Why Optical Networks Will Become the 21st Century Driver

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Why Optical NetworksWill Become the 21st Century
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Scientific American, January 2001
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Imagining a Fiber Optic Infrastructure Supporting
Interactive Visualization--SIGGRAPH 1989
What we really have to do is eliminate distance
between individuals who want to interact with
other people and with other computers. ? Larry
Smarr, Director National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, UIUC
ATT Sun
Using satellite technologydemo of What It might
be like to have high-speed fiber-optic links
between advanced computers in two different
geographic locations. ? Al Gore, Senator Chair,
US Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and
Space
http//sunsite.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sunflash/1989
/Aug/08.21.89.tele.video
Source Maxine Brown
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The OptIPuter Project Removing Bandwidth as an
Obstacle In Data Intensive Sciences

• NSF Large Information Technology Research
  Proposal
• UCSD and UIC Lead CampusesLarry Smarr PI
• USC, UCI, SDSU, NW Partnering Campuses
• Industrial Partners IBM, Sun, Telcordia/SAIC,
  Chiaro, Calient
• 13.5 Million Over Five Years
• Optical IP Streams From Lab Clusters to Large
  Data Objects

NIH Biomedical Informatics Research Network
NSF EarthScope
http//ncmir.ucsd.edu/gallery.html
siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/gallery/shoot1/index
.shtml
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Interactive Visual Analysis of Large Datasets
Lake Tahoe Tidal Wave Threat Analysis
Graham Kent, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography
3 Megapixel Panoram Display
Cal-(IT)2 Visualization Center at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography
http//siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/gallery/shoot
1/index.shtml
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OptIPuter End User Building BlocksScalable
Compute Storage Viz Linux Clusters

• Cluster 16 128 Nodes (Typically Two Intel
  Processors)
• Storage 0.1-1 TB per Node
• Graphics Nvidia Card Per Node
• Visualization Displays Desktop, Wall, Theatre,
  Tiled, VR
• Specialized Data Source/Sink Instruments
• All Nodes Have 1 or 10 GigE I/O
• Clusters Connected by Lambdas or Fibers

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OptIPuter is Studying the Best Application
Usagefor Both Routed vs. Switched Lambdas

• OptIPuter Evaluating Both
• Routers
• Chiaro, Juniper, Cisco, Force10
• Optical Switches
• Calient, Glimmerglass, BigBangWidth
• UCSD Focusing on Routing Initially
• UIC Focusing on Switching initially
• Next Year Merge into Mixed Optical Fabric

Optical Switch Workshop October 2002
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OptIPuter Software Architecture for Distributed
Virtual Computers v1.1
OptIPuter Applications
Visualization
DVC 1
DVC 2
DVC 3
Layer 5 SABUL, RBUDP, Fast, GTP
Real-Time Objects
Security Models
Data Services DWTP
Higher Level Grid Services
Grid and Web Middleware (Globus/OGSA/WebServices
/J2EE)
Layer 4 XCP
Node Operating Systems
l-configuration, Net Management
Physical Resources
Andrew Chien OptIPuter Systems Software Architect
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The UCSD OptIPuter Deployment
The Dedicated Optical Grid OptIPuter
Campus-Scale Experimental Network
To CENIC
Forged a New Level Of Campus Collaboration In
Networking Infrastructure
SDSC
SDSC
SDSCAnnex
SDSC Annex
Preuss
High School
JSOE
Engineering
2 Miles 0.01 ms
CRCA
SOM
6th College
Medicine
Phys. Sci -Keck
Collocation
Node M
Earth Sciences
SIO
Source Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC Greg Hidley,
Cal-(IT)2
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OptIPuter 2004 _at_ UCSDCoupling Linux Clusters
with High Resolution Visualization
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OptIPuter Project GoalScaling to 100 Million
Pixels

• JuxtaView (UIC EVL) on PerspecTile LCD Wall
• Digital Montage Viewer
• 8000x3600 Pixel Resolution30M Pixels
• Display Is Powered By
• 16 PCs with Graphics Cards
• 2 Gigabit Networking per PC

NCMIR Brain Microscopy (2800x4000 24 layers)
Source Jason Leigh, EVL, UIC USGS EROS
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Multi-Latency OptIPuter LaboratoryNational-Scale
Experimental Network
National Lambda Rail Partnership Serves Very
High-End Experimental and Research Applications
4 x 10GB Wavelengths Initially Capable of 40 x
10Gb wavelengths at Buildout
2000 Miles 10 ms 1000x Campus Latency
Source John Silvester, Dave Reese, Tom West-CENIC
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Chicago Metro-Scale OptIPuter Uses I-WIRE and
OMNInet Fiber

• Optically linking EVL and NU using I-WIRE and
  OMNInet Fiber
• OMNInet is a 10GigE Metro-Scale Testbed
• I-WIRE is a 7,500,000 State of Illinois
  Initiative

Chicago
UIC
Source Tom DeFanti, EVL, UIC
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An International-Scale OptIPuter is Operational
over the First Set of 76 International GE
TransLight Lambdas
European lambdas to US 8 GEs Amsterdam
Chicago 8 GEs LondonChicago Canadian lambdas
to US 8 GEs Chicago Canada NYC 8 GEs
Chicago Canada Seattle US lambdas to Europe 4
GEs ChicagoAmsterdam 3 GEs Chicago CERN Europ
ean lambdas 8 GEs AmsterdamCERN 2 GEs
PragueAmsterdam 2 GEs StockholmAmsterdam 8
GEs LondonAmsterdam TransPAC lambda 1 GE
ChicagoTokyo IEEAF lambdas (blue) 8 GEs
NYCAmsterdam 8 GEs SeattleTokyo
NorthernLight
UKLight
CERN
Source Tom DeFanti, EVL, UIC
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The OptIPuter GeoWall2 at Supercomputing 03
See the National Center for Data Mining Booth
2935 SC 03