NSF International Research Network Connections (IRNC) Kickoff Meeting

Arlington, VAJuly 13, 2010

Julio Ibarra, PI, FIUHeidi Alvarez, Co-PI, FIU

Chip Cox, Co-PI, FIUJim Dolgonas, Co-PI, CENIC

AmLight: Enhancing Research and Education in the Americas

Outline

• Americas Lightpaths– Partners– Links and Resources

• Hybrid Networking Services and Goals• Monitoring and Measurement Goals• Governance• Science Communities and Goals

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AmLight: Americas LightPaths• AmLight aims to enhance science research and

education in the Americas – Interconnecting key points of aggregation– Providing operation of production infrastructure– Engaging U.S. and western hemisphere science and

engineering research and education communities– Creating an open instrument for collaboration– Maximizing benefits of all investors

• AmLight collaborating partners: – USA: FIU, CENIC, LEARN, AURA; Internet2, Indiana U.,

NYSERNet; NU and UIC; SURA, FLR, NLR– Latin America: FAPESP, CLARA, RNP, CUDI, REUNA

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AmLight Links• AmLight East:

– Miami (AMPATH)-Sao Paulo (SouthernLight):

• 5G protected• 5+10G unprotected

capacity

• AmLight West: – Tijuana-Los Angeles

(PacificWave): • dark fiber• 2x1G waves, increasing to

10G

• AmLight Andes: – Sao Paulo-Santiago:

• 1G protected capacity• collaboration with RedClara

• AmLight Central: – El Paso-Ciudad Juarez:

• dark fiber• 1G wave 4

AmLight: Linking the Americas and Beyond• Linking all R&E

networks in the Americas

• Linking with international R&E networks via exchange points:

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SouthernLight (SoL): Brazil’s distributed International Exchange Point, located in Sao Paulo. • A project of FAPESP and RNP• Connects ANSP, RNP and

RedCLARA• Connects AmLight East at Sao

Paulo.

AMPATH: Operating as an international exchange point for the southeast U.S. and Latin America• Connects AmLight

East at Miami• Connections to USA

and international R&E backbone networks

MAN LAN: Supported by Internet2, Indiana University and NYSERNet, operating northeast U.S. international exchange point

StarLight: operated by Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago, supporting U.S. Central international R&E exchange

PacificWave: operated by CENIC and PNWGP• Providing R&E peering to CUDI

and RedCLARA• Pacific rim peering with U.S. and

international R&E and U.S. Federal backbone networks

AtlanticWave: supported by FIU and SURA, • providing distributed

exchange point peering for ANSP, RNP, and RedCLARA,

• Atlantic rim peering with U.S. and international R&E and Federal backbone networks

• New York to Miami, then from Miami to Sao Paulo

Hybrid Network Services and Goals

• End-to-End circuits and routed IP connections are available today over AmLight East and West links

• Hybrid networking capability will be implemented at AmLight Central and Andes

• Deploy multiple layer2 and layer3 paths, providing diversity, predictabiity and production quality hybrid networking services– AmLight Central and Andes to PacificWave and AtlanticWave

• Dynamic circuit provisioning: Participating in community activities: ION-WG, GLIF, OGF, Future Internet

• RNP has been evaluating dynamic circuit provisioning technologies: DRAGON, AutoBAHN, UCLP, DICE IDC

• A dynamic circuit provisioning solution shall be deployed based on evaluation results and recommendations

• Deploy to end user communities as a solution, improvement, or early adoption

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Monitoring and Measurement Goals

• Enhance interoperability with Latin America and the international community

• Current Methodology– Cacti/RRD tools for link utilization, capacity and usage patterns– Iperf for bandwidth availability and throughput– Nagios for latency, connection status and reporting

• Enhancements– Exchange of measurement data– Deployment of compatible bandwidth and latency measurement

services– Flow measurement– Anomaly detection and response

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Measurement PointsActive and Planned for PerfSONAR Pilot

Project

MP Measurement WG

MP RedCLARA backbone

MP Partners

AMPATH

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MP-AMPATH

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• RedCLARA adopted the pS-NPToolkit

• Deployed MPs at backbone POPs in Santiago, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Panama City and Tijuana

• CLARA is conducting (with RNP coordinating) a pilot project with 8 Latin American NRENs

• AMPATH is participating and has deployed a perfSONAR Measurement Point (MP) and NPToolkit Slide adapted from Daniela Brauner, RNP

Governance

• Steering Committee: Guides the project to support the management of lightpaths based on user service level requirements, etc.

