1. Scheduled Accomplishments
High Performance Networks Research Program
Project Title: Optimizing Performance and Enhancing Functionality of Distributed Applications Using Logistical Networking
PI: Micah Beck Institution: University of Tennessee
Project Goals
Support logistical networking
Enable application groups to optimize & enhance
Investigate scalability of storage networking
Scheduled Accomplishments
Server & library development
Policy simulation & experiments
Deployment across SciDAC community
Advanced architectures
Project Elements
Software distribution
Layered toolsets
Simulation and measurement
SciDAC Application partnerships
Future Plans
Logistical Computation
Logistical Operating Environment
Interoperability Standards

2. Support logistical networking: IBP, exNode
Project Goals
Support logistical networking: IBP, exNode
Disseminate fundamental tools and techniques
Enable applications to optimize & enhance
Scheduling policy: robustness and performance
Investigate scalability of storage networking
Embedded and integrated implementations
Cross-network peering, security & disintermediation

3. Software distribution Layered toolsets
Project Elements
Software distribution
IBP depot (server), exNode aggregation library
Layered toolsets
Flexible policy, user-directed aggregation
Simulation and measurement
Policy validation, evaluation of large-scale viability
Application partnerships
Data intensive applications, scientific computing

4. Scheduled Accomplishments
6-12 Mos
IBP applications demonstrated at SC’01
exNode support in NetSolve
Reliability/performance coscheduling alpha
Allocation policy simulation
12 Mos
Initial generalized caching infrastructure
Initial logistical overlay network on ESNet
12-18 Mos
Wide-area logistical peering mechanisms and policies
Resolution for highly volatile storage resources
18-36 Mos
Experimental IBP architectures
Large scale measurement and simulations

5. Logistical Computation
Future Research Plans
Logistical Computation
A “Functional Unit” to complement IBP state mgt.
Primitive, best effort, flexible aggregation
Logistical Operating Environment
Application communities sharing storage broadly
Interoperability Standards
Industry efforts, commercial issues