The Internet2 HENP Working Group Internet2 Fall Meeting October 27, 2002

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The Internet2 HENP Working GroupInternet2 Fall
MeetingOctober 27, 2002
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AGENDA

• 400 PM Welcome and Agenda review --- Harvey
  Newman/Shawn McKee (5 Minutes)
• 405 PM iVDGL Grid Operations Update --- Jim
  Williams (10 Minutes)
• 415 PM iVDGL Measurement Tools --- John Hicks
  (15 Minutes)
• 435 PM Tsunami High Speed File Transfers ---
  Steven Wallace (15 Minutes)
• 455 PM CENIC Status and Plans --- Dave Reese
  (15 Minutes)
• 515 PM Update on Pacific Light Rail and
  National Light Rail --- Ronald Johnson (15
  Minutes)
• 535 PM Planning for piPEline Deployment ---
  Russ Hobby (15 Minutes)
• 550 PM Discussions(Goals, Next Meeting) --- All
  (10 Minutes)

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HENP WG Goals

• One of our first task upon forming our working
  group was to define a set of goals
• These goals needed to address the range of
  interests and concerns of our community
• We arrived at 9 goals, which are now part of our
  charter.
• These are are the best definition of what our
  working group is about

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HENP WG Goal 1

• Support the development and deployment of
  toolkits, documentation and guidelines for best
  practices so that existing expert knowledge and
  tools for high throughput data transfers, packet
  loss and throughput-limit monitoring, and
  collaborative systems are widely known.
• Contact Tom Hacker/Shawn McKee (U Mich)

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HENP WG Goal 2

• Support the deployment of testing and monitoring
  tools and applications, link and site
  instrumentation, and a standard methodology, in
  association with the Internet2 End-to-End
  Initiative, so that all of HENP's major network
  paths can be adequately monitored, and used at
  full capability.
• Contact Iosif Legrand()/Les Cottrell (SLAC)
• (Status report today at WG meeting)

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HENP WG Goal 3

• Share information and provide advice on the
  configuration of routers, switches, PCs and
  network interfaces, and network testing and
  problem resolution, to achieve high performance
  over local and wide area networks in production.
  
• Contact Sylvain Ravot(CERN)/
• (Status report today at WG meeting)

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HENP WG Goal 4

• Work with the staffs of the international
  (Tier0), national (Tier1), regional (Tier2) and
  local (Tier3) Grid facilities as needed, to
  verify high throughput and network
  responsiveness, in association with the Grid
  projects, and for new collaborative interactive
  systems.
• Contact Les Cottrell (SLAC)

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HENP WG Goal 5

• Work with the sites, expert networking teams at
  national labs, universities, and computational
  science centers, to develop and expand on a
  knowledge base for high performance networks.
  Develop a support base of knowledgeable
  engineers, technicians and scientists to assist
  with the above goals.
• Contact

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HENP WG Goal 6

• Work to identify and track the programmatic
  network needs of the current and future
  generation HENP program quantitatively in terms
  of bandwidths, throughputs and computer system
  capabilities required to provide the needed
  overall performance and qualitatively in terms
  of the features and characteristics of existing
  and new systems needed for efficient distributed
  data access, processing and analysis as well as
  remote collaboration.
• Contact Harvey Newman(CalTech)

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HENP WG Goal 7

• Work with GriPhyN, PPDG, EU DataGrid, iVDGL and
  other Grid projects to ensure that the US and
  global network infrastructures are satisfying the
  programmatic needs of scientists using grids.
• Contact Dantong Yu(BNL)/Iosif Legrand()

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HENP WG Goal 8

• Work with the network engineering staffs of the
  US and global research networks to help define
  the requirements and operational procedures for a
  Global Grid Operations Center, and
  mission-specific Grid Operations Centers as
  needed, so that the ensemble of research networks
  is able to work efficiently and provide the high
  level of capability required.
• Contact Jim Williams (IndianaU)
• (Status report today at WG meeting)

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HENP WG Goal 9

• Investigate emerging new network technologies,
  such as optical switching and lambda-based
  network infrastructure, for applicability and
  potential use in support of the HENP program. If
  appropriate, develop a strategic plan for
  coordinated deployment of these technologies
  among HENP sites.
• Contact Phil Demar(FNAL)/Bill St. Arnaud(CANARIE)