1. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk UKLight Town Meeting Welcome, background and & programme for the day Peter Clarke University College London -> National e-Science Centre clarke@hep.ucl.ac.uk ->clarke@nesc.ac.ukclarke@hep.ucl.ac.ukclarke@nesc.ac.uk 9 th September 2004 National e-Science Centre 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

2. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk LeNSESWERN Kentish MAN NorMAN YHMAN EMMAN EastNet LMN South Wales MAN TVN MidMAN Northern Ireland NNW C&NL MAN GlasgowEdinburgh WarringtonLeeds Reading London Bristol Portsmouth EaStMAN UHI Network Clydenet AbMAN FaTMAN S T C T T T TT T S S S T T SuperJANET-4 10Gbit/s backbone 1 - 2.5 Gbit/s access links Connects all HE, FE institutes Best efforts IP service Excellent service The UK National Research & Education Network (NREN) today

3. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk Via Geant 10Gbit/s backbone 1 - 2.5 Gbit/s access links Best efforts IP Connects all European NRENS Provides connection to USA…. International connectivity

4. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk Requirements # of users A -> Lightweight users, browsing, mailing B -> Midrange users C -> Special scientific applications, computing, data grids C A B Picture from Cees DeLaat University of Amsterdam …. Where will the next generation of networks go …

5. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk Requirements Total BW A -> Need full Internet routing, many to many B -> Need some routing and some lower layer services. C -> Doesn’t need internet routing, Need very fat pipes, limited sites, few to few C A B

6. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk Jodrell Bank UK Onsala Sweden Medicina Italy Torun Poland Effelsberg Germany Westerbork Netherlands JIVE Science drivers : Radio Astronomy

7. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk ~1-10 Gbps Tier2 Center Online System CERN USA Centres France Center ITALY Center Institut e ~20 PBytes/year ~PByte/sec ~1-10 Gbps Tier2 Center Experiment CCLRC-RAL Centre GEANT Network SuperJANET ~1-10 Gbps Science drivers : The Large Collider Science drivers : The Large Hadron Collider

8. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk Reality Grid performs massive simulations of complex molecular dynamics Interconnection required of HPC machines in UK and USA Requires “backplane like” network connections form few-to- few sites Science drivers : Condensed matter simulations

9. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk Live streaming of HDTV from the world’s largest microscope in Osaka, Japan. The video data is streamed from Osaka to Chicago (EVL) while being controlled by project scientists in San Diego. http://ncmir.ucsd.edu Science drivers : Remote Instruments Japan  USA

10. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk … a possible Network of the Future…. Provides Normal best effort IP network where appropriate Extended “virtual LANs” where appropriate Switched lightpaths where appropriate “layer-2” split out of wavelength [e.g. Ethernet] Router Routed IP Network

11. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk GLIF: Global Lambda Integrated Facility GLIF is a collaborative initiative among worldwide NRENs and institutions to enable R&D for new ways of networking

12. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk GLIF: Global Lambda Integrated Facility GLIF is a collaborative initiative among worldwide NRENs and institutions to enable R&D for new ways of networking

13. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk NorthernLi ght CERN Czech Light SunLight Pacific NW GigaPOP MANLAN UK is part of GLIF through UKLIGHT - a National Facility for Advanced Optical Networking - UKLight

14. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk Access to UK institutes LeNSESWERN Kentish MAN NorMAN YHMAN EMMAN EastNet LMN South Wales MAN TVN MidMAN Northern Ireland NNW C&NL MAN GlasgowEdinburgh WarringtonLeeds Reading London Bristol Portsmouth EaStMAN UHI Network Clydenet AbMAN FaTMAN S T C T T T TT T S S S T T London UKLight London UKLight UKERNA have enabled a nationwide domestic R&D network in parallel with SupetJANET-4

15. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk UKLight is - A pervasive R&D infrastructure - A new era in UK, giving the opportunity to think out of box UKLight is not - A production network - Extra capacity (not needed per se) - For anything which SJ4 can already do - Anything to do with 50% of “perceived network problems” Supported by key bodies: - HEFC, JISC, - EPSRC, PPARC, - Core e-Science programme - Managed by UKERNA

16. 09-Sept-2004 NeSC UKLight Town Meeting Peter Clarke, clarke@nesc.ac.uk The purpose of this meeting is to raise awareness to as wide a range of research disciplines as possible Programme for this meeting Description of Infrastructure Early adopted projects just (i) Q&A Examples of Projects from StarLight Early adopter projects (ii) Plans for a possible dark fibre infrastructure Q&A - UKLight is for enablement of all research disciplines which can benefit – to allow them to pilot new ways of working