The Future of STAR TAP: Enabling eScience Research

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The Future of STAR TAPEnabling 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
  and
• proving ground for network services optimized for
• high-performance applications

710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago Abbott Hall,
Northwestern University
Chicago view from 710
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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 ATT
• 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 (CAnet3/4) 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
This diagram subject to change
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Targeted StarLightOptical Network Connections
Asia-Pacific
SURFnet
CAnet4
Vancouver
Seattle
NTON
Portland
U Wisconsin
San Francisco
NYC
Chicago
PSC
NTON
IU
NCSA
Asia-Pacific
DTF 40Gb
Los Angeles
Atlanta
San Diego (SDSC)
AMPATH
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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!

• www.startap.net/starlight
• www.icair.org
• www.evl.uic.edu
• www.mcs.anl.gov
• tom_at_uic.edu

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