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Hybrid Packet-Optical Infrastructure Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Joe Mambretti & Linda Winkler. The Hard Problems. New protocols needed: the Internet is not designed for single large-scale users Circuits are not scalable, but neither are router$ All intelligence has to be on the edge
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Hybrid Packet-Optical Infrastructure Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Joe Mambretti & Linda Winkler
The Hard Problems • New protocols needed: the Internet is not designed for single large-scale users • Circuits are not scalable, but neither are router$ • All intelligence has to be on the edge • Tuning compute, data, visualization, networking using clusters to get even a simple order of magnitude improvement is non-trivial • Security at 10Gb line speed
A -> Need full Internet routing B -> Need VPN services on/and full Internet routing C -> Need very fat pipes, limited multiple Virtual Organizations A B C Knowing the User’s Bandwidth Requirements Bandwidth consumed Number of users DSL GigE LAN Source: Cees de Laat, UvA
We Can Now Build Lambda Grids! • Importance for Applications • To create high-performance trials of new technologies that support application-dictatedsoftware toolkits, middleware, computing and networking • To provide known and knowable characteristics with deterministic and repeatable behavior on a persistent basis, while encouraging experimentation with innovative concepts • It isn’t science if you can’t repeat it!
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Chicago UIC Metro Lambda Grid (I-WIRE and OMNInet – An Advanced Photonic Metro Testbed, Joint Project with iCAIR et al)
Illinois I-WIRE State US$7.5M Lambda Grid Source: Charlie Catlett, ANL
StarLight Argonne UIC/EVL • Research Areas • Latency-Tolerant Algorithms • Interaction of SAN/LAN/WAN technologies • Clusters UIUC CS NCSA Illinois’ I-WIRE:Distributed Cluster Computing • Research Areas • Displays/VR • Collaboration • Rendering • Applications • Data Mining Source: Charlie Catlett
TeraGrid @ StarLight TeraGrid, an NSF-funded Major Research Equipment initiative, has its Illinois hub located at StarLight.
OC-12 vBNS Abilene MREN OC-12 OC-3 = 32x 1GbE 32 quad-processor McKinley Servers (128p @ 4GF, 8GB memory/server) 20 TF Linux TeraGrid 574p IA-32 Chiba City 32 32 256p HP X-Class Argonne 64 Nodes 1 TF 0.25 TB Memory 25 TB disk 32 32 Caltech 32 Nodes 0.5 TF 0.4 TB Memory 86 TB disk 128p Origin 24 32 128p HP V2500 32 HR Display & VR Facilities 24 8 8 5 5 92p IA-32 HPSS 24 HPSS OC-12 ESnet HSCC MREN/Abilene Starlight Extreme Black Diamond 4 OC-48 Calren OC-48 OC-12 NTON GbE OC-12 ATM Juniper M160 NCSA 500 Nodes 8 TF, 4 TB Memory 240 TB disk SDSC 256 Nodes 4.1 TF, 2 TB Memory 225 TB disk Juniper M40 Juniper M40 OC-12 vBNS Abilene Calren ESnet OC-12 2 2 OC-12 OC-3 Myrinet Clos Spine 8 4 UniTree 8 HPSS 2 Sun Starcat Myrinet Clos Spine 4 1024p IA-32 320p IA-64 1176p IBM SP Blue Horizon 16 14 = 64x Myrinet 4 = 32x Myrinet 1500p Origin Sun E10K = 32x FibreChannel = 8x FibreChannel 10 GbE 32 quad-processor McKinley Servers (128p @ 4GF, 12GB memory/server) Fibre Channel Switch 16 quad-processor McKinley Servers (64p @ 4GF, 8GB memory/server) IA-32 nodes Router or Switch/Router Source: Rick Stevens 12/2001
The US National Lambda RailThe Cost of a Couple of University Buildings Source: John Silvester, Dave Reese, Tom West, CENIC
CA*net 4 Physical Architecture Optional Layer 3 aggregation service Dedicated Wavelength or SONET channel St. John’s Regina Winnipeg Charlottetown Calgary Europe Vancouver Montreal Large channel WDM system OBGP switches Fredericton Halifax Seattle Ottawa Chicago New York Toronto Los Angeles Miami
SURFnet5 • Partners BT and Cisco • 15 PoPs connected by thirty 10 Gbit/s lambdas • Dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 • 500,000 users • 84 institutes connected at Gbit/s level Source: Kees Neggars
StarLight in Chicago:A 1GigE and 10GigE Exchange Operational since summer 2001, StarLight is a 1GigE and 10GigE switch/router facility for high-performance access to participating networks. StarLight is equipped for optical switching facility for wavelengths. www.startap.net/starlight/NETWORKS/ Abbott Hall, Northwestern University’s Chicago downtown campus
