Global Lambda Integrated Facility




 Cees de Laat

University of Amsterdam

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Four LHC Experiments: The                              Petabyte to Exabyte Challenge
ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, LHCB
Higgs + New particles; Quark-Gluon Plasma; CP Violation

Sensor Grids

OptIPuter Project Goal:
Scaling to 100 Million Pixels
JuxtaView (UIC EVL) for PerspecTile LCD Wall
Digital Montage Viewer
8000x3600 Pixel Resolution~30M Pixels
Display Is Powered By
16 PCs with Graphics Cards
2 Gigabit Networking per PC

StarPlane
DWDM
backplane

 Showed you 4 types of Grids
Instrumentation Grids
Several massive data sources are coming online
Computational Grids
HEP and LOFAR analysis needs massive CPU capacity
Research: dynamic nation wide optical backplane control
Data (Store) Grids
Moving and storing HEP, Bio and Health data sets is major challenge
Visualization Grids
Data object (TByte sized) inspection, anywhere, anytime

Slide 8

So what?
Costs of optical equipment 10% of switching 10 % of full routing equipment for same throughput
10G routerblade -> 100-500 k$, 10G switch port -> 10-20 k$, MEMS port -> 0.7 k$
DWDM lasers for long reach expensive, 10-50k$
Bottom line: look for a hybrid architecture which serves all classes in a cost effective way ( map A -> L3 , B -> L2 , C -> L1)
Give each packet in the network the service it needs, but no more !

How low can you go?
Router
Ethernet
SONET
DWDMFiber

Services

Optical Exchange as Black Box

GLIF History
Brainstorming in Antalya at Terena conf. 2001
1th meeting at Terena offices 11-12 sep 2001
On invitation only (15) + public part
Thinking, SURFnet test lambda Starlight-Netherlight
2nd meeting appended to iGrid 2002 in Amsterdam
Public part in track, on invitation only day (22)
Core testbed brainstorming, idea checks, seeds for Translight
3th meeting Reykjavik, hosted by  NORDUnet 2003
Grid/Lambda track in conference + this meeting (35!)
Brainstorm applications and showcases
Technology roadmap
GLIF established --> glif.is

GLIF Mission Statement
GLIF is a world-scale Lambda-based Laboratory for application and middleware development on emerging LambdaGrids, where applications rely on dynamically configured networks based on optical wavelengths
GLIF is an environment (networking infrastructure, network engineering, system integration, middleware, applications) to accomplish real work

GLIF - 4 meeting
Invitation only
Nottingham 2-3 September 2004
60 participants
Attendance from China, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, US, UK, Taiwan, Australia, Tsjech, Korea, Canada, Ireland, Russia, Belgium, Denmark
Truly Worldwide!

Global Lambda Integrated Facility sept 2004

GLIF 2004

Discipline Networks

The main objectives of the 2004 meeting
GLIF Governance and policy
Our small-scale Lambda Workshop is now turning into a global activity. TransLight and similar projects contribute to the infrastructure part of GLIF. A good and well understood governance structure is key to the manageability and success of GLIF. Our prime goal is to decide upon and agree to the GLIF governance and infrastructure usage policy.
GLIF Lambda infrastructure and Lambda exchange implementations
A major function for previous Lambda Workshops was to get the network engineers together to discuss and agree on the topology, connectivity and interfaces of the Lambda facility. Technology developments need to be folded into the architecture and the expected outcome of this meeting is an agreed view on the interfaces and services of Lambda exchanges and a connectivity map of Lambdas for the next year, with a focus on iGrid 2005 and the emerging applications.
Persistent Applications
Key to the success of the GLIF effort is to connect the major applications to the Facility. We, therefore, need a list of prime applications to focus on and a roadmap to work with those applications to get them up to speed. The demonstrations at SC2004 and iGrid 2005 can be determined in this meeting.
Control Plane and Grid Integration
The GLIF can only function if we agree on the interfaces and protocols that talk to each other in the control plane on the contributed Lambda resources. The main players in this field are already meeting, almost on a bi-monthly schedule. Although not essential, this GLIF meeting could also host a breakout session on control plane middleware.

GLIF - 5 meeting
Collocated with iGrid2005 San Diego
CAL-(IT)2
Thursday 29 sept 2005
Presentations track
Friday 30 sept 2005
Work group meetings
NOT on invitation only anymore!
Open meeting for participants
Industry rep’s only on workgroup chairs invitation (no marketing!)

Transport of flows

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