Internet2 Update Eric Boyd Deputy Technology Officer October 20, 2008

Internet2 Strategic Plan On July 8, 2008, the Internet2 Board adopted the Internet2 Strategic Plan Goals: Support next generation of collaborative discovery Design, operate, and continually advance a leading-edge research and education network as a national asset Transform communities through cyberinfrastructure Operate Internet2 as an exemplary membership organization

Supporting Next Generation of Collaborative Discovery Research communities are increasingly distributed across the globe A good deal of collaboration is done through sharing large amounts of data via networks Science applications must operate in an environment of multiple, heterogeneous networks

Supporting Large-scale Distributed Sensor Networks Ecology Seismology Meteorology

Access to Unique Scientific Instruments Astronomy High-Energy and Nuclear Physics

Hi-fidelity Collaboration HD-quality video CD-quality audio

Tele-health Medical instruction Clinical practice Research

LHC / iHDTV Demo

Behind the Scenes: LHC / iHDTV Demo

Behind the Scenes: Distance Learning / Ultragrid Demo

Instrumentation Data Storage Networking Computation User support Policy and Funding Management Security and Access Cyberinfrastructure: Defined

CI Encompasses Physical Assets, Information, People, and Skills Working as a System Instrumentation Security Control Data Generation Computation Analysis Simulation Program Security Management Security and Access Authentication Access Control Authorization Researcher Control Program Viewing Security 3D Imaging Display and Visualization. Display Tools Security Data Input Collab Tools Publishing Human Support Help Desk Policy and Funding Resource Providers Funding Agencies Campuses Search Data Sets Storage Security Retrieval Input Schema Metadata Data Directories Ontologies Archive Education And Outreach Network Training

Cyberinfrastructure and the Internet2 Community Operating advance services by and for the community –e.g. Networks, Observatories, Federations Experimenting with developmental services –e.g. Dynamic Circuits, Distributed Monitoring, Hybrid Networking Adopting new technologies –e.g. Workshops, Targeted Communities Partnering with like-minded organizations

Integrated Systems Approach

Middleware Infrastructure Focus: Inter-institutional collaboration Scalable authenticated/authorized access to remote resources Internet2 role: Defining/creating architecture: Shibboleth Tools to implement: Shibboleth, Grouper, Signet Infrastructure/Services to scale: InCommon, USHER

Shibboleth Lead universities: Brown, Ohio State, Univ of Washington, Duke, USC Adoption: more than 10,000 deployed sites; national federating software for more than 20 countries Commercial adoption: Microsoft, Google, Elsevier, OCLC, etc… Current uses: content acquisition, collaboration tools, access to federal applications, access to domain applications

Grouper Group management tool Lead institution – Univ of Chicago; other key players include Duke, Brown, Georgia Tech, Univ of Penn, Univ of Memphis, Univ of Newcastle Adoption accelerating (~15 operational deployments now) as versions add capabilities, GUI refines, performance improves Under consideration in some key commercial services

Comanage Collaboration management platform – externalize identity management from collaboration applications Supports collaborations, virtual organizations, enterprises. VO service centers, etc Lead institution Stanford, with MIT support Leverages Shib, Grouper, Signet Early versions, but adoption rapid – LIGO, OOI, campuses

perfSONAR A collaboration Production network operators focused on designing and building tools that they will deploy and use on their networks to provide monitoring and diagnostic capabilities to themselves and their user communities. An architecture & a set of protocols Web Services Architecture Protocols based on the Open Grid Forum Network Measurement Working Group Schemas Several interoperable software implementations Java, Perl, Python… A Deployed Measurement infrastructure

Gmaps (pingER)

Dynamic Circuit Networking Provides short-term dedicated bandwidth Similar and complementary to IP (Internet Protocol) networking: Protocol-based connections Connect to anyone else on the network Supports high-bandwidth and real-time applications Being developed and deployed by a number of R&E networks More flexible (and potentially more cost- effective) than long-term dedicated circuits

Phoebus Phoebus is a framework and protocol to enable hybrid networking across high- performance networks Transparently splits end-to-end network path into distinct segments Minimizes the negative effects of high latency and packet loss on data transfer By localizing their effects By allocating dedicated resources to mitigate the issues Transparent adaptation for existing applications Perform well to nearest Phoebus Gateway and allow the system to do the rest No modification necessary for most applications Optimize the performance with a variety of techniques and insights into the state of the network

DC Network End-to-End Session  Phoebus-Enabled DC Network

Integrated Systems Approach

What does “Integrated” mean? Interoperable Widely Deployed Community Best Practices Extensible Observation: Building distributed systems that operate as a larger distributed system

Distributed System Design Goals Take existing scientific applications, without recompilation or awareness of circuits, e.g. Bulk File Transfer Real Time Video Exploit performance possibilities of new networking technologies Preserve “current politics of business,” (don’t upset the apple cart) Improve efficiency of problem diagnosis (eliminate reliance on “old boy network”)

Distributed Systems for Networks To build next generation networks, we need distributed software systems on top of the network hardware Session-Application (Session-Layer tools [e.g. Phoebus], Community-specific abstraction applications [e.g. Lambda Station, Terapaths], true applications) Dynamic Circuit Networks (DCN, e.g. Internet2 DCN, ESnet SDN, GÉANT2 Autobahn) Performance Measurement Framework (e.g. perfSONAR) Information Services (IS) Discovery Topology Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA, e.g. Shibboleth, etc.)

Distributed System Requirements These distributed systems share common requirements: Heterogeneous network architecture Multiple administrative entities; no central authority Local customization of operational environment Applications driven by orthogonal virtual organizations Suggests parallel design approach Toolkit approach Web services / defined APIs

Multi-Layer Distributed System Design is “parallel” for each system Hierarchical dependency relationship Suggests abstracting common components, publication/polling architecture across boundaries

Multi-Layer Distributed System Session-Application Control Plane Framework Performance Monitoring Information Services Federated Trust Layer 3 Layer 2 Layer 1 Hardware Software/ Servers Design is “parallel” for each system Hierarchical dependency relationship Suggests abstracting common components, publication/polling architecture across boundaries Creates a common network abstraction toolkit to present to application Scientific Application

Multi-Layer Distributed System Session-Layer Abstraction Control Plane Framework Performance Monitoring Information Services Federated Trust Layer 3 Layer 2 Layer 1 Hardware Software/ Servers Design is “parallel” for each system Hierarchical dependency relationship Suggests abstracting common components, publication/polling architecture across boundaries Creates a common network abstraction toolkit to present to application Scientific Application Diagnostic Analysis and Visualization Tools

Importance of Standards Note the importance of standards Between distributed software systems Between discipline community application and network abstraction toolkit Assumes standards-compatible components of network abstraction toolkit deployed across autonomous networks Suggests need for reference implementation(s)

Join the Effort: Community WGs Network Technical Advisory Committee Chair: Paul Schopis Dynamic Circuit WG Chair: Linda Winkler Information Services WG Chair: Martin Swany Performance WG Chair: Carla Hunt Transport WG Chairs: Chet Ruscyzk, Steve Senger