1. US –Japan N+N 1 The Grid and the Network The UK Network Infrastructure A summary of E-Science supported Network projects in the UK Protocols Middleware for network services

2. US –Japan N+N 2 The Grid and the Network The UK Network Infrastructure A summary of E-Science supported Network projects in the UK Protocols Middleware for network services

3. US –Japan N+N 3 NorMAN YHMAN EMMAN EastNet External Links LMN Kentish MAN LeNSESWERN South Wales MAN TVN MidMAN Northern Ireland North Wales MAN NNW C&NL MAN GlasgowEdinburgh Warrington Leeds Reading London BristolPortsmouth EaStMAN UHI Network Clydenet AbMAN External Links FaTMAN UK National Network Managed by UKERNA 10 Gbit/s core Regional Distribution IP Production Service Multicast enabled IPv6 rollout QoS Rollout MPLS Capable in core SuperJANET 4

4. US –Japan N+N 4 NorMAN YHMAN EMMAN EastNet External Links LMN Kentish MAN LeNSESWERN South Wales MAN TVN MidMAN Northern Ireland North Wales MAN NNW C&NL MAN GlasgowEdinburgh Warrington Leeds Reading London BristolPortsmouth EaStMAN UHI Network Clydenet AbMAN External Links FaTMAN RAL SuperJANET R&D Network Parallel R&D Network Ethernet infrastructure 1 – 10 Gbit/s Can connect any UK institute in principle Currently connects 3 sites

5. US –Japan N+N 5 UKLIGHT is…. UK Joining Global optical testbed R&D links to NL and USA 10 Gbit/s Available for leading edge network projects Designed to pilot new ways of networking Motivated on “lightpath” switching below IP layer

6. US –Japan N+N 6 SuperJANET R&D Network SuperJANET R&D Network GEANT UKLight London StarLight Chicago NetherLight Amsterdam CERN CzechLight UK Researchers Local Research Equipment International Point-of-Access CA*net Abilene UKLight – showing connections to selected International peer facilities 10Gb/s 2.5Gb/s

7. US –Japan N+N 7 UKLIGHT Projects already suggested Particle Physics Radio Astronomy HPC interconnection and computational steering Medical Diagnostic Imaging UKLIGHT Open Meeting What is the International ‘Light’ infrastructure How projects might use it 3rd November Will publicise through UKERNA & NeSC web sites If anyone wants to go let me know !!!!!!!!

8. US –Japan N+N 8 Multi service Routed IP Layer 2 ??? Layer 1 Start 2005 SuperJANET 5.. The Next Generation UK Network.. May look like this.. Router

9. US –Japan N+N 9 The Grid and the Network The UK National Network Infrastructure A summary of E-Science supported Network projects in the UK Protocols Middleware for network services

10. US –Japan N+N 10 GRID Networking Projects GRS: GRID resource management MB-NG TCP & QoS GRIDprobe monitoring at 10Gbps FutureGRID P2P architecture GridMcast, Multicast data distribution Network GRID Middleware Network Services ‘ EU – DataGRID Network information systems and transport optimisation EU – DataTAG TCP & QoS EU – 6NET

11. US –Japan N+N 11 1 x GE OC-48 POS MANCHESTER 7609 GE-WAN 2 x GE 7609 OC-48 POS GE-WAN UCL-LONDON 7609 SuperJANET ULCC: 12016 Wcom: 12416 RAL -OXFORD OC-48 POS GE-WAN 7609 2.5 Gbit/s 1.0 Gbit/s A Leading Edge QoS enabled Development network

12. US –Japan N+N 12 Objectives To demonstrate > Gbit/s Data Transport To demonstrate the use of QoS for e-Science To pilot “Managed Bandwidth” using MPLS To pilot resource reservation middleware Partners UCL, Manchester, CCLRC Daresbury & RAL, CISCO, Spirent, [Lancaster, Cambridge, Southampton]

13. US –Japan N+N 13 GRID Resource Scheduling (GRS) Objectives Integrate QoS into GRID resource model. QoS allocation and reservation Micro-management of QoS at edge sites. Partners UCL, Cambridge

14. US –Japan N+N 14 GridProbe Objectives: Architecture for modular network monitoring at 10 Gbps. Analysis tools Extrapolation to 40 Gbps and beyond, Partners: Cambridge, Intel, Waikato DAG, Broadcom, Xilinx, NTL, Thus

15. US –Japan N+N 15 GridMcast Objective: Multicast for data and software replication Partners: Cambridge e-Science Centre, GridPP(EU), ATLAS (CERN)

16. US –Japan N+N 16 FutureGRID Objectives: Deploy Xenoservers Active nodes at Access Grid sites (all e- Science Centres) Port the Pastry message routing and the Scribe event notification frameworks to Xenoserver with accounting and resource management of network usage (multicast congestion control) Design suitable API based on GRID GGF models WSDL/OGSA Refinement and implementation of application set (vic, rat, fcast, powerpoint) to new infrastructure, including gateways to legacy “native” multicast versions. Partners: Cambridge (CLab, Microsoft Research).

