Transcript APAN.2012.02x

Internet2
and
Global Collaboration
APAN 33 Chiang Mai
14 February 2012
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Stephen Wolff
Internet2
Definition
An ecosystem is
a community
of living and non-living things
that work together
-- Natureworks,
New Hampshire Public Television
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Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem
Organizations
Expertise
Research and Scholarship
Education
Learning and Workforce Development
Interoperability and operations
Cyberscience
Computational Resources
Universities, schools
Government labs, agencies
Research and Medical Centers
Libraries, Museums
Virtual Organizations
Communities
Scientific Instruments
Large Facilities, MREFCs,telescopes
Colliders, shake Tables
Sensor Arrays
- Ocean, environment, weather,
buildings, climate. Etc
Remote teaching laboratories
Discovery
Collaboration
Education
Data
Databases, Data repositories
Collections and Libraries
Data Access; storage, navigation
management, mining tools,
curation
Supercomputers
Clouds, Grids, Clusters
Visualization
Compute services
Data Centers
Networking
Software
Source: NSF
Used with
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permission
Applications, middleware
Software development and support
Cybersecurity: access,
authorization, authentication
Campus, national, international networks
Research and experimental networks
End-to-end throughput
Cybersecurity
The growth of virtual organizations
• Within our community, collaboration is increasingly
global and VOs are found in
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Physical and social sciences
Biomedical and health sciences
Liberal arts and humanities
Performing arts
• The cyberinfrastructure ecosystem is global CyberGaia
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Today’s talk
• Two elements of the global CI
– Connectivity
– Collaboration tools
• Which illustrate two principles
– Openness
– Federation
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Connectivity
• Global connectivity is increasingly being
provided by
– autonomous lightpaths and
– autonomous lightpath exchanges
– in purpose-built topologies
– that may be ephemeral
– to suit the needs of data-intensive science or
short-lived collaborations
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Connectivity
• Lightpath exchanges should be open
– ⇒ all connectors treated equally
– engineering flexibility
– usage
• Provisioning by OSCARS, DRAGON, AutoBAHN,
DRAC,…
• Instances of Software-Defined Networking
• NDDI and OS3E is another (and more
general)way…
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Connectivity
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Connectivity
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Connectivity
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Connectivity
We invite international partners
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Collaboration tools
• As virtual organizations proliferate, the need for
effective collaboration tools is growing
• Traditionally, some VOs have developed their own tools
– Sloan Sky Survey
– MonaLisa in the HEP community
• When disparate (actual or virtual) organizations work
together, “one size fits all” does not work!
• Interoperability glue and federated trust structures are
the answer
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Tools – real and potential
• framework(s)
• workflow
• connectivity with R&E networks
worldwide.
• low delay environment
• low jitter environment
• incrementally growing circles of
sharing, with complex federated
identity
• content management
• cloud services
• CaaS
• bulk data movement
• videoconferencing
• email
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• real-time collaborative idea
development - brainstorming
• asynchronous collaboration
• note taking
• white board
• proposal development
• document development
• publication support
• document sharing
• experiment development
• steering of computation
• remote instrumentation and
monitoring
• simulation or experiment
automation
A platform for innovation
• Universities have a record of Internet innovation
(VTC, tele-immersion, Facebook,…)
• Some collaboration tools are bandwidth hungry
(video walls, CAVEs,…)
• Innovation must not be shackled by lack of
bandwidth
• The Internet2 initiative “Platform for Innovation”
aims to push 100 Gb/s into campuses
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Collaboration tools
• Innovation tends to happen when
independent initiatives both co-operate and
compete with each other
• Innovation cannot be centrally controlled
• Federated governance and open systems are
the best breeding ground for innovation
• Openness, neutrality and diversity should be
the guiding principles
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Source: e-IRG
Summary and conclusion
connectivity
openness
collaboration
federation
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Thank you!
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