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International Research Network Connections (IRNC)
Western-Hemisphere Research and Education
Networks - Links Interconnecting Latin America
(WHREN-LILA)
National Science Foundation
Office of International Science and Engineering
April 28, 2006
Julio Ibarra, PI
Heidi Alvarez, Co-PI
Chip Cox, Co-PI
John Silvester, Co-PI
Outline
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The WHREN-LILA Project
Network Connectivity in Latin America
AtlanticWave
Applications and Communities Being
Enabled
Education and Outreach
WHREN-LILA
IRNC Award 0441095
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5-year NSF Cooperative Agreement
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Florida International University (IRNC awardee)
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California
Project support from the Academic Network of Sao Paulo
(award #2003/13708-0)
CLARA, Latin America
CUDI, Mexico
RNP, Brazil
REUNA, Chile
Links Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) aims to
Improve connectivity in the Americas through the
establishment of new inter-regional links
Western-Hemisphere Research and Education Networks
(WHREN) serves as a coordinating body whose aim is to
leverage participants’ network resources to foster
collaborative research and advance education
throughout the Western Hemisphere
Links Interconnecting Latin America
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Miami - Sao Paulo link:
1.2Gbps by year end, evolving
to 2.5Gbps
Connects State of Sao Paulo
academic network (ANSP) and
Exchange Point, regional
network (CLARA), Brazilian
NREN (RNP), other
international networks
San Diego - Tijuana link:
operating at 2 x 1 Gbps,
providing dedicated GigE links
to regional network (CLARA)
and Mexican NREN (CUDI)
East and west coast
connectivity to I2 Abilene and
other US and global R&E
networks
http://www.whren-lila.net
CUDI
CLARA
RNP
ANSP
CLARA
Recent Connectivity Activities
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The Sao Paulo exchange point is in full operation
A distributed exchange point service between
Miami and Sao Paulo is now in service using the
LILA-East link
RedCLARA connection at Sao Paulo progressing
(within 60 days)
Nicaragua and Colombia recently connected to
RedCLARA
14 NRENs from Latin America and RedCLARA are
using the WHREN-LILA links to reach the U.S.
HEPGrid Brazil international
connection - WHREN/LILA
São Paulo has become an important NAP
(joining CLARA / GEANT / Abilene networks)
Countries connected to
CLARA
• Argentina
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
AtlanticWave
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AtlanticWave will provide an International Peering Fabric
 US, Canada, Europe, South America
 Distributed IP peering points and add/drops in:
 NYC, WDC, ATL, MIA, SPB
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SURA, FIU-AMPATH, IEEAF, MAX, SoX, MANLAN,
and in partnership with the Academic Networks of
Sao Paulo (ANSP) are combining efforts to
establish AtlanticWave
A-Wave is an integral component of the NSF IRNC
WHREN-LILA project to create an open distributed
exchange and transport service along the Atlantic
rim
Complements the PacificWave distributed peering
facility on the Pacific rim
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The Global Picture
CHI
NYC
SEA
LON
STK
WDC
TOK
LAX
ATL
HKO
A-Wave
AMS
CER
MIA
A globally integrated set of “light path” facilities:
waves, exchange points, etc
(Note: map not complete…)
AUS
Sao Paulo (SPB)
Sonet/SDH
Ethernet
Ethernet, initially
AtlanticWave - Next Steps
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Finalize Memorandum of Understanding
between participating exchange points
and the Southeastern Universities
Research Association (SURA)
Order NLR wave from Miami (AMPATH) to
NYC (MANLAN)
Install wave
Have AtlanticWave ready for service for
Super Computing 2006 in November
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UltraLight is
 A four year $2M NSF ITR funded by MPS
 Application driven Network R&D
 A collaboration of BNL, Caltech, CERN, Florida,
FIU, FNAL, Internet2, Michigan, MIT, SLAC
 Significant international participation: Brazil,
Japan, Korea amongst many others
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Goal: Enable the network as a managed
resource
Meta-Goal: Enable physics analysis and
discoveries which could not otherwise be
achieved
UltraLight: Advanced Network Services
for Data Intensive HEP Applications
MPS #0427110
 Extend and augment existing grid computing
infrastructures (currently focused on CPU/storage) to
include the network as an integral component
 A next-generation hybrid packet- and circuit-switched
dynamic network infrastructure
 Partners: Caltech, UF, FIU, UMich, I2, SLAC, FNAL;
UERJ, USP, ANSP, RNP; GLORIAD (cn, kr, ru), GLIF
 Strong support from Cisco, CENIC, NLR, FLR
An International Grid Enabled Center
for High Energy Physics Research
& Educational Outreach at FIU