17. US –Japan N+N 17 The Grid and the Network The UK National Network Infrastructure A summary of E-Science supported Network projects in the UK Protocols Middleware for network services

18. US –Japan N+N 18 IPv6 and the Grid IPv6 testbed exists in UK (6Net) connects: Southampton – UCL - Lancaster SuperJANET-4 is being IPv6 enabled The GGF has an IPv6 working Group : UCL is involved in this (one Chair) Southampton &UCL porting Globus-3 to IPv6

19. US –Japan N+N 19 High PerformanceTransport Protocols Deployment and Testing (UCL, Manchester) CS groups (Southampton, UCL, Lancaster, Cambridge.) Includes Modified TCP Non TCP New Long term protocols Background Mbits/s Throughput Mbits/s

20. US –Japan N+N 20 The Grid and the Network The UK National Network Infrastructure A summary of E-Science supported Network projects in the UK Protocols Middleware for network services

21. US –Japan N+N 21 Network Performance information measurement and publication

22. US –Japan N+N 22 NREN Geant Inet-2 Globally Agreed interface Domain Specific Web Services XML Schemas Services for NOCs Grid Resource Information System Diagnostic Tools for Users

23. US –Japan N+N 23 Existing developments: DANTE / TERENA Internet-2 GGF Network Monitoring WG Global schema work [PERT Will be taken forward in EGEE Geant 2

24. US –Japan N+N 24 Application Resource Provider Geant NRE N-A NREN -B Site Configure Network Resource Allocation and Reservation AAA

25. US –Japan N+N 25 Existing work: GARA /Globus DataTAG work UvA AAA work UCL GRS and Cardiff G-QoS Canarie OGSA lightpath service work Would like to know of other work

26. US –Japan N+N 26 Summary Activities in the UK are ensuring that the network is ready to serve the Grid at all levels Infrastructure Current 10 Gbit/s network - Future “multi layer” hybrid network UKLIGHT optical networking node Protocols IPv6 community and network infrastructure Advanced TCP and non-TCP transport protocol work QoS Services & Middleware Performance measurement and publication to Grid Information services Diagnostics for Grid operations Resource allocation and reservation Middleware EGEE Responsibility Many opportunities for UK –Japan Joint Network Activities using research network infrastructure

27. US –Japan N+N 27

28. US –Japan N+N 28 GridPP Testbed All HEP experiment sites are part of Gavin’s “green dot” map. At least a Globus gatekeeper was running at some point. In almost all cases this is actually an EDG gatekeeper - ie with extra functionality.

29. US –Japan N+N 29 GridPP Testbed Uses Resource Broker at IC, MDS at RAL and VO at Manchester. Yesterday’s snapshot: Birmingham2 cpus Bristol3 Cambridge16 IC16 (+ 80 BaBar) Liverpool2 Manchester8 (+ 60 DZero/Atlas) Oxford1 RAL6 (+Tier1/A) UCL2 Result of: Core team in UK working within EDG Bi-weekly operational phone call

30. US –Japan N+N 30 EDG testbed Application testbed: More than 1000 CPUs 5 Terabyte of storage EDG sw installed at more than 40 sites

31. US –Japan N+N 31 EDG Testbed Snapshot for EU review: CERN59 + 20 nl:Nikhef140 fr:CC Lyon22? + 74? + 409? fr:Polytechnique/LLR6 it:CNAF Bologna48 it:Padova11 it:Legnaro48 uk:IC16 + 80 uk:Liverpool2 uk:Manchester8 + 60 uk:Oxford1 uk:RAL6 (so we’re doing ok internationally)

32. US –Japan N+N 32 Comparison of UK L2 grid and PP Grid GT2 EDG 2.0 Value added Components EDG Info VOMS RB Data Man. Simple User management ??? eScience CA PP Applications UK MDS L2 Grid Value added components Application Network monitoring

33. US –Japan N+N 33 E.g. CMS use of the EDG TB CEsSEs Nb. of evts time 250,000 Event Production within EDG as part of the Official CMS production http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/production/www/html/general/index.html