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16 September 2005 1 The ongoing evolution from Packet based networks to Hybrid Networks in Research & Education Networks Olivier Martin, CERN NEC2005 Conference, VARNA (Bulgaria)

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 2 Presentation Outline The demise of conventional packet based networks in the R&E community The advent of community managed dark fiber networks The Grid & its associated Wide Area Networking challenges on-demand Lambda Grids Ethernet over SONET & new standards WAN-PHY, GFP, VCAT/LCAS, G.709, OTN

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Olivier H. Martin (3)

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 4 System Capacity (Mbit/s) 10 6 5 4 3 2 1 1985 199019952000 2005Year Optical DWDM Capacity Ethernet Internet Backbone T1 T3 OC-3c OC-12c OC-48c 10-GE Ethernet Fast Ethernet GigE OC-192c 135 Mbit/s 565 Mbit/s 1.7 Gbit/s OC-48c 10 Gbit/s 1024 10 Gbit/s 160 10 Gbit/s 32 10 Gbit/s 16 10 Gbit/s 8 10 Gbit/s 4 10 Gbit/s 2 I/0 Rates = Optical Wavelength Capacity OC-768c 40-GE

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Olivier H. Martin (5) Internet Backbone Speeds T1 Lines T3 lines OC3c OC12c IP/ ATM-VCs MBPS

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Olivier H. Martin (6) Higher Speed, Lower cost, complexity and overhead High Speed IP Network Transport Trends B-ISDN IP Over SONET/SDH IP SONET/SDH Optical ATM SONET/SDH IP Optical IP Over Optical IP Optical IP Over ATM ATM SONET/SDH IP Optical Multiplexing, protection and management at every layer Signalling

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Olivier H. Martin (7)

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Olivier H. Martin (8)

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Olivier H. Martin (9)

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October 12, 2001Intro to Grid Computing and Globus Toolkit10 Network Exponentials l Network vs. computer performance Computer speed doubles every 18 months Network speed doubles every 9 months Difference = order of magnitude per 5 years l 1986 to 2000 Computers: x 500 Networks: x 340,000 l 2001 to 2010 Computers: x 60 Networks: x 4000 Moores Law vs. storage improvements vs. optical improvements. Graph from Scientific American (Jan- 2001) by Cleo Vilett, source Vined Khoslan, Kleiner, Caufield and Perkins.

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Know the user BW requirements # of users C A B A -> Lightweight users, browsing, mailing, home use B -> Business applications, multicast, streaming, VPNs, mostly LAN C -> Special scientific applications, computing, data grids, virtual-presence ADSLGigE LAN (3 of 12) F(t)

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What the user BW requirements Total BW C A B A -> Need full Internet routing, one to many B -> Need VPN services on/and full Internet routing, several to several C -> Need very fat pipes, limited multiple Virtual Organizations, few to few ADSLGigE LAN (4 of 12)

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So what are the facts Costs of fat pipes (fibers) are one/third of equipment to light them up Is what Lambda salesmen told Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam & Surfnet) Costs of optical equipment 10% of switching 10 % of full routing equipment for same throughput 100 Byte packet @ 10 Gb/s -> 80 ns to look up in 100 Mbyte routing table (light speed from me to you on the back row!) Big sciences need fat pipes Bottom line: create a hybrid architecture which serves all users in one coherent and cost effective way (5 of 12)

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Utilization trends Gbps Network Capacity Limit Jan 2005

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Todays hierarchical IP network University Region al National or Pan-National IP Network Other national networks NREN A NREN B NREN C NREN D

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Tomorrows peer to peer IP network World University Region al Server World National DWDM Network NREN A NREN B NREN C NREN D Child Lightpaths Child Lightpaths

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Creation of application VPNs Commodity Internet Bio-informatics Network University CERN University High Energy Physics Network eVLBI Network Dept Research Network Direct connect bypasses campus firewall

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Production vs Research Campus Networks >Increasingly campuses are deploying parallel networks for high end users >Reduces costs by providing high end network capability to only those who need it >Limitations of campus firewall and border router are eliminated >Many issues in regards to security, back door routing, etc >Campus networks may follow same evolution as campus computing >Discipline specific networks being extended into the campus

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UCLP intended for projects like National LambdaRail CAVEwave acquires a separate wavelength between Seattle and Chicago and wants to manage it as part of its network including add/drop, routing, partition etc NLR Condominium lambda network Original CAVEwave

