Empowering Applications

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Empowering Applications

• Tom DeFanti
• Distinguished Professor
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Principal Investigator, NSF StarLight

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What Applications Need Empowering?Guaranteed
Latency/Scheduling/Bandwidth
ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter Array www.alma.nrao
.edu
International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory
www.ivdgl.org
GriPhyN Grid Physics Network www.griphyn.org
TeraGrid www.teragrid.org
Network for Earthquake Engineering
Simulation www.neesgrid.org
The OptIPuter www.calit2.net/news/ 2002/9-25-optip
uter.html
GEON Geosciences Network www.geongrid.org
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) http//lhc-new-omepage
. web.cern.ch
Particle Physics Data Grid www.ppdg.net
EarthScope www.earthscope.org
NEON National Ecological Observatory
Network www.sdsc.edu/NEON
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NSFs StarLight in ChicagoA Huge 1 Gigabit and
10 Gigabit Exchange

• StarLight hosts electronic switching and routing
  of circuits for US and International Research and
  Education networks
• As of SC03, StarLight is now also optically
  switching wavelengths.

Abbott Hall, Northwestern Universitys Chicago
downtown campus
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StarLight Supports Application-Empowered Networks
with

• Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching
• 1 10Gb photonic switching
• 40 rack spaces for application-specific
  networking, computing and storage equipment
• Access to fiber and circuits from SBC, Qwest,
  ATT, Global Crossing, T-Systems, Looking Glass,
  and RCN
• Engineering and middle people

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The Application-Empowered Network Paradigm Shift
A global economy designed to waste transistors,
power, and silicon area -and conserve bandwidth
above all- is breaking apart and reorganizing
itself to waste bandwidth and conserve power,
silicon area, and transistors." George Gilder
Telecosm (2000)
Although I disagree with Gilder on a lot things,
I think he is right when he claims applications
that waste bandwidth will win.  Bandwidth is
becoming so cheap that soon I don't think we will
need to optimize bandwidth use by switching it. 
Instead applications or disciplines will buy
nailed bandwidth to create their own autonomous
networks. Bill St. Arnaud 2003
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Chicago
Cheap Local Bandwidth over I-WIRE a 20-year
GigE at the cost of a month or two of OC-12
service, or your worst grad student for a year
UIC
Metro LambdaGrid (I-WIRE and OMNInet)
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Cheap State-wide Bandwidth over I-WIRE Cost of
Rehabbing a University Building or two
Source Charlie Catlett, ANL
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Cheap National Bandwidth over the National Lambda
Rail Cost of a brand new university building
or two
Source John Silvester, Dave Reese, Tom West,
CENIC
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• Cheap Trans-Atlantic Bandwidth
• An OC-192 (10Gb) costs 2.00/minute

30 years ago, 300b USA to Netherlands cost
US4.00/minute
Ad from 1956
Thats 2,500,000 times cheaper! if you buy
525,600 minutes and manage it yourself
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TransLight Lambdas
European lambdas to US 10Gb AmsterdamChicago
10Gb LondonChicago 10Gb CERN
Chicago Canadian lambdas to US 10Gb
Chicago-Canada-NYC 10Gb Chicago-Canada-Seattle U
S lambdas to Europe 5Gb ChicagoAmsterdam 2.5Gb
ChicagoTokyo European lambdas 10Gb
AmsterdamCERN 2.5Gb PragueAmsterdam 2.5Gb
StockholmAmsterdam 10Gb LondonAmsterdam IEEAF
lambdas (blue) 10Gb NYCAmsterdam 10Gb
SeattleTokyo
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Communications of the ACM (CACM) Volume 46,
Number 11, November 2003
Special issue Blueprint for the Future of
High-Performance Networking

• Introduction, Maxine Brown (guest editor)
• TransLight a global-scale LambdaGrid for
  e-science, Tom DeFanti, Cees de Laat, Joe
  Mambretti, Kees Neggers, Bill St. Arnaud
• Transport protocols for high performance, Aaron
  Falk, Ted Faber, Joseph Bannister, Andrew Chien,
  Robert Grossman, Jason Leigh
• Data integration in a bandwidth-rich world,
  Ian Foster, Robert Grossman
• The OptIPuter, Larry Smarr, Andrew Chien, Tom
  DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Philip Papadopoulos
• Data-intensive e-science frontier research,
  Harvey Newman, Mark Ellisman, John Orcutt

http//www.acm.org/cacm
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Thank You!

• StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and
  outreach efforts are made possible, in major
  part, by funding from
• National Science Foundation (NSF) awards
  ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-9802090,
  EIA-9871058, ANI-0225642, and EIA-0115809
• NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational
  Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement
  ACI-9619019 to NCSA
• State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC
  cost sharing
• Northwestern University for providing space,
  engineering and management
• NSF/CISE/ANIR and DoE/Argonne National Laboratory
  for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and
  design
• NSF/CISE/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid/ETF
  opportunities
• UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and ITN/GTRN transit
  IU for the GlobalNOC
• CAnet4 for North American transport
• Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers of
  SURFnet, Olivier Martin of CERN and Harvey Newman
  of CalTech for networking leadership
• Larry Smarr of Cal-(IT)2 for I-WIRE and
  OptIPuter leadership