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National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering. Julio Ibarra, PI Heidi Alvarez, Co-PI Chip Cox, Co-PI John Silvester, Co-PI.
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National Science FoundationOffice of International Science and Engineering Julio Ibarra, PI Heidi Alvarez, Co-PI Chip Cox, Co-PI John Silvester, Co-PI International Research Network Connections (IRNC)Western-Hemisphere Research and Education Networks - Links Interconnecting Latin America (WHREN-LILA) April 28, 2006
Outline • The WHREN-LILA Project • Network Connectivity in Latin America • AtlanticWave • Applications and Communities Being Enabled • Education and Outreach
WHREN-LILA IRNC Award 0441095 • 5-year NSF Cooperative Agreement • Florida International University (IRNC awardee) • Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California • Project support from the Academic Network of Sao Paulo (award #2003/13708-0) • CLARA, Latin America • CUDI, Mexico • RNP, Brazil • REUNA, Chile • Links Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) aims to Improve connectivity in the Americas through the establishment of new inter-regional links • Western-Hemisphere Research and Education Networks (WHREN) serves as a coordinating body whose aim is to leverage participants’ network resources to foster collaborative research and advance education throughout the Western Hemisphere
Links Interconnecting Latin America • Miami - Sao Paulo link: 1.2Gbps by year end, evolving to 2.5Gbps • Connects State of Sao Paulo academic network (ANSP) and Exchange Point, regional network (CLARA), Brazilian NREN (RNP), other international networks • San Diego - Tijuana link: operating at 2 x 1 Gbps, providing dedicated GigE links to regional network (CLARA) and Mexican NREN (CUDI) • East and west coast connectivity to I2 Abilene and other US and global R&E networks CUDI CLARA RNP ANSP CLARA http://www.whren-lila.net
Recent Connectivity Activities • The Sao Paulo exchange point is in full operation • A distributed exchange point service between Miami and Sao Paulo is now in service using the LILA-East link • RedCLARA connection at Sao Paulo progressing (within 60 days) • Nicaragua and Colombia recently connected to RedCLARA • 14 NRENs from Latin America and RedCLARA are using the WHREN-LILA links to reach the U.S.
HEPGrid Brazil international connection - WHREN/LILA São Paulo has become an important NAP (joining CLARA / GEANT / Abilene networks)
Countries connected to • CLARA • Argentina • Brazil • Chile • Colombia • Costa Rica • Ecuador • El Salvador • Guatemala • Mexico • Nicaragua • Panama • Peru • Uruguay • Venezuela
AtlanticWave • AtlanticWave will provide an International Peering Fabric • US, Canada, Europe, South America • Distributed IP peering points and add/drops in: • NYC, WDC, ATL, MIA, SPB • SURA, FIU-AMPATH, IEEAF, MAX, SoX, MANLAN, and in partnership with the Academic Networks of Sao Paulo (ANSP) are combining efforts to establish AtlanticWave • A-Wave is an integral component of the NSF IRNC WHREN-LILA project to create an open distributed exchange and transport service along the Atlantic rim • Complements the PacificWave distributed peering facility on the Pacific rim
The Global Picture CHI LON STK NYC SEA WDC TOK LAX CER ATL AMS A-Wave HKO MIA A globally integrated set of “light path” facilities: waves, exchange points, etc (Note: map not complete…) AUS Sonet/SDH Sao Paulo (SPB) Ethernet Ethernet, initially
AtlanticWave - Next Steps • Finalize Memorandum of Understanding between participating exchange points and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) • Order NLR wave from Miami (AMPATH) to NYC (MANLAN) • Install wave • Have AtlanticWave ready for service for Super Computing 2006 in November
UltraLight is • A four year $2M NSF ITR funded by MPS • Application driven Network R&D • A collaboration of BNL, Caltech, CERN, Florida, FIU, FNAL, Internet2, Michigan, MIT, SLAC • Significant international participation: Brazil, Japan, Korea amongst many others • Goal: Enable the network as a managed resource • Meta-Goal: Enable physics analysis and discoveries which could not otherwise be achieved
MPS #0427110 UltraLight: Advanced Network Services for Data Intensive HEP Applications • Extend and augment existing grid computing infrastructures (currently focused on CPU/storage) to include the network as an integral component • A next-generation hybrid packet- and circuit-switched dynamic network infrastructure • Partners: Caltech, UF, FIU, UMich, I2, SLAC, FNAL;UERJ, USP, ANSP, RNP; GLORIAD (cn, kr, ru), GLIF • Strong support from Cisco, CENIC, NLR, FLR
