Advance networking for researchers in Europe an IST perspective ISOC 2002 Israel, 18th February 2002 "The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission" Mário Campolargo Deputy-Head of Unit, DG INFSO, EC

 eEurope and IST - Research Networks  GÉANT and the global perspective  Piloting GRIDs platforms Contents  Piloting the new protocol IPv6  Information Society in Europe  Conclusions

“…to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world…” (Lisbon Summit 2000) An ambitious strategic goal for EU in the next decade

Specific measures: eEurope Action Plan Launched by the European Commission to meet the new challenge Stimulate the use of the internet Investing in people and skills A cheaper, faster, secure internet

eEurope Action Plan: The political context Networks: Encourage and Innovate REGULATORY MEASURES Unbundling of local loop Spectrum allocation Promote interoperability …. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION R&D Research Networks IPv6 testbeds GRIDs ….

Research Networks: Linking EU policies with R&D eEUROP E POLICIE S Networks for research Research on networks R&D IST Program 3,6 Beuro RESEARCH NETWORKS

Research Networks: The complementary objectives  Deployment of a world class network matching the aggregated needs of Europe’s Academic & Industrial Research  Use of advanced tesbeds for integration & validation of next generation coms, networking, applications & services  Ensure synergies

Research Networks: The projects/initiatives  GÉANT Global connectivity -EUMEDIS, TEIN, ALIS SERENATE strategic study  GRIDS for scientific applications IPv6 large scale testbeds Optical routing, QoS, Digital Libraries,...

Research Networks: The funding from EU  GÉANT80 MEuro Global connectivity20 MEuro SERENATE strategic study 1 MEuro  GRIDS 37 MEuro IPv6 24 MEuro Other 8 MEuro

GÉANT network Research Networks: The model Tesbeds use GÉANT infrastructure GÉANT profits from technological innovation International dimension IPv6 GRIDs Scientific/application areas

GÉANT as the “flagship” of networking activities in Europe  Network Services for National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)  Platform for testing - GRIDs, IPv6,... GÉANT - creating the pan-European network infrastructure to explore developments in telecommunications technology.

GÉANT: The model National funds EU funds Other funds Campus UniversitiesNRENs National GÉANT EU+ NRENs European Requiring new levels of cooperationGlobal

GÉANT: The European research backbone  Pan-European coverage (and beyond)  Interconnecting 32 NRENs (… Israel...)  Linking more than 3000 Universities, I.e. virtually all the researchers in Europe in all disciplines  9 international circuits operating at 10Gbps while 11 other run at 2,5Gbps  Pan-European coverage (and beyond)  Interconnecting 32 NRENs (… Israel...)  Linking more than 3000 Universities, I.e. virtually all the researchers in Europe in all disciplines  9 international circuits operating at 10Gbps while 11 other run at 2,5Gbps Total 200 MEuro over 4 years (80 Meuro from EU)

Gbps 10 Gbps 2.5 Gbps 2.5 Gbps SE - PoP for Nordunet GÉANT: The connectivity at 10 Gbps UK FR CH SE IT RO HR EE LV LT IE NL BE DE PL CZ HU AT SI SK LU ES PT GR BG CY IL Going soon to 155Mbps

ES HU IT FR UK BE NL DE SE CH PL SI GR CZ IL LT PT AT CY BG LV RO HR SE - PoP for Nordunet GÉANT: Access of NRENs to GÉANT IE LU EE SK GEANT 2.5 G 1.2 G 622M 155 M 45 M 34 M 310 M

DKFINSBDEFINLUKAELIRLLP Gigabits per sec GÉANT: The most advanced research backbone NRENs* Access Capacity to the GEANT Backbone (June and December 2001) 622Mbps

No of Core Nodes No of Main Access Points Trunk Capacity Accessible Institutions GB/s Abilene 200 aprox GB/s GÉANT > 3000 GÉANT + NRENs

GÉANT international dimension: a world of opportunities 155Mbps 2Mbps TEIN 2Mbps TEIN 5Gbps ALIS EUMEDIS

 Consolidate outreaching  Address the Terabits per second  Enhance “inclusiveness” (educational networks, libraries,...)  Strengthen links with industry  Anticipate “full” liberalization in telecommunications GÉANT: Future challenges

GÉANT GÉANT: One element of a strategy GRIDS IPv6, Optical,... All research disciplines Very demanding communities Research on networking Technology Advanced Experimental Disruptive emerging next generation Internet

GRIDs: A new dimension in networking The GRID aims to create unprecedented computing and information power by linking individual machines over high-speed networks using advanced middleware.

GRIDs: Why do we need them… CERN...  The Large Hadron Collider Project Storage – Raw recording rate 0.1 – 1 Gbps Accumulating at 5-8 PetaBytes/year 10 PetaBytes of disk Processing – 200,000 of today’s fastest PCs CER N

 Automotive industry... Mercedes Benz crash simulations - one run uses 100 h CPU 1.5 GB memory Storage GRIDs: Why do we need them… Industry...

