Trans-Atlantic Lambda Economics

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• Trans-Atlantic Lambda Economics
• 40 years ago, 300b USA to Netherlands cost
  US4.00/minute

Now, an OC-192 (10Gb) USA to NetherLight costs
US0.46/minute (and there gt1000
available) Thats 300,000,000 times cheaper! if
you buy it for 525,600 minutes and manage it
yourself
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What Changed Since Euro-Link Started Six Years
Ago?

• The Grid emerged for distributed computing
  applications
• Lambdas available at reduced prices
• 1GE and 10GE switching/routing possible
• StarLight built for electronic and optical
  peering of international networks
• StarLight partners formed GLIF
• GLIF building the LambdaGrid lambda networks
  becoming a grid resource, just like computers,
  data stores and instruments
• Low cost alternatives to big routers installed

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GLIF Exchanges are Propagating Worldwide

• GLIF Exchanges are open exchanges (StarLight,
  NetherLight, UKLight, NorthernLight, Pacific
  Wave, MAN LAN, T-LEX)
• GLIF Exchanges deliver Grid cyberinfrastructure
  services, such as computing, storage and
  visualization support
• GLIF Exchanges can deal with big data streams and
  map them economically to the least expensive
  services they need

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Scientists have Multi-Gigabyte Data Objects to
Visualize

• Hundreds of megapixels 2-D images
• Microscopy or telescopes
• Remote sensing
• 32 bits/pixel
• GigaZone 3-D (1Kx1Kx1K) objects
• Supercomputer simulations
• Seismic or medical imaging
• Zones are multiple 64-bit word entities
• Interactive analysis and visualization of such
  data objects is impossible today
• Pictures are the focus of the OptIPuter project

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Todays Aerial Imaging is gt500,000 Times More
Detailed than Landsat7
Shane DeGross
SDSU Campus
30 meter pixels
Source Eric Frost, SDSU
4 centimeter pixels
Laurie Cooper, SDSU
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10GE CAVEwaveon the National LambdaRail
www.evl.uic.edu
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Whats a 10GE CAVEwave Cost?

• Less than a 1GE Internet connection
• About what a network engineer or full professor
  costs, fully loaded
• Much less than the computers at each end to keep
  it busy
• Much less than the router capacity needed at each
  end to accept the 10GE
• A bit less than a 10GE USA to Amsterdam costs
• Your institution needs to be a NLR member

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International ExperimentalLit up Lambdas Today
Northern Light
European lambdas to US (red) 10Gb
AmsterdamChicago 10Gb LondonChicago 10Gb
AmsterdamNYC Canadian lambdas to US
(white) 30Gb Chicago-Canada-NYC 30Gb
Chicago-Canada-Seattle US sublambdas to Europe
(grey) 6Gb ChicagoAmsterdam Japan JGN II
lambda to US (cyan) 10Gb ChicagoTokyo European
lambdas (yellow) 10Gb AmsterdamCERN 2.5Gb
PragueAmsterdam 2.5Gb StockholmAmsterdam 10Gb
LondonAmsterdam IEEAF lambdas (blue) 10Gb
NYCAmsterdam 10Gb SeattleTokyo
CAVEwave/PacificWave (purple) 10Gb
ChicagoSeattle 10Gb SeattleLASan Diego 10Gb
SeattleLA
UKLight
Japan
CERN
PNWGP
Manhattan Landing
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GLIF is Taking Off!
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Bring Us Your Lambdas!

• Please bring Linda your lambdas
• Build GLIF Exchange
• Propose an application or network experiment

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Announcing
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Grid 2oo5
T H E G L O B A L L A M B D A I N T E G R A T
E D F A C I L I T Y

• September 26-30, 2005
• University of California, San Diego
• California Institute for Telecommunications and
  Information Technology Cal-(IT)2
• United States

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Thank You!

• OptIPuter and TransLight planning, research,
  collaborations, and outreach efforts are made
  possible, in major part, by funding from
• National Science Foundation (NSF) awards
  SCI-9980480, SCI-9730202, CNS-9802090,
  CNS-9871058, SCI-0225642, and CNS-0115809
• State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC
  cost sharing
• Northwestern University for providing space,
  power, fiber, engineering and management
• Pacific Wave, StarLight, National LambdaRail,
  CENIC, PNWGP, CANARIE, SURFnet, UKERNA, and IEEAF
  for Lightpaths
• DoE/Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and
  I-WIRE network engineering and design