Transcript CCIRN update GLIF Tech

GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility
GLIF Tech (and other WGs)
Erik-Jan Bos
GLIF Tech co-chair
CCIRN meeting Xi’an, China
August 26, 2007
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GLIF vision
Linking the World with Light
• GLIF community shares a common vision of
building a new grid-computing paradigm, in which
the central architectural element is optical
networks, not computers, to support this decade’s
most demanding e-science applications.
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GLIF Tech and Ctrl Working Groups
• GLIF Tech: Facilitate manual use of the GLIF
resources today
• GLIF Ctrl: Towards automated use of the GLIF
resources tomorrow
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A who’s who in the Working Groups
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Governance and Growth (GOV) Working Group
Chair: Kees Neggers (SURFnet)
Goals: To identify future goals in terms of lambdas, connections and applications support,
and to decide what cross-domain policies need to be put in place.
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Research and Applications (RAP) Working Group
Chair: Maxine Brown (UIC) & Larry Smarr (UCSD)
Goals: To train a new generation of scientists on the use of super-networks.
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Technical Issues (Tech) Working Group
Co-Chairs: Erik-Jan Bos (SURFnet) & René Hatem (CANARIE)
Goals: The goals of the working group are to design and implement an international
LambdaGrid infrastructure, identify which equipment is being used, what connection
requirements are required, and which functions and services should be provided.
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Control Plane and Grid Integration Middleware Working Group
Chair: Gigi Karmous-Edwards (MCNC)
Goals: To agree on the interfaces and protocols that talk to each other on the control planes
of the contributed Lambda resources. People working in this field already meet regularly in
conjunction with other projects, notably the NSF-funded OptIPuter and MCNC Controlplane
initiatives.
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GLIF Tech update
• GLIF Resources:
– GOLEs (GLIF Open Lightpath Exchanges)
– Lambdas
• GOLE coordination (calls and updates)
• Inventory of resources:
– Manual
– Automated (TL/1 Toolkit & NDL (Network Description
Language))
• Documents:
– Issue analysis
– Monitoring in the hybrid network
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Current list of GOLEs
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AMPATH - Miami
CERN - Geneva
CzechLight - Prague
HKOEP - Hong Kong
KRLight - Daejoen
MAN LAN - New York
MoscowLight - Moscow
NetherLight - Amsterdam
NGIX-East - Washington D.C.
NorthernLight - Stockholm
Pacific Wave (Los Angeles) - Los Angeles
Pacific Wave (Seattle) - Seattle
Pacific Wave (Sunnyvale) - Sunnyvale
StarLight - Chicago
T-LEX - Tokyo
UKLight - London
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GOLE NetherLight – September 2007
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Network Description Language (NDL)
• Project of the University of Amsterdam
• Aim: Develop language to describe computer
networks meaningfully, and build easy to use tools
• Work uses RDF (Resource Description Framework)
• Tools:
– Generator
– Validator
– Visualization
– Pathfinding
• Use of Google Maps
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NDL work on Google Maps
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7th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop
• The 2007 GLIF Workshop will be held on September
17-18, 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic
• Host: CESNET, Czech NREN
• Location: Charles University, Prague
• Followed by: 4th Customer Empowered Fiber
Workshop
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Important topics for GLIF in Prague, CZ (tentative)
• Control plane interworking
• Advances in NDL and the TL1 Toolkit tools
• Technical challenges in VLAN-based “lightpaths”
• Enlighten your research (SURFnet) experiences
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Questions?
http://www.glif.is/