NSF International Research Network Connections (IRNC) Kickoff Meeting Arlington, VA July 13, 2010

1. NSF International Research Network Connections (IRNC) Kickoff MeetingArlington, VAJuly 13, 2010 Julio Ibarra, PI, FIU Heidi Alvarez, Co-PI, FIU Chip Cox, Co-PI, FIU Jim Dolgonas, Co-PI, CENIC AmLight: Enhancing Research and Education in the Americas

2. Outline • Americas Lightpaths • Partners • Links and Resources • Hybrid Networking Services and Goals • Monitoring and Measurement Goals • Governance • Science Communities and Goals

3. AmLight: Americas LightPaths • AmLight aims to enhance science research and education in the Americas • Interconnecting key points of aggregation • Providing operation of production infrastructure • Engaging U.S. and western hemisphere science and engineering research and education communities • Creating an open instrument for collaboration • Maximizing benefits of all investors • AmLight collaborating partners: • USA: FIU, CENIC, LEARN, AURA; Internet2, Indiana U., NYSERNet; NU and UIC; SURA, FLR, NLR • Latin America: FAPESP, CLARA, RNP, CUDI, REUNA

4. AmLight Links • AmLight East: • Miami (AMPATH)-Sao Paulo (SouthernLight): • 5G protected • 5+10G unprotected capacity • AmLight West: • Tijuana-Los Angeles (PacificWave): • dark fiber • 2x1G waves, increasing to 10G • AmLight Andes: • Sao Paulo-Santiago: • 1G protected capacity • collaboration with RedClara • AmLight Central: • El Paso-Ciudad Juarez: • dark fiber • 1G wave

5. AmLight: Linking the Americas and Beyond StarLight: operated by Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago, supporting U.S. Central international R&E exchange • PacificWave: operated by CENIC and PNWGP • Providing R&E peering to CUDI and RedCLARA • Pacific rim peering with U.S. and international R&E and U.S. Federal backbone networks • Linking all R&E networks in the Americas • Linking with international R&E networks via exchange points: MAN LAN: Supported by Internet2, Indiana University and NYSERNet, operating northeast U.S. international exchange point • AtlanticWave: supported by FIU and SURA, • providing distributed exchange point peering for ANSP, RNP, and RedCLARA, • Atlantic rim peering with U.S. and international R&E and Federal backbone networks • New York to Miami, then from Miami to Sao Paulo • AMPATH: Operating as an international exchange point for the southeast U.S. and Latin America • Connects AmLight East at Miami • Connections to USA and international R&E backbone networks • SouthernLight (SoL): Brazil’s distributed International Exchange Point, located in Sao Paulo. • A project of FAPESP and RNP • Connects ANSP, RNP and RedCLARA • Connects AmLight East at Sao Paulo.

6. Hybrid Network Services and Goals • End-to-End circuits and routed IP connections are available today over AmLight East and West links • Hybrid networking capability will be implemented at AmLight Central and Andes • Deploy multiple layer2 and layer3 paths, providing diversity, predictabiityand production quality hybrid networking services • AmLight Central and Andes to PacificWave and AtlanticWave • Dynamic circuit provisioning: Participating in community activities: ION-WG, GLIF, OGF, Future Internet • RNP has been evaluating dynamic circuit provisioning technologies: DRAGON, AutoBAHN, UCLP, DICE IDC • A dynamic circuit provisioning solution shall be deployed based on evaluation results and recommendations • Deploy to end user communities as a solution, improvement, or early adoption

7. Monitoring and Measurement Goals • Enhance interoperability with Latin America and the international community • Current Methodology • Cacti/RRD tools for link utilization, capacity and usage patterns • Iperf for bandwidth availability and throughput • Nagios for latency, connection status and reporting • Enhancements • Exchange of measurement data • Deployment of compatible bandwidth and latency measurement services • Flow measurement • Anomaly detection and response

8. Measurement PointsActive and Planned for PerfSONAR Pilot Project • RedCLARA adopted the pS-NPToolkit • Deployed MPs at backbone POPs in Santiago, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Panama City and Tijuana • CLARA is conducting (with RNP coordinating) a pilot project with 8 Latin American NRENs • AMPATH is participating and has deployed a perfSONAR Measurement Point (MP) and NPToolkit AMPATH OK OK OK OK OK OK OK MP Partners MP RedCLARAbackbone MPMeasurement WG MP-AMPATH Slide adapted from Daniela Brauner, RNP

9. Governance • Steering Committee: Guides the project to support the management of lightpaths based on user service level requirements, etc. • Research Advisory Committee: Guides the project on the requirements of the broad research community • Engineering Committee: Guides the project on the implementation of new technologies and engineering requirements • South American Astronomy Coordination Committee (SAACC): Special committee to coordinate the needs of astronomy projects andinstitutions to improve their resource planning and implementation of operational connections between facilities in Chile and users in the continental USA

10. Year 1 Milestones Summary • Deploy AmLight Central and Andes links • Operate AmLight links alongside partners • Foster effective peering with domestic and international R&E networks • Monitor and measure on effectiveness of AmLight links • Implement dynamic circuit provisioning solution • Explore connections with science and CI communities on use of AmLight links • Facilitate AmLight governance and engineering • Participate in activities that will shape the evolution of U.S-Latin American R&E networking

11. Science Communities and Goals • AmLight aims to enhance U.S.-Latin America science research and education • Planning to engage science communities in USA-Latin America research collaborations • Eg., astronomy, environmental biology, genomics, geosciences, physics, etc. • Science impacts by country based on analysis of NSF awards database Science Impacts by Country Percentage of U.S.-Latin America Science Collaborations by Country

12. Genomics/Biological Infrastructure CIP maintains the world’s largest genetic bank of potatoes, including 1500 samples of 100 wild species collected in eight Latin American countries, and samples of 3800 traditional Andean cultivated potatoes (http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001871)

13. Environmental Biology Deployed instrumented buoy capable of sensing key limnological variables and moving data in near real-time to web-accessible databases

14. Astronomy • 66 antennas, 10 receivers in each antenna • Early science operations in 2010 • Full operations in 2012

15. Astronomy • Each image = 1GB • 350 GB of raw data per night • Data must be moved to processing center (e.g., NCSA) before next night begins (<24 hours) • Need >36Mbps internationally • Data must be processed within ~24 hours • Need to inform next night’s observing • TOTAL Dataset = 250 TB per year Dark Energy Camera Source: Chris Smith, NOAO

16. Astronomy

17. Particle Physics • Site in Malargue Argentina • ~ 3000 Km2 covered by detectors • 160 cosmic ray detectors • 24 telescopes in 4 buildings

18. Thank YouJulio Ibarra <julio@fiu.edu>