# Presentation: 686048

## Thomas A. DeFanti, Maxine Brown
Principal Investigators, STAR TAP
Linda Winkler, Andy Schmidt, Bill Nickless, Alan Verlo
STAR TAP Engineering
Joe Mambretti, Tim Ward
StarLight Facilities

- Principal Investigators, STAR TAP
**Linda Winkler, Andy Schmidt, Bill Nickless, Alan Verlo**
- STAR TAP Engineering
**Joe Mambretti, Tim Ward**
- StarLight Facilities

## STAR TAP and StarLight

**STAR TAP: Premier operational cross-connect of the world's high-performance academic networks 45-622Mb        **
**StarLight: Next-generation cutting-edge optical evolution of STAR TAP connecting experimental networks 1-10Gb**
**Funded by CISE ANIR, EIA and ACIR infrastructure grants to UIC (and NU)**
**Substantial support by Argonne MCS**

## STAR TAP ConnectionsScience Technology And Research Transit Access Point

**Japan**
**Korea (2)**
**Taiwan**
**Singapore (2)**
**Australia ****(2)**
**China**

**Norway**
**Iceland**
**Sweden**
**Finland**
**Denmark**
**Russia**
**France**
**Netherlands**
**CERN**
**Israel**
**Ireland**
**Belgium**
**Europe/DANTE**
**United Kingdom**

**Canada**

**Chile, ****Brazil ANSP, Brazil RNP, ****Mexico**

**US: Abilene, DREN, ESnet, NISN, NREN, vBNS/vBNS+**

**www.startap.net**
**http://www.ucaid.edu/abilene/html/itnpeerparticipants.html**** (Abilene ITN)**
**http://www.canet3.net/optical/peering_info/intl_peering.html**** (CA*net3 ITN)**

## 
DREN DOD Research & Education Network
ESnet DOE Energy Science Research network
NREN NASA Research & Education Network
NISN NASA Information Science Network
vBNS NSF very-high-speed Backbone Network Service

- DREN DOD Research & Education Network
- ESnet DOE Energy Science Research network
- NREN NASA Research & Education Network
- NISN NASA Information Science Network
- vBNS NSF very-high-speed Backbone Network Service

**STAR TAP is the International Component of US Government ****Agency Research Networks**

## Abilene, the Internet2 backbone network, interconnects at STAR TAP via OC-12.  A new OC-48 core router is being installed at the Qwest PoP in Chicago. 
Two GigE circuits are being built for StarLight, one for MREN and one for SURFnet.
Abilene’s ITN helped the US complete global connectivity
Global NOC services are at Indiana University

- Two GigE circuits are being built for StarLight, one for MREN and one for SURFnet.
- Abilene’s ITN helped the US complete global connectivity
- Global NOC services are at Indiana University

**www.internet2.edu**

**Internet2/Abilene is Deeply Connected **
** ****to STAR TAP**

## STAR TAP is part of the SBC/Ameritech Chicago NAP

- ATM switch for 100+ ISPs
- Peaks to 6Gb/s load
- Port speed maximum is OC12c
- Co-location: 2 racks for STAR TAP and TransPAC equipment

## STAR TAP Engineering Advanced Services

- IPv6 Router (“6TAP” with ESnet)
- Multicast
- Globus Middleware/Grid Services Package (with Argonne/ISI)
- Network Measurement (NLANR AMP)
- Web Caching (NLANR)
- QoS testbeds
- Experimental protocols for high-bandwidth applications
- Migration to StarLight facility has begun to simplify access and provide more rack space

## Team Building: iGrid 2000 at INET 2000July 18-21, 2000, Yokohama, Japan

- 14 regions: Canada, CERN, Germany, Greece, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, USA
- 24 demonstrations featuring technical innovations in tele-immersion, large datasets, distributed computing, remote instrumentation, collaboration, streaming media, human/computer interfaces, digital video and high-definition television, and grid architecture development, and application advancements in science, engineering, cultural heritage, distance education, media communications, and art and architecture

