GrangeNet Advanced Communication Services

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GrangeNetAdvanced Communication Services
APAN ACS Update27 January 2005 Version 1.6
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Contents

• DDCMS Project Update
• AccessGrid Recorder
• CAIA Grangenet gaming environment
• IPv6 Customer deployment Update
• Multicast Customer deployment Update

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Contents DDCMS Project Update

• DDCMS Project Summary
• DDCMS Project Status
• Participant Targets
• What is Required to Participate
• Links

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DDCMS Project Summary

• The DDCMS proof-of-concept project will permit
  GrangeNet to demonstrate the utility of
  distributed storage attached to a high
  performance, research network the distribution
  of storage in this way is fundamental to the
  creation of virtual data centers.
• DDCMS will demonstrate transit of high capacity
  data flows and present new and innovative ways to
  store, access and distribute large, complex data
  sets. This technology will be of immediate
  benefit to astronomy, high energy physics,
  nano-science, bioinformatics and other projects
  requiring on-demand mass storage.

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DDCMS Project Status

• DDCMS Project is now in production.
• The CISCO MDS 9216 is online with 8 x 1 Gig ISCSI
  connections 16 x 2 Gig FC connections. The MDS is
  directly connected to the Grangenet Backbone.
• The HDS Thunder 9570 is online with approximately
  2 Terabytes fully protected storage.

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DDCMS Project Status

• DDCMS Project is now in production.

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Participant Targets

• Researches with large storage requirements
• Physics
• Astronomers
• Nanotech
• Archivists
• Members
• With single Data Centres
• Have no Disaster Recovery data Housing
• Short term storage shortages
• Low bandwidth links
• Distributed data sets
• RE Community data
• Housing/clearing remote requirements
• Inter member online education

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What is required to Participate

• Participants are require you to supply.
• A project name.
• Target address range.
• Target System OS.
• Contact Details.
• Disk space is Limited
• Testing space provided.
• Space for some projects.
• Plenty of rack space for your disks.
• Disks come in 72xn 146xn Gig FC and 300xn ATA.

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Links

• BOF Working Group
• Web site http
• http//www.grangenet.net/status/wp/storage/index.h
  tml
• Email list gn-nas-l_at_grangenet.net
• Link to email list
• http//lists.grangenet.net/mailman/listinfo/gn-nas
  -l

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Contents

• DDCMS Project Update
• AccessGrid Recorder
• CAIA Grangenet gaming environment
• IPv6 Customer deployment Update
• Multicast Customer deployment Update

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AG Recorder

• The access grid is the most visible and
  successful collaborative technology supported by
  GrangeNet. GrangeNet has committed 1.2M to the
  development of access grid nodes and their
  operation, is a heavy user of the technology and
  is regarded as a leader and instigator in this
  field.
• Several key issues must be addresses in the
  further development commercial or otherwise) of
  access grid technology. These include storage and
  delayed transmission, sound and video quality,
  scalability, security and the reduction of the
  necessity for a node operator.
• There is an active GrangeNet community addressing
  these issues. However, the storage system to
  provide an ephemeral storage resource for the
  capture of access grid streams as a prerequisite
  to asynchronous playback, cataloguing and
  long-term storage is best addressed by
  GrangeNet as it has to be closely integrated with
  the network fabric.

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Project Outline

• The addition of a system that provides temporary
  storage is regarded by the access grid community
  as a necessary development and has wide support.
  It will enable key meetings, conferences,
  educational sessions and presentations to be
  recorded and provide a content-capture mechanism
  for AARNets work with the Global Research
  Channel. There is particular interest in using
  the facility for delayed playback of conference
  sessions in other time-zones (e.g. the Internet2
  broadcasts).
• Others, specifically DSTC (FilmEd), AARNet,
  USyd-VisLab and ANU are developing software for
  capturing, editing, annotating, archiving and
  re-broadcasting access grid sessions.
• We are collaborating with Apple and ANU on this
  project

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Design
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Contents

• DDCMS Project Update
• AccessGrid Recorder
• CAIA Grangenet gaming environment
• IPv6 Customer deployment Update
• Multicast Customer deployment Update

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CAIA Grangenet gaming environment

• Interactive, real-time online games represent a
  rapidly growing market and a challenge for ISPs.
  The market for computer games is heading to
  exceed Hollywood's annual revenues, and PC-based
  computer games have accelerated the industry's
  development of high-end graphics cards and sound
  systems in consumer-level computers. There are
  new revenue opportunities for ISPs who can offer
  premium services targeted at online game players.
  
• There's one thing missing we do not yet have a
  clear understanding of how to efficiently
  engineer ISP networks to support online,
  interactive computer games. The purpose of this
  server is to collect data about game traffic and
  player's behavior in order to understand and
  solve this problem. Because we respect the
  privacy of the player's all information which
  relates to the player's identity in some form
  (e.g. player name, IP address) as well as the
  gaming data (e.g. game status updates) itself is
  strictly kept secret. Any analysis made publicly
  available will be sanitized from that
  information.
• Quote from Gaming server Grenville Armitage
  CAIA

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CAIA Grangenet gaming environment

• A server is operated by researchers from the
  Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA)
  of the Swinburne University of Technology,
  Melbourne, Australia and hosted by Grangenet -
  GRid And Next GEneration Network, Yarralumla,
  Australia.
• The server is a 2.4GHz PC with 1 Gig of memory
  running FreeBSD. It is connected via Fast
  Ethernet to GrangeNet's high speed network.
• Currently we run dedicated servers for the
  following games
• Half-LifeCounter-Strike
• Quake 3 Arena
• Enemy Territory

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Contents

• DDCMS Project Update
• AccessGrid Recorder
• CAIA Grangenet gaming environment
• IPv6 Customer deployment Update
• Multicast Customer deployment Update

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IPv6 Customer Deployment Status

• The number of Australian Universities running
  IPv6 Natively is steadily growing.
• GrangeNet/APL office ACT
• APL office Perth
• GrangeNet NOC
• ANU
• JCU
• Macquarie University
• Monash University
• Swinburne University of Technology
• CQU
• UTS
• UWS
• USYD
• We hope other Universities will soon include IPv6
  in there standard delivery

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Multicast Customer Deployment Status
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Links

• Web site http
• http//www.grangenet.net/status/acs/ipv6/index.htm
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• Working Group
• http//www.aarnet.edu.au/engineering/wgs/ipv6/

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Contents

• DDCMS Project Update
• AccessGrid Recorder
• CAIA Grangenet gaming environment
• IPv6 Customer deployment Update
• Multicast Customer deployment Update

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Multicast Customer Deployment Status
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Questions?

• Thankyou
• ACS_at_grangenet.net
• http//www.grangenet.net