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GEANT2 POP Design

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UltraLight Optical Exchange Point u L1, L2 and L3 services u Interfaces 1GE and 10GE 10GE WAN-PHY (SONET friendly) u Hybrid packet- and circuit-switched PoP Interface between packet- & circuit-switched networks u Control plane is L3 Photonic switch Calient or Glimmerglass Photonic Cross Connect Switch

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 22 LHC Data Grid Hierarchy Tier 1 Tier2 Center Online System CERN 700k SI95 ~1 PB Disk; Tape Robot FNAL: 200k SI95; 600 TB IN2P3 Center INFN Center RAL Center Institute Institute ~0.25TIPS Workstations ~100-400 MBytes/sec 2.5/10 Gbps 0.11 Gbps Physicists work on analysis channels Each institute has ~10 physicists working on one or more channels Physics data cache ~PByte/sec 10 Gbps Tier2 Center ~2.5 Gbps Tier 0 +1 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier2 Center Tier 2 Experiment CERN/Outside Resource Ratio ~1:2 Tier0/( Tier1)/( Tier2) ~1:1:1

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 23 grid for a physics study group Deploying the LHC Grid grid for a regional group les.robertson@cern.ch Tier2 Lab a Uni a Lab c Uni n Lab m Lab b Uni b Uni y Uni x Tier3 physics department Desktop Germany Tier 1 USA UK France Italy Taipei? CERN Tier 1 Japan The LHC Computing Centre CERN Tier 0

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 24 What you get les.robertson@cern.ch Tier2 Lab a Uni a Lab c Uni n Lab m Lab b Uni b Uni y Uni x physics department physicist Germany Tier 1 USA UK France Italy . CERN Tier 1 Japan CERN Tier 0

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 25 Main Networking Challenges Fulfill the, yet unproven, assertion that the network can be nearly transparent to the Grid Deploy suitable Wide Area Network infrastructure (50-100 Gb/s) Deploy suitable Local Area Network infrastructure (matching or exceeding that of the WAN) Seamless interconnection of LAN & WAN infrastructures firewall? End to End issues (transport protocols, PCs (Itanium, Xeon), 10GigE NICs (Intel, S2io), where are we today: memory to memory: 7.5Gb/s (PCI bus limit) memory to disk: 1.2MB (Windows 2003 server/NewiSys) disk to disk: 400MB (Linux), 600MB (Windows)

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 26 Main TCP issues Does not scale to some environments High speed, high latency Noisy Unfair behaviour with respect to: Round Trip Time (RTT Frame size (MSS) Access Bandwidth Widespread use of multiple streams in order to compensate for inherent TCP/IP limitations (e.g. Gridftp, BBftp): Bandage rather than a cure New TCP/IP proposals in order to restore performance in single stream environments Not clear if/when it will have a real impact In the mean time there is an absolute requirement for backbones with: Zero packet losses, And no packet re-ordering Which re-inforces the case for lambda Grids

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 27 TCP dynamics (10Gbps, 100ms RTT, 1500Bytes packets) Window size (W) = Bandwidth*Round Trip Time Wbits = 10Gbps*100ms = 1Gb Wpackets = 1Gb/(8*1500) = 83333 packets Standard Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) mechanisms: W=W/2 (halving the congestion window on loss event) W=W + 1 (increasing congestion window by one packet every RTT) Time to recover from W/2 to W (congestion avoidance) at 1 packet per RTT: RTT*Wp/2 = 1.157 hour In practice, 1 packet per 2 RTT because of delayed acks, i.e. 2.31 hour Packets per second: RTT*Wpackets = 833333 packets

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Single TCP stream performance under periodic losses Loss rate =0.01%: LAN BW utilization= 99% WAN BW utilization=1.2% Bandwidth available = 1 Gbps TCP throughput much more sensitive to packet loss in WANs than LANs TCPs congestion control algorithm (AIMD) is not well-suited to gigabit networks The effect of packets loss can be disastrous TCP is inefficient in high bandwidth*delay networks The future performance-outlook for computational grids looks bad if we continue to rely solely on the widely-deployed TCP RENO

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ResponsivenessPathBandwidth RTT (ms) MTU (Byte) Time to recover LAN 10 Gb/s 11500 430 ms GenevaChicago 10 Gb/s 1201500 1 hr 32 min Geneva-Los Angeles 1 Gb/s 1801500 23 min Geneva-Los Angeles 10 Gb/s 1801500 3 hr 51 min Geneva-Los Angeles 10 Gb/s 1809000 38 min Geneva-Los Angeles 10 Gb/s 180 64k (TSO) 5 min Geneva-Tokyo 1 Gb/s 3001500 1 hr 04 min Large MTU accelerates the growth of the window Time to recover from a packet loss decreases with large MTU Larger MTU reduces overhead per frames (saves CPU cycles, reduces the number of packets) C. RTT 2. MSS 2 C : Capacity of the link Time to recover from a single packet loss:

