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The Future of STAR TAP:Enabling e-Science Research

Thomas A. DeFanti

Principal Investigator, STAR TAP

Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory

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What is StarLight?

StarLight is an advanced optical infrastructure andproving ground for network services optimized forhigh-performance applications

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What is StarLight?

StarLight is jointly managed and engineered by • International Center for Advanced Internet

Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University• Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL),

University of Illinois at Chicago• Mathematics and Computer Science Division,

Argonne National Laboratory

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StarLight Infrastructure

• StarLight is a large research-friendly co-location facility with space, power and fiber that is being made available to university and national network collaborators as a point of presence in Chicago

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StarLight Legacy Infrastructure

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StarLight Infrastructure

• StarLight is a 1GigE and 10GigE switch/router facility for high-performance access to participating networks

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StarLight Infrastructure

Fiber/Equipment at StarLight (2001)• Existing Fiber: SBC/Ameritech and AT&T• Soon to be installed: Qwest, MFN, Global

Crossing, Teleglobe, and Level(3)• StarLight Equipment, Summer 2001:

– Cisco 6509 with GigE (plans for 10GigE)– STAR TAP DiffServ Router (Cisco 7507)– IPv6 Router– Juniper M10 (GigE and OC-12 interfaces)– Cisco LS1010 with OC-12 interfaces– Data mining cluster with GigE NICs– Visualization/video server cluster with

GigE NICs• 15 racks initially for partner co-location

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StarLight Infrastructure

• …Soon, Star Light will be an optical switching facility for wavelengths

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StarLight Connections

• The Netherlands (SURFnet) is bringing two OC-12c POS from Amsterdam to StarLight on July 1, 2001 and a 2.4Gbps lambda to StarLight on September 1, 2001

• Canada (CA*net3/4) will soon connect via GigE• I-WIRE, a State-of-Illinois-funded dark-fiber GigE, 10GigE,

and DWDM effort involving Illinois institutions: Argonne National Laboratory, National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology

• NSF Distributed Terascale Facility (DTF) 40Gb network (~2002)

• STAR TAP (AADS NAP) via two OC-12c ATM circuits

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StarLight: The Optical STAR TAP

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Targeted StarLightOptical Network Connections

Vancouver

Seattle

Portland

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Diego(SDSC)

NCSA

Chicago NYC

SURFnetCA*net4Asia-

Pacific

Asia-Pacific

AMPATH

PSC

Atlanta

IU

U Wisconsin

DTF 40Gb

NTON

NTON

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StarLight Services

StarLight encourages collaborations:• To provide tools and techniques for (university)

customer-controlled 10 Gigabit network flows• To create general control mechanisms from emerging

toolkits, such as Globus, to provide Grid [network] resource access and allocation services.

• To provide a range of new tools, such as GMPLS and OBGP, for designing, configuring and managing optical networks and their components

• To provide a new generation of tools for appropriate monitoring and measurements at multiple levels

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StarLight Plans 2002-2005

• Metropolitan optical switching at 10Gb• International switching hub, replicated in

Amsterdam and other places• Host advanced experiments

– Ultra DWDM– Lambda conversion– Optical routing – Ultra high-definition video and VR– Terascale computing– Petabyte data mining

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StarLight Thanks

• StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts at the University of Illinois at Chicago are made possible, in part, by funding to EVL from: – National Science Foundation (NSF) awards EIA-9802090, EIA-9871058,

ANI-9980480, and ANI-9730202– NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI)

cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to the National Computational Science Alliance

– State of Illinois I-WIRE Program– UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and College of Engineering

• Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management• Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering

and planning leadership• NCSA for DTF opportunities• To Steve Goldstein of NSF, Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE and Kees Neggers

of SURFnet for global leadership

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“Bring Us Your Lambdas!”

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tom@uic.edu

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