GRIDs: A new dimension in networking GRIDs deploys technologies that give users a seamless, secure access to a variety of data and computing resources… GRIDs integrate and adds value to networking, computing, middleware, security, knowledge engineering,... The concept of GRIDs addresses the situation in which the bandwidth of the network blurs the frontiers of the computer…

GRIDs: Building virtual communities High Energy Physics Earth & Space Observation Environment Bio-sciences and Health Industrial design/simulation/visualization ASP GRIDs address the needs of virtual communities and fosters the efficient exploitation of the huge investments in research infrastructures:

UK - eScience Programme Italy - INFN Grid Netherlands - DutchGrid Germany - Unicore plus France - Grid funding approved Ireland - Grid-Ireland Poland, Czech Republic - seed funding GRIDs: The European efforts EU supported GRIDs work complements national Programmes:

GRIDs: An integrated approach Science Industry / businessApplications Middleware & Tools Underlying Infrastructures CROSSGRID DATAGRID DATATAG GRIDLAB EGSO GRIA GRIP EUROGRID DAMIEN GRIDSTART

GRIDs: The IST projects  37Meuro of IST funding  Strong consensus formation and contribution to standards: GGF, IETF, W3C, MPI, etc  Most developments follow Open Architecture approach.  37Meuro of IST funding  Strong consensus formation and contribution to standards: GGF, IETF, W3C, MPI, etc  Most developments follow Open Architecture approach.

 EUROGRID, GRIP GRIDs: Examples of large testbeds 6 European countries Globus/Unicore interface Application requirements: Real-time, Resource brokerage, Portals, Coupled applications

 DATAGRID, CROSSGRID GRIDs: Examples of large testbeds 17 European countries Collaboration of more than 2000 scientists Application requirements: Computing > 20 TFlops/s Downloads > 0.5PBytes Network speeds at 10 Gbps GEANT INFRASTRUCTURE

 DATATAG (cross-Atlantic testbed) GRIDs: Examples of large testbeds (2Gbps) Links with US projects (GriPhyN, PPDG, iVDGL,…)

GRIDs: Creating a solid technology base  Portals; Application interfaces (including coupled/interactive applications)  Techniques for data search, mass storage, data analysis  Dynamic resource discovery and scheduling; Resource brokerage.  Connectivity services (e.g.advanced network reservation, QoS, access greater range of end-user facilities)  Portals; Application interfaces (including coupled/interactive applications)  Techniques for data search, mass storage, data analysis  Dynamic resource discovery and scheduling; Resource brokerage.  Connectivity services (e.g.advanced network reservation, QoS, access greater range of end-user facilities)

GRIDs: Creating a solid technology base  Security, including support for end-to- end business processes.  Management, with emphasis on accounting, performance.  Monitoring, including advanced visualization techniques.  Interoperability (at various levels, including Globus-Unicore interface, Windows applications).  Security, including support for end-to- end business processes.  Management, with emphasis on accounting, performance.  Monitoring, including advanced visualization techniques.  Interoperability (at various levels, including Globus-Unicore interface, Windows applications).

IPv6: A new protocol for the new Internet  Interconnecting a myriad of “personal” devices...  Going mobile…  … and “always-on”…  Restoring the end-to-end model  Consumer electronic products IP enabled…

IPv6: Business case  IPv6 is designed to improve upon IPv4's scalability, security, ease-of- configuration, and network management…  These issues are crucial to the competitiveness and performance of all types of network-dependent businesses.

IPv4 addresses allocation ARIN: ARIN: 74% RIPE NCC: RIPE NCC:17% APNIC: APNIC: 9% ARIN RIPE NCC APNIC IPv6: IPv4 address space  Risk of global IPv4 addresses becoming critically scarce by 2005  Uneven distribution of the address space

IPv6: A coordinated strategy  Technological components  Experimentation in large testbeds  Integration of fixed and mobile  Co-operation with IPv6 Forum  Launching of IPv6 Task Force  Communication to the Council and Parliament

 Considering the level of standardization, the availability of technology, the scale of current experimentation, the emergence of applications and the need to accelerate the uptake of this technology… IPv6: Why testbeds Large scale testbeds, involving the right set of actors, emerge as an ideal way to Large scale testbeds, involving the right set of actors, emerge as an ideal way to structure, consolidate and integrate European efforts on IPv6.

 6NET  EURO6IX  Native IPv6 at: 34 Mbps, 155 Mbps, 2,5 Gbps  Pan-European coverage IPv6: Major testbeds To North America To Japan To Korea

 Establish a high capacity and high speed communications network for all researchers in Europe (GEANT) and specific high performance Grids and test- beds (GRIDs).  Create large-scale distributed systems & platforms, including Grid-based systems to solve complex problems in areas like the environment, energy, health, transport, industrial design. FP6: Research networks related work 300 MEuro

 EU is actively promoting Information Society in Europe  Networking for Research is a imp ortant priority for EU policy  With the support of the IST Programme and in the context of the eEurope action plan, a new generation backbone for research has been launched  In parallel, EU is investing in networking technologies such as GRIDS to support highly demanding user community Conclusions

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