StarLight, the Facility

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StarLight, the Facility

• Joe Mambretti, Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown
• Alan Verlo, Linda Winkler

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StarLight A 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Exchange

• StarLight hosts electronic switching and routing
  for United States national and international
  Research and Education networks
• Since November 2003, StarLight has been optically
  switching wavelengths between Chicago and
  Amsterdam

Abbott Hall, Northwestern Universitys Chicago
downtown campus
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StarLight History
NSF-funded support of STAR TAP (1997-2000) and
STAR TAP2/ StarLight (2000-2005), and the High
Performance International Internet Services
program (Euro-Link, TransPAC, MIRnet and AMPATH).
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StarLight, the Facility

• Flexible facility for scientists by scientists
  input from
• E-science and C-science researchers
• Technical leaders of NSF cyberinfrastructure
• Academic national and international RE networks
• Next-generation Federal networks
• Metro/regional efforts
• A GE and 10 GE exchange for RE Networks
• A MEMS-switched Optical Research Network Exchange
• A specialized co-location space for new
  implementations and integrations of
  infrastructure
• Home to fiber and circuits from SBC, Qwest, ATT,
  Global Crossing, Level3, T-Systems, Looking
  Glass, RCN, and I-WIRE, custom integrators, like
  MCI for DREN

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StarLight Facility-ConnectedUS and International
Networks

• US National
• Abilene/HOPI
• DREN (DOD)
• ESnet (DOE)
• NLR
• NASA GSFC
• NISN (NASA)
• NREN (NASA)
• UltraScience Net (DOE)
• US Other
• CAVEwave
• FermiWave
• I-Light (Indiana)
• I-WIRE (Illinois)
• LONI (Louisiana) via NLR
• MiLR (Michigan LambdaRail)
• MREN (Midwest)

• NIH
• OMNInet2
• TeraGrid
• TRECC
• UltraLight (HEP) via NLR
• USGS
• WiscWave (Wisconsin)
• ASnet (Taiwan)
• CAnet4 (Canada)
• CERNET (China)
• GLORIAD-CSTNet (China) via CAnet4
• GLORIAD-Russia via CAnet4

• GLORIAD/KREONet2 (Korea) via CAnet4
• HARNET (Hong Kong)
• JGN-II (Japan)
• SINET (Japan)
• SURFnet (Netherlands), which also carries
  NORDUnet and CESNET
• TaiwanLight (Taiwan) via CAnet4
• TransLight/StarLight IRNC
• UKLight (UK)
• US LHCnet (CERN)

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E-Science and C-Science Experiments in StarLight
Co-Lo Space

• OMNInet2 Joe Mambretti, Nortel/SBC
• DARPA DWDM-RAM Joe Mambretti and Nortel
  Networks
• NSF/DOE Caltech/CERN Cluster for Data Grid
  development (GriPhyN, PPDG, iVDGL, EU DataGrid)
  Harvey Newman
• NSF Distributed Optical Testbed (DOT) Joe
  Mambretti and Valerie Taylor
• NSF Logistical Networking Micah Beck and Yotta
  Yotta

• NSF National Center for Data Mining Cluster Bob
  Grossman
• NSF OptIPuter visualization cluster Tom DeFanti
  and Jason Leigh
• NSF MEMS Optical Switching Tom DeFanti and
  Jason Leigh
• University of Amsterdam Itanium for Optical
  switching Generic AAA Cees de Laat
• USGS map storage

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StarLight Provided Major iGrid 2005 Support
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OptIPuter Major NSF-funded Research Initiative
Utilizing StarLight Capabilities
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The OptIPuter Project Removing Bandwidth as an
Obstacle In Data Intensive Sciences

• An NSF-funded award that focuses on developing
  technology to enable the real-time collaboration
  and visualization of very-large time-varying
  volumetric datasets for the earth sciences and
  the biosciences
• OptIPuter is examining a new model of computing
  whereby ultra-high-speed networks form the
  backplane of a global computer

NIH Biomedical Informatics
NSF EarthScope and ORION
Research Network
http//ncmir.ucsd.edu/gallery.html
siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/gallery/shoot1/index
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OptIPuter is a Global Virtual Computer

• Hardware clusters of computers that act as giant
  storage, compute or visualization peripherals, in
  which each node of each cluster is attached at 1
  or 10GigE to a backplane of ultra-high-speed
  networks
• Software Advanced middleware and application
  toolkits are being developed for lightpath
  management, data management and mining,
  visualization, and collaboration

Commodity GigE Switch
Fibers or Lambdas
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The Scalable Adaptive Graphics EnvironmentTo
Manage Visual Content on Scalable Tiled Displays
SAGE runs on LambdaVision, a display-rich
collaborative work environment (11x5 LCDs)
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Moving Data Over these NetworksUltra-High-Speed
Transport Protocols

• Reliable Blast UDP designed for ultra-high-speed
  bulk data delivery applications
• Developed originally in 2000
• Achieved 18Gb/s out of 20Gb/s available bandwidth
  on TeraGrid in 2003.
• LambdaStream designed for ultra-high-speed
  streaming applications that need high throughput
  but low latency and low jitter (such as streaming
  graphics)
• Developed in 2003/04
• LambdaStream achieves this by adaptive rate
  adjustment AND attempting to predict the CAUSE of
  loss using techniques from Mobile Adhoc Networks
  (MANETs).

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10GE OptIPuter CAVEwaveon the National
LambdaRail
EVL
Source Tom DeFanti, OptIPuter co-PI
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Calient DiamondWave Switches at StarLight and
NetherLight

• 128x128 Calient O-O-O 3D MEMS switch at StarLight
• 64x64 Calient switch at NetherLight
• 1 the cost of routing

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Photonic Interdomain Negotiator
(PIN)Application-Centric Scheduling of Photonic
Networks
Joe Mambretti (NU), Eric He, Cees de Laat (UvA),
Oliver Yu (UIC)
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Bring Us Your Lambdas
www.startap.net/starlight
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Thanks to our Sponsors and Collaborators

• StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and
  outreach efforts have been made possible, in
  major part, by funding from
• US National Science Foundation (NSF) awards
  SCI-9980480, SCI-9730202, CNS-9802090,
  CNS-9871058, SCI-0225642, and CNS-0115809
• State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC
  cost sharing
• Northwestern University for facility space,
  engineering and management
• US NSF/CISE and US DoE/Argonne National
  Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network
  engineering and design
• Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE and Kees Neggers of
  SURFnet for networking leadership
• Larry Smarr of Calit2 for I-WIRE and OptIPuter
  leadership