1. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC A Partnership to Deliver High-Performance Networking between the Asia-Pacific and the United States www.transpac.org www.apan.net Internet 2 Fall Member Meeting - Atlanta Jim Williams williams@iu.edu

2. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC Consortium Indiana University (lead US institution) APAN (Asia-Pacific Advanced Network) National Science Foundation (NSF) High Performance International Internet Services program Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Kokusai Denshin Denwa, Co. Ltd (KDD) AT&T

3. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Asia-Pacific Advanced Network 14 member nations cooperating to build a high performance research and education network across the AP region 5 primary members –Australia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, USA 2 associate members –China, Malaysia 7 affiliates, liaison and other members –Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Canada, Europe (Dante), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

4. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC Linking APAN (Asia-Pacific Advanced Network) to US R&E Networks

5. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC Objectives Provide leading edge connectivity between US R/E networks and APAN High throughput production network for research and education Testbed for new protocols, network services and applications

6. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Highlights Network and support staff jointly funded by NSF ($2M), JST ($2M+) and IU ($300K annually) Partnership with JST, AT&T and KDD have led to continuous improvements in service levels without additional NSF funding Synergies within the NSF HPIIS program and with Abilene/Internet2 have led to the Global NOC run by Indiana University

7. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC “No-Cost” Bandwidth Improvements Initial 35Mbps 73 Mbps JST upgrade (5/99) AT&T consolidation upgrade (11/99) OC-3 “southern route” (Q2/2001) 155 Mbps upgrade (10/00)

8. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Network Performance and Monitoring General traffic monitoring done at STAR TAP and Tokyo XP with MRTG and OC3Mon with graphs available on the TransPAC Web site BGP session monitoring at STAR TAP Sysmon router exception logs available online “Top talkers” display (soon) Looking Glass servers available at both ends of the network Test workstations available in Chicago and Tokyo for special monitoring applications

9. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Network Information Information available through the TransPAC Web site (www.transpac.org): –Monthly and annual reports –Utilization, current and historical record –Descriptions of major projects and applications –Network status –AUP and application procedures –Problem reporting and tracking –User support contact information –Application development and tuning information –Engineering documents

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11. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Enabling Science

12. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Earth Observation Data and Information Access Link (DIAL) DIAL is a Web-based distributed system to search, access and visualize satellite remote sensing data for Global Change research. In collaboration with NASDA and other institutions, NASA has DIAL servers set up to distribute satellite remote sensing data. NASA and NASDA also collaborate on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM); 3D data is transferred from NASA to NASDA using TransPAC/APAN, processed and visualized for the Web.

13. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Scientific Instruments Japan-US Collaboration in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a project to carry out imaging and spectroscopic surveys of half the northern sky using a dedicated, wide-field, 2.5-m telescope. The imaging survey with a large mosaic CCD camera will produce digital photometric maps of the sky in five color bands. These maps will be used to extract the position and various photometric parameters of about 100 million galaxies and close to the same number of stars. The SDSS is a collaborative project between the US and Japan involving seven US institutions and the Japan Promotion group (JPG). The JPG will produce merged pixel maps from flat-fielded data. http://www.sdss.org/

14. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY DNA data has accumulated more rapidly than compute power so researchers must often exclude potentially infor- mative data to make statistical analysis practical. Utilizing the computationally intensive maximum-likelihood method of phylogenetic inference in a globally distributed collection of computational nodes, Indiana University, National University of Singapore and ACSys CRC in Australia have analyzed the DNA of cytoplasmic coat proteins, micro- sporidia, and cyanobacteria. Distributed Computing and Data Resources Maximum Likelihood Analysis Of Phylogenetic Data http://www.indiana.edu/~rac/hpc/cp.html

15. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Bio-Mirror is a world bioinformatic public service for high-speed access to up-to- date DNA & protein biological sequence databanks. Mirror sites have been established in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and the US. New data are propagated to all mirror sites as soon as they are made available, creating a uniform, universal and reliable data base for biological and medical research. Global Distribution of Research Data Bio-Mirror: Sequence & Bioinformatic data http://www.bio-mirror.net/

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18. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Tour of Current Global NOC Web pages TransPAC http://noc.transpac.org/http://noc.transpac.org/ STAR TAP http://noc.startap.net/http://noc.startap.net/ Euro-Link http://noc.euro-link.org/http://noc.euro-link.org/ MIRnet http://noc.mirnet.org/http://noc.mirnet.org/ AMPATH http://noc.ampath.net/http://noc.ampath.net/ Abilene http://www.abilene.iu.edu/http://www.abilene.iu.edu/

19. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Global NOC Functions Problem reporting, monitoring, resolution Report generation, distribution, archiving Web page development, maintenance Tool development, maintenance

20. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Illustration of NOC functions Network Performance http://globalnoc.iu.edu Network Reporting http://globalnoc.iu.edu

21. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Global NOC Future Plans Continued Web page development Packaging and deployment of MIRnet traffic analysis tool Deployment of Abilene multicast tools NOC process analysis

22. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Global NOC Future Plans (continued) Closer linkage between other NOCs (vBNS, ESNET, Canarie, APAN) to increase tool sharing and process cooperation Closer linkage with national tool and measurement efforts Development of NOC Knowledge Base

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