1. Science &Research SIG October 3 rd 2912 Jason Zurawski – zurawski@internet2.edu Senior Research Engineer – Internet2 Office of the CTOzurawski@internet2.edu

2. Comprehensive end-to-end support for the research community –Work with the research community to understand their needs –Provide network engineering, planning and pricing for project and proposal development –Collaborate with the community to anticipate research needs –Foster network infrastructure and service research that can be incubated, tested and deployed Research Support Center 2 – © 2012 Internet2

3. Provide a clearinghouse for “researchers” who have questions regarding how to utilize Internet2 resources –Support extends to those who support researchers as well (e.g. sysadmin/netadmin at regional/campus nets). –Emphasis on cross domain needs – home for the homeless Simple contact mechanisms –Email - rs@internet2.edurs@internet2.edu –Updated web presence – http://www.internet.edu/research http://www.internet.edu/research Research Support Center (cont) 3 – © 2012 Internet2

4. Data as of 9/17/2012 Total Tickets = 137 –47 Open/In Progress –90 Closed Categories: –Network Performance = 36% Increase from 25% since 7/2012 –GENI = 2% –Letters of Support = 21% CC-NIE rush during Spring 2012 –Network Connectivity (Layer 2/General) = 7% –Research Support & Demo/Paper Collaboration = 15% –Internet2 Initiatives = 17% Spike related to Internet2 NET+, Internet2 Innovation Platform, etc. –General = 2% Other Tags: –20% of tickets involve an international component –9% are related to Healthcare/Medical topics –7% (mostly in the performance space) are related to Internet2 NET+ activities Dissecting the Research Support Center 4 – © 2012 Internet2 zurawski@internet2.edu

5. Is it daylight … or a train? Specific performance concerns –End-to-end problems (campus to campus, Virtual Organizations, International links) –Application Fortitude –Instrumentation of Networks –Configuration of Tools –Training Light At The End of the Performance Tunnel? 5 – © 2012 Internet2 zurawski@internet2.edu Our Read: –We are seeing more reports Less suffering in silence? More end-to-end work? Effective advertising? –Encouraging that people want to fix them, and that some are taking initiative in the community Many campuses establishing “Research Engineer”, network-user interaction VOs (SSERCA in Florida) pooling community computation and network resources. Serving as liaison between researchers and network providers (Campuses, FLR)SSERCAFLR

6. The Tools –The community has invested heavily in the perfSONAR framework. –One of many R&E success stories The Deployments –Wide adoption (and use!) in all parts of the R&E community. –Emerging in the Commercial sector Performance – Community XRoads 6 – © 2012 Internet2 The Use Cases –Keeping campus infrastructure available and highly capable –Directly supporting science The Training –Measurement and monitoring are made easier with tools –Fixing the “hard problems” has a strong human aspect

7. Global Reach of perfSONAR Monitoring 7 – © 2012 Internet2 zurawski@internet2.edu

8. Approach Performance Training in some new ways TTT: Restructure materials to encourage franchising to larger groups. –The knowledge will be passed down in a tree-like fashion The Way Forward - Training 8 – © 2012 Internet2 E1T1: One on one (or one to small number) explanation of the materials –Encourage recipients to pass along the knowledge

9. Architectural and procedural changes can have a big impact –E.g. Science DMZ The scalability of traditional “TCP/IP” networks is being tested –Increasing number of users –Increasing number of use cases –The drive to do things better and more efficiently The Way Forward – Network Innovation 9 – © 2012 Internet2 New paradigms to consider –“Feedback” from the network –Intelligent switching and routing –Application based control –All working in harmony with the operational component

10. DYNES – NSF MRI Grant –Deliver hardware capable of advancing “Layer 2” networking deep into the campus and regional infrastructures –Encourage “Application Adoption” – particularly within scientific Vos –~90% Deployed Shaking up the Application/Network Model 10 – © 2012 Internet2 zurawski@internet2.edu New Twist – How to integrate SDN/OpenFlow ideas? –Testing new hardware/software currently … Oh, and Monitoring is Necessary … –Reaching out to all participants to provide additional monitoring hardware

11. Drinking from the Firehose 11 – © 2012 Internet2 Physics Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Life Sciences Magnetic Resonance Imager (MRI) Source: http://www.colinmcnulty.com Image by: CERN

12. Visualization Zen 12 – © 2012 Internet2 Physics LHC – Lead Ion Collision Life Sciences MRI – Monkey Brain Source: Van Wedeen, M.D., Martinos Center and Dept. of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University Medical School Source: CERN (ALICE detector)

13. The Facilities & Collaborators 13 – © 2012 Internet2 Physics 22 Particle Accelerators Life Sciences 758 Genome Sequencers Source: http://omicsmaps.com/, Dec. 5, 2011http://omicsmaps.com/ Source: //find.mapmuse.com/map/particle-accelerators, Apr. 22, 2012

14. Beyond Moore’s Law 14 – © 2012 Internet2

15. --Size, ++Data 15 – © 2012 Internet2 Mid - 2012 Illumina HiSeq 2500/1500 2013 Handheld USB Sequencer Image: Oxford Nanopore Technologies Source: http://www.illumina.com/systems/hiseq_systems/hiseq_2500_1500.ilmn

16. Some Campuses are creating a “Research Engineer” position explicitly –Interface with the researchers regularly –“Human networking” –Gauge needs (services, connectivity) –Translate into IT/NetEng requirements –Escalate problems to other domains Examples: –SSERCA –University of Colorado Boulder –The Pennsylvania State University Preparedness 16 – © 2012 Internet2

17. Who is doing what in the audience What ways do you need help –From Internet2/Backbones –Regionals Challenges? CC-NIE – expectations AOB Disscusion 17 – © 2012 Internet2

18. Science & Research SIG Jason Zurawski – zurawski@internet2.eduzurawski@internet2.edu Senior Research Engineer, Internet2 Office of the CTO http://www.internet2.edu/research/