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I-WIRE. (Illinois Wired/Wireless Infrastructure for Research and Education). State Funded Dark Fiber Optical Infrastructure to support Networking and Applications Research $7.5M Total Funding $6.5M FY00-02 (in hand) Additional $500k in FY03 and FY04 Application Driven
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I-WIRE (Illinois Wired/Wireless Infrastructure for Research and Education) • State Funded Dark Fiber Optical Infrastructure to support Networking and Applications Research • $7.5M Total Funding • $6.5M FY00-02 (in hand) • Additional $500k in FY03 and FY04 • Application Driven • Access Grid: Telepresence & Media • TeraGrid: Computational and Data Grids • New Technologies Proving Ground • Optical Network Architecture • Dense Wave Division Multiplexing • Optical network control and management • Advanced middleware infrastructure • Timeline • 1994- Governor interest in Internet to schools • 1997- Task Force formed • 1999- I-WIRE funding approved • 2002- Fiber in place Starlight International Optical Network Hub (NU-Chicago) UIC Argonne National Laboratory IIT U Chicago 40 Gb/s Distributed Terascale Facility Network Chicago U Chicago Gleacher Center UIUC/NCSA James R. Thompson Center – Illinois Century Network Commercial Fiber Hub
The TeraGrid: A National Infrastructure For more information: www.teragrid.org
NSF TeraGrid: 14 TFLOPS, 750 TB 574p IA-32 Chiba City 256p HP X-Class 128p Origin 128p HP V2500 HR Display & VR Facilities Caltech: Data collection analysis 92p IA-32 HPSS HPSS ANL: Visualization SDSC: Data-Intensive Myrinet UniTree HPSS Myrinet 1024p IA-32 320p IA-64 1176p IBM SP Blue Horizon 1500p Origin Sun E10K NCSA: Compute-Intensive
TeraGrid Network Architecture 2200mi Los Angeles Chicago Starlight I-WIRE 140mi 25mi 15mi 115mi Caltech Cluster SDSC Cluster NCSA Cluster ANL Cluster
ANL Starlight / NU-C UChicagoGleacher Ctr UChicagoMain UIUC/NCSA UIC IIT ICN Commercial Fiber Hub I-WIRE Geography Northwestern Univ-Chicago “Starlight” I-290 UI-Chicago • Status:Done: ANL, NCSA, StarlightLaterals in process: UC, UIC, IIT • Investigating extensions to Northwestern Evanston, Fermilab, O’Hare, Northern Illinois Univ, DePaul, etc. I-294 I-55 Illinois Inst. Tech Dan Ryan Expwy (I-90/94) Argonne Nat’l Lab (approx 25 miles SW) U of Chicago UIUC/NCSA Urbana (approx 140 miles South)
18 4 Qwest455 N. Cityfront 4 10 4 McLeodUSA 151/155 N. Michigan Doral Plaza 4 12 12 Level(3) 111 N. Canal 2 2 2 I-Wire Fiber Topology Starlight (NU-Chicago) Argonne UC Gleacher Ctr 450 N. Cityfront UIC UIUC/NCSA State/City Complex James R. Thompson Ctr City Hall State of IL Bldg • Fiber Providers: Qwest, Level(3), McLeodUSA, 360Networks • 10 segments • 190 route miles; 816 fiber miles • Longest segment: 140 miles • 4 strands minimum to each site FNAL (est 4q2002) UChicago IIT Numbers indicate fiber count (strands)
I-Wire Transport TeraGrid Linear 3x OC192 1x OC48 First light: 6/02 Starlight (NU-Chicago) Argonne Starlight Linear 4x OC192 4x OC48 (8x GbE) Operational UC Gleacher Ctr 450 N. Cityfront Qwest455 N. Cityfront Metro Ring 1x OC48 per site First light: 8/02 UIC UIUC/NCSA McLeodUSA 151/155 N. Michigan Doral Plaza State/City Complex James R. Thompson Ctr City Hall State of IL Bldg UChicago IIT • Each of these three ONI DWDM systems have capacity of up to 66 channels, up to 10 Gb/s per channel • Protection available in Metro Ring on a per-site basis
I-WIRE Economics • Up front cost of ~$4M for fiber • 20-year IRU Fiber (existing fiber) • $700 to $5,000/strand-mile • New construction (for ‘last mile’) • $30 to $100/foot ($160-530k/mile) • Up front cost of ~$2.5M for equipment • Annual costs • ~$100k for fiber maintenance, small number collocation spaces • ~$250k for equipment maintenance, staff effort