StarLight

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StarLight

• Located in Northwesterns Downtown Campus
• Dark Fiber to UIC
• Carrier POPs
• Chicago NAP

NU
UIC

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iCAIR
Prototyping The Global Lambda Grid Now in
Chicago A Photonic-Switched Experimental
Network of Light Paths
l1
l2
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iCAIR
Apps
Clusters
C O N T R O L P L A N E
Dynamically Allocated Lightpaths


NEW!
Switch Fabrics
Physical Monitoring
Multi-leveled Architecture
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iCAIR
CAnet4
CERN DataTAG
StarLight
Tokyo APAN
CalTech
I-WIRE
Hawaii??
Amsterdam NetherLight
NCSA
SDSC
TeraGrid
Campus SW Aggregation SW Cluster Optical Fiber Amp
Global Scale Backplane
Other (DoE, AmPATH)
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Toward Terabits Proposed RI Development Schedule
Legend TNV TeraNode Visualization
Cluster TND TeraNode Data Mining
Cluster TNC TeraNode Computing Cluster EVL Electro
nic Visualization Laboratory, 842 W. Taylor St.
UIC East Campus LAC Laboratory for Advanced
Computing, 851 S. Morgan St. UIC East Campus
(next door to EVL) UIC Academic Computer Center,
UIC West Campus, 3 fiber miles from EVL and
LAC NU Northwestern University, Evanston Campus,
20 miles north of Chicago StarLight Internationa
l next-generation optical exchange (NGOX), at 710
N. Lake Shore Drive, part of NUs Chicago
campus UIC-owned fiber I-WIRE-owned fiber
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Toward Terabits Proposed Chicago Development
ScheduleYear 0 September 2001-August 2002
StarLight
UIC
EVL
LAC
TND1
TNV1
1GigE
10GbE
10Gb
6509
6509
6509

• TND Small TND1 clusters at LAC and StarLight
• TNV TNV1 clusters at EVL and StarLight
• TNC Small TNC1 clusters at EVL and StarLight (not
  shown in diagrams)
• Netwk Cisco 6509s with 10GigE DWDM
• I-WIRE StarLight to Qwest fiber (18 pair)
  TeraGrid/MREN to StarLight Abilene to Starlight
  (other funding)
• K-6 EVL VR displays deployed
• Intl Amsterdam clusters OC-48?2x1GigE (other
  funding)

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Toward Terabits Proposed Chicago Development
ScheduleYear 1 September 2002-August 2003

• TND (2) TND2s at LAC and StarLight
• Netwk Cisco 6509 w/ 10GigE for LAC 10Gb testing
  gear (2) 10Gb boards for UIC, LAC
• I-WIRE UIC to StarLight (1 pair) UIC to ANL to
  Starlight (1 pair) Seattle, California to
  StarLight OC-192
• K-6 Wireless handheld computers
• Intl CERN, Tokyo OC-48?2x1GigE Amsterdam
  OC-192?10GigE (other funding)

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Toward Terabits Proposed RI Development
ScheduleYear 2 September 2003-August 2004

• TNV TNV2
• Netwk Cisco 6513 10x10GigE at StarLight (2) 10Gb
  DWDM lasers for a total capacity of 20Gb (between
  UIC to Starlight) (2) 10Gb boards for EVL, UIC
• I-WIRE Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan,
  Pennsylvania?
• K-6 Wireless handheld computers
• Intl Other internationals

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Toward Terabits Proposed RI Development
Schedule Year 3 September 2004-August 2005

• TND (2) TND3s at LAC and StarLight
• TNV TNV3
• TNC TNC3 at AI/EVL
• I-WIRE Others?
• K-6 TND1 and TNV1 clusters re-deployed in schools
  
• Intl CERN, Tokyo OC-192?10GigE

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Toward Terabits Proposed RI Development
Schedule Years 4 and 5 September 2005-August
2007

• TND Upgrade NICs in (2) TND clusters to (8)x
  10GigE
• TNV Upgrade NICs in TNV3 clusters to (8)x10GigE
• Netwk (2) 6509 Switch Fabric Upgrades (48)
  10GigE ports for EVL, LAC, UIC, StarLight
  2x40GigE switch/ router upgrades 40Gb test
  equipment O-E-O Optical Switch at StarLight
  (partial funding) (2) 40Gb DWDM lasers (EVL to
  StarLight) (8) 10Gb DWDM lasers (UIC to
  Starlight)
• I-WIRE Others?
• K-6 Classroom full of handheld computers
  interfaced to TND2/TNV2 clusters
• Intl Amsterdam OC-768?40GigE?

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StarLight Thanks

• StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and
  outreach efforts at the University of Illinois at
  Chicago are made possible, in part, by funding
  from
• National Science Foundation (NSF) awards
  ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-9802090,
  EIA-9871058, and EIA-0115809
• NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational
  Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement
  ACI-9619019 to the National Computational Science
  Alliance
• State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and UIC cost
  sharing
• Northwestern University for providing space,
  engineering and management
• Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and
  I-WIRE network engineering and planning
  leadership
• NSF/ANIR, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, Bill St.
  Arnaud of CANARIE, and Olivier Martin of CERN for
  global optical networking leadership
• NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid
  opportunities
• UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and their ITN
• CAnet4 and CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned
  North America and West Coast transit

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Bring Us Your Lambdas!

• www.startap.net/starlight
• tom_at_uic.edu