TeraGrid and National LambdaRail President’s Council 6/20/03

NCAR Grid-enabled Resources Juniper T320 Router Cisco ONS NLR Cisco ONS Level3 Colo Spare Cisco ONS ETF 10G Cisco ONS MAN Dark Fiber Cisco 6509 ETF 10G NCAR NLR Provides Existing KEY New ETF Mountain Region TeraGrid ETF 10G Via NLR Utah Grid-enabled Resources ETF Juniper T640 Router Chicago ETF 10G Via NLR NLR Cisco 6509

M M NLR FRGP NLR GSR Level3 Colo 1G ETF 10G BPOP FRGP/NLR 1G NCAR /BPOP NCAR ETF Grid-enabled Resource 1G #10#9 ETF #19 #11 #2 #1 #5 KEY Existing New ETF New NLR NLR Provides Spare #18 Utah ETF Grid-enabled Resource #1 ETF 10G BPOP FRGP 1G WAN Dark Fiber NLR Seattle 10G FRGP 1G via dark fiber Level3/NCAR/NLR FRGP NLR 10G #5#8 ETF 10G Via NLR Juniper T320 Router ETF 10G Utah ETF 10G Utah NLR/FRGP 10G IP wave IMG #15 #12 #13 #14 Utah NLR 10G IP wave NLR Chicago 10G #5 #7 #16#17 #4 #3 #6 #20

This is the amount to be funded from the Terascale Extensions Proposal submitted on 6/9/03 FY ’05 – FY ’09 would be funded via further NSF proposals

NLR Status Signed NLR Membership Agreement - $30M CENIC PNWGP Duke Florida Georgia Tech Virginia Tech Signed 3 year services agreement with options for years 4 and 5 - $3.56M PSC Pending - $25M UCAID NCAR Texas CIC

TeraGrid/NLR Options TeraGrid w/ NLR Services TeraGrid w/ NLR Membership TeraGrid w/ non-NLR vendor services NLR Services only NLR Membership only Risk Level Low Risk Moderate Risk Advantages Low cost to add lambdas Voting NLR member - leadership Low cost to add lambdas Voting NLR member - leadership Low cost to add lambdas Disadvanta ges May not be a voting NLR member – “at large”? NSF approval required High cost to add additional lambdas No NLR access May not be a voting NLR member – “at large”?

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