TransLight/StarLight and the OptIPuter APAN 2006

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TransLight/StarLight and the OptIPuterAPAN 2006

• Maxine D. Brown
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Associate Director, Electronic Visualization
  Laboratory
• Co-Principal Investigator, TransLight/StarLight
• Project Manager, OptIPuter

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TransLight/StarLight US National Science
Foundation IRNC Award

• NSF International Research Network Connections
  (IRNC) goals
• Fund international network links between US and
  foreign science and engineering communities
• Encourage the use of advanced architectures
• Support advanced science and engineering
  requirements
• Encourage the development and leveraging of
  deployed infrastructure to meet current and
  anticipated needs
• Enable network engineers to engage in system and
  technology demonstrations and rigorous
  experimentation
• TransLight/StarLight works with US and European
  RE networks to implement strategies that best
  serve established production science
• TransLight/StarLight supports scientists,
  engineers and educators who have persistent
  large-flow, real-time, and/or other advanced
  application requirements 

www.startap.net/translight
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TransLight/StarLight Funds Two Trans-Atlantic
Links

• OC-192 routed connection between MAN LAN in New
  York City and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange
  that connects the pan-European GÉANT2 to the USA
  Abilene and ESnet networks
• OC-192 switched connection between StarLight in
  Chicago and NetherLight in Amsterdam that is part
  of the GLIF LambdaGrid fabric

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TransLight/StarLightMAN LAN and GÉANT2 POP

• An OC-192 between the GÉANT2 POP in Amsterdam and
  MAN LAN in New York in support of production IP
  services between GÉANT2 and Abilene, and
  potentially lightpath services Stewards
  Internet2 and DANTE
• Phase 1 link is currently between HDXc boxes on
  both ends
• Phase 2 will support production IP services
  between GÉANT and Abilene and lightpaths, when
  needed

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TransLight/StarLightStarLight and NetherLight

• An OC-192 between StarLight in Chicago and
  NetherLight in Amsterdam, matched by a
  SURFnet-paid OC-192 link, that is managed as
  lambdas, tracking GLIF models as they develop
• Our goal is to provide science, engineering, and
  education production application access to Layer
  2 1GigE VLANs, 10GigE VLANs, and Layer 1 OC-192
  circuits

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Coordination with IRNC Siblings

• NSF IRNC funds 5 projects to link US research
  networks with peer networks in other parts of the
  world
• Support science and engineering research and
  education applications
• Enable state-of-the-art international network
  services similar to and interconnected with those
  currently offered or planned by domestic research
  networks
• Share tools and best practices
• Work together on major events and activities (SC,
  Grid, GLIF)

www.irnclinks.net
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The OptIPuter ProjectRemoving Bandwidth as an
Obstacle In Data Intensive Sciences

• An NSF-funded award that focuses on developing
  technology to enable the real-time collaboration
  and visualization of very-large time-varying
  volumetric datasets for the Earth sciences and
  the biosciences
• OptIPuter is examining a new model of computing
  whereby ultra-high-speed networks form the
  backplane of a global computer

NSF EarthScope and ORION
siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/gallery/shoot1/index
.shtml
www.optiputer.net
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The OptIPuterEnabling Users with Gigabyte Data
Objects

• Hundreds of megapixel 2D images or 3D objects
• Interactive analysis and visualization of data
  objects requires deterministic, not best
  effort, networks
• Guaranteed Bandwidth (data movement)
• Guaranteed Latency (visualization/collaboration,
  data analysis)
• Guaranteed Scheduling (remote instruments)
• Interactive analysis and visualization of
  high-resolution data objects requires
• Scalable visualization displays
• Scalable adaptive graphics environments

www.optiputer.net
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The OptIPuter BioScience ApplicationMultiscale
Correlated Microscopy Experiment
www.optiputer.net
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The OptIPuter GeoScience Application iCluster at
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• SIO and Calit2 set up 50 megapixel 3x4 Apple
  tiled display setup.

SIO researchers examine a 3D visualization of
displacement after the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake on the Apple tiled display iCluster.
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The OptIPuter GeoScience Application OptIPuter
demo at iGrid 2005
Dr. Bridget Smith (SIO) used Calit2s
LambdaVision 100 megapixel tiled display DVC,
GTP, PIN and PDC to simultaneously examine 3D
Fledermaus scene files of California over the
last 100 years. Each tile shows a model of
deformation (Y axis in this example) along the
San Andreas fault for a certain year. The
visualizations were located on servers in San
Diego, Chicago and Amsterdam.
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First Trans-Pacific Super High Definition
Telepresence at iGrid 2005 in New Calit2 Digital
Cinema Auditorium
Lays Technical Basis for Global Digital
Cinema Sony NTT SGI
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OptIPuterA Global Virtual Computer

