University of Illinois at Chicago StarLight: Applications-Oriented Optical Wavelength Switching for the Global Grid at STAR TAP Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown and Andy Schmidt, UIC Joe Mambretti and David Carr, iCAIR, Northwestern University Linda Winkler and Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory Bill St. Arnaud and René Hatem, CANARIE

University of Illinois at Chicago What is STAR TAP? Infrastructure Engineering Support and Advanced Services –Technology evaluations –Applications support –Performance measurement –QoS testbeds Education and Outreach –Documentation –Conference participation –Host annual meetings Team Building –Liaison to network consortia –Application communities Layer 2 ATM Connection Point Racks at AADS NAP front/back views Managed by UIC in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern (MREN/iCAIR) and Indiana University; operated by Ameritech Advanced Data Services

University of Illinois at Chicago StarLight: The Optical STAR TAP ANL OC-12 CA*net4 Bell Nexxia (Chicago) I-WIRE & Optical MREN STAR TAP UIUC UC AADS ATM BN NU Evanston iCAIR GigE IU Bloom- ington IUPUI Purdue Star Light NU Chicago SURF net ? ? This diagram subject to change UIC

University of Illinois at Chicago StarLight Will Use CANARIE’s OBGP AS 549 ONet AS 271 BCnet AS 376 RISQ OBGP Chicago 10Gb paths throughout Canada reach West and East Coast USA from Chicago. Goal is to connect to the world via switched 10Gb wavelengths and routers at the STAR TAP OXC New York Seattle

University of Illinois at Chicago Targeted StarLight Optical Network Connections Vancouver Seattle Portland San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego (SDSC) NCSA Chicago NYC CERN SURFnet CA*net4 NTON Asian Networks Asian Networks AMPATH

University of Illinois at Chicago Dark/Dim Fiber Model Purchase/lease like supercomputer equipment procurement with year life And/or, borrow/swap fiber to complete connections Ideal for the Grid: control is from the edges (campuses and/or local networks), not within the backbone New goal: networks faster than the computers and instruments attached to them!

University of Illinois at Chicago Illinois’ I-WIRE: Distributed Cluster Computing Research Areas Displays/VR Collaboration Rendering Applications Data Mining NCSA Argonne UIC/EVL Research Areas Latency-Tolerant Algorithms Interaction of SAN/LAN/WAN technologies Clusters UIUC CS StarLight

University of Illinois at Chicago Emerging Grid User Communities NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) –Integrated instrumentation, collaboration, simulation NSF Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN) –ATLAS, CMS, LIGO, SDSS –World-wide distributed analysis of Petascale data Access Grid, VRVS: supporting group-based collaboration And –The Human Genome Project –The Earth System Grid and EOSDIS –Federating Brain Data –Computed MicroTomography …

University of Illinois at Chicago StarLight Proposes Optical meet points at neutral locations Initially 10Gb Ethernet to Illinois and Canada Connection to US West Coast via Canada Connection on West Coast—Seattle to San Diego via wavelength(s) Then, 10Gb Ethernet over DWDM Connection to Amsterdam via wavelengths Connection to Japan via wavelengths Optical switches in Europe and Japan

University of Illinois at Chicago Plausible StarLight Rollout Schedule Winter 2001 –Colocation facility in Chicago wired and occupied –1 GbE from UIC to NU to CA*net3 –Use dark fiber, Cisco 6509s –Cluster, Grid and OBGP experiments with Canada Spring 2001-Fall 2001 –ANL to UIC I-WIRE fiber installed –10 GbE boards at UIC, NU, CA*net3/4, ANL Fall 2001-Spring 2002 –DWDM between UIC, NU, CA*net4, ANL –Urbana (10Gb) and SURFnet (2.5 Gb) connect –Optical switches installed

University of Illinois at Chicago For More Information Annual STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting INET 2001 Stockholm June 5, 2001