**www.startap.net/igrid2000**

**Notes:**
The SC’98 International Grid (iGrid) research demonstrations showcase international collaborations using advanced high-speed networks, enabling researchers to work together, whether their colleagues live across the country or across the ocean, and to access geographically-distributed computing, storage, and display resources. The iGrid booth, jointly sponsored by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Indiana University, provides global connectivity so collaborators from the United States, Australia, Canada, 
Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, and Taiwan can demonstrate their use of advanced networks to solve complex computational problems. 
Enabling these international demonstrations is the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored initiative STAR TAP—the Science, Technology And Research Transit Access Point [www.startap.net]. Started in 1997, STAR TAP anchors the NSF vBNS (very high-speed Backbone Network Service) international program. Networks from Canada (CAnet-2), Singapore (SingaREN), Taiwan (TANet), Russia (MirNET), and the Asian-Pacific Advanced Network consortium (APAN) are connected; Indiana University is the lead institution of the APAN-USA joint venture, named TransPAC [www.transpac.org]. STAR TAP connections to the Nordic countries (NORDUnet), The Netherlands (SURFnet), France (RENATER), and Israel are imminent. Other USA federal 
agency advanced networks, notably the Department of Defense DREN, Department of Energy ESnet, and NASA NREN are also connected to STAR TAP. STAR TAP is managed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Chicago’s Ameritech Advanced Data Services.
The Electronic Visualization Laboratory and Indiana University, members of NCSA’s National Computational Science Alliance partnership, are working to advance the development of the International Technology Grid. The Grid is a prototype 21st century computational and information infrastructure integrating high-performance computers, visualization environments, remote instruments, and massive databases via high-speed networks to support advanced applications.

## Who is StarLight?

- StarLight is jointly managed and engineered by
- International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University
- Joe Mambretti, David Carr and Tim Ward
- Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois at Chicago
- Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Andy Schmidt, Jason Leigh, Cliff Nelson, and Alan Verlo
- Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS) , Argonne National Laboratory
- Linda Winkler and Bill Nickless; Rick Stevens and Charlie Catlett

## What is StarLight?

**710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago**
**Abbott Hall, Northwestern University**

**Chicago view from 710**

- StarLight is an experimental optical infrastructure and
- proving ground for network services optimized for
- high-performance applications

**StarLight Leverages ****$32M**** (FY2002-3) in experimental networks (I-WIRE, TeraGrid, OMNInet, SURFnet, CA*net4, DataTAG)**

## StarLight Infrastructure

- StarLight is* **a large** **research-friendly** **co-location facility* with space, power and fiber that is being made available to university and national/international network collaborators                    as a ***point*** of presence in Chicago

## StarLight Carriers

**Currently Present:**
**Ameritech**
**AT&T**
**Qwest**
**Global Crossing**
**Soon to be Installed:**
**Teleglobe**

## StarLight Infrastructure

- StarLight is* **a production GigE and trial 10GigE switch/router facility* for high-performance access to participating networks

## StarLight is Operational

- Equipment at StarLight
- StarLight Equipment installed:
- Cisco 6509 with GigE
- IPv6 Router
- Juniper M10 (GigE and OC-12 interfaces)
- Cisco LS1010 with OC-12 interfaces
- Data mining cluster with GigE NICs
- Visualization/video server cluster (on order)
- SURFnet’s 12000 GSR
- Multiple vendor plans for 10GigE, DWDM and Optical Switch/Routing in the future

