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PPNCG report to CNAP22 March 2004

P.Clarke

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Items to cover:

Status of Network ProjectsSuperJANET 4 and SuperJANET 5 UKLIGHT and the UK R&D network

Lambda workshopSuperJANET 4 items & SuperJANET 5Issues

PPNCG meetings & ChairHigh performance transport between sites, Making it all useful to usersEffort to do serious surveys (possibly use Tier 2 post ?)

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Status of Network Projects:

MB-NGCollaboration between UCL, Manchester, CCLRC-DL, CCLRC-RAL, UKERNA, CISCOFunded by PPARC, EPSRCBuilt first leading edge QoS enabled network (pushed limits)Defined mechanism for UKERNA to provide managed bandwidth using “MPLS”High performance data transport for BaBar (Manchester RAL)Cross disciplinary – working with Radio Astronomy and HPC communityProviding cookbooks on QoS, MPLS…Finishing – will present at April 21 core e-science meeting, and AHMHas really cemented a relation with UKERNA

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Topology of the MB – NG Network

KeyGigabit Ethernet2.5 Gbit POS Access

MPLS Admin. Domains

MB - NG UCL Domain

UKERNADevelopment

NetworkEdge Router Cisco 7609

man01

man03

Boundary Router Cisco 7609

Boundary Router Cisco 7609

RAL Domain

Manchester Domain lon01

lon02

lon03

man02

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Status of Network Projects:

DataTAGEU project with PPARCCollaboration between UCL, Manchester, CCLRC-DL, BrunelQOS and high speeed transport over 10 Gbit/s link between CERN and ChicagoMain work package (WP2) managed by R.Tasker First year review went well, and WP2 commendedFinal EU review this Wednesday.

• EGEE• We are managing network development for EGEE• EGEE will provide the production grid infrastructure for

Europe• Working very closely with DANTE/Geant.

All of these projects keep us working closely with UKERNA, DANTE, Internet-2, ….. Which means we are able to ensure PPARC network needs feature directly at all times.

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UKLIGHT

The UK taking a prominent position in the Global Optical Networking Testbed Infrastructure (see pictures)

10 Gbit/s connections to STARLIGHT (Chicago) and NETHERLIGHT( NL)

Onward connections to anywhere in world (from PPARC point of view: CERN, FNAL,SLAC, DWINGELOO, HAYSTACK..)

The UK constructing its first internal advanced R&D network infrastructure to connect to this

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European lambdas to US–10Gb Amsterdam—Chicago–10Gb London—Chicago–10Gb CERN — Chicago

Canadian lambdas to US–10Gb Chicago-Canada-NYC–10Gb Chicago-Canada-Seattle

US lambda to Europe–5Gb Chicago—Amsterdam

US/Japan lambda–2.5Gb Chicago—Tokyo

European lambdas–10Gb Amsterdam—CERN –2.5Gb Prague—Amsterdam–2.5Gb Stockholm—Amsterdam–10Gb London—Amsterdam

IEEAF lambdas –10Gb NYC—Amsterdam–10Gb Seattle—Tokyo

NorthernLight

UKLight

CERN

Czech Light

SunLight

Pacific NW GigaPOP

MANLAN

Lambda = Wavelength

UK links commissioned by ~ end April

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In more detail….

DWDM SURFnet

10 Gbit/s

SURFnet10 Gbit/s

SURFnet10 Gbit/s

IEEAF10 Gbit/s

DwingelooASTRON/JIVE

DwingelooASTRON/JIVE

PragueCzechLight

PragueCzechLight

2.5 Gbit/s

NSF10 Gbit/s

StockholmNorthernLight

StockholmNorthernLight

CA*net4

2.5 Gbit/s

New YorkMANLANNew YorkMANLAN

TokyoWIDETokyoWIDE

10 Gbit/s

10 Gbit/s

10 Gbit/s

10 Gbit/s

IEEAF10 Gbit/s

10 Gbit/s

10 Gbit/s

2.5 Gbit/s

2.5 Gbit/sTokyoAPANTokyoAPAN

AmsterdamNetherLightAmsterdamNetherLight

GenevaCERN

GenevaCERN

LondonUKLightLondonUKLight

ChicagoStarLightChicagoStarLight

Source: Kees Neggers, SURFnet

9GEANT

UKLightLondonStarLight

Chicago

NetherLightAmsterdam

CERN

CzechLight

Extended JANETDevelopment Network

(see next slide)

