iGrid Workshop: September 2629, 2005

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Calit2 University of California, San Diego

• iGrid Workshop September 26-29, 2005
• GLIF Meeting September 29-30, 2005
• Maxine Brown and Tom DeFanti, Co-Chairs
• Larry Smarr and Ramesh Rao, Hosts

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iGrid 2005 is

• 4th community-driven biennial International Grid
  event
• To accelerate the use of multi-10Gb international
  and national networks
• To advance scientific research
• To educate decision makers, academicians and
  industry researchers on the benefits of hybrid
  networks
• Applications 49 demonstrations from 20 countries
• Australia, Brazil, Canada, CERN, China, Czech
  Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea,
  Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain,
  Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA
• Symposium 25 lectures, panels and master classes
  on the applications, middleware, and underlying
  cyberinfrastructure
• 450 attendees from 24 countries
• 130 participating organizations, both academic
  and industrial
• iGrid showcases the latest advances in scientific
  collaboration and discovery enabled by GLIF
  partners and research teams

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GLIF - Global Lambda Integrated Facility

• GLIF is the international virtual organization
  creating a world-scale LambdaGrid laboratory
• Driven by the demands of application scientists
• Engineered by leading network engineers
• Enabled by grid middleware developers

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GLIF History

• Invitation-only annual LambdaGrid Workshops to
  discuss optical networking and the Global
  LambdaGrid
• 2001 in Amsterdam, hosted by the Trans-European
  Research and Education Networking Association
  (TERENA, Europe)
• 2002 in Amsterdam, hosted by the Amsterdam
  Science and Technology Centre

2002
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GLIF History

• 2003 in Reykjavik, Iceland, hosted by NORDUnet
• Renamed GLIF, a virtual facility in support of
  persistent data-intensive scientific research and
  middleware development on LambdaGrids

2003
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GLIF 2004 60 World Leaders in Advanced
Networking and the Scientists Who Need It

• 2004 in Nottingham, UK, hosted by UKERNA

2004
Photo courtesy of Steve Wallace
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GLIF 2005
GLIF 2005 Annual Meeting September 30,
2005 (picture to come)
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iGrid History
1997 NSF-funded support of STAR TAP and High
Performance International Internet Services
(Euro-Link, TransPAC, MIRnet and AMPATH)
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iGrid 1998 at SC98November 7-13, 1998, Orlando,
Florida, USA

• 10 countries Australia, Canada, CERN, Germany,
  Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan,
  USA
• 22 demonstrations featured technical innovations
  and application advancements requiring high-speed
  networks, with emphasis on remote instrumentation
  control, tele-immersion, real-time client server
  systems, multimedia, tele-teaching, digital
  video, distributed computing, and
  high-throughput, high-priority data transfers

www.startap.net/igrid98
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iGrid 2000 at INET 2000July 18-21, 2000,
Yokohama, Japan

• 14 countries Canada, CERN, Germany, Greece,
  Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore,
  Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA
• 24 demonstrations featuring technical innovations
  in tele-immersion, large datasets, distributed
  computing, remote instrumentation, collaboration,
  streaming media, human/computer interfaces,
  digital video and high-definition television, and
  grid architecture development, and application
  advancements in science, engineering, cultural
  heritage, distance education, media
  communications, and art and architecture
• 100Mb transpacific bandwidth carefully managed

www.startap.net/igrid2000
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iGrid 2002 September 24-26, 2002, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands

• 28 demonstrations from 16 countries Australia,
  Canada, CERN/Switzerland, France, Finland,
  Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
  Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the United
  Kingdom and the USA.
• Applications demonstrated art, bioinformatics,
  chemistry, cosmology, cultural heritage,
  education, high-definition media streaming,
  manufacturing, medicine, neuroscience, physics,
  tele-science
• Grid technologies demonstrated Major emphasis on
  grid middleware, data management grids, data
  replication grids, visualization grids,
  data/visualization grids, computational grids,
  access grids, grid portals
• 25Gb transatlantic bandwidth (100Mb/attendee,
  250x iGrid2000!)

www.startap.net/igrid2002
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iGrid 2005 September 26-29, 2005, San Diego,
California

• 49 demonstrations showcasing global experiments
  creating next-generation shared open-source
  LambdaGrid services
• Scientific instruments
• High-definition video and digital cinema
  streaming
• Visualization and virtual reality
• High-performance computing
• Data analysis
• Control of the underlying lambdas themselves
• 20 countries Australia, Brazil, Canada, CERN,
  China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy,
  Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland,
  Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, USA
• More than 150Gb GLIF transoceanic bandwidth
  alone 100Gb of bandwidth into the Calit2
  building!

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LamdbaGrid Services Enabling E-Science
Instruments Coming Online 2007/2008

• CERNs Large Hadron Collider will come online
• Global Lambdas for Particle Physics Analysis -
  USA, CERN, Brazil, Korea, UK
• Interactive 3D HD Video Transport and
  Collaborative Data Analysis for e-Science over
  UCLP - Korea
• The Sino-Italian ARGO-Yangbajing (YBJ)
  International Cosmic Ray Observatory in the YBJ
  valley of the Tibetan highland will be fully
  operational
• Transfer, Process and Distribution of Mass Cosmic
  Ray Data from Tibet - China, Italy
• Japans 2-PFLOPS system being developed as part
  of the GRAPE-DR project will be operational
• Data Reservoir on IPv6 10Gb Disk Service in a
  Box - Japan

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Focusing on the Next Technology Leap

• GLIF Mission To create and sustain a Global
  Facility supporting leading-edge capabilities
  that enable high-performance applications and
  services, especially those based on new and
  emerging technologies and paradigms related to
  advanced optical networking.

• iGrid Mission To provide a forum and testbed for
  the worlds e-science research community -
  including network engineers, middleware
  developers, application scientists - to work
  together to tackle the demands created by new and
  emerging technologies and paradigms in
  high-performance computing and networking.

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iGrid 2005 Acknowledgments

• Calit2 at the University of California, San Diego
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University
  of Illinois at Chicago
• Mathematics and Computer Science Division,
  Argonne National Laboratory
• SARA Computing and Networking Services
• SURFnet
• University of Amsterdam
• CANARIE
• Major sponsors CENIC, Ciena, Cisco Systems,
  Force10 Networks, Glimmerglass, Globus Alliance,
  GRIDtoday, Looking Glass Networks, National
  LambdaRail, National Science Foundation USA,
  Nortel Corporation, Qwest, SGI/James River
  Technical, Sony, TeraGrid, University of
  California Industry-University Cooperative
  Research Program
• iGrid Lessons Learned Thursday Sept 29, 430
  600pm
• GLIF Research Applications Working Group
  Friday Sept 30
• Coming Summer 2006! Special iGrid issue of
  FGCS The International Journal of Grid
  Computing, published by Elsevier
• www.igrid2005.org
• www.glif.is