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Science &Research SIG
Research Support Center
• Comprehensive end-to-end support for the
research community
– Work with the research community to understand
their needs
– Provide network engineering, planning and pricing
for project and proposal development
– Collaborate with the community to anticipate
research needs
– Foster network infrastructure and service research
that can be incubated, tested and deployed
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Research Support Center (cont)
• Provide a clearinghouse for “researchers” who
have questions regarding how to utilize Internet2
resources
– Support extends to those who support researchers
as well (e.g. sysadmin/netadmin at regional/campus
nets).
– Emphasis on cross domain needs – home for the
homeless
• Simple contact mechanisms
– Email - [email protected]
– Updated web presence –
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http://www.internet.edu/research
Dissecting the Research Support Center
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Data as of 9/17/2012
Total Tickets = 137
– 47 Open/In Progress
– 90 Closed
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Categories:
– Network Performance = 36%
• Increase from 25% since 7/2012
– GENI = 2%
– Letters of Support = 21%
• CC-NIE rush during Spring 2012
– Network Connectivity (Layer 2/General) = 7%
– Research Support & Demo/Paper Collaboration = 15%
– Internet2 Initiatives = 17%
• Spike related to Internet2 NET+, Internet2 Innovation Platform, etc.
– General = 2%
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Other Tags:
– 20% of tickets involve an international component
– 9% are related to Healthcare/Medical topics
– 7% (mostly in the performance space) are related to Internet2 NET+ activities
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[email protected]
Light At The End of the Performance Tunnel?
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Is it daylight … or a train?
Specific performance concerns
– End-to-end problems (campus to campus, Virtual
Organizations, International links)
– Application Fortitude
– Instrumentation of Networks
– Configuration of Tools
– Training
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Our Read:
– We are seeing more reports
• Less suffering in silence? More end-to-end work? Effective advertising?
– Encouraging that people want to fix them, and that some are taking initiative in
the community
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• Many campuses establishing “Research Engineer”, network-user interaction
• VOs (SSERCA in Florida) pooling community computation and network
resources. Serving as liaison between researchers and network providers
(Campuses, FLR)
[email protected]
Performance – Community XRoads
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The Tools
– The community has invested heavily
in the perfSONAR framework.
– One of many R&E success stories
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The Deployments
– Wide adoption (and use!) in all parts
of the R&E community.
– Emerging in the Commercial sector
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The Use Cases
– Keeping campus infrastructure available and highly capable
– Directly supporting science
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The Training
– Measurement and monitoring are made easier with tools
– Fixing the “hard problems” has a strong human aspect
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Global Reach of perfSONAR Monitoring
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[email protected]
The Way Forward - Training
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Approach Performance Training in
some new ways
TTT: Restructure materials to
encourage franchising to larger
groups.
– The knowledge will be passed
down in a tree-like fashion
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E1T1: One on one (or one to
small number) explanation of the
materials
– Encourage recipients to pass
along the knowledge
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The Way Forward – Network Innovation
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Architectural and procedural changes can
have a big impact
– E.g. Science DMZ
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The scalability of traditional “TCP/IP”
networks is being tested
– Increasing number of users
– Increasing number of use cases
– The drive to do things better and more
efficiently
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New paradigms to consider
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“Feedback” from the network
Intelligent switching and routing
Application based control
All working in harmony with the operational component
Shaking up the Application/Network Model
• DYNES – NSF MRI Grant
– Deliver hardware capable
of advancing “Layer 2”
networking deep into the
campus and regional
infrastructures
– Encourage “Application
Adoption” – particularly
within scientific Vos
– ~90% Deployed
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New Twist – How to integrate SDN/OpenFlow ideas?
– Testing new hardware/software currently
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… Oh, and Monitoring is Necessary …
– Reaching out to all participants to provide additional monitoring hardware
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[email protected]
Drinking from the Firehose
Physics
Life Sciences
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Magnetic Resonance Imager (MRI)
Image by: CERN
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Source: http://www.colinmcnulty.com
Visualization Zen
Physics
Life Sciences
LHC – Lead Ion Collision
MRI – Monkey Brain
Source: CERN (ALICE detector)
Source: Van Wedeen, M.D., Martinos Center and Dept. of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University Medical School
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The Facilities & Collaborators
Physics
Life Sciences
22 Particle Accelerators
758 Genome Sequencers
Source: //find.mapmuse.com/map/particle-accelerators, Apr. 22, 2012
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Source: http://omicsmaps.com/, Dec. 5, 2011
Beyond Moore’s Law
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--Size, ++Data
Mid - 2012
2013
Illumina HiSeq 2500/1500
Handheld USB Sequencer
Source: http://www.illumina.com/systems/hiseq_systems/hiseq_2500_1500.ilmn
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Image: Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Preparedness
• Some Campuses are creating a “Research
Engineer” position explicitly
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Interface with the researchers regularly
“Human networking”
Gauge needs (services, connectivity)
Translate into IT/NetEng requirements
Escalate problems to other domains
• Examples:
– SSERCA
– University of Colorado Boulder
– The Pennsylvania State University
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Disscusion
• Who is doing what in the audience
• What ways do you need help
– From Internet2/Backbones
– Regionals
• Challenges?
• CC-NIE – expectations
• AOB
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Science & Research SIG
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