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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OptIPuter

• The OptIPuter Meets Precise Needs of
  Applications vs. Todays Environments
• Centralized Management and Infrastructure
  Restrictions
• Compromised Applications
• 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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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 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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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