MB - NG Managed Bandwidth - Next Generation

MB - NG u Project to investigate and pilot:  End-to-end traffic engineering and management over multiple administrative domains – MPLS in core diffserv at the edges.  Managed bandwidth and Quality-of-Service provision.  High performance high bandwidth data transfers.  Demonstrate end-to-end network services to CERN and to the US  An End-To-End Technology Trial

MB - NG u Partners: CISCO, UKERNA, CLRC-RAL, CLRC-DARESBURY, Manchester, UCL + plus Lancaster and Southampton + Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge)

MB - NG GridPP Access Grid Access Grid SuperJANET UCL Site UCL Site RAL Site RAL Site Manchester Site Manchester Site

Scotland via Glasgow NNW Northern Ireland MidMAN TVN South Wales MAN SWAN& BWEMAN WorldCom Glasgow WorldCom Edinburgh WorldCom Manchester WorldCom Reading WorldCom Leeds WorldCom Bristol WorldCom London WorldCom Portsmouth Scotland via Edinburgh YHMAN NorMAN EMMAN EastNet External Links LMN Kentish MAN LeNSE 10Gbps 622Mbps 155Mbps SuperJanet4, June Gbps 2.5Gbps

Gigabit Ethernet 2.5 Gbit POS Access 2.5 Gbit POS core MPLS Admin. Domains Dark Fiber (SSE) POS WorldCom SuperJANET 4 Production Network Leed s SJ4 Dev C-PoP Warringto n SJ4 Dev C-PoP London UCL OSM- 4GE- WAN- GBIC OSM- 1OC48- POS-SS UCL OSM- 4GE- WAN- GBIC MCC OSM- 4GE- WAN- GBIC OSM- 1OC48- POS-SS MAN OSM- 4GE- WAN- GBIC RAL OSM- 4GE- WAN- GBIC OSM- 1OC48- POS-SS RAL OSM- 4GE- WAN- GBIC OC48/POS- SR-SC SJ4 Dev ULCC OC48/POS- SR-SC WorldCom SJ4 Dev C-PoP Reading OC48/POS- LR-SC WorldCom ULCC MB - NG

u Status:  Project is running – started May 18 th 2002  Project funded staff in post at Manchester and UCL.  Project Tasks have been defined at high level  Equipment list for the routers defined  Task1: High level technical goals: In progress  Task2: Definition of Test traffic Generation and Measurement mechanisms to achieve goals of Task-1  Task3: Provision of equipment for Task-2 .... do it..... MB-NG-Gantt-Man-1.1.mpp

MB - NG u UK Context :  MB-NG is a “Core E-Science” Project  MB-NG is the only network project

Tony Hey Director of UK e-Science Core Program The UK e-Science Program and the Grid

e-Science and the Grid ‘e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it.’ ‘e-Science will change the dynamic of the way science is undertaken.’ John Taylor Director General of Research Councils Office of Science and Technology

£80m Collaborative projects E-Science Steering Committee DG Research Councils Director Director’s Management Role Director’s Awareness and Co-ordination Role Generic Challenges EPSRC (£15m), DTI (£15m) Industrial Collaboration (£40m) Academic Application Support Programme Research Councils (£74m), DTI (£5m) PPARC (£26m) BBSRC (£8m) MRC (£8m) NERC (£7m) ESRC (£3m) EPSRC (£17m) CLRC (£5m) Grid TAG e-Science Programme

UK Grid ‘Core Program’ 1.Network of e-Science Centres see 2.Generic/Industrial Grid Middleware 3.CS/e-Health Grid ‘Grand Challenge’ 4.Support for e-Science Applications 5.Outreach/International Activities 6. Grid Network Issues

Cambridge Newcastle Edinburgh Oxford Glasgow Manchester Cardiff Southampton London Belfast DL RAL Hinxton UK e-Science Grid

MB - NG u International aspect :  MB-NG line item to extend tests to EU (CERN) and US  In EU we have relations with:  DANTE/Geant  CERN  DataGRID (flagship EU Grid project)  DataTAG (UK leads the relevant WP)  In US discussions started with  Internet-2  End sites at SLAC and in Chicago

MB - NG GridPP SuperJANET UCL “Site” UCL “Site” RAL “Site” RAL “Site” Manchester “Site” Manchester “Site” Abilene/ ESNET Abilene/ ESNET CERN ??? StarLight

The DataGRID Project... an EU supported project to... u Develop Grid Middleware and Infrastructure u To collaborate with and complement other European and US bodies n Géant n Globus n GriPhyN, PPDG n u Use real applications to demonstrate Grid technology in action n High Energy Physics – The LHC - centred at CERN n Earth Observation n Biology

Main Partners CERN – International (Switzerland/France) CNRS - France ESA/ESRIN – International (Italy) INFN - Italy NIKHEF – The Netherlands PPARC - UK

Research and Academic Institutes CESNET (Czech Republic) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) – France Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) Helsinki Institute of Physics – Finland Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE) - Spain Istituto Trentino di Cultura (IRST) – Italy Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin - Germany Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg - Germany Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam (SARA) – Netherlands Swedish Science Research Council - Sweden Assistant Partners Industrial Partners Datamat (Italy) IBM (UK) CS-SI (France)

Schematic of the underground experimental halls

The tunnel 28 km circumference

LHC Data Avalanche Tier 1 Tier2 Center Online System CERN 700k SI95 ~1 PB Disk; Tape Robot FNAL: 200k SI95; 600 TB IN2P3 Center INFN Center RAL Center Institute Institute ~0.25TIPS Workstations ~ MBytes/sec 2.5 Gbps 0.1–1 Gbps Physics data cache ~PByte/sec ~2.5 Gbps Tier2 Center ~2.5 Gbps Tier 0 +1 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier2 Center Tier 2 Experiment

DataGRID Sites in Europe DataGRID upon relies Géant

The EU DataTAG project EU Transatlantic Girid project. Status: Well under way – People in post, Link expected Jul 02 Partners: CERN/PPARC/INFN/UvA. IN2P3 sub-contractor US Partners: Caletch, ESnet, Abilene, PPDG, iVDGL … The main foci are: –Grid Network Research including: Provisioning (CERN) Investigations of high performance data transport (PPARC) End-to-end inter-domain QoS + BW / network resource reservation Bulk data transfer and monitoring (UvA) –Interoperability between Grids in Europe and the US PPDG, GriPhyN, DTF, iVDGL (USA)PPDG, GriPhyN, DTF, iVDGL (USA)

DataTAG Possible Configuration multi-platform multi-vendor Abilene ESNET UK SuperJANET4 IT GARR- B IT GARR- B GEANT NL SURFn et NL SURFn et 2.5 Gbit PoS lambda SLAC Cisco Juniper Alcatel Cisco Juniper Alcatel Giga Switch Juniper Light Switch Giga Switch Cisco 6509 Juniper Light Switch CERN (Geneva) Starlight (Chicago) Fermi