An integrated program of
research, network infrastructure
development, and education and
outreach at one of the largest
minority schools in the US
http://www.chepreo.org
Education Workshop June, 2006 @ FIU
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Workshop Highlights
 15+ Students
 Lecturers / Leaders UltraLight coPIs / Outside Experts
 Topics: Grid Computing, Advanced Networking Engineering,
Network Montioring using MonALISA, Netflow, AMP data
 Early Summer
 Graduate Student Preparation
 Summer Project Preparation
 Participants from the US, Brazil and Argentina
 Provided a follow on activity to the PASI
www.ultralight.caltech.edu
Opening a University Fiber Highway
Between Mexico and the US
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iGrid2005 demonstration
collaboration between SDSU,
SDSC from the U.S. and
CICESE and CUDI from
Mexico
A grid was formed by
computer clusters running
Linux at CICESE and at SDSC
Utilized the WHREN-LILA
west link, the compute
servers from PRAGMA, and
the SDSU Visualization
Center
COLLABORATORS
• Carlos Casasus, CUDI, México,
[email protected]
• Eric Frost, SDSU, US,
[email protected]
• Dr. Gustavo Chapela Castañares,
CONACYT, México,
• Dr. Federico Graef Ziehl,
CICESE, México,
[email protected]
iGrid2005 Demonstration
from Brazil
Super Computing 2005
Bandwidth Challenge
Radio Astronomy
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VLBI - Very Long Baseline Interferometry
 VLBI ROEN - Radio Observatorio Espacial del
Nordeste
 To be at 1 Gbps over 2.5 Gbps connection
Source: Nelson Simoes, RNP
Gemini, NOAO, CTIO, SOAR
International Collaboration
Cyberinfrastructure for International
Biodiversity Research Collaboration Workshop
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Purpose: Examine trends where
Cyberinfrastructure is likely to effect change in
biodiversity research and ecological informatics
- January 10-13, 2006, in Panama City, Panama
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Support and participation from 5 national
science funding agencies: the U.S. NSF, Panama
(SENACYT), Mexico (CONACYT), Costa Rica
(CR-USA), Colombia (Colciencias)
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60+ biology researchers, cyberinfrastructure
technologists and funding agency directors from
above countries, with participants from
Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Peru
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Funding priorities, science collaboration
objectives and the application of
cyberinfrastructure to support those objectives
were addressed
Award #0549456
http://www.ciara.fiu.edu/biocyber/index.htm
CI-TEAM Demonstration
By understanding Research &
Education Cyber Infrastructure,
we will bridge the divide between
IT and the Sciences
NSF Award # OCI-0537464
4 Science & Engineering
Graduate Student Fellowships
Oct 1, 2005 - Sept 30, 2006
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Heidi Alvarez, PI CIARA
Julio Ibarra, Co-PI CIARA
Chi Zhang, Co-PI CS
Eric Johnson, Co-PI CS
www.cyberbridges.net
Research Stipend
• Tuition for Spring and
Summer 2006
• CIARA IT Science Certificate
• Collaborative publication &
conference participation
Proposed Next Steps
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Expand program to multiple globally distributed
institutions
More students, More faculty, More technologists
Call the program “Global CyberBridges” (GCB)
Provide a Model Global Collaboration
Infrastructure for workforce development in eScience between US and China
This model infrastructure could be developed
through a partnership between CIARA of FIU,
UCSD, and CNIC of CAS (MOU signed with CAS)
Bridging facilitators at City University Hong Kong
Partner with University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Proposed GCB Concept
Overall Next Steps
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Explore future joint sponsorships that will
engage U.S. and Latin American domain
scientists to apply CI to their science
 Biodiversity and ecological research
 Genomics and others
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International training and education
collaborations, bringing together research faculty
and students, that apply CI to domain science
 PASI, workshops, etc.
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Work with the CI community to engage our
domain scientists on the application of state-ofthe-art research collaboration tools to satisfy
their science objectives
 Scientific workflows, Communities of Interests (eg.
PRAGMA)
Thank You!
• WHREN-LILA, AMPATH infrastructure,
CHEPREO, CyberBridges, science
application support, education, outreach
and community building efforts are made
possible by funding and support from:
National Science Foundation (NSF) awards STI0231844, MPS-0312038, OISE-0418366, OISE0549456, OCI-0537464, and SCI-0441095
Florida International University
Latin American Research and Education
community
The many national and international
collaborators who support our efforts