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 30 Internet2 land speed record history (IPv4 & IPv6) period 2000-2004

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 31 Layer1/2/3 networking (1) Conventional layer 3 technology is no longer fashionable because of: High associated costs, e.g. 200/300 KUSD for a 10G router interfaces Implied use of shared backbones The use of layer 1 or layer 2 technology is very attractive because it helps to solve a number of problems, e.g. 1500 bytes Ethernet frame size (layer1) Protocol transparency (layer1 & layer2) Minimum functionality hence, in theory, much lower costs (layer1&2)

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 32 Layer1/2/3 networking (2) 0n-demand Lambda Grids are becoming very popular: Pros: circuit oriented model like the telephone network, hence no need for complex transport protocols Lower equipment costs (i.e. in theory a factor 2 or 3 per layer) the concept of a dedicated end to end light path is very elegant Cons: End to end still very loosely defined, i.e. site to site, cluster to cluster or really host to host Higher circuit costs, Scalability, Additional middleware to deal with circuit set up/tear down, etc Extending dynamic VLAN functionality is a potential nightmare!

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 33 Lambda Grids What does it mean? Clearly different things to different people, hence the apparently easy consensus! Conservatively, on demand site to site connectivity Where is the innovation? What does it solve in terms of transport protocols? Where are the savings? Less interfaces needed (customer) but more standby/idle circuits needed (provider) Economics from the service provider vs the customer perspective? Traditionally, switched services have been very expensive, Usage vs flat charge Break even, switches vs leased, few hours/day Why would this change? In case there are no savings, why bother? More advanced, cluster to cluster Implies even more active circuits in paralle Is it realistic? Even more advanced, Host to Host or even per flow All optical Is it really realisitic?

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 34 Some Challenges Real bandwidth estimates given the chaotic nature of the requirements. End-end performance given the whole chain involved (disk-bus-memory-bus-network-bus-memory-bus- disk) Provisioning over complex network infrastructures (GEANT, NRENs etc) Cost model for options (packet+SLAs, circuit switched etc) Consistent Performance (dealing with firewalls) Merging leading edge research with production networking

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16 September 2005 NEC2005 conference Slide 35 Tentative conclusions There is a very clear trend towards community managed dark fiber networks As a consequence National Research & Education Networks are evolving into Telecom Operators, is it right? In the short term, almost certainly YES In the longer term, probably NO In many countries, there is NO other way to have affordable access to multi-Gbit/s networks, therefore this is clearly the right move The Grid & its associated Wide Area Networking challenges on-demand Lambda Grids are, according to me, extremely doubtful! Ethernet over SONET & new standards will revolutionize the Internet WAN-PHY (IEEE) has, according to me NO future! However, GFP, VCAT/LCAS, G.709, OTN are very likely to have a very bright future.

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Single TCP stream between Caltech and CERN u Available (PCI-X) Bandwidth=8.5 Gbps u RTT=250ms (16000 km) u 9000 Byte MTU u 15 min to increase throughput from 3 to 6 Gbps u Sending station: Tyan S2882 motherboard, 2x Opteron 2.4 GHz, 2 GB DDR. u Receiving station: CERN OpenLab:HP rx4640, 4x 1.5GHz Itanium-2, zx1 chipset, 8GB memory u Network adapter: S2IO 10 GbE Burst of packet losses Single packet loss CPU load = 100%

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High Throughput Disk to Disk Transfers: From 0.1 to 1GByte/sec Server Hardware (Rather than Network) Bottlenecks: Write/read and transmit tasks share the same limited resources: CPU, PCI-X bus, memory, IO chipset PCI-X bus bandwidth: 8.5 Gbps [133MHz x 64 bit] Link aggregation (802.3ad): Logical interface with two physical interfaces on two independent PCI-X buses. LAN test: 11.1 Gbps (memory to memory) Performance in this range (from 100 MByte/sec up to 1 GByte/sec) is required to build a responsive Grid-based Processing and Analysis System for LHC

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Transferring a TB from Caltech to CERN in 64-bit MS Windows Latest disk to disk over 10Gbps WAN: 4.3 Gbits/sec (536 MB/sec) - 8 TCP streams from CERN to Caltech; 1TB file 3 Supermicro Marvell SATA disk controllers + 24 SATA 7200rpm SATA disks Local Disk IO 9.6 Gbits/sec (1.2 GBytes/sec read/write, with