OptIPuter Roadmap Summary 20062010

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OptIPuter Roadmap Summary 2006-2010
Joe Mambretti Tom DeFanti ltwww.optiputer.netgt Opt
ical Network Testbed2 Workshop NASA Ames Sept.
12-14, 2005
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The OptIPuter Project Creating a LambdaGrid
Web for Gigabyte Data Objects

• NSF Large Information Technology Research
  Proposal
• Calit2 (UCSD and UCI) and UIC Lead CampusesLarry
  Smarr PI
• USC, SDSU, NW, Texas AM, UvA, SARA Partnering
  Campuses
• Industrial Partners
• IBM, Sun, Telcordia, Chiaro, Calient,
  Glimmerglass, Lucent
• 13.5 Million Over Five Years (2003-2008)
• Optical IP Streams From Lab Clusters to Large
  Data Objects

NIH Biomedical Informatics
Research Network
NSF EarthScope and ORION
http//ncmir.ucsd.edu/gallery.html
siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/gallery/shoot1/index
.shtml
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What is the OptIPuter?

• Optical networking, Internet Protocol, computer
  storage, processing and visualization
  technologies
• Tightly couples computational resources over
  parallel optical networks using the IP
  communication mechanism
• The OptIPuter exploits a new world in which the
  central architectural element is optical
  networking, not computers - creating
  "supernetworks"
• Applications Drivers
• Earth and Ocean Sciences
• Biomedical Imaging
• Digital Media (4K Digital Cinema)

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OptIPuter Concepts

• The OptIPuter Enables Creation of Dynamic
  Distributed Virtual Computers
• Assumes Ubiquitous Lightpaths
• Resources Include Optical Networking
  Components
• Dynamic Lightpaths
• Supported by Deterministic Next Generation
  Optical Networks
• For the OptIPuter, the Network is
• A Large Scale, Distributed System Bus and
  Distributed Control Architecture
• ABackplane Based on Dynamically Provisioned
  Datapaths
• The OptIPuter Addresses the Needs of Extremely
  Large Scale Sustained Data Flows
• Even Those Exhibiting Dynamic Unpredictable
  Behaviors
• New Architecture, Methods and New Technologies
  at All Levels L1 L7

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10GE OptIPuter CAVEWAVE
EVL
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Summary Optical Services Baseline 5 Years
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Summary Optical Technologies Baseline 5 Years
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Summary Optical Interoperability Issues Baseline
5 Years
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OptIPuter Key Research Issues

• Actual Large Scale Research Testbeds Are Required
• Applications will NOT adopt/use toy
  infrastructures
• Research Projects Supporting Interdisciplinary
  Methods for Enabling Applications with Advanced
  Research Infrastructures are Important
• Interdisciplinary Techniques for Supporting Such
  Goals are Not Well Understood by Research Funding
  Agencies
• Current Infrastructure Research Funding is
  Insubstantial
• Research Must Be Oriented to Long Term Objectives

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OptIPuter Key Themes and Issues

• Increasing Integration Between Apps and
  Infrastructure
• Enable Direct Control By Applications
• Provide Powerful New Capabilities for Science
  with Advanced Dynamic Lightpath Provisioning
  Based on Controllable, Deterministic Optical
  Networks
• Highly Distributed (vs. Centralized Control) of
  Core Resources.
• Early Demonstrations Have Shown the Promise
• In Medical Imaging
• In Geoscience
• In CineGrid
• Availability of Cost-Effective Fiber and DWDM
  Equipment Provides for Highly Eruptive
  Price/Capability Ratios
• See ltwww.igrid2005.orggt and ltwww.optiputer.netgt

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T H E G L O B A L L A M B D A I N T E G R A T
E D F A C I L I T Y
www. iGrid2005.org

• September 26-30, 2005
• University of California, San Diego
• California Institute for Telecommunications and
  Information Technology

Maxine Brown, Tom DeFanti, Co-Organizers
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Thank You!

• OptIPuter planning, research, collaborations, and
  outreach efforts are made possible, in major
  part, by funding from National Science Foundation
  (NSF) awards CNS-9802090, CNS-9871058,
  SCI-0225642, CNS-0115809, and SCI-0441094