1. TransLight/StarLight, GLIF and OptIPuter
Maxine D. Brown
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
CANS 2006
December 8, 2006

2. US National Science Foundation (NSF) Funds 5 IRNC International Networking Projects
Support science and engineering research and education applications
Enable state-of-the-art international network services
Share tools and best practices
Work on major events and activities (SC, Grid, GLIF)
IRNC is the international extension of US R&E Networks (national and regional)

3. TransLight/StarLight Mission Statement
TransLight/StarLight works with US and European R&E networks:
to implement strategies to best serve production science
to identify and best serve pre-production data-intensive e-science applications, for they are the drivers for new networking tools and services to advance the state-of-the-art of production science; e.g., persistent large data flows, real-time visualization and collaboration, and/or remote instrumentation scheduling

4. TransLight/StarLight A Hybrid Network Consisting of Two Trans-Atlantic Links
GÉANT2 AMS-IE
NetherLight
StarLight
MAN LAN
OC-192 routed connection between MAN LAN in New York City and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange that connects the USA Abilene and ESnet networks to the pan-European GÉANT2 network
OC-192 switched connection between NLR and RONs at StarLight and optical connections at NetherLight; part of the GLIF LambdaGrid fabric

5. TransLight/Pacific Wave 10GE Wave Facilitates US West Coast Connectivity
Developing a distributed exchange facility on the US West Coast (currently Seattle, Sunnyvale and Los Angeles) to interconnect international and US research and education networks

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TransLight is a 10Gbps lightpath donated by Cisco and deployed by NLR that facilitates US, European and Pacific Rim network connections
Enables participating networks to easily configure direct connections whenever needed
Adds resiliency and stability to the North American segment of GLIF

7. GLORIAD Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development
Greg Cole, Natasha Bulashova, NSF Co-PIs

8. Global Lambda Integrated Facility Available Advanced Network Resources − September 2005
GLIF is a consortium of institutions, organizations, consortia and country National Research & Education Networks who voluntarily share optical networking resources and expertise to develop the Global LambdaGrid for the advancement of scientific collaboration and discovery
Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA; data compilation by Maxine Brown, UIC.

9. GLIF Working Groups
Governance: To create an open, neutral community for anyone who wants to contribute resources and/or services (bandwidth, software, application drivers), to build the Global LambdaGrid
Engineering: To define the types of links and the minimum/maximum configurations of Optical Exchange facilities in order to assure the interoperability and interconnectivity of participating networks
Applications: To enable the super-users providing the application drivers; to find new e-science drivers; and, to move scientific experiments into production usage as they mature, and to document these advancements
Control Plane and Grid Integration Middleware: To agree on the interfaces and protocols for lambda provisioning and management

10. Annual GLIF Meetings GLIF 2006, Tokyo, Japan, hosted by NiCT and WIDE

11. iGrid 2005 September 26-30, 2005, San Diego, California
4th community-driven biennial International Grid event attracting 450 participants
An international testbed for participants to collaborate on a global scale
To accelerate the use of multi-10Gb international and national networks
To advance scientific research
To educate decision makers, academicians and industry about hybrid networks
49 demonstrations showcasing global experiments in e-Science and next-generation shared open-source LambdaGrid services
20 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, CERN, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, USA
25 lectures, panels and master classes as part of a symposium
100Gb into the Calit2 building on the UCSD campus
All IRNC links used!

12. iGrid 2005 Proceedings Available!
Special issue on iGrid 2005: The Global Lambda Integrated Facility
27 referred papers!
Smarr, Larry, Maxine Brown, Tom DeFanti and Cees de Laat (guest editors)
Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 22, Issue 8, Elsevier, October 2006, pp

13. NSF EarthScope and ORION
OptIPuter Removing Bandwidth as an Obstacle In Data-Intensive e-Science
OptIPuter is an NSF-funded award to develop cyberinfrastructure to enable the real-time collaboration and visualization of very-large time-varying volumetric datasets for the geosciences and biosciences
OptIPuter is examining a new model of computing whereby ultra-high-speed networks form the backplane of a global computer
NIH Biomedical Informatics
Research Network
NSF EarthScope and ORION

14. OptIPuter Architecture Bandwidth Matches Clusters to the Network
Hardware: clusters of computers that act as giant storage, compute or visualization peripherals, in which each node of each cluster is attached at 1 or 10GigE to a backplane of ultra-high-speed networks
Software: Advanced middleware and application toolkits are being developed for light path management, data management and mining, visualization, and collaboration
Engineering of storage systems
Sustain 300 MB/sec (10X current NAS) to any cluster
No difference local vs. remote
1 TB/hr
Seemless and ubiquitous access
Sustain 100MB/sec to gigE connected viz endpoint
Sufficient backbone capability to allow multiple sites to concurrently sustain above performance.
Be able to sustain 90% of full DWDM backbone bandwidth between clusters
Scale up as quickly as possible
Implies 4 – 8 Gigabits of backbone B/W
Commodity GigE Switch
Fibers or Lambdas