Local Research Equipment

International Point-of-Access

CA*net

Abilene

UKLight – showing connections to selected International peer facilities

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

2.5Gb/s

Existing connections

FERMILAB

How other sites in UK can connectTo UKLIGHT

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Note that as a result of the initiative, UKERNA have pushed through a complementary initiative to provide a nationwide domestic R&D network in parallel with SupetJANET

LeNSESWERN

Kentish MAN

NorMAN

YHMAN

EMMAN

EastNet

LMN

South WalesMAN

TVN

MidMAN

NorthernIreland

NNWC&NLMAN

Glasgow Edinburgh

Warrington Leeds

Reading London

Bristol Portsmouth

EaStMAN

UHI NetworkClydenet

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Potentially any institute can connect to the R&D network, and to access UKLIGHT through it

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CURRENT STATUS:

Applications gearing up to use UKLIGHT from Day-1

International collaborations in place

Radio Astronomy will transport data from Jodrell to the Dwingeloo correlator Enable a new way of working – pseudo real time correlation at > Gbit/s

Particle physics (GridPP) pilot wavelength services to FNAL and CERNDevelop Grid based services for building of end-to-end ightpaths across domains.Compare and contrast to production network and provide feedback to UKERNA

Medical

Remote breast screening requires federation of diverse data sourcesRequired on demand high bandwidth ~ 1 Gbit/sRequires on-tap computation to analyse images

High performance computing community Already demonstrated pre-UKLIGHT collaboration between HPC and PP for moving computation across AtlanticSuccessful SC2003 “Teragyroid” demonstrationWill utilise UKLIGHT for collaboration with Teragrid

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UKLightLondonStarLight

Chicago

CERN

FERMILAB

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

2.5Gb/s

MB-NG &

UKERNA Development

network

UCL

ManchesterCCLRC-RAL

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UKLightLondonStarLight

Chicago

CERN

FERMILAB

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

10Gb/s

2.5Gb/s

MB-NG &

UKERNA Development

network

UCL

ManchesterCCLRC-RAL

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SuperJanetSuperJANET 4 news

QoS rollout proceeding, but very slowly.Backbone is (or will soon be) IPv6 enabledGeant is IPv6 enabled, and EU is pushing this.Why do you care ??????

• SuperJANET 5 planning• SJ5 planning is starting now• There has been a wide trawl for input from community

(heads of IS in Universities• There was a special meting for Research needs. I presented

on behalf of PPARc science• A document has been submitted to JCN/UKERNA with PP

and Astro needs• SuperJANET 5 will most likely follow a UKLIGHT philosophy,

and hence provide flexible networking.• Message is: we are very well represented from point of

view of core• We probably need a detailed and dedicated survey of all of

our end-points. Needs someone to do this,

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IssuesPPNCG meetings, Chair …etc…

Much of that which PPNCG historically did is being done in spades as a result of GridPP, projects…etc (e.g. UKLIGHT is more than we could conceivably have hoped for via a formal committee interaction)However much of the pastoral stuff (i.e. pro-active soliciting of input from end sites…etc) is not happening as

Chair has no time to organise logistics and agendaSecretary never answers email.Reccommend new chair&or secretary

Need someone to be able to do legwork on surveys, requirements gathering. These do not happen using best efforts of people with day jobs. CCLRC DL might do it. They have a person who is competent and travels around enough.

Using the networksMajor and growing problem that no-one believes us that we need the network (apart form Radio Astronomy)Technology to get > Gbit/s transport is well known – all been doneProblem is engaging the end service providers (Experiments, RAL…) as they are providing a service, and don’t have the effortNeeds “ project” and policy to dedicate resources to do this.PC and DF will propose this. CNAP should recommend that UK join such a testbed, and that some resource is found.