ChicagoInternational OptIPuter Infrastructure

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Chicago/International OptIPuter Infrastructure

• Tom DeFanti
• OptIPuter Co-PI
• Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
• Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory
• University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)

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UIC Campus-Scale OptIPuter

• Mod 0 OptIPuter is based on IA-32 connected by
  routers (--gtPhil P.).
• Mod 1 OptIPuter is based on IA-32 with dual
  network interface cards
• SMF NICs-gt 64x64 Glimmerglass Reflexion MEMS
  optical switch for data.
• MMF/Copper NICs-gt GE electronic routers for
  control.
• All computing, visualization, storage and network
  equipment bought through NSF infrastructure
  grants to Electronic Visualization Laboratory
  (EVL) and the Laboratory for Advanced Computing
  (LAC).
• 16GE achieved between EVL and LAC using two
  Optera DWDM devices (valued at 1,000,000)
  provided by Nortel Networks, Inc. to light up
  fiber provided by the UIC Academic Computing and
  Communications Center.
• Mod 0 and 1 OptIPuter clusters are now being used
  for applications.
• A shippable Road Warrior OptIPuter (a.k.a. Mad
  Max) for SC03 and AGU, etc.

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Chicago Metro-Scale OptIPuter

• EVL and NU use I-WIRE and OMNInet Fiber to
  connect clusters
• OMNInet is a 10GE Metro-Scale Testbed (Joe
  Mambretti).
• I-WIRE is State of Illinois Initiative.

Chicago
UIC
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Chicago Metro-Scale OptIPuter
128x128 Calient
64x64GG
All Processors also Connected by GE to Routers
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State of Illinois I-WIRE 7.5M Fiber Build
Source Charlie Catlett, ANL
UIC
1.2M in State of Illinois funds to connect EVL
to StarLight
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iGrid 2002 Sustained 1-3 Gigabits/s between
NetherLight and StarLight
Total Provisioned Bandwidth between Chicago and
Amsterdam for iGrid2002 was 30 Gb Led to
TransLight Project
See 22 Journal Articles in Future Generation
Computer Systems Elsevier Special Issue IGRID
2002, Vol. 19, No. 6 August 2003, pp. 803-1062
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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
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Live from Amsterdam

• University of Amsterdam is an OptIPuter Partner
• TeraVision Streaming from Amsterdam to EVL Now
• You are Seeing Live Video to your Left

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Year Two Chicago OptIPuter Tech

• Mod 0 1 versions will be Packaged, Distributed
  and Supported
• Through the Geowall Consortium (www.geowall.org).
  
• HP zx2000 McKinley Itanium was Evaluated for Mod
  2 use
• The zx2000 can sustain 2x1GE.
• However, the target for Year 2 is 3x1GE.
• Madison Itanium2, IBM G5, and AMD Opteron 64-bit
  Cluster Components will be Wvaluated for Mod 2
  OptIPuter use with respect to
• 10GE network interface cards.
• AGP 8x graphics driving new 30Mpixel Geowall2
  displays.
• Disk Access.
• Applications software.

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Year Two Towards Regional-Scale and
National-Scale OptIPuters

• UIC/NU will install a large Force10 10GE
  Electronic Switch and the 128x128 Calient Optical
  Switch at StarLight in October
• Connecting GE and 10GE metro, regional, national
  and international research networks and lambdas.
• The Midwest Regional-Scale OptIPuter Sites in
  Discussion
• Argonne/University of Chicago Computational
  Institute via I-WIRE.
• Indiana University/Purdue via I-Light to
  StarLight.
• The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the
  University of Michigan are bringing wavelengths
  into StarLightseveral ongoing projects.
• The National-Scale OptIPuter
• NU/UIC will help the National Lambda Rail (NLR)
  bring lambdas to StarLight.
• NLR will connect the SoCal OptIPuter via CENICs
  CalREN-HPR.
• Leverages International-scale OptIPuter
  Development over TransLight

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Thanks

• Chicago/International OptIPuter Planning,
  Research, Collaborations, and Outreach efforts
  are made Possible, in major part, by Funding from
  NSF Awards ANI-0229642, ANI-0225642, ANI-9980480,
  ANI-9730302, ANI-0129527, EIA-9802090, EIA
  0123399, EIA-9871058, EIA-0115809, and
  ACI-9619019.
• DoE/Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and
  I-WIRE network engineering and design.
• NCSA/SDSC/ANL for TeraGrid Access.
• State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC
  Cost Sharing.
• Northwestern University for providing Space,
  Engineering and Management.
• SURFnet/SARA/UvA for Bringing us their Lambdas
  First.