National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering

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National Science FoundationOffice of
International Science and Engineering
International Research Network Connections
(IRNC)Western-Hemisphere Research and Education
Networks - Links Interconnecting Latin America
(WHREN-LILA)
April 28, 2006

• Julio Ibarra, PI
• Heidi Alvarez, Co-PI
• Chip Cox, Co-PI
• John Silvester, Co-PI

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Outline

• The WHREN-LILA Project
• Network Connectivity in Latin America
• AtlanticWave
• Applications and Communities Being Enabled
• Education and Outreach

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WHREN-LILA IRNC Award 0441095

• 5-year NSF Cooperative Agreement
• Florida International University (IRNC awardee)
• Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in
  California
• Project support from the Academic Network of Sao
  Paulo (award 2003/13708-0)
• CLARA, Latin America
• CUDI, Mexico
• RNP, Brazil
• REUNA, Chile
• Links Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) aims
  to Improve connectivity in the Americas through
  the establishment of new inter-regional links
• Western-Hemisphere Research and Education
  Networks (WHREN) serves as a coordinating body
  whose aim is to leverage participants network
  resources to foster collaborative research and
  advance education throughout the Western
  Hemisphere

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Links Interconnecting Latin America

• Miami - Sao Paulo link 1.2Gbps by year end,
  evolving to 2.5Gbps
• Connects State of Sao Paulo academic network
  (ANSP) and Exchange Point, regional network
  (CLARA), Brazilian NREN (RNP), other
  international networks
• San Diego - Tijuana link operating at 2 x 1
  Gbps, providing dedicated GigE links to regional
  network (CLARA) and Mexican NREN (CUDI)
• East and west coast connectivity to I2 Abilene
  and other US and global RE networks

CUDI
CLARA
RNP
ANSP
CLARA
http//www.whren-lila.net
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Recent Connectivity Activities

• The Sao Paulo exchange point is in full operation
• A distributed exchange point service between
  Miami and Sao Paulo is now in service using the
  LILA-East link
• RedCLARA connection at Sao Paulo progressing
  (within 60 days)
• Nicaragua and Colombia recently connected to
  RedCLARA
• 14 NRENs from Latin America and RedCLARA are
  using the WHREN-LILA links to reach the U.S.

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HEPGrid Brazil international connection -
WHREN/LILA
São Paulo has become an important NAP (joining
CLARA / GEANT / Abilene networks)
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• Countries connected to
• CLARA
• Argentina
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

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AtlanticWave

• AtlanticWave will provide an International
  Peering Fabric
• US, Canada, Europe, South America
• Distributed IP peering points and add/drops in
• NYC, WDC, ATL, MIA, SPB
• SURA, FIU-AMPATH, IEEAF, MAX, SoX, MANLAN, and in
  partnership with the Academic Networks of Sao
  Paulo (ANSP) are combining efforts to establish
  AtlanticWave
• A-Wave is an integral component of the NSF IRNC
  WHREN-LILA project to create an open distributed
  exchange and transport service along the Atlantic
  rim
• Complements the PacificWave distributed peering
  facility on the Pacific rim

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The Global Picture
CHI
LON
STK
NYC
SEA
WDC
TOK
CER
LAX
ATL
AMS
A-Wave
HKO
MIA
A globally integrated set of light path
facilities waves, exchange points, etc (Note
map not complete)
AUS
Sonet/SDH
Sao Paulo (SPB)
Ethernet
Ethernet, initially
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AtlanticWave - Next Steps

• Finalize Memorandum of Understanding between
  participating exchange points and the
  Southeastern Universities Research Association
  (SURA)
• Order NLR wave from Miami (AMPATH) to NYC
  (MANLAN)
• Install wave
• Have AtlanticWave ready for service for Super
  Computing 2006 in November

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• UltraLight is
• A four year 2M NSF ITR funded by MPS
• Application driven Network RD
• A collaboration of BNL, Caltech, CERN, Florida,
  FIU, FNAL, Internet2, Michigan, MIT, SLAC
• Significant international participation Brazil,
  Japan, Korea amongst many others
• Goal Enable the network as a managed resource
• Meta-Goal Enable physics analysis and
  discoveries which could not otherwise be achieved

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UltraLight Advanced Network Services for Data
Intensive HEP Applications

• Extend and augment existing grid computing
  infrastructures (currently focused on
  CPU/storage) to include the network as an
  integral component
• A next-generation hybrid packet- and
  circuit-switched dynamic network infrastructure
• Partners Caltech, UF, FIU, UMich, I2, SLAC,
  FNALUERJ, USP, ANSP, RNP GLORIAD (cn, kr, ru),
  GLIF
• Strong support from Cisco, CENIC, NLR, FLR

