NSF ANNUAL REVIEW June 2010

Ocean Observatories Initiative

OOI Cyberinfrastructure Terrestrial CyberPoPs Implementation

Matthew Arrott, Mark James, Brian Dunne, Qian Liu

Life Cycle Architecture ReviewLa Jolla, CA

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Overview

•Key Objectives, Requirements, Parameters

•Observatory Network Deployment

•CyberPoP Architecture

•RFP Process & Schedule

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Key Objectives

• Scalable networking, computational and storage service to OOI

community

• Ocean and Climate research institutions

• Academic institution (K12 thru post-graduate)

• General public

• Scalable network peering strategy

• National and international earth observing initiatives

• Academic and commercial resource services providers

• Interconnecting the CyberPoPs and initial peering relationships

• Deploy wide area optical network controlled by OOI

• Deploy integrated wide area messaging fabric

• Deploy CyberPops at San Diego, Portland, Seattle, McLean and Woods

Hole

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Key Infrastructure Requirements

• Terrestrial WAN routes supported by redundant physical paths

• Initial terrestrial WAN bandwidth capacity scalable form 1 to 10

Gbps

• Terrestrial CyberPoPs deployed at qualified Collocation facilities

• Lights-out operations

• Controlled and managed at UCSD

• CyberPoPs aggregate availability 99.999% (Exclusive of scheduled

downtime)

• Includes network routes, computational service, data storage

• Balanced local and geographic redundancy

• All systems hardening and managed out of band of production

flows

• Component Failure policy - 2 day onsite vendor replacement

• Component Refresh policy - 5 year re-compete of contracts

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Key Operational Parameters•Observatory Operations and Surveillance

• 24x7 • Internal and external multi-point monitoring

•On-call Failure Response • 24x7 - 30 min mean time to start of analysis

•Weekly Maintenance• Friday 5pm to Saturday 5pm PT• “Always Available” strategy for service upgrades• Local site shutdown for equipment upgrades

•Help Desk• 8am ET to 5pm PT (12 hour window)

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Integrated Observatory Network Deployment

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Terrestrial CyberPoP Sites

Node Name Node Function Bandwidth

Portland, OR Acquisition Point 10 Gb/s

Woods Hole, MA Acquisition Point T-1

Seattle, WA Distribution Point 10 Gb/s

Ashburn, VA Distribution Point 10 Gb/s

San Diego, CA Engineering CenterDistribution Point (passive)

10 Gb/s

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CyberPoP Access

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Internal Service Configuration

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Physical Configuration

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Key Equipment VolumesItem Quantity Total Capacity UnitsStorage Systems 5 648 TB (raw)    454 TB (usable)       Computational Components 52 416 cores       Router/Switch Components 5 40 x 10G 10 Gbps ports    240 x 1G 1 Gbps ports       Load Balancers 5 10 Gps         Firewalls 5 8 x 1G 1 Gbps ports       RSA Security Devices 5 130 Tokens       DNS/DHCP/NTP device 10 12,000 DNS requests/second       Precision Time Protocol 5 Nanosecond Accuracy       Messaging Router 4 10 million Messages/second

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Network Peering Options

• Layer 3

• Ambient connectivity via Internet2 and commercial

Internet

• Interchange at Seattle and McLean (with San Diego as

backup)

• Direct connectivity via Regional Networks to the OOI

optical backbone

• Layer 2

• Direct connectivity via Regional Networks to the OOI

optical backbone

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First Article Implementation (cartoon)

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First Article Implementation (detailed)

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Portland CyberPoP – Physical Rack Layout

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RFP Process

• Finalize RFP and Procurement Plan (evaluation plan &

team)

• Approve Procurement Plan by Ocean Leadership & NSF

• Release RFP through UCSD procurement process

• Hold bidders conference

• Receive and evaluate proposals from vendors

• Selection of vendors

• Negotiate options with selected vendors

• Approval of Memo of Negotiation by OL & NSF

• UCSD award contract

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RFP Schedule

• September 2010 –

• Release RFPs,

• October 2010

• Bidders conference

• Receive proposal

• November 2010

• Complete evaluation process and selection

• January 2011

• Contract award

• February 2011

• Sites are operational

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Questions