1. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW June 2010 Ocean Observatories Initiative OOI Cyberinfrastructure Terrestrial CyberPoPs Implementation Matthew Arrott, Mark James, Brian Dunne, Qian Liu Life Cycle Architecture Review La Jolla, CA

2. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Overview Key Objectives, Requirements, Parameters Observatory Network Deployment CyberPoP Architecture RFP Process & Schedule

3. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Key Objectives Scalable networking, computational and storage service to OOI community Ocean and Climate research institutions Academic institution (K12 thru post-graduate) General public Scalable network peering strategy National and international earth observing initiatives Academic and commercial resource services providers Interconnecting the CyberPoPs and initial peering relationships Deploy wide area optical network controlled by OOI Deploy integrated wide area messaging fabric Deploy CyberPops at San Diego, Portland, Seattle, McLean and Woods Hole

4. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Key Infrastructure Requirements Terrestrial WAN routes supported by redundant physical paths Initial terrestrial WAN bandwidth capacity scalable form 1 to 10 Gbps Terrestrial CyberPoPs deployed at qualified Collocation facilities Lights-out operations Controlled and managed at UCSD CyberPoPs aggregate availability 99.999% (Exclusive of scheduled downtime) Includes network routes, computational service, data storage Balanced local and geographic redundancy All systems hardening and managed out of band of production flows Component Failure policy - 2 day onsite vendor replacement Component Refresh policy - 5 year re-compete of contracts

5. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Key Operational Parameters Observatory Operations and Surveillance 24x7 Internal and external multi-point monitoring On-call Failure Response 24x7 - 30 min mean time to start of analysis Weekly Maintenance Friday 5pm to Saturday 5pm PT “Always Available” strategy for service upgrades Local site shutdown for equipment upgrades Help Desk 8am ET to 5pm PT (12 hour window)

6. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 6 6 Integrated Observatory Network Deployment

7. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Terrestrial CyberPoP Sites Node NameNode FunctionBandwidth Portland, ORAcquisition Point10 Gb/s Woods Hole, MAAcquisition PointT-1 Seattle, WADistribution Point10 Gb/s Ashburn, VADistribution Point10 Gb/s San Diego, CAEngineering Center Distribution Point (passive) 10 Gb/s

8. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 CyberPoP Access

9. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Internal Service Configuration

10. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Physical Configuration

11. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Key Equipment Volumes ItemQuantityTotal CapacityUnits Storage Systems5648TB (raw) 454TB (usable) Computational Components52416cores Router/Switch Components540 x 10G10 Gbps ports 240 x 1G1 Gbps ports Load Balancers510 Gps Firewalls58 x 1G1 Gbps ports RSA Security Devices5130Tokens DNS/DHCP/NTP device1012,000DNS requests/second Precision Time Protocol5 NanosecondAccuracy Messaging Router410 millionMessages/second

12. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Network Peering Options Layer 3 Ambient connectivity via Internet2 and commercial Internet Interchange at Seattle and McLean (with San Diego as backup) Direct connectivity via Regional Networks to the OOI optical backbone Layer 2 Direct connectivity via Regional Networks to the OOI optical backbone

13. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 First Article Implementation (cartoon)

14. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 First Article Implementation (detailed)

15. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Portland CyberPoP – Physical Rack Layout

16. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 RFP Process Finalize RFP and Procurement Plan (evaluation plan & team) Approve Procurement Plan by Ocean Leadership & NSF Release RFP through UCSD procurement process Hold bidders conference Receive and evaluate proposals from vendors Selection of vendors Negotiate options with selected vendors Approval of Memo of Negotiation by OL & NSF UCSD award contract

17. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 RFP Schedule September 2010 – Release RFPs, October 2010 Bidders conference Receive proposal November 2010 Complete evaluation process and selection January 2011 Contract award February 2011 Sites are operational

18. NSF ANNUAL REVIEW August 2010 Questions