Star Light the Facility Joe Mambretti Tom De

Star. Light, the Facility Joe Mambretti, Tom De. Fanti, Maxine Brown Alan Verlo, Linda Winkler

Star. Light: A 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Exchange Star. Light hosts electronic switching and routing for United States national and international Research and Education networks Since November 2003, Star. Light has been optically switching wavelengths between Chicago and Amsterdam Abbott Hall, Northwestern University’s Chicago downtown campus

Star. Light History NSF-funded support of STAR TAP (1997 -2000) and STAR TAP 2/ Star. Light (2000 -2005), and the High Performance International Internet Services program (Euro-Link, Trans. PAC, MIRnet and AMPATH).

Star. Light, the Facility • *Flexible* facility for scientists by scientists; input from: – – – E-science and C-science researchers Technical leaders of NSF cyberinfrastructure Academic national and international R&E networks Next-generation Federal networks Metro/regional efforts • A GE and 10 GE exchange for R&E Networks • A MEMS-switched Optical Research Network Exchange • A specialized co-location space for new implementations and integrations of infrastructure • Home to fiber and circuits from SBC, Qwest, AT&T, Global Crossing, Level 3, T-Systems, Looking Glass, RCN, and IWIRE, custom integrators, like MCI for DREN

Star. Light Facility-Connected US and International Networks • • • • US National • NIH • Abilene/HOPI • OMNInet 2 DREN (DOD) • Tera. Grid • ESnet (DOE) • TRECC • NLR • Ultra. Light (HEP) via NLR • NASA GSFC • USGS • NISN (NASA) • Wisc. Wave (Wisconsin) NREN (NASA) Ultra. Science Net (DOE) • ASnet (Taiwan) • CA*net 4 (Canada) • • CERNET (China) US Other • GLORIAD-CSTNet CAVEwave • (China) via CA*net 4 Fermi. Wave • GLORIAD-Russia via I-Light (Indiana) • CA*net 4 I-WIRE (Illinois) • LONI (Louisiana) via NLR Mi. LR (Michigan Lambda. Rail) MREN (Midwest) GLORIAD/KREONet 2 (Korea) via CA*net 4 HARNET (Hong Kong) JGN-II (Japan) SINET (Japan) SURFnet (Netherlands), which also carries NORDUnet and CESNET Taiwan. Light (Taiwan) via CA*net 4 Trans. Light/Star. Light IRNC UKLight (UK) US LHCnet (CERN)

E-Science and C-Science Experiments in Star. Light Co-Lo Space • OMNInet 2 – Joe Mambretti, Nortel/SBC • NSF National Center for Data Mining Cluster – Bob Grossman • DARPA DWDM-RAM – Joe Mambretti and Nortel Networks • • NSF/DOE Caltech/CERN Cluster for Data Grid development (Gri. Phy. N, PPDG, i. VDGL, EU Data. Grid) – Harvey Newman NSF Opt. IPuter visualization cluster – Tom De. Fanti and Jason Leigh • NSF MEMS Optical Switching – Tom De. Fanti and Jason Leigh • University of Amsterdam Itanium for Optical switching; Generic AAA – Cees de Laat • USGS map storage • • NSF Distributed Optical Testbed (DOT) – Joe Mambretti and Valerie Taylor NSF Logistical Networking – Micah Beck and Yotta

Star. Light Provided Major i. Grid 2005 Support

Opt. IPuter: Major NSF-funded Research Initiative Utilizing Star. Light Capabilities

The Opt. IPuter Project – Removing Bandwidth as an Obstacle In Data Intensive Sciences • An NSF-funded award that focuses on developing technology to enable the real-time collaboration and visualization of very-large timevarying volumetric datasets for the earth sciences and the biosciences • Opt. IPuter is examining a new model of computing whereby ultra-highspeed networks form the backplane of a global computer NIH Biomedical Informatics Research Network NSF Earth. Scope and ORION http: //ncmir. ucsd. edu/gallery. html siovizcenter. ucsd. edu/library/gallery/shoot 1/index. shtml

Opt. IPuter is a Global Virtual Computer • Hardware: clusters of computers that act as giant storage, compute or visualization peripherals, in which each node of each cluster is attached at 1 or 10 Gig. E to a backplane of ultra-high-speed networks • Software: Advanced middleware and application toolkits are being developed for lightpath management, data management and mining, visualization, and collaboration Commodity Gig. E Switch Fibers or Lambdas

The Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment To Manage Visual Content on Scalable Tiled Displays SAGE runs on Lambda. Vision, a display-rich collaborative work environment (11 x 5 LCDs)

Moving Data Over these Networks: Ultra-High-Speed Transport Protocols • Reliable Blast UDP designed for ultra-high-speed bulk data delivery applications • • Developed originally in 2000 Achieved 18 Gb/s out of 20 Gb/s available bandwidth on Tera. Grid in 2003. • Lambda. Stream designed for ultra-high-speed streaming applications that need high throughput but low latency and low jitter (such as streaming graphics) • • Developed in 2003/04 Lambda. Stream achieves this by adaptive rate adjustment AND attempting to predict the CAUSE of loss using techniques from Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs).

10 GE Opt. IPuter CAVEwave on the National Lambda. Rail EVL Source: Tom De. Fanti, Opt. IPuter co-PI

Calient Diamond. Wave Switches at Star. Light and Nether. Light • 128 x 128 Calient O-O-O 3 D MEMS switch at Star. Light • 64 x 64 Calient switch at Nether. Light • 1% the cost of routing

Photonic Interdomain Negotiator (PIN) Application-Centric Scheduling of Photonic Networks Correlation / Filtering Star. Light (Chicago) Data Access Uv. A (Amsterdam) Cluster Visualization EVL (Chicago) Cluster Calient Photonic Switch Glimmerglass Photonic Switch Muxed & De. Muxed DWDM OC-192 PPBAC PIN PDC PIN Joe Mambretti (NU), Eric He, Cees de Laat (Uv. A), Oliver Yu (UIC)

Bring Us Your Lambdas www. startap. net/starlight

Thanks to our Sponsors and Collaborators • Star. Light planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts have been made possible, in major part, by funding from: – US National Science Foundation (NSF) awards SCI-9980480, SCI 9730202, CNS-9802090, CNS-9871058, SCI-0225642, and CNS 0115809 – State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing – Northwestern University for facility space, engineering and management • US NSF/CISE and US Do. E/Argonne National Laboratory for Star. Light and I-WIRE network engineering and design • Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE and Kees Neggers of SURFnet for networking leadership • Larry Smarr of Calit 2 for I-WIRE and Opt. IPuter leadership