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Kees Neggers Managing Director SURFnet

GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility. Kees Neggers Managing Director SURFnet. TERENA Networking Conference 6-9 June 2005, Poznan, Poland. Linking the World with Light – the GLIF Challenge. GLIF vision. Linking the World with Light

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Kees Neggers Managing Director SURFnet

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  1. GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility Kees NeggersManaging Director SURFnet TERENA Networking Conference 6-9 June 2005, Poznan, Poland

  2. Linking the World with Light – the GLIF Challenge

  3. GLIF vision Linking the World with Light • It is no longer sufficient to connect researchers to the internet, they have to be connected to each other. • GLIF community shares a common vision of building a new grid-computing paradigm, in which the central architectural element is optical networks, not computers, to support this decade’s most demanding e-science applications.

  4. History of the SURFnet infrastructure 100 Gbit/s SURFnet5 20 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s SURFnet4 155 Mbit/s 1 Gbit/s SURFnet4 34 Mbit/s 100 Mbit/s 10 Mbit/s SURFnet3 2 Mbit/s 1 Mbit/s SURFnet2 64 kbit/s 100 kbit/s SURFnet1 9,6 kbit/s 10 kbit/s 1989 1986 1992 1995 1997 2001

  5. VLBI at JIVE in Dwingeloo, NL

  6. Lambdas as part of research instruments • Many data collection points • collecting ~ 20 Tbit/s • Processing in Groningen • Large data sets distributed to many destinations in The Netherlands and abroad www.lofar.org

  7. The Square Kilometre Array • $2Bn investment in infrastructure • Real-time data analysis at Petabits per second • Storage >40 years Building the world’s largest computational & data facility in one of the world’s most isolated locations http://www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/ska/

  8. Lambdas SURFnet6 network DWDM SURFnet5 network POS SURFnet4 network ATM GigaPort Next Generation SURFnet4 project GigaPort 1995 1999 2003 2008 Paradigm shift Next generation is not a simple extrapolation of current networks

  9. Routed L3 traffic growth 1600 Tbyte/month ≈ 5 Gbits/second

  10. Photo section

  11. A word on networking costs • Costs of optical port is 10% of switching port is 10% of router port with same characteristics • 10G routerblade -> 100+ k$, 10G switch port >10k$, MEMS port -> 1 k$ • Give each packet in the network the service it needs, but no more Courtesy Cees de Laat

  12. Paradigm shift Hybrid networking IP + lambdas • Packet switched internet for regular many-to-many usage • Light Paths for new high speed few-to-few usage

  13. Light Path Provisioning Lambdas: • enable layer 1 and 2 end-to-end Light Paths Light paths: • provide excellent quality on point-to-point connections at very high speed (1-10G) • are not constrained by traditional framing, routing, and transport protocols • are becoming integral part of scientific instruments • enable creation of Optical Private Networks (OPN)

  14. NetherLight StarLight GbE GbE 2.5G lambda GbE Spring 2001 Start of lambda networking • 2.5Gbit/s lambda ordered by SURFnet between StarLight, Chicago, USA and NetherLight, Amsterdam, NL • Lambda terminated on Cisco ONS15454 muxes, • WAN side: SONET framed: OC48c • LAN side: GbE interfaces to computer clusters

  15. History of Lambda Workshops • Brainstorming in Antalya, TR at TERENA Networking Conference in 2001 • Lambda workshops so far were by invitation only but always attached to an open event related to lambda networking: • September 2001: first Lambda Workshop in Amsterdam followed by open Lambda Workshop organized by TERENA

  16. GLIF History • Second Lambda Workshop in 2002 in Amsterdam was attached to iGrid2002, hosted by Science Park Amsterdam

  17. NetherLight Network 2002 • The iGrid2002 event brought many lambdas to Amsterdam

  18. GLIF • August 2003: third Lambda Workshop in Reykjavik hosted by NORDUnet and attached to the NORDUnet 2003 Conference • In Reykjavik with 33 participants from Europe, Asia and North America it was agreed to continue under the name: GLIF:Global Lambda Integrated Facility

  19. GLIF Founding Members

  20. GLIF after Reykjavik • GLIF is a collaborative initiative among worldwide NRENs, consortia and institutions with lambdas; as such GLIF is clearly positioned on the demand side of the market • GLIF is a world-scale Lambda-based Laboratory to facilitate application and middleware development • GLIF will be managed as a cooperative activity • WWW.GLIF.IS will be the home for all interested in the GLIF activities

