University of Illinois at Chicago

StarLight: Applications-Oriented Optical Wavelength Switching for the

Global Grid at STAR TAP

Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown and Andy Schmidt, UIC

Joe Mambretti and David Carr, iCAIR, Northwestern University

Linda Winkler and Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory

Bill St. Arnaud and René Hatem, CANARIE

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What is STAR TAP?

Infrastructure• Engineering Support and

Advanced Services– Technology evaluations– Applications support– Performance measurement– QoS testbeds

• Education and Outreach– Documentation– Conference participation– Host annual meetings

• Team Building– Liaison to network consortia– Application communities

Layer 2 ATM Layer 2 ATM Connection PointConnection PointRacks at AADS NAPfront/back views

www.startap.net

Managed by UIC in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern (MREN/iCAIR) and Indiana University; operated by Ameritech Advanced Data Services

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StarLight: The Optical STAR TAP

ANL

OC-12

CA*net4Bell Nexxia(Chicago)

I-WIRE& Optical

MREN

STAR TAP

UIUC UC

AADSATM

BN

NUEvanston

iCAIR

GigE

GigE

IUBloom-ington

IUPUI

PurdueStarLight

NUChicago

SURFnet

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?This diagram subject to change

UIC

University of Illinois at Chicago

StarLight Will Use CANARIE’s OBGP

AS 549ONetAS 271

BCnet AS 376RISQ

OBGP

OBGPOBGP

Chicago

• 10Gb paths throughout Canada reach West and East Coast USA from Chicago.

• Goal is to connect to the world via switched 10Gb wavelengths and routers at the STAR TAP OXC

New YorkSeattle

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Targeted StarLightOptical Network Connections

Vancouver

Seattle

Portland

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Diego(SDSC)

NCSA

Chicago NYC

CERNSURFnet

CA*net4

NTON

NTON

AsianNetworks

AsianNetworks

AMPATH

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Dark/Dim Fiber Model

• Purchase/lease like supercomputer equipment procurement with 10-20 year life

• And/or, borrow/swap fiber to complete connections

• Ideal for the Grid: control is from the edges (campuses and/or local networks), not within the backbone

• New goal: networks faster than the computers and instruments attached to them!

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Illinois’ I-WIRE:Distributed Cluster Computing

Research Areas•Displays/VR•Collaboration•Rendering•Applications•Data Mining

NCSA

Argonne UIC/EVL

Research Areas• Latency-Tolerant

Algorithms• Interaction of

SAN/LAN/WAN technologies

• Clusters

UIUC

CS

StarLight

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Emerging Grid User Communities

• NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)– Integrated instrumentation,

collaboration, simulation• NSF Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN)

– ATLAS, CMS, LIGO, SDSS– World-wide distributed analysis of

Petascale data• Access Grid, VRVS: supporting

group-based collaboration• And

– The Human Genome Project– The Earth System Grid and EOSDIS– Federating Brain Data– Computed MicroTomography …

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StarLight Proposes

• Optical meet points at neutral locations• Initially 10Gb Ethernet to Illinois and Canada• Connection to US West Coast via Canada• Connection on West Coast—Seattle to San

Diego via wavelength(s)• Then, 10Gb Ethernet over DWDM• Connection to Amsterdam via wavelengths• Connection to Japan via wavelengths• Optical switches in Europe and Japan

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Plausible StarLight Rollout Schedule

• Winter 2001– Colocation facility in Chicago wired and occupied– 1 GbE from UIC to NU to CA*net3– Use dark fiber, Cisco 6509s– Cluster, Grid and OBGP experiments with Canada

• Spring 2001-Fall 2001– ANL to UIC I-WIRE fiber installed – 10 GbE boards at UIC, NU, CA*net3/4, ANL

• Fall 2001-Spring 2002– DWDM between UIC, NU, CA*net4, ANL– Urbana (10Gb) and SURFnet (2.5 Gb) connect – Optical switches installed

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For More Information

www.startap.net

www.canarie.ca

www.surfnet.nl

maxine@uic.edu

tom@uic.edu

Annual STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

INET 2001 Stockholm June 5, 2001