• Research Advisory Committee: Guides the project on the requirements of the broad research community

• Engineering Committee: Guides the project on the implementation of new technologies and engineering requirements

• South American Astronomy Coordination Committee (SAACC): Special committee to coordinate the needs of astronomy projects and institutions to improve their resource planning and implementation of operational connections between facilities in Chile and users in the continental USA

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Year 1 Milestones Summary

• Deploy AmLight Central and Andes links• Operate AmLight links alongside partners• Foster effective peering with domestic and international

R&E networks• Monitor and measure on effectiveness of AmLight links• Implement dynamic circuit provisioning solution• Explore connections with science and CI communities on

use of AmLight links• Facilitate AmLight governance and engineering• Participate in activities that will shape the evolution of

U.S-Latin American R&E networking10

Science Communities and Goals

• AmLight aims to enhance U.S.-Latin America science research and education

• Planning to engage science communities in USA-Latin America research collaborations– Eg., astronomy, environmental

biology, genomics, geosciences, physics, etc.

• Science impacts by country based on analysis of NSF awards database

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Percentage of U.S.-Latin America Science Collaborations by Country

Science Impacts by Country

Genomics/Biological Infrastructure

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Project Potato Genome Sequencing and annotation

Institutions Michigan State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias

Summary Generating genomic and bioinformatic resources for potato

Collaborators Argentina, Chile, Peru, USA

AmLight Requirements

Small file transfer and occasional large file transfers at speeds between 100Mpbs to 1Gbps

CIP maintains the world’s largest genetic bank of potatoes, including 1500 samples of 100 wild species collected in eight Latin American countries, and samples of 3800 traditional Andean cultivated potatoes (http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001871)

Environmental Biology

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Project Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON)

Institutions University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, Rio Grande do Sul State Brazil

Summary GLEON is a grassroots network of limnologist, ecologists, information technology experts, and engineers who have a common goal of building a scalable, persistent, network of lake ecology observatories

Collaborators Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, USA

AmLight Requirements

Small file transfer and occasional large file transfers at speeds between 100Mpbs to 1Gbps

Deployed instrumented buoy capable of sensing key limnological variables and moving data in near real-time to web-accessible databases

Astronomy

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Project Atacama Large Millimeter Array

Institutions NRAO, AUI, ESO, NINS, NAOJ

Summary International project to build & operate a large (66-antenna) millimeter/submm ( ~0.3-3mm) array at high altitude site (5000m) in northern Chile.

Collaborators Canada, Chile, Europe, Japan/Taiwan, USA

AmLight Requirements

Researchers require daily large file transfer and grid computing (machine to machine) at speeds between 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps

• 66 antennas, 10 receivers in each antenna

• Early science operations in 2010• Full operations in 2012

Astronomy

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Project Dark Energy Survey (DES)

Institutions FermiLab, NOAO, NCSA, and many USA and international universities and research institutions, including DES-Brazil

Summary DES studies the nature of the dark energy, a recently discovered component of the universe, representing more than 70% of the mass-energy content and responsible for the acceleration of its expansion

Collaborators DES is a joint DOE/NSF project. The DES consortium consists of 4 major DOE laboratories (Fermilab, SLAC, Argonne, and LBL), 2 major NSF centers (NCSA, NOAO), 5 USA universities, and 3 international collaborations: Spain, U.K., and Brazil

AmLight Requirements

Daily large file transfer at speeds between 100M and 1G, to transfer nightly data stream (~700GB per night) from CTIO in northern Chile to NCSA

Dark Energy Camera

Source: Chris Smith, NOAO

• Each image = 1GB• 350 GB of raw data per night• Data must be moved to processing

center (e.g., NCSA) before next night begins (<24 hours)• Need >36Mbps internationally

• Data must be processed within ~24 hours• Need to inform next night’s observing

• TOTAL Dataset = 250 TB per year

Astronomy

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Project Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO)

Institutions National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)

Summary NOAO operates the southern hemisphere facilities of CTIO, a complex of more than 15 telescopes and astronomical projects atop Cerro Tololo, a mountain in the Andes of northern Chile at an altitude of 2,200 meters

Collaborators AURA (the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy) operates NOAO on behalf of the NSF, in order to provide competitive peer-reviewed access to qualified U.S. and international astronomers to a wide range of astronomical facilities

AmLight Requirements

Daily large file transfer of data taken on all telescopes at speeds ranging from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps, together with varying network loads including small and large file transfer on demand from astronomical archives hosted both at CTIO and in the U.S. mainland

Particle Physics

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Project Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory and Advanced Accelerator Simulation

Institutions Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Summary The Pierre Auger Observatory is an international cosmic ray observatory designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

Collaborators Math and physical sciences collaborations are located in the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and outside of the Americas

AmLight Requirements

Varying network needs including small file transfer, occasional large file transfer, daily large file transfer and grid computing (machine to machine) at speeds ranging from 100M to 1G

• Site in Malargue Argentina• ~ 3000 Km2 covered by

detectors• 160 cosmic ray detectors• 24 telescopes in 4 buildings

Thank YouJulio Ibarra <julio@fiu.edu>

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