. 10 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 Details about activity 1.1 8% Activity 1.1 – Connections, topologies and network service models (Resp. R. Battiti) [Lab PI, TN, UTD] 1° year2° year MILESTONES and DELIVERABLES (1-18 months) Traffic models to represent computer generated loads [technical report] Resource Allocation Architecture (RAA) to map network logical topology requests from GRID to the optical network [technical report and software tool] Virtual topology definition based on given traffic patterns [technical report and software tools]

11. 11 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 Details about activity 1.2 1° year2° year 15% Activity 1.2 – Grid computing on state-of-the-art optical networks (Resp. P. Castoldi) [Lab PI, TN, UTD] MILESTONE and DELIVERABLES (after 1-12 months) Static and dynamic routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) of optical connections [technical report and software tools] MILESTONE and DELIVERABLES (after 6-18 months) Reliability schemes exploiting traffic granularity (GMPLS) for protection and restoration [technical report and laboratory testbed] GMPLS based control plane for dynamic distributed resource allocation [technical report and laboratory testbed]

12. 12 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 Details about activity 1.3 15% Activity 1.3 – Migration scenarios to intelligent flexible optical networks (Resp. F. Callegati) [Lab PI, BO, TN] 1° year2° year MILESTONE and DELIVERABLES [1-12 months] Scaling issues of optical networks granularity from the flow, to the burst up to the packet [technical report] MILESTONE and DELIVERABLES [12-24 months] Optical Packet Switching (OPS) for grid computing: packet formats, control plane, and OPS applicability limitations [technical report and design tool] Fast bandwidth reservation scheme for both data transfers of various size and real-time packets [technical report and design tool]

13. 13 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 Details about activity 1.4 2° year 15% Activity 1.4 – Control plane and network emulation for optical packet switching networks (Resp. A. Fumagalli) [Lab PI, UTD, TN] 3° year MILESTONE AND DELIVERABLES [12-24 months] Design, development, and debugging of general purpose event driven simulator for GRID related networking events [technical report and design tool] Differentiated Reliability (DiR) for protection and restoration of the optical network [technical report and design tool] MILESTONES AND DELIVERABLES [24-36 months] GMPLS based control plane for generic optical packet switched network [technical report and laboratory testbed]

14. 14 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 Details about activity 1.5 1° year2° year 17% Activity 1.5 – Enabling technologies for optical packet switching networks (Resp. G. Cancellieri) [Lab PI, BO, AN] 3° year MILESTONE and DELIVERABLES [1-12 months] Preliminar results on self-routing and automatically switched optical nodes for grid computing based on Wavelength Routing Switches (WRS) [technical report] MILESTONE and DELIVERABLES [12-24 months] Final results on self-routing and automatically switched optical nodes for grid computing based on Wavelength Routing Switches (WRS) [technical report] Qualifying technologies for optical networks, such as Raman Amplifiers (RA) and Photonic Christal Fiber (PCF) [technical report] MILESTONE and DELIVERABLES [24-36 months] Testbed based on automatically switched optical nodes and qualifying optical tecnologies [laboratory testbed]

15. 15 Mark Jones TF A - AON 2001 - 4/30/01 Specifications on interaction among areas WP10 WP11 WP12 WP13 WP8 WP9 WP7 WP4 WP6 Area 1 Area 4 WP14 Area 3 WP3 WP5 Area 2 WP1 WP2 A1.1, A1.2, A1.4 A1.1, A1.2, A1.3, A1.4, A1.5