Gordon K Springer

1. Creation of an Institutional Cyberinfrastructure to Enable Researcher-Oriented, Federated Environment for Large, Collaborative Science Projects Science DMZ construction with advanced technologies 100Gbps connectivity to Internet2, perfSONAR, OpenFlow, RoCE/iWARP, Bro Collaborate in the creation of a “Performance Engineer on Campus” along with OSU project to optimize performance at a distance. App development for instrumentation and measurements Wide-area experimentation case studies with Co-PIs and SPs MU – OSU experiments: Brain imaging, Soybean translational genomics, Cloud experiments: adoption of cloud-based technologies for big-data import, storage and collaboration with Appistry in St Louis, as well as related analytics, Develop fine-grained shared resource access using Federated Identity services utilizing InCommon, Shibboleth technologies and entitlements, Encourage additional experiments: with bioinformatics, & security research collaborations and remote sensing projects in real time with ECE researchers. Gordon K Springer

2. MizzouScience DMZ(Logical Diagram)

3. Equipment Purchase and Locations • 100 Gbps border router – connect MizzouInternet2 peered network • Location at MU Border: ?; Vendor: Plan to use Brocade MLXe-4 (SL), MLXe-8 and VDX 8770 (MU) for Year 1; looking at Cisco, Brocade and Juniper offerings for later. (note: SLMUKCpath is on MU owned fiber across the state). • OpenFlow switches – configure VLANs to remote sites (e.g., MU, GENI) • Locations: 1 at Science DMZ border, and 3 at inner-campus (ebw, lsc, tel) aggregation points that reach all researchers; Vendors: NEC, Dell, Brocade • perfSONAR measurement points – collect end-to-end performance metrics • Locations: 1 at Science DMZ border, and at 3 or 4 inner-campus locations to reach research labs in primary use cases (e.g., CS Dept, HealthSci, LifSci) • Data transfer nodes – wide-area RDMA-based, GridFTPtechnologies • Locations: Same plan as perfSONAR measurement points • Policy-directory server – enforces researchers’ project-specific policies • Location: Coupled with OpenFlow controller and located at Science DMZ border • Bro Cluster – investigate the tradeoffs to be balanced between researcher flow performance and campus security practices • Location: Coupled with all equipment at Science DMZ border; Deploy in Year 2

4. MU-OSU GENI ExperimentsPOC: G.K. Springer– gks@missouri.edu; 573-882-7422 • Common testbed setup tasks • Federation of U of Missouri and Ohio State Science DMZs • User accounts/roles; single sign-on; authorization policies via InCommon • InCommon Federation between MU & OSU partially setup) • End-to-end (programmable) perfSONAR instrumentation & measurement • Establishment of VLAN extensions and GENI experimentation before Internet2 production deployment • Experiments with optimized large data transfers with RoCE and iWARP • Research Use Case: Soybean translational genomics and breeding • MU “Soybean KB” (http://soykb.org) database and “Brain Explorer” experiments with OSU for set up of GENI slices to dynamically change user load patterns from remote campuses facilitated by Federated Identity SSO entitlements. • Service response time analysis of distributed databases, web-services for remote user access’ scalability, imaging computation speed/accuracy • Researchers: • Gordon K Springer (MU), Ye Duan (MU), Dong Xu (MU), Prasad Calyam (MU), D. K. Panda (OSU), UmitCatalyurek (OSU), Paul Schopis (OARnet)