Office of Cyberinfrastructure

NSF International Research Network Connections (IRNC)

Program

Kevin ThompsonNSF OD/OCI

December 4, 2006

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OCI Website - Visit often and provide

feedback on the Vision document.

www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf

www.nsf.gov/oci/

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Mission of OCITo provide strategic capacity for excellence in achieving NSFs stated mission to lead the development and support of a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure essential to 21st century advances in science and engineering. This mission is also implicit in many places in the new NSF Strategic Plan.

OCI will serve the Foundation and the NSF community in this mission through three types of activity:

1. provisioning of shared cyberinfrastructure together with mechanisms for flexible, secure, coordinated sharing among collections of individuals, institutions, and resources; 2. partnerships with others in science/engineering-driven, transformative use of CI in research and education; and3. partnerships with others in the transfer of the fruits of relevant R&D into the next generation of CI.

OCI is fundamentally a cross-cutting enterprise that builds mutually beneficial relationships will all parts of the NSF, with other Federal agencies, and with the large and growing CI/e-science initiatives in other countries.

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Some Science Drivers

• Inherent complexity and multi-scale nature of todays frontier science challenges.

• Requirement for multi-disciplinary, multi-investigator, multi-institutional approach (often international).

• High data intensity from simulations, digital instruments, sensor nets, observatories.

• Increased value of data and demand for data curation & preservation of access.

• Exploiting infrastructure sharing to achieve better stewardship of research funding.

• Strategic need for engaging more students in high quality, authentic science and engineering education.

• Distributed virtual organizations are based upon CI that provides flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources.

• Resources and services include HPC, data/information management, sensor-nets/observatories, linked through global networking and middleware, and accessed by people through web portals and workflow environments.

• Increasing numbers of virtual organizations are required by S&E research and education communities. Referred to by many names, e.g. collaboratory, co-laboratory, grid, gateway, portal,. hub, ....

• Challenges being address include tools for more rapid building and ease of use, interoperability/middleware, high performance, end-to-end networking, and dynamic reconfiguration, social issues, assessment of impact, and economic and technical sustainability.

Virtual Virtual OrganizatOrganizat

ionsions

NanoHubNEES

ATLAS

NVO

LEAD

iVDgL

CMS

LIGOATLAS and CMS

NVO and ALMA

The number of nation-scale projects is growing rapidly!

Climate Change

CI/VO Enabled Science

NEON

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VO-substrate: International R&E Networking

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Some Existing & Potential Interactions

DISUN

EGEEEGEE• • gLITEgLITE• • Experience with Experience with large, production, large, production, international Grid international Grid operationoperation• • Other?Other?

U.S. InvestmentsU.S. Investments

• • U.S. part of international U.S. part of international science/engineering research science/engineering research projects.projects.

• • Open Science Grid (OSG)Open Science Grid (OSG)• • TeraGrid & Science GatewaysTeraGrid & Science Gateways• • Grid Interoperabilty Now Grid Interoperabilty Now (GIN)(GIN)• • GLOBUSGLOBUS• • Condor TechnologiesCondor Technologies• • Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT)Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT)• • NMI Build and TestNMI Build and Test• • ShibollethShibolleth• • GridShibGridShib• • Other?Other?

International International Science Projects, Science Projects, e.g. ATLAS, CMSe.g. ATLAS, CMS

Other Other National/RegionaNational/Regional Grid Projectsl Grid Projects

Funding & science collaboration

staff R&D interactionsuse of componentsshared development

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A Layered View of Cyberinfratsructure

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IRNC Program Solicitation 2004

• “NSF expects to make a small number of awards to provide network connections linking U.S. research networks with peer networks in other parts of the world”

• “The availability of limited resources means that preference will be given to solutions which provide the best economy of scale and demonstrate the ability to link the largest communities of interest with the broadest services”

• NSF 04-560 at www.nsf.gov

• Follow-on to “High-Performance International Internet Services” (HPIIS) 1997

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IRNC Motivation & Goals• “Primary Goal – enable U.S. science&engineering in the

international context through high performance network connections and services

• Economy of scale – linking largest communities-of-interest

• Increase capacity and reach into new and existing regions

• Deploying new networking technologies driven by production needs

• E.g. Insertion of layer2 and “hybrid” services

• Leverage and share resources, tools, and ideas where feasible

• Not just ideas and tech from within IRNC (e.g. EIN)

• Maintain and build strong relationships with colleagues and partners outside U.S.

• Opportunities to contribute directly to the Network Research community

• Technical emphasis areas – security and measurement

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IRNC 2004-2009• Program Funding - $25M over 5 years

• 5 Main Awards

• TransLight/PacificWave - (Australia), PI - John Silvester, USC/ISI

• Translight/Starlight - (Europe), PI - Tom Defanti, UIC

• TransPac2 - (Japan and Asia), PI - Jim Williams, Indiana Univ.

• WHREN - (Latin America), PI - Julio Ibarra, FIU

• GLORIAD - (detail on next slide), PI - Greg Cole, UT Knoxville

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TransPac2 Topology

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Translight/PacWave Pacific Connections

CA*Net4 POP

TλEX Tokyo PW-Seattle

AARnet POP Sydney

Hawaii

OahuPW-LA

CLARA, CUDI POPs (Tijuana)

AARnet-SX Transport

IEEAF Link

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WHREN-LILA Topology

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TransLight/StarLightFunds Two Trans-Atlantic Links

GÉANT2 PoP @ AMS-IENetherLight

StarLight

MAN LAN

• OC-192 routed connection between MAN LAN in New York City and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange that connects the USA Abilene and ESnet networks to the pan-European GÉANT2 network

• OC-192 switched connection between NLR and RONs at StarLight and optical connections at NetherLight; part of the GLIF LambdaGrid fabric

www.startap.net/translight

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IRNC Related Activities• Performance and measurement studies leading to best

practices for IRNC

• Led by Matt Zekauskas (Internet2) and Matt Mathis (PSC)

• Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)

• Partial support from NSF

• Support development/deployment of networking technologies in Africa, Asia/Pacific, and elsewhere

• Led by Dale Smith, Steve Huter, Dave Meyer and others at the University of Oregon

• Many other NSF-supported activities (DRAGON, PRAGMA,…)

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IRNC Program Review October 2006 - Program wide recommendations

• Address the future of IRNC beyond 2009

• Potential NSF Workshop in 2007 to help inform and guide IRNCv2

• Expected support needed for a broader range of infrastructure and deeper engagement with applications

• Engage user communities (scientists), international networking experts and officials from other parts of the world

• International input and dialog in multiple settings

• Other recommendations (selection)

• Start a focused IRNC measurement group

• Improve student engagement (REU)

• Opportunities for new user engagement