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The UltraLight Program
UltraLight: An Overview and Update
Shawn McKee
University of Michigan
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
UltraLight Topics
• Introduction: What is the UltraLight Program?
• History
• Program Goals and Details
• Current Status and Summary
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
What is UltraLight?
• UltraLight is a program to explore the integration of
cutting-edge network technology with the grid computing
and data infrastructure of HEP/Astronomy
• The program intends to explore network configurations
from common shared infrastructure (current IP networks)
thru dedicated optical paths point-to-point.
• A critical aspect of UltraLight is its integration with two
driving application domains in support of their national and
international eScience collaborations: LHC-HEP and eVLBIAstronomy
• The Collaboration includes:
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Shawn McKee
Caltech
Florida Int. Univ.
MIT
Univ. of Florida
Univ. of Michigan
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UC Riverside
BNL
FNAL
SLAC
UCAID/Internet2
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
Some History…
• The UltraLight Collaboration was originally formed in
Spring 2003 in response to an NSF Experimental
Infrastructure in Networking (EIN) RFP in ANIR
• After not being selected, the program was refocused on
LHC/HEP and eVLBI/Astronomy and submitted to “Physics
at the Information Frontier” (PIF) in MPS at NSF
• Collaboration was notified at the end of 2003 that the PIF
program was being postponed 1 year. Suggested that
proposals be redirected to the NSF ITR program.
• ITR Deadline is February 25th, 2004.
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
HENP Network Roadmap
LHC Physics will require large bandwidth
capability over a globally distributed
network. The HENP Bandwidth Roadmap
is shown in the table below:
Table 1: Bandwidth Roadmap (Gbps) for Major HENP Network Links
Year
Production
Experimental
Remarks
2001
0.155
0.622 – 2.5
SONET/SDH
2002
0.622
2.5
SONET/SDH; DWDM; GigE Integration
2003
2.5
10
DWDM; 1 & 10 GigE Integration
2005
10
2-4  10
 Switch,  Provisioning
2007
2–4  10
~10  10 (and 40)
1st Gen.  Grids
2009
~10  10 (or 1–2  40)
~5  40 (or 20–50  10)
40 Gbps  Switching
2011
~5  40 (or ~20  10)
~5  40 (or 100  10)
2nd Gen.  Grids, Terabit networks
2013
~Terabit
~Multi-Terabit
~Fill one fiber
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
eVLBI and UltraLight
• e-VLBI is a major thrust of UltraLight and can directly
complement LHC-HEPs mode of using the network,
allowing us to explore new strategies for network
conditioning and bandwidth management.
• The e-VLBI work under this proposal will be multi-pronged
in an effort to leverage the many new capabilities provided
by UltraLight network and to provide the national and
international VLBI community with advanced tools and
services that are tailored to the e-VLBI application.
• e-VLBI stands to benefit from an UltraLight infrastructure
in numerous ways:
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Higher sensitivity
Faster turnaround
Lower costs
Quick diagnostics and tests
New correlation methods
— e-VLBI will provide a different eScience perspective and
validate the operation and efficiency of network
bandwidth sharing between disparate scientific groups
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
UltraLight Architecture
UltraLight envisions extending and
augmenting the existing grid computing
infrastructure (currently focused on
CPU/storage) to include the network as an
integral component.
