ICFA Standing Committee on Interregional Connectivity SCIC

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• ICFA Standing Committee on
  Interregional Connectivity (SCIC)
• Harvey B. Newman
• California Institute of TechnologyICFA SCIC
  Meeting, LBNL
• January 15, 2003

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January 15 Agenda (Times PST)

• 600 Startup Test VRVS Connections
• 615 Introduction H. Newman
• 620 Brief Updates All
• 640 Monitoring Report L. Cottrell
• 720 Remarks on the Advanced Technologies
  Report
• 740 Digital Divide Report
  A. Santoro
• 840 Discussion on the Reports in General
• 900 Action Items Schedule for Finishing the
  Reports
• 900 Next Meeting AOB

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Report to ICFASketch of Content (Updated from
9/02)

• Few Page Main Report with Main Conclusions
  (HN)1 Page Executive Summary
• Comments on Updates in the Last Year
• Building on the Subcommittee Reports
• Subcommittee Reports
• Monitoring Group 10 Pages with Many Pictures
  and Graphs
• Digital Divide Group 10 Pages of Text, Many
  Pictures, Graphs, Tables 2 illustrations in
  the main report
• Advanced Technologies Group 10 pages
  references to a lot of technical reports and
  information on the Web.
• Requirements and Conclusions Few Pages
• Comments on the Computing Model that follow
  from above
• Reports will be submitted to ICFA in early
  February

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National Light Rail Footprint

• NLR
• Buildout Started November 2002
• Initially 4 10 Gb Wavelengths
• To 40 10Gb Waves in Future

NREN Backbones reached 2.5-10 Gbps in 2002 in
Europe, Japan and USUS Transition now to
optical, dark fiber, multi-wavelength RE network
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2002 Updates and Conclusions

• The major NREN infrastructures in the US and
  Europe, and the major links across the Atlantic
  and Pacific used by HEPhave advanced rapidly to
  the 2.5 -10 Gbps range in the past year
• Protocols have advanced (FAST YottaYotta) to
  fully utilize the links
• RD on the use of optically multiplexed
  wavelengths is getting underway in the
  Netherlands, Canada, and the US (IWIRE,
  TeraGrid, NLR)
• End users face a variety of problems, from policy
  barriers to high commercial costs, to overloaded
  or poorly configured regional and/or local
  networks, even in some areas in the favored
  regions of the world
• While the less favored regions have progressed,
  the Digital Divide, measured in terms of years of
  delay for equal performance, has been maintained.
  
• Action is required, or the Digital Divide with
  suddenly increase
• This action is vital if we are to make the most
  of current and future major scientific programs,
  (the Grid systems on which they will depend) and
  for the continued health of our global
  collaborations

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Action Items What is Needed Now

• Request Help from ICFA on the Digital Divide
• ICFA SCIC Will Help by Setting Up and
  Maintaining anHENP World Network Database and
  pointing up problems
• We will seek advice and action from ICFA members
  on specific issues
• We propose a model HENP World Network
• To bring to the attention of vendors
• To focus the efforts of organizations, such as
  the IEEAF, who can help
• A strong monitoring effort (the IEPM) is required
• Such an effort needs to be expanded
• We need ICFAs help to get better world coverage
• We need to propagate new tools information on
  best practices
• Integrate Monitoring and Support for the
  Community in a New Organization ?
• More Action Items from the Committee, please.

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Monitoring Report

• Mission Statement on Page 1 Needs to Be
  Formalized
• Editing see the Summary
• Short Executive Summary at the Beginning
• Main conclusions from the monitoring data so far
• Need better coverage
• Stronger support is required
• Mention outstanding technical issues
• High performance monitoring
• Interface to the Grid systems, and Grid
  monitoring
• Help from ICFA
• Help get better coverage more countries, more
  sites monitored
• Help getting support Manpower, fundscontacts
  with funding agencies

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Advanced Technologies Report

• Little or no progress possible over the holidays,
  it seems
• We need to submit a well-prepared, if brief
  report to ICFA nowwe can submit a longer report
  early in 2004
• Version of mid-December not at the link in the
  December 13Minutes. We need to re-distribute
  that draft now.
• Ask help from technical members of ICFA SCIC to
  provide additional help to finish this report

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Digital Divide Report

• Excellent work by Alberto Santoro and his
  groupcollected a lot of material made many
  contacts
• Focus on the nature of the problem, and Latin
  America, in December
• Very welcome added effort from Julio Ibarra and
  Heidi Alvarez (AMPATH)
• Quantitative Material from Each World Region
  needs tobe verified as being current else
  replacedMaps for some regions need to be
  provided.
• This is important each ICFA SCIC Member bears
  responsibility to do this
• Writing we need to improve on the sharpness
  andclarity of the arguments
• Make clear to ICFA, upfront, what the main issues
  are
• Clarify what ICFA can do
• If there are no clear paths to a solution, then
  we candiscuss the problems with ICFA, or with
  interested members, in a discussion forum
• Today we will go through the report and
  appendicesin some detail
• Then we will Collectively take action