iGrid Workshop: September 26-29, 2005

GLIF Meeting: September 29-30, 2005

Maxine Brown and Tom DeFanti, Co-Chairs

Larry Smarr and Ramesh Rao, Hosts

Calit2

University of California, San Diego

iGrid 2005 is…

• 4th community-driven biennial International Grid event– To accelerate the use of multi-10Gb international and national networks– To advance scientific research– To educate decision makers, academicians and industry researchers on

the benefits of hybrid networks• Applications: 49 demonstrations from 20 countries

– Australia, Brazil, Canada, CERN, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA

• Symposium: 25 lectures, panels and master classes on the applications, middleware, and underlying cyberinfrastructure

• ~450 attendees from 24 countries• ~130 participating organizations, both academic and industrial• iGrid showcases the latest advances in scientific collaboration and

discovery enabled by GLIF partners and research teams

GLIF − Global Lambda Integrated Facility

• GLIF is the international virtual organization creating a world-scale LambdaGrid laboratory– Driven by the demands of application scientists– Engineered by leading network engineers– Enabled by grid middleware developers

www.glif.is

GLIF History

• Invitation-only annual “LambdaGrid” Workshops to discuss optical networking and the Global LambdaGrid– 2001 in Amsterdam, hosted by the Trans-European Research

and Education Networking Association (TERENA, Europe)– 2002 in Amsterdam, hosted by the Amsterdam Science and

Technology Centre

2002

GLIF History

• 2003 in Reykjavik, Iceland, hosted by NORDUnet • Renamed GLIF, a virtual facility in support of persistent data-

intensive scientific research and middleware development on LambdaGrids

2003

GLIF 2004: 60 World Leaders in Advanced Networking and the Scientists Who Need It

• 2004 in Nottingham, UK, hosted by UKERNA

2004

Photo courtesy of Steve Wallace

GLIF 2005

GLIF 2005 Annual Meeting

September 30, 2005

(picture to come)

iGrid History

1997 NSF-funded support of STAR TAP and High Performance International Internet Services (Euro-Link, TransPAC, MIRnet and AMPATH)

iGrid 1998 at SC’98November 7-13, 1998, Orlando, Florida, USA

• 10 countries: Australia, Canada, CERN, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, USA

• 22 demonstrations featured technical innovations and application advancements requiring high-speed networks, with emphasis on remote instrumentation control, tele-immersion, real-time client server systems, multimedia, tele-teaching, digital video, distributed computing, and high-throughput, high-priority data transfers

www.startap.net/igrid98

iGrid 2000 at INET 2000July 18-21, 2000, Yokohama, Japan

• 14 countries: Canada, CERN, Germany, Greece, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA

• 24 demonstrations featuring technical innovations in tele-immersion, large datasets, distributed computing, remote instrumentation, collaboration, streaming media, human/computer interfaces, digital video and high-definition television, and grid architecture development, and application advancements in science, engineering, cultural heritage, distance education, media communications, and art and architecture

• 100Mb transpacific bandwidth carefully managed

www.startap.net/igrid2000

• 28 demonstrations from 16 countries: Australia, Canada, CERN/Switzerland, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the USA.

• Applications demonstrated: art, bioinformatics, chemistry, cosmology, cultural heritage, education, high-definition media streaming, manufacturing, medicine, neuroscience, physics, tele-science

• Grid technologies demonstrated: Major emphasis on grid middleware, data management grids, data replication grids, visualization grids, data/visualization grids, computational grids, access grids, grid portals

• 25Gb transatlantic bandwidth (100Mb/attendee, 250x iGrid2000!)

iGrid 2002 September 24-26, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

www.startap.net/igrid2002

iGrid 2005 September 26-29, 2005, San Diego, California

• 49 demonstrations showcasing global experiments creating next-generation shared open-source LambdaGrid services:– Scientific instruments– High-definition video and digital cinema streaming– Visualization and virtual reality– High-performance computing– Data analysis– Control of the underlying lambdas themselves

• 20 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, CERN, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, USA

• More than 150Gb GLIF transoceanic bandwidth alone; 100Gb of bandwidth into the Calit2 building!

LamdbaGrid Services Enabling E-Science Instruments Coming Online 2007/2008

• CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will come online– Global Lambdas for Particle Physics Analysis − USA, CERN, Brazil,

Korea, UK– Interactive 3D HD Video Transport and Collaborative Data Analysis

for e-Science over UCLP − Korea

• The Sino-Italian ARGO-Yangbajing (YBJ) International Cosmic Ray Observatory in the YBJ valley of the Tibetan highland will be fully operational– Transfer, Process and Distribution of Mass Cosmic Ray Data from

Tibet − China, Italy

• Japan’s 2-PFLOPS system being developed as part of the GRAPE-DR project will be operational– Data Reservoir on IPv6: 10Gb Disk Service in a Box − Japan

Focusing on the Next Technology Leap

• GLIF Mission: To create and sustain a Global Facility supporting leading-edge capabilities that enable high-performance applications and services, especially those based on new and emerging technologies and paradigms related to advanced optical networking.

• iGrid Mission: To provide a forum and testbed for the world’s e-science research community − including network engineers, middleware developers, application scientists − to work together to tackle the demands created by new and emerging technologies and paradigms in high-performance computing and networking.

iGrid 2005 Acknowledgments

• Calit2 at the University of California, San Diego• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago• Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory• SARA Computing and Networking Services• SURFnet• University of Amsterdam • CANARIE• Major sponsors: CENIC, Ciena, Cisco Systems, Force10 Networks,

Glimmerglass, Globus Alliance, GRIDtoday, Looking Glass Networks, National LambdaRail, National Science Foundation USA, Nortel Corporation, Qwest, SGI/James River Technical, Sony, TeraGrid, University of California Industry-University Cooperative Research Program

iGrid “Lessons Learned” Thursday Sept 29, 4:30 – 6:00pmGLIF Research & Applications Working Group Friday Sept 30

Coming Summer 2006! Special iGrid issue of “FGCS: The International Journal of Grid Computing,” published by Elsevier

www.igrid2005.orgwww.glif.is