STAR TAP Progress Report 18 July 2000 Tom De. Fanti, Maxine Brown, Linda Winkler, and Alan Verlo
STAR TAP Advisory Committee • Larry Smarr, past chair – Professor, University of California, San Diego • Rick Stevens, new chair – Division Director, Math and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory – Professor of Computer Science, The University of Chicago – Co-PI, National Computational Science Alliance
Networks at STAR TAP • International Networks: – – – APAN (Asia Pacific Consortium) CA*net 3 (Canada) MIRnet (Russia) SURFnet (The Netherlands) Sing. AREN (Singapore) TANet 2 (Taiwan) CERN IUCC (Israel) NORDUnet (Nordic Consortium) Renater 2 (France) SINET(NII/Japan), GEMnet(NTT/Japan) Coming: China, South American and European Consortia • US Networks: – Abilene, DREN, ESnet, NISN, NREN, v. BNS+ and MREN
Advanced STAR TAP Services STAR TAP Engineering • IPv 4 routing/IPv 6 routing(6 TAP) • Diff. Serv (w/ Do. E EMERGE) • Native multicast (Sing. AREN, TANet 2 , Japan, IUCC, NORDUnet, SURFnet, v. BNS, Abilene) • Globus Middleware/Grid Services Package • Applications Performance Metrics for i. Grid 2000 • Measurement: OC 3 mon, NLANR AMP • Web Caches • International Transit Network test for i. Grid 2000 • Distributed STAR TAP with Teleglobe and C&W • Offsite “co-lo” space at UIC, NU, and dark fiber • DWDM (Future Optical Switching w/CA*net)