The Drive Toward Dedicated IP Lightpipes for e-Science Applications OSAs 6th Annual Photonics & Telecommunications Executive Forum Panel on "Back to the Future of Optical Communications: Fiber Optics Opportunities Outside the Telco Bubble" Los Angeles, CA February 23, 2004 Dr. Larry Smarr Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
Components of Cyberinfrastructure Enabled Science & Engineering Collaboration Services Knowledge management institutions for collection building and curation of data, information, literature, digital objects High-performance computing for modeling, simulation, data processing/mining Individual & Group Interfaces & Visualization Physical World Humans Facilities for activation, manipulation and construction Instruments for observation and characterization. Global Connectivity NSF Report on Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyber-Infrastructure (Atkins Report)
CERN Geneva Large Hadron Collider Cyberinfrastructure Communications of the ACM, Volume 46, Issue 11 (November 2003)
High Energy and Nuclear Physics Major Links: Bandwidth Roadmap (Scenario) in Gbps Continuing the Trend: ~1000 Times Bandwidth Growth Per Decade; We are Rapidly Learning to Use Multi-Gbps Networks Dynamically
The OptIPuter Project – Removing Bandwidth as an Obstacle In Data Intensive Sciences NSF Large Information Technology Research Proposal –Cal-(IT) 2 and UIC Lead CampusesLarry Smarr PI –USC, SDSU, NW, Texas A&M, Univ. Amsterdam Partnering Campuses Industrial Partners –IBM, Sun, Telcordia, Chiaro, Calient, Glimmerglass, BigBangwidth $13.5 Million Over Five Years [ Optical IP Streams From Lab Clusters to Large Data Objects NIH Biomedical Informatics NSF EarthScope and ORION siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/gallery/shoot1/index.shtml Research Network
Cyberinfrastructure in Design Phase-- Fiber Optic Satellite Wireless NSFs ORION Ocean Research Interactive Ocean Network
½ Mile SIO SDSC CRCA Phys. Sci - Keck SOM JSOE Preuss 6 th College SDSC Annex Node M Earth Sciences SDSC Medicine Engineering High School To CENIC Collocation Source: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC; Greg Hidley, Cal-(IT) 2 The UCSD OptIPuter Deployment UCSD is Prototyping a Campus-Scale OptIPuter SDSC Annex Juniper T Tbps Backplane Bandwidth 20X Chiaro Estara 6.4 Tbps Backplane Bandwidth Dedicated Fibers Between Sites Link Linux Clusters
Ultra-Resolution Displays Utilize Photonic Multicasting -- Scaling to 100 Million Pixels Glimmerglass Switch Used to Multicast and Direct TeraVision Stream from One Tile to Another on the Geowall-2 Glimmerglass Switch Driven by Linux Graphics Clusters
States are Acquiring Their Own Dark Fiber Networks -- Illinoiss I-WIRE and Indianas I-LIGHT Source: Charlie Catlett, ANL
Edge and Core OptIPuter Nodes Intl GE, 10GE Natl GE, 10GE I-WIRE OC x1 GE 16x10 GE 16-dual Xeon Cluster 16x1GE OMNInet 10GEs 128x128 Calient 64x64 GG All Processors also Connected by GigE to Routers UIC/EVL Future 64-bit Cluster
The OptIPuter Will Become a National-Scale Collaboratory in 2004 Source: Tom West, CEO, NLR Chicago OptIPuter StarLight NU, UIC SoCal OptIPuter USC, UCI UCSD, SDSU National Lambda Rail Partnership Serves Very High-End Experimental and Research Applications 4 x 10Gb Wavelengths Initially Capable of 40 x 10Gb wavelengths at Buildout NASA Ames NASA Goddard NEPTUNE In Discussion
LambdaGrids Link the World Global Lambda Integrated Facility: GLIF DWDM SURFnet 10 Gbit/s SURFnet 10 Gbit/s SURFnet 10 Gbit/s IEEAF 10 Gbit/s Dwingeloo ASTRON/JIVE Dwingeloo ASTRON/JIVE Prague CzechLight Prague CzechLight 2.5 Gbit/s NSF 10 Gbit/s Stockholm NorthernLight Stockholm NorthernLight Canada CA*net4 2.5 Gbit/s New York MANLAN New York MANLAN Tokyo WIDE Tokyo WIDE 10 Gbit/s IEEAF 10 Gbit/s 2.5 Gbit/s Tokyo APAN Tokyo APAN Amsterdam NetherLight Amsterdam NetherLight Geneva CERN Geneva CERN London UKLight London UKLight Chicago StarLight Chicago StarLight Source: Kees Neggers, SURFnet
Invisible Nodes, Elements, Hierarchical, Centrally Controlled, Fairly Static Traditional Provider Services: Invisible, Static Resources, Centralized Management OptIPuter: Distributed Device, Dynamic Services, Visible & Accessible Resources, Integrated As Required By Apps Limited Functionality, Flexibility Unlimited Functionality, Flexibility Source: Joe Mambretti, Oliver Yu, George Clapp LambdaGrid Control Plane Radical Paradigm Shift
See Nov 2003 CACM For Articles on OptIPuter Technologies