grid and next generation network www.grangenet.net

Started in March 2001 unincorporated joint venture $14M funding from Australian Government

objectives Build and operate a gigabit network for Australian research and education Foster the development of advanced communications & grid services

AARNet Trans Pacific link DSTC QPSF Network 10 Gbps IPv6 Multicast DWDM POS low latency low jitter QUT UQ GrangeNet POP Brisbane AARNet Trans Pacific link - DSTC UTS GrangeNet POP AC3 Sydney VisLab ATP AARNet ANU GrangeNet POP APAC Canberra CSIRO BoM GrangeNet POP GrangeNet POP Perth VPAC Melbourne I - cubed Uni Melb RMIT -

2000 Km of fibre ~ mostly along high voltage power transmission lines 19 amplifiers 3 regenerators

Backbone schematic Cisco ONS 15801 DWDM

Core Routers ~ Cisco GSR 12410 Canberra Sydney Distributed architecture scalable to 300 Gbps All links are 2.5Gbps

Edge Routers ~ Cisco OSR 7609 Melbourne Canberra Sydney Brisbane Clients 1Gbps Core links 2.5Gbps

International Peering 1.2Gbps 10Gbps 155Mbps

objectives Build and operate a gigabit network for Australian research and education Foster the development of advanced communications & grid services

Grid services Compute grid Data grid Access grid & distributed visualisation Instrument grid - telepresence

So what are “Grid Services”? From the power grid A standard connection into a standard service, with a standard interface You don’t need to worry what is behind it. In IT: Transparent use of distributed, networked resources Resources from multiple “administrative domains” I.e. other people’s resources become available to you Computing, Data, Visualisation, Instrumentation, etc.

Computing Grid 3 Major areas (not distinct): Linking supercomputers Clusters of Clusters Massively parallel Many applications, areas such as Astronomy, Agriculture, Physics, Engineering, GeoSciences, Meteorology, Film&Media, BioInformatics, Pharmaceutical, Financial/Economics, …

Computing Grid ~ Middleware? Need to handle (amongst other things): Security (authentication and authorisation) Scheduling, Accounting, Data movement, network performance, … Multiple management domains Other people own/manage these resources

Computing Grid ~ contacts Commercial IBM (www.ibm.com/grid) Sun (www.sun.com/grid) Entropia (www.entropia.com) UnitedDevices (www.uniteddevices.com) Software and Organisations Globus (www.globus.org) Global Grid Forum (www.ggf.org)

Data Grid Large scale, distributed data repositories Integrated with other grid services Issues of storage, metadata, resource discovery, access & performance, security, rights-management

Data Grid ~ projects Astronomy: Virtual Observatories BioInformatics: Bio-Mirror Film&Media: Education and historical archives Linguistics: Endangered Languages Physics: Arts/History

The Access Grid is a collaborative working environment that supports large-scale distributed meetings, collaboratories, seminars, lectures, tutorials and training. It is a grid of rooms with multimedia displays, pervasive audio, interfaces to grid middleware, and interfaces to visualization environments.

Sydney VisLab AGN

International High-Tech Teamwork in the Fight against SARS Taiwan’s National Centre for High-Performance Computing demonstrates value of Access Grid technology for quarantined hospitals

Instrument Grid Remote Instruments Connecting facilities to networks Making major one-off resources widely available Electron microscopes (NANO) Telescopes (radio, optical, …) Accelerators, Synchrotron Surgical/medical facilities Manufacturing, prototyping facilities

Tele-microscopy at the NANO facility ~ Sydney University JEOL 3000F 300kV transmission electron microscope with field emission gun. 0.2nm resolution (ie atomic scale). Accessible from 5 sites

Australian Synchrotron ~ Melbourne

How would your life change if bandwidth was free and unlimited ? framework for the development of grid services, test-drive high speed networks, explore novel techniques and new collaborations How would your life change if bandwidth was free and unlimited ?

The People who make this work Markus Buchhorn ~ Grid Services Coordinator John Barlow ~ Advanced Communications Services Coordinator Greg Wickham ~ Network Manager Cloudye Carew-Reid ~ Sales & Marketing Janelle Stewart ~ Administration AARNet experts across Australia About 20 dedicated researchers who are delivering the Grid and Advanced Communications Services outcomes

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