15. OptIPuter Enabling Persistent Collaboration Spaces
OptIPortals Are 21st Century PCs with 10Gbps Network Connections
Tiled-display installations at partner sites
Unified SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) software (integrated with Rocks Viz Roll)
OptIPuter Partners
UCSD
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of California-Irvine
San Diego State Univ
University of Southern California
NCSA
Northwestern
Texas A&M
University of Michigan
Purdue University
USGS
NASA
CANARIE, Canada
CRC, Canada
SARA, Netherlands
Univ of Amsterdam, Netherlands
KISTI, Korea
AIST, Japan
Source: Jason Leigh, UIC/EVL

16. OptIPuter 10GE CAVEwave on the National LambdaRail
The OptIPuter exploits a new world in which the central architectural element is optical networking – creating supernetworks
CA*net 4 to Canadian partners
and JGN2 to Japanese partners
Connections to Asian partners
Connections to European partners NU
UIC
NCSA
NASA GSFC
Venter Institute
USC
UCI
SDSU
UCSD
TAMU
CAVEwave™ is the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s very own 10 Gigabit wavelength on the NLR infrastructure, connected to the University of Washington in Seattle and UCSD in San Diego, enabling OptIPuter experiments. It was recently extended to the DC area to connect with NASA GSFC and Venter Institute

17. OptIPuter Demonstration of SAGE Applications
MagicCarpet
Streaming Blue Marble dataset from San Diego to EVL using UDP.
6.7Gbps
Bitplayer
Streaming animation of tornado simulation using UDP.
516 Mbps
About 9 Gbps in total.
SAGE can simultaneously support these applications without decreasing their performance
SAGE lets you select protocol for each application you run.
TCP is fair − congested circuits make bandwidth small. TCP also has lots of latency. TCP works well on low-latency LANs. Works well on WAN (high latency) if “tuned.”
SVC
Locally streaming HD camera live video using UDP.
538Mbps
JuxtaView
Locally streaming the aerial photography of downtown Chicago using TCP.
850 Mbps
Source: Xi Wang, UIC/EVL

18. What you will see this afternoon….

19. StarLight On the campus of Northwestern University
StarLight is the world’s largest 1 GE and 10 GE optical exchange for research and education networks (~70 1GE and ~50x10G)
StarLight is a large research-friendly co-location facility with space, power and fiber that is available to university and national/international network collaborators as a point of presence/ GOLE in Chicago
StarLight provides an optical infrastructure and proving ground for network services optimized for high-performance applications
StarLight is a collaboration of NU, UIC, ANL, CA*net 4, and many others, with partial funding by NSF/OCI and DOE
Northwestern University’s
Chicago downtown campus

20. StarLight Connected Networks
International Advanced Networks
National and Regional Networks
ASNet
CANARIE
CERN/LHCNET
CERNET/NSFCNET
CESNET (Czech Repubic)
GLORIAD-China/CSTnet
GLORIAD-Russia
GLORIAD-KREONet2/KOREN
HARNET
JGN-II
SINET
SURFnet
TaiwanLight/TWAREN
TransLight/StarLight IRNC
UKLight
Abilene
BOREAS
CAVEwave
DREN
ESnet
Fermi LightPath
HOPI
I-Light
I-WIRE
LONI
MCNC/EnLIGHTened
MiLR
MREN
National LambdaRail
NISN
OMNInet
Southern Light Rail
TeraGrid
TransLight
UltraScience Net
USGS
Wisc Wave
Source: Linda Winker

21. Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago
EVL established in 1973 − 33 years of interdisciplinary collaboration in Computer Science and Art
Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin, Jason Leigh, co-directors
Students in CS, ECE, Art+Design
Real-time Computer Science + Art  Networked Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics and Tele-immersive Virtual Environments  Lightpaths and LambdaGrids
Research in:
Advanced display systems
Visualization and virtual reality software
Advanced networking protocols
Collaboration and human/computer interaction
Funding mainly NSF, ONR, NIH. Also NTT, General Motors
We have been building specialized displays and software for 15 years and turning them over to commercial entities for deployment
These specialized systems are created as a response of a need from science community who had a need for better imaging systems to view their data.
EVL is a network user !

22. EVL Sponsors and Collaborators
TransLight/StarLight is made possible by NSF cooperative agreement OCI to University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
OptIPuter is OptIPuter made possible by NSF award OCI to University of California, San Diego
StarLight made possible by NSF OCI to UIC and Northwestern
Equipment instrumentation development made possible by NSF awards CNS and CNS to UIC
Additional UIC funding provided by
State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing
Northwestern University for facility space, engineering and management
US NSF/CISE and US DoE/Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and design
Kees Neggers of SURFnet and Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE for networking leadership
Larry Smarr of Calit2 for I-WIRE and OptIPuter leadership

23. Questions? www.startap.net/starlight www.startap.net/translight