A Technology Vision for the Future Rick Summerhill, Chief Technology Officer, Eric Boyd, Deputy...

A Technology Vision for the Future

Rick Summerhill, Chief Technology Officer,Eric Boyd, Deputy Technology Officer,

Internet2

Joint Techs Meeting16 July 2007

FERMI Lab, IL

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We Need a Vision for the Future

• Over the past 3-4 years, our community has been focused on politics and costs - in particular tactical issues that beg for a long term direction for technology in the R&E community!

• In the past, our community has provided strong leadership, but, of late, has focused on existing services.

• We need to do more!• And recalling history of previous projects and the

evolution of IP is important to understand• It is time for our community to provide strong

leadership and direction

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Important Ideas

• There are two fundamental ideas to understand• The most important role we can play is innovation -

you are the RONS, universities, and corporations interested in doing new things !• A vision for the future - in 5 years, networking will

have changed drastically, and in 10 years, it will be unrecognizable!

• We need to focus on the future!

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Community Assets and Infrastructure

• Our community now has available layer 0 through layer 3 services - and at the national, regional, and campus levels

• It has obtained incredible resources and infrastructure making new services and capabilities available to the community

• At the National Level, for example, Internet2 now has full control of waves, both SONET and Ethernet capabilities, and an IP network.

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Need for Innovation and Direction!• We need to create innovative ways to utilize the

infrastructure and provide new services! We need a carefully thought out technology direction!• From a community engineering point of view• From a network research point of view• Moreover, it’s not just the network, but a systems approach to

the complete Cyberinfrastructure

• Note that others in the international R&E community, including partnerships with networks like ESnet, are working very hard at this!

• Moreover, corporate enterprises and standard’s bodies are closely watching what we do in this space.

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Systems Approach

• There are many components to this approach• Creating new network paradigms• With the appropriate middleware components that

can support those network paradigms as well as applications at higher layers in the stack• With the appropriate performance monitoring and

diagnostics systems, again at all layers of the stack• With the appropriate security mechanisms at all

layers

• A Systems approach to CyberInfrastructure

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Technology Vision• Over the next several months, create a

technology vision• Provide direction for the future• Will be a living document that will insure innovative

use of future developments• Make clear what we do, and also what we don’t do• Make clear which elements of the community do

which pieces, and how partnerships collaborate!

• Essential in this dialog is community input and advice in creating that vision!• We look to the councils and committees like the

NTAC for input!

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Are you ready for LHC?

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CERNTier 0 Raw Data

FNAL BNL Shared Data Storage and Reduction

Tier 1(12 orgs)

US Tier 2(15 orgs)

CMS (7) Atlas (6-7)

US Tier 3 (68 orgs)

US Tier 4 (1500 US scientists)

Scientists Request Data

Provides Data to Tier 3

Scientists Analyze Data

LHCOPN

GEANT-ESNet-Internet2

Internet2/Connectors Internet2/Connectors

Local Infrastructure

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CERN

Tier 0 to Tier1: Requires 10-40 Gbps

Tier 1 to Tier 2: Requires 10-20 Gbps

LHCOPN

GEANT-ESNet-Internet2

Internet2/Connectors Internet2/Connectors

Tier 1 or 2 to Tier 3: Estimate: Requires 1.6 Gbps per transfer (2 TB's in 3 hours)

Peak Flow Network Requirements

Local Infrastructure

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What are the Implications for Normal Network Operations from T2 to T3?

Example: 13 people (3 Professors and 10 Graduate Students) require ten 3-hour timeslots a month to receive 8 Gigabit data flows.

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4 Gig

10 Gig

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CMS T2 Traffic at UNL

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Internet2 Connectors

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MAGPI

3ROXCalREN-2 South

Great Plains Network

Indiana GigaPoP

MREN

Merit

LONI

Internet2

ESnet

NoX

NYSERNet

OARnet

OmniPoPSoX

Oregon GigaPoP Pacific Northwest

GigaPoP

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Nine Universities Connect through CalREN-2 South

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University of Arizona (T3)

UC Irvine (T3) UC Santa Cruz (T3)UC Davis (T2)

UCLA (T3)

UC Riverside (T3)

UC San Diego(T3)

UC Santa Barbara (T3)

California Institute of Technology (T2)

CENIC

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The Network is the Backplane for the Distributed CI Computer

Instrumentation

Security

Control

DataGeneration

Computation

Analysis

Simulation

Program

Security

ManagementSecurity and

AccessAuthentication

AccessControl

Authorization

Researcher

ControlProgram

ViewingSecurity

3DImaging

Display andVisualization

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DisplayTools Security

DataInput

CollabTools Publishing

HumanSupportHelp

Desk

Policy andFunding

ResourceProviders

FundingAgencies

Campuses

SearchData SetsStorage

Security

RetrievalInput

SchemaMetadata

DataDirectories

Ontologies

Archive

EducationAnd

Outreach

Network

Training

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The Network is the Backplane for the Distributed CI Computer

CollabTools Publishing

HumanSupportHelp

Desk EducationAnd

Outreach

Network

Training

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Cyberinfrastructure Requirements

• Data storage

• Robust campus infrastructure

• Security and Authorization

• IT support for local and remote resources

• Network Performance monitoring tools

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Cyberinfrastructure View of the Network

CI Network

Internet2

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Cyberinfrastructure Components

Network

Middleware Performance Infrastructure / Tools

Control Plane

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Bulk Transport

2-Way Interactive

Video

Real-Time Communications

Applications

Applications call on Network Cyberinfrastructure

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yberinfrastructure

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Questions?

rrsum@internet2.edu