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Speakers
• Dan Blumenthal
• Larry Smarr
• Andrew Chien
• Jason Leigh
• Rick Stevens
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Grid Day 0 – Circa 1975
Users
Central Processor Unit
Main Memory
RS- 232
DISK
Device DriversTimesharing
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Grid Day 1 – Circa 1982
Central Processor Unit
Main Memory
DISK
Workstations
Ethernet – Layer 2 (TCP/IP)
Network Stack
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Grid Day 2 - Circa 1987 (client/server)
Workstations
LANSwitch .Ethernet - Layer 2(TCP/IP)
.Heterogeneous Environments
.Software – FTP, RLOGIN
LAN
Disk
LANCentral Processor Unit
Main Memory
LANCentral Processor Unit
Main Memory
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Node Topology Change
Client/Server
LAN Switch WAN Switch
Client/Server
LAN Switch
AKA Router
.Separate Addressing Domains for LAN and WAN References.
.Separate Switches – Layer 2 & Layer 3
.Dynamic Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, etc)
.Optical Transmission for Wide Area Network (Bandwidth the same for local or wide-area)
Storage Storage
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AMPLIFIER TECHNOLOGY
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(WDM)
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Grid Day 3 – Networked (Early 90’s)
WAN Switch
LAN Switch
Storage
WAN Switch
LAN Switch
StorageStorage
Long HaulT1/OC3-12
WAN Switch
LAN Switch
Storage
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Grid Day 4 (today) – Grid Enabled - TeraGrid
Storage StorageStorage
.Optics is the Enabler
.Homogeneous Development Environments
.Multiple Lambda’s (4)
Long HaulOC48/192 (Sonet)
WAN Switch
LAN Switch
Storage
WAN Switch
LAN Switch
Storage
A Cluster is a LOCAL GRID
WAN Switch
LAN Switch
Storage
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Grid Day 5 (Future) – Layer 3 IPv4/6
WAN Switch
LAN SwitchIntegrated
LAN/WAN Switch
.Layer 3 Switching and Addressing is inherently Global in Nature.
.New Transport Protocols (Reliable UDP, XCP, SABLE, etc)
.Global view of the Grid to support (design @1, execute @2, store @3)
.DWDW – Multiple Optical Channels - Terabits/sec (Multiple Lambda’s)
.Cluster/SMP has integrated Grid Support
Storage Storage
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The OptIPuter 2003
Experimental NetworkWide Array of Vendors
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Global Architecture of a 2009 COTS PetaFLOPS System
I/O
ALL-OPTICAL SWITCH
Multi-DieMulti-Processor
1
23
64
63
49
48
4 516
17
18
32
3347 46
128 Die/Box4 CPU/Die
10 meters= 50 nanosec Delay
...
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LAN/WAN
Source: Steve Wallach, Supercomputing 2000 Keynote
Systems Become GRID Enabled
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