A second aspect is
strengthening and
extending “end-toend” monitoring and
planning
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
UltraLight Proposal Outline
C.1
C.2
C.3
C.4
C.5
C.6
C.7
UltraLight Project Vision .......................................................................................................................... 2
UltraLight Project Participants and Partners ............................................................................................. 3
Information Technology Challenges at the Large Hadron Collider .......................................................... 4
Information Technology Challenges in e-VLBI........................................................................................ 5
The UltraLight Managed, Integrated Information System ........................................................................ 6
C.5.1 Expanding the Scope of the LHC Computing Model................................................................... 6
C.5.2 The UltraLight Computing Model................................................................................................ 6
C.5.3 An LHC Physics Scenario Illustrating the UltraLight Computing Model.................................... 7
Project Plan ............................................................................................................................................... 8
C.6.1 High Energy Physics Application Services .................................................................................. 8
C.6.2 e-VLBI Application Services ..................................................................................................... 10
C.6.3 Global Services .......................................................................................................................... 10
C.6.4 Testbed Deployment and Operation ........................................................................................... 12
C.6.5 Network Engineering ................................................................................................................. 12
C.6.6 Education and Outreach ............................................................................................................. 13
Program of Work..................................................................................................................................... 13
C.7.1 Phase 1: Implementation of network, equipment and initial services (12 months) .................... 13
C.7.2 Phase 2: Integration (18 months)................................................................................................ 14
C.7.3 Phase 3: Transition to Production (18 months) .......................................................................... 15
C.7.4 Project Management................................................................................................................... 16
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
Workplan and Phased Deployment
• UltraLight envisions a 4 year program to deliver a new,
high-performance, network-integrated infrastructure:
• Phase I will last 12 months and focus on deploying the
initial network infrastructure and bringing up first services
• Phase II will last 18 months and concentrate on
implementing all the needed services and extending the
infrastructure to additional sites
• Phase III will complete UltraLight and last 18 months.
The focus will be on a transition to production in support of
LHC Physics and eVLBI Astronomy
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
UltraLight Network: PHASE I
• Implementation via
“sharing” with
HOPI/NLR
• MIT not yet “optically”
coupled
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
UltraLight Network: PHASE II
• Move toward multiple
“lambdas”
• Bring in BNL and MIT
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
UltraLight Network: PHASE III
• Move into production
• Optical switching fully
enabled amongst
primary sites
• Integrated international
infrastructure
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
Equipment and Interconnects
• The UltraLight
optical switching
topology is shown
• UltraLight plans to
integrate data
caches and CPU
resources to provide
integration testing
and optimization
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
UltraLight Network
• UltraLight is a hybrid packet- and circuit-switched network
infrastructure employing ultrascale protocols and dynamic
building of optical paths to provide efficient fair-sharing on long
range networks up to the 10 Gbps range, while protecting the
performance of real-time streams and enabling them to coexist
with massive data transfers.
• Circuit switched: “Intelligent photonics” (using wavelengths
dynamically to construct and tear down wavelength paths rapidly
and on demand through cost-effective wavelength routing) are a
natural match to the peer-to-peer interactions required to meet
the needs of leading-edge, data-intensive science.
• Packet switched: Many applications can effectively utilize the
existing, cost effective networks provided by shared packet
switched infrastructure. A subset of applications require more
stringent guarantees than a best-effort network can provide, and
so we are planning to utilize MPLS as an itermediate option
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
MPLS Topology
• Current network engineering
knowledge is insufficient to
predict what combination of
“best-effort” packet switching,
QoS-enabled packet switching,
MPLS and dedicated circuits will
be most effective in supporting
these applications.
• We will use MPLS and other
modes of bandwidth
management, along with
dynamic adjustments of optical
paths and their provisioning, in
order to develop the means to
optimize end-to-end
performance among a set of
virtualized disk servers, a
variety of real-time processes,
and other traffic flows.
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
Logical Diagram of UltraLight Grid
Enabled Analysis
• An “UltraLight” user’s perspective of the system:
Important to note
that the system
helps interpret
and optimize
itself while
“summarizing”
the details for
ease of use
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
Summary and Status
• UltraLight promises to deliver the critical missing
component for future eScience: the integrated,
managed network
• We have a strong team in place, as well as a detailed
plan, to provide the needed infrastructure and
services for production use by LHC turn-on at the
end of 2007
• Currently we are preparing the proposal for ITR
submission by February 25, 2004
• We will need to augment the proposal with additional
grants to enable us to reach our goal of having
UltraLight be a pervasive and effective
infrastructure for LHC physics and eVLBI
Astronomy
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004
Questions?
Questions? (or Answers)?
Shawn McKee
HENP SIG • Honolulu, HI • January 25th, 2004