Cyber Infrastructure@ UC San Diego

Elazar C. HarelMay 14, 2008

UC San Diego at a Glance

28,000 students and 18,000 employees $2.2 billion annual budget Unique assets:• Calit2• SDSC• Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Sustainable network funding model Ubiquitous Shibboleth presence (and OpenID) CI Design team

New Cyber Infrastructure Network

Nearly direct target-to-target Layer2 and Layer3 research connections

Rapid deployment of ad-hoc connections Bottleneck-free multi 10Gbit channels Reasonable security controls Green when possible

• Gartner estimates the manufacture of IT equipment, its use and disposal accounts for 2% of global CO2 emissions!

• Power consumption per compute server rack is growing rapidly (from ~ 2kw/rack in 2000 to ~30 kw/rack in 2010)

Microarray

NewLab

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Active Data Replication

Wide-Area 10G• CENIC/HPRng• NLR Cavewave• I2 NewNet• Cinegrid• …

Single 10 Gbit

Mass Spec

MicroscopesData Repositories

10 Gigabit L2/L3

Switch

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N * 10GbN * 10Gb

N * 10Gb

“Network in a box”• > 200 Connections• DWDM or Gray Optics

Eco-Friendly Storage and

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CI Network

UCSD Research Cyber Infrastructure

Planned CI Model

UC Grid Pilot

Commercial Computing

Cloud

Remote Storage Replica

CENIC N

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NSF Teragrid