An International Grid Enabled Center for High Energy Physics Research & Educational Outreach at FIU An integrated program of research, network infrastructure development, and education and outreach at one of the largest minority schools in the US http://www.chepreo.org
Education Workshop June, 2006 @ FIU • Workshop Highlights • 15+ Students • Lecturers / Leaders UltraLight coPIs / Outside Experts • Topics: Grid Computing, Advanced Networking Engineering, Network Montioring using MonALISA, Netflow, AMP data • Early Summer • Graduate Student Preparation • Summer Project Preparation • Participants from the US, Brazil and Argentina • Provided a follow on activity to the PASI www.ultralight.caltech.edu
Opening a University Fiber Highway Between Mexico and the US • iGrid2005 demonstration collaboration between SDSU, SDSC from the U.S. and CICESE and CUDI from Mexico • A grid was formed by computer clusters running Linux at CICESE and at SDSC • Utilized the WHREN-LILA west link, the compute servers from PRAGMA, and the SDSU Visualization Center • COLLABORATORS • Carlos Casasus, CUDI, México, ccasasus@cudi.edu.mx • Eric Frost, SDSU, US, eric.frost@sdsu.edu • Dr. Gustavo Chapela Castañares, CONACYT, México, • Dr. Federico Graef Ziehl, CICESE, México, fgraef@cicese.mx
Radio Astronomy • VLBI - Very Long Baseline Interferometry • VLBI ROEN - Radio Observatorio Espacial del Nordeste • To be at 1 Gbps over 2.5 Gbps connection Source: Nelson Simoes, RNP
Cyberinfrastructure for International Biodiversity Research Collaboration Workshop • Purpose: Examine trends where Cyberinfrastructure is likely to effect change in biodiversity research and ecological informatics - January 10-13, 2006, in Panama City, Panama • Support and participation from 5 national science funding agencies: the U.S. NSF, Panama (SENACYT), Mexico (CONACYT), Costa Rica (CR-USA), Colombia (Colciencias) • 60+ biology researchers, cyberinfrastructure technologists and funding agency directors from above countries, with participants from Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Peru • Funding priorities, science collaboration objectives and the application of cyberinfrastructure to support those objectives were addressed Award #0549456 http://www.ciara.fiu.edu/biocyber/index.htm
4 Science & Engineering Graduate Student Fellowships Research Stipend Tuition for Spring and Summer 2006 CIARA IT Science Certificate Collaborative publication & conference participation CI-TEAM Demonstration By understanding Research & Education Cyber Infrastructure, we will bridge the divide between IT and the Sciences NSF Award # OCI-0537464 Oct 1, 2005 - Sept 30, 2006 Heidi Alvarez, PI CIARA Julio Ibarra, Co-PI CIARA Chi Zhang, Co-PI CS Eric Johnson, Co-PI CS www.cyberbridges.net
Proposed Next Steps • Expand program to multiple globally distributed institutions • More students, More faculty, More technologists • Call the program “Global CyberBridges” (GCB) • Provide a Model Global Collaboration Infrastructure for workforce development in e-Science between US and China • This model infrastructure could be developed through a partnership between CIARA of FIU, UCSD, and CNIC of CAS (MOU signed with CAS) • Bridging facilitators at City University Hong Kong • Partner with University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Overall Next Steps • Explore future joint sponsorships that will engage U.S. and Latin American domain scientists to apply CI to their science • Biodiversity and ecological research • Genomics and others • International training and education collaborations, bringing together research faculty and students, that apply CI to domain science • PASI, workshops, etc. • Work with the CI community to engage our domain scientists on the application of state-of-the-art research collaboration tools to satisfy their science objectives • Scientific workflows, Communities of Interests (eg. PRAGMA)
Thank You! • WHREN-LILA, AMPATH infrastructure, CHEPREO, CyberBridges, science application support, education, outreach and community building efforts are made possible by funding and support from: • National Science Foundation (NSF) awards STI-0231844, MPS-0312038, OISE-0418366, OISE-0549456, OCI-0537464, and SCI-0441095 • Florida International University • Latin American Research and Education community • The many national and international collaborators who support our efforts