• Hardware clusters of computers that act as giant
  storage, compute or visualization peripherals, in
  which each node of each cluster is attached at 1
  or 10GigE to a backplane of ultra-high-speed
  networks
• Software Advanced middleware and application
  toolkits are being developed for light path
  management, data management and mining,
  visualization, and collaboration

Commodity GigE Switch
Fibers or Lambdas
www.optiputer.net
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OptIPuter Scalable Display Systems
NCSA TRECC
AIST
RINCON Nortel
www.optiputer.net
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The OptIPuter Enables Persistent Collaboration
Spaces

• Hardware installations assembled at each site
• Unified software at each site (Rocks Viz Roll w/
  stable integration of SAGE)
• Refined TeraVision for Streaming HDTV (video
  conferencing and microscope outputs)
• Controls for launching images from application
  portals

Goal Use these systems for conducting
collaborative experiments
www.optiputer.net
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The OptIPuterScalable Adaptive Graphics
Environment (SAGE)
Operating Environment for OptIPuter Display
Appliances
www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/sage
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SAGE-Enabled Visualization Tools
JuxtaView
Vol-a-Tile
NCSA BitPlayer
VNC
SVC
SAGE-UI
LambdaCam
TeraVision
www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/sage
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Tiled Displays Running SAGEDefines the OptIPuter
SAGE Developed Under Jason Leigh, EVL
HD Video from BIRN Trailer Macro View of Montage
Data Micro View of Montage Data Live Streaming
Video of the RTS-2000 Microscope HD Video from
the RTS Microscope Room
Source David Lee, NCMIR, UCSD Jason Leigh,
EVL, UIC
LambdaCam Used to Capture the Tiled Display on a
Web Browser
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Calit2 _at_ UCI Has the Largest Tiled Display
Wall200 MegaPixel HiPerWall
Calit2_at_UCI Apple Tiled Display Wall Driven by 25
Dual-Processor G5s 50 Apple 30 Cinema
Displays 200 Million Pixels of Viewing Real
Estate!
Zeiss Scanning Electron Microscope in Calit2_at_ UCI
However, SAGE Must be Modified to Run on Mac
Walls
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Zooming In
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Bug Eye
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OptIPuter System Software Architecture
Distributed Applications/ Web Services
Visualization
Telescience
SAGE
JuxtaView
Data Services
Vol-a-Tile
LambdaRAM
PIN/PDC
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The OptIPuter10GE CAVEwave on the National
LambdaRail
The OptIPuter exploits a new world in which the
central architectural element is optical
networking creating supernetworks
NU
UIC
NCSA
Coming soon NASA GSFC Ventner Institute
USC
SDSU
UCI
TAMU
UCSD
CAVEwave is the University of Illinois at
Chicago (UIC) Electronic Visualization
Laboratorys very own 10 Gigabit wavelength on
the NLR infrastructure, connected to the
University of Washington in Seattle and UCSD in
San Diego, enabling OptIPuter experiments.
www.evl.uic.edu
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Combining Telepresence with Remote Interactive
Analysis of Earth Sciences Data Over NLR
Live Demonstration of 21st Century
National-Scale Team Science
OptIPuter Visualized Data
HDTV Over Lambda

• SIO and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Linked
  Using OptIPuter Technologies over a 10-Gbps
  National LambdaRail Dedicated Optical Path.
• "We added a virtual fifth wing," says NASA
  Emeritus Scientist Milton Halem (August 8, 2005)
• SIO, NCMIR, Calit2, EVL, NASA Goddard and Ames,
  ANL, NLR and DRAGON staff worked on this
  demonstration

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The OptIPuter Creates a Global MetaComputer with
Persistent 10Gb Services with SAGE End Appliances
The Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)
Interconnecting Optical Research Networks to
form a Global SuperNetwork
UvA
UMich, Purdue
UIC/NU/NCSA
KISTI
NASA GSFC
AIST
UCSD
OptIPuter with 10G Single Optical Backplane
OptIPuter Partner End Points
www.glif.is, www.optiputer.net
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Thanks to our Sponsors and Collaborators

• TransLight/StarLight made possible by NSF award
  OCI-0441094
• OptIPuter made possible by NSF award OCI-0225642
  to UCSD
• StarLight research and collaboration made
  possible by NSF OCI-0229642
• Equipment instrumentation development made
  possible by NSF awards CNS-0224306 and
  CNS-0420477
• Additional UIC funding provided by
• State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC
  cost sharing
• Northwestern University for facility space,
  engineering and management
• US NSF/CISE and US DoE/Argonne National
  Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network
  engineering and design
• Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE and Kees Neggers of
  SURFnet for networking leadership
• Larry Smarr of Calit2 for I-WIRE and OptIPuter
  leadership