## StarLight Connections

- STAR TAP (NAP) connection with two OC-12c ATM circuits
- The Netherlands (SURFnet) has two OC-12c POS from Amsterdam and a 2.5Gbps OC-48 to StarLight this month
- Abilene will soon connect via two GigE circuits
- Canada (CA*net3/4) is connected via GigE, soon 10GigE
- I-WIRE, a State-of-Illinois-funded dark-fiber multi-10GigE DWDM effort involving Illinois research institutions is being built.  36 strands to the Qwest Chicago PoP are in.
- NSF TeraGrid (DTF) 4x10GigE network being engineered by PACI and Qwest.
- NORDUnet is now sharing StarLight’s OC-12 ATM connection
- TransPAC/APAN is bringing in an OC-12, later an OC-48
- CERN’s OC-48 is in the advanced funding stages

## StarLight Middleware Partnerships 

**Provide tools and techniques for (university) customer-controlled 10 Gigabit network flows**
**Build general control mechanisms from emerging toolkits, such as Globus, for Grid ****network**** resource access and allocation services **
**Test a range of new tools, such as GMPLS and OBGP, for designing, configuring and managing optical networks and their components **
**Create a new generation of tools for appropriate monitoring and measurements at multiple levels **

## September, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

- Grid 2oo2

**www.startap.net/igrid2002**
**University of Illinois at Chicago and Indiana University in collaboration with The GigaPort Project and SURFnet5 of The Netherlands**

**Grid-Intensive Application Control of Lambda-**
**Switched Networks**

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**Maxine Brown**
**STAR TAP/StarLight co-Principal Investigator**
**Associate Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory**
** **
**A showcase of applications that are “early adopters” of very high bandwidth national and international networks**

**Coming.....**

## iGrid 2002 (proposed)September 2002, Amsterdam Science and Technology Centre 

- Trans-Atlantic Real-Time Simulation Steering and High-Resolution Collaborative Visualization Over Optical Networks
** ****Vrije Universiteit**
** ****Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC**

**www.cs.vu.nl/~renambot/vr/html/intro.htm **

## iGrid 2002 (proposed)September 2002, Amsterdam Science and Technology Centre

- Visual Tera Mining
** ****Laboratory for Advanced Computing, UIC**
** ****Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC**
** **
**Visualize multiples of gigabytes of data in near real time. **

**www.evl.uic.edu/cavern**

## iGrid 2002 (proposed)September 2002, Amsterdam Science and Technology Centre

- TeraVision: Visualization
- Streaming over Optical Networks
**SARA and ****Vrije University**
**Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC**
** **

**TeraVision will demonstrate tiled cluster-to-cluster graphics streaming. This image, from SC’99, depicts the University of Minnesota’s PowerWall running an interactive collaboration developed by UIC and the US DoE ASCI project.**** **

**www.evl.uic.edu/cavern**

- Stream pre-rendered high-resolution graphics from EVL to SARA to see Gigabit-level graphics streaming between continents.

## iGrid 2002 (proposed)September 2002, Amsterdam Science and Technology Centre

- Terra Wide Data Mining Testbed (TWDM)
** ****Laboratory for Advanced Computing, UIC**
** ****Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada**** **
** ****Imperial College, London, UK**
** ****SARA, The Netherlands **
**The Terra Mining Testbed (TMTB) uses high-performance clusters linked by wide-area high-performance networks to provide the data and compute services required. **

**www.lac.uic.edu**

## iGrid 2002 (proposed)September 2002, Amsterdam Science and Technology Centre

**Others**
**Wavelength Disk Drives (WDD) and NetRAM**** (Canada, USA)**
**Storage Wide Area Network, SDSC/NCSA**
**EU DataGrid and DataTAG (UK, CERN, USA)**
**Astronomy/Radio Telescopes (Japan, USA)**
**Molecular Biology (USA, Sweden)**

## “Bring Us Your Lambdas!”

***“******Bring Us Your Lambdas!”***

- _www.startap.net/starlight_
_**[tom@uic.edu](mailto:tom@uic.edu)**_

## 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 and Harvey Newman of CERN for global optical networking leadership; **
**NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid opportunities**
**UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and their ITN**
**CA*net4 and CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North America and West Coast transit **