StarLight US and International Networks as of August 2003 • Abilene 10Gb • ESnet (DOE) • DREN (DOD) • NREN (NASA) • AMPATH (South America) • CA*net4 (Canada) • SURFnet (Netherlands) • CERN/DataTAG • TransPAC/APAN (Asia) • NaukaNET (Russia) • ASnet (Taiwan) • Others via STAR TAP OC-12 and Abilene transit • See http://loadrunner.uits.iu.edu/mrtg-monitors/starlight/ for statistics on usage
StarLight is • StarLight is a Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet exchange for R&E Production Networks (Force 10) • And a GigE lambda exchange for US, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America for Experimental Networks • And 1&10Gb MEMS-switched Research Network hub • And the Chicago host to the NSF DTFnet, a 4x10Gb Network for the TeraGrid and DTF/ETF links to Abilene; NLR, USAWaves, others coming. • A colo space: 66 racks for networking and computing, data management and visualization support equipment • Using fiber and circuits from SBC, Qwest, AT&T, Global Crossing, T-Systems, Looking Glass, RCN, and I-WIRE
CANARIE 2xGigE circuits NetherLight SURFnet 2xGigE circuits StarLight
UK SuperJANET4 NL FR ATRIUM/VTHD INRIA SURFnet GEANT IT GARR-B DataTAG project NewYork Abilene STAR-LIGHT ESNET CERN MREN STAR-TAP Major 2.5 Gbps circuits between Europe & USA
What is TransLight? • TransLight is a global-scale experimental networking initiative to support prototypes of the most aggressive e-science applications. • TransLight consists of dozens of provisioned Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) circuits among North America, Europe and Asia via StarLight in Chicago, NetherLight in Amsterdam. • Some 10Gb circuits are also available and schedulable.
TransLight Lambdas European lambdas to US –8 GigEs Amsterdam—Chicago –8 GigEs London—Chicago Canadian lambdas to US –8 GigEsChicago-Canada-NYC –8 GigEs Chicago-Canada-Seattle US lambdas to Europe –4 GigEs Chicago—Amsterdam –3 GigEs Chicago—CERN European lambdas –8 GigEs Amsterdam—CERN –2 GigEs Prague—Amsterdam –2 GigEs Stockholm—Amsterdam –8 GigEs London—Amsterdam TransPAC lambda (yellow) –1 GigE Chicago—Tokyo IEEAF lambdas (blue) –8 GigEs NYC—Amsterdam –8 GigEs Seattle—Tokyo
10 GigE 10 GigE 128x128 Calient MEMS Optical Switch 64x64 Calient MEMS Optical Switch N GigE 16 GigE 8 GigE 15454 at StarLight 15454 at NetherLight 2xOC-192 8-processor cluster N-processor cluster 2 GigE 2 GigE 16 GigE 8 GigE N GigE Router Router Control plane Control plane N E T H E R L I G H T TransLight Optical/Electronic Switches at StarLight and NetherLight Data plane Data plane 16-processor cluster An OptIPuter Prototype
What is the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)? • GLIF is a global-scale experimental facility being designed to support advanced applications and to develop new technologies. • The GLIF is a multi-organizational international partnership • The GLIF will be based on leading edge optical technologies • Last Meeting – August, Iceland after NORDUnet conference, 3rd year of Global Lamda Workshops
Bring Us Your Lambdas! • Please bring your lambdas to StarLight, NetherLight, CERN, UKLight, CzechLight, NorthernLight, … • Build a hub like StarLight • Propose an application or network experiment • See www.startap.net/starlight and www.startap.net/translight
Thank You! • StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are made possible, in major part, by funding from: • National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-9802090, EIA-9871058, ANI-0225642, and EIA-0115809 • NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to NCSA • State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing • Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management • NSF/CISE/ANIR and DoE/Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and design • NSF/CISE/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid/ETF opportunities • UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and ITN/GTRN transit; IU for the GlobalNOC • CA*net4 for North American transport • Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, Olivier Martin of CERN and Harvey Newman of CalTech for networking leadership • Larry Smarr of Cal-(IT)2 for I-WIRE and OptIPuter leadership