  21. GLIF Working Groups • Governance and Growth • Kees Neggers - kees.neggers@surfnet.nl - chair.Goal: To identify future goals in terms of lambdas, connections and applications support, and to decide what cross-domain policies need to be put in place • Research and Applications • Peter Clarke - clarke@hep.ucl.ac.uk - chairGoal: To identify applications that can benefit from LambdaGrids, and to define the services that the user communities need • Technical Issues • Erik-Jan Bos - erik-jan.bos @ surfnet.nl – co-chairRene Hatem - rene.hatem@canarie.ca - co-chair.Goal: To design and implement an international LambdaGrid infrastructure, identifying equipment, connection requirements, and engineering functions and services • Control Plane and Grid Integration Middleware • Gigi Karmous-Edwards - gigi@mcnc.org - chairGoal: To agree on the interfaces and protocols that talk to each other on the control planes of the contributed Lambda resources

  22. GLIF 4th Annual Workshop • The GLIF 4th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop was held in Nottingham, United Kingdom on September 2 and 3, 2004 attached to the UK All Hands eScience Meeting Organized by Cees de Laat of University of Amsterdam and Maxine Brown of University of Illinois at Chicago.

  23. GLIF Nottingham Participants

  24. GLIF after Nottingham • GLIF is an open community • GLIF has participants, not members • GLIF “glues” together the networks and resources of its participants • TERENA to serve as the GLIF Secretariat Appropriate to their mission and the spirit of community cooperation, GLIF participants implemented a “lightweight” governance structure.

  25. GLIF World Map – December 2004 Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA.

  26. Open GLIF Optical Exchanges • GLIF infrastructure will be Multi-domain • Like the Internet lambda networking will move from research to commercial networks Open GLIF Optical Exchanges will be key to facilitate • the further evolution and scaling of the emerging GLIF infrastructure. • the interworking with the commercial domain • the smooth migration from the research area to the market

  27. NetherLight: Open GLIF Optical Exchange • Open Optical Exchange in Amsterdam • Operational since January 2002 • Established in Science Park Amsterdam • Built and operated by SURFnet • Nortel Networks HDXc at the centre with full duplex 640G non-blocking cross-connect capability • Nortel OME6500 and Cisco15454 at the edge

  28. Chicago Science Park Amsterdam New York MANLAN NetherLight 3Q2005 Stockholm NorthernLight SURFnet 10 Gbit/s NORDUnet 2.5 Gbit/s IRNC 10 Gbit/s SURFnet10 Gbit/s SURFnet6 IEEAF10 Gbit/s DWDM IRNC 10Gbit/s UKERNA10 Gbit/s CESNET 10 Gbit/s SURFnet 20 Gbit/s London UKLight Geneva CERN Prague CzechLight

  29. NetherLight-Amsterdam CzechLight-Prague UKLight-London NorthernLight-Stockholm Barcelona StarLight-Chicago MAN LAN-New York PNWGP-Seattle Pacific Wave-Los Angeles Atlantic Wave-NY/WashingtonDC/Atlanta/Miami/Sao Paulo TLEX- Tokyo HKLight-Hong Kong DragonLight-HK/Beijing Sydney BLEX-Bangkok Singapore GLIF Optical Exchanges

  30. GLIF Next Steps • Best Current practice documents: • Interoperability and interconnectivity • Definition of open optical exchange • Register of GLIF Resources • Next Global LambdaGrid Workshops: • 2005 at UCSD, hosted by Cal-(IT)2 in conjunction with iGrid2005 • 2006 in Japan, hosted by the WIDE Project (Jun Murai) and JGN-II (Tomonori Aoyama)

  31. GLIF’s major challenge How to create an effective ‘shift register’ for innovative ICT-applications, using the new infrastructure ? Research Pilots Market Science and Industry ICT-applications Generic ICT-application services Function Network infrastructure GLIF Infrastructure Innovation cycle

  32. Connectivity challenge • Reaching out to the users • So far most researchers have to come to the emerging GLIF infrastructure • Challenge is to bring GLIF to the desk top of the researchers and to their scientific instruments • This means bringing dark fiber to remote instruments and hybrid networking functionality into the LANs at the campuses

  33. Middleware challenge • How do we glue things together? • Users need ubiquitous end to end lightpaths connectivity over a multi-domain infrastructure • Harmonize use of existing protocols • Invent new protocols • Create user friendly AAA features • Paving the way to a ubiquitous and scalable Services Grid

  34. Application Challenge Application Challenge • In the end its all about applications • Stimulate the development of applications that explore the new hybrid functionality • Work closely with the GLIF users on best practices to overcome the connectivity and middleware challenges • Explain the opportunities to other researchers

  35. i Grid 2oo5 THE GLOBAL LAMBDA INTEGRATED FACILITY GLIF 5th Annual Workshop The GLIF 5th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop will be held in September 2005 in conjunction with iGrid 2005 meeting in the new UCSD Cal-(IT)² building in San Diego, California, USA, September 26-30, 2005 University of California, San Diego California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2] United States

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