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An International Grid Enabled Center for High
Energy Physics Research Educational Outreach
at FIU
An integrated program of research, network
infrastructure development, and education and
outreach at one of the largest minority schools
in the US
http//www.chepreo.org
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Education Workshop June, 2006 _at_ FIU

• Workshop Highlights
• 15 Students
• Lecturers / Leaders UltraLight coPIs / Outside
  Experts
• Topics Grid Computing, Advanced Networking
  Engineering, Network Montioring using MonALISA,
  Netflow, AMP data
• Early Summer
• Graduate Student Preparation
• Summer Project Preparation
• Participants from the US, Brazil and Argentina
• Provided a follow on activity to the PASI

www.ultralight.caltech.edu
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Opening a University Fiber Highway Between Mexico
and the US

• iGrid2005 demonstration collaboration between
  SDSU, SDSC from the U.S. and CICESE and CUDI from
  Mexico
• A grid was formed by computer clusters running
  Linux at CICESE and at SDSC
• Utilized the WHREN-LILA west link, the compute
  servers from PRAGMA, and the SDSU Visualization
  Center

• COLLABORATORS
• Carlos Casasus, CUDI, México,
  ccasasus_at_cudi.edu.mx
• Eric Frost, SDSU, US, eric.frost_at_sdsu.edu
• Dr. Gustavo Chapela Castañares, CONACYT,
  México,
• Dr. Federico Graef Ziehl, CICESE, México,
  fgraef_at_cicese.mx

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iGrid2005 Demonstration from Brazil
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Super Computing 2005Bandwidth Challenge
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Radio Astronomy

• VLBI - Very Long Baseline Interferometry
• VLBI ROEN - Radio Observatorio Espacial del
  Nordeste
• To be at 1 Gbps over 2.5 Gbps connection

Source Nelson Simoes, RNP
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Gemini, NOAO, CTIO, SOAR International
Collaboration
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Cyberinfrastructure for International
Biodiversity Research Collaboration Workshop

• Purpose Examine trends where Cyberinfrastructure
  is likely to effect change in biodiversity
  research and ecological informatics - January
  10-13, 2006, in Panama City, Panama
• Support and participation from 5 national science
  funding agencies the U.S. NSF, Panama (SENACYT),
  Mexico (CONACYT), Costa Rica (CR-USA), Colombia
  (Colciencias)
• 60 biology researchers, cyberinfrastructure
  technologists and funding agency directors from
  above countries, with participants from
  Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Peru
• Funding priorities, science collaboration
  objectives and the application of
  cyberinfrastructure to support those objectives
  were addressed

Award 0549456
http//www.ciara.fiu.edu/biocyber/index.htm
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CI-TEAM Demonstration
By understanding Research Education Cyber
Infrastructure, we will bridge the divide between
IT and the Sciences

• 4 Science Engineering Graduate Student
  Fellowships
• Research Stipend
• Tuition for Spring and Summer 2006
• CIARA IT Science Certificate
• Collaborative publication conference
  participation

NSF Award OCI-0537464
Oct 1, 2005 - Sept 30, 2006
Heidi Alvarez, PI CIARA Julio Ibarra, Co-PI
CIARA Chi Zhang, Co-PI CS Eric Johnson, Co-PI CS
www.cyberbridges.net
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Proposed Next Steps

• Expand program to multiple globally distributed
  institutions
• More students, More faculty, More technologists
• Call the program Global CyberBridges (GCB)
• Provide a Model Global Collaboration
  Infrastructure for workforce development in
  e-Science between US and China
• This model infrastructure could be developed
  through a partnership between CIARA of FIU, UCSD,
  and CNIC of CAS (MOU signed with CAS)
• Bridging facilitators at City University Hong
  Kong
• Partner with University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Proposed GCB Concept
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Overall Next Steps

• Explore future joint sponsorships that will
  engage U.S. and Latin American domain scientists
  to apply CI to their science
• Biodiversity and ecological research
• Genomics and others
• International training and education
  collaborations, bringing together research
  faculty and students, that apply CI to domain
  science
• PASI, workshops, etc.
• Work with the CI community to engage our domain
  scientists on the application of state-of-the-art
  research collaboration tools to satisfy their
  science objectives
• Scientific workflows, Communities of Interests
  (eg. PRAGMA)

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Thank You!

• WHREN-LILA, AMPATH infrastructure, CHEPREO,
  CyberBridges, science application support,
  education, outreach and community building
  efforts are made possible by funding and support
  from
• National Science Foundation (NSF) awards
  STI-0231844, MPS-0312038, OISE-0418366,
  OISE-0549456, OCI-0537464, and SCI-0441095
• Florida International University
• Latin American Research and Education community
• The many national and international collaborators
  who support our efforts