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Thoughts on International
e-Science Infrastructure
Kevin Thompson
U.S. National Science Foundation
Office of Cyberinfrastructure
iGrid2005 9/27/2005
NSF and International
Cyberinfrastructure
• The pursuit of scientific discovery is a global
endeavor
– Witness this event!
– NSF recognition via Office of International Science
and Engineering (OISE) and most other NSF
cyberinfrastructure activities
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Relevant NSF Activities
• International Research Network Connections (IRNC),
see www.irnclinks.net
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TransPAC2 (Japan - U.S.)
GLORIAD (China, Russia, Korea, Canada, U.S.)
WHREN (Latin America - U.S.)
TransLight/StarLight (Europe/Geant - U.S.)
TransLight/PacificWave (Australia - U.S.)
• Multi-GB/s (mostly 10 Gbs) links and associated
services connecting U.S. research networks with peer
networks in other parts of the world
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More NSF Key Elements
• NSF Middleware Initiative
– www.nsf-middleware.org
– Middleware and grid software development, integration,
deployment and support
– Dozens of activities with international scope
– Shibboleth and campus middleware
– Condor, NMI Build&Test
– Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) and
work with X-ray crystallography in collaboration with Crystal
Structure Analysis Facility (CSAF) in Sydney, Australia
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More NSF Key Elements
• Other NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)
Investments with international scope
– Optiputer
– Experimental Infrastructure Networks e.g. DRAGON (whose
driving app is e-VLBI - realtime radio telescope data
acquisition and correlation)
– PRAGMA (38% of the demos at iGrid2005 involve PRAGMA
members!) and NLANR
– Open Science Grid *VDT* and a number of other gridrelated projects, e.g. GEON, NEESgrid, BIRN and others
– Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)
– Supporting U.S. participation in European initiatives such as
EGEE
– and direct support for iGrid2005
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PRAGMA History, Structure,
Mission
• Founded March 2002
– NSF funds initiated the activity
– Matched multi-fold by others
• Open, institutional based organization
– 24 Member Institutions, 100 + individuals
– Steering Committee involving 14 institutions
– Two workshops per year
• Motivations
– Science is international, grid can revolutionize
science, but is too hard to use, software and
people must interoperate
Mission:
Among a community of investigators in the Pacific Rim
• Establish sustained collaborations
• Advance the use of the grid technologies for applications
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PRAGMA Grid Testbed
KISTI, Korea
NCSA, USA
AIST, Japan
CNIC, China
TITECH, Japan
UoHyd, India
NCHC, Taiwan
SDSC, USA
CICESE, Mexico
ASCC, Taiwan
KU, Thailand
UNAM, Mexico
USM, Malaysia
BII, Singapore
MU, Australia
UChile, Chile
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PRIME 2004
CNIC Joins in 2005
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NLANR AMP Deployment
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NLANR Measurement Node
Deployment
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Opportunities for global
collaboration and joint projects
• 3 or more levels
– Network fabric
– Middleware, software
– Project/community/application, and tying in
compute/storage resources
• As already seen, great collaborative activities already
underway
• What follows are a few ideas for a global community
focus on moving global cyberinfrastructure forward
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Moving Forward
• Network Fabric
– Expanding international connectivity to new regions
– Exploring threshold between shared IP networks and dedicated
“lightpaths” and deterministic paths
– Improved coordination on
• Measurement and security
• NOCs - federating, sharing data, alerts, etc.
• Open Exchange Points such as the Hong Kong Open Exchange
Point
• Middleware, Software
– Improved coordination on software development, integration,
testing and support
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Finally
• Make what we have in place today “better”
– Are we satisfied with end-to-end performance as it
exists across line-rate and stable 10G shared IP
networks?
• Aggressive deployment, where feasible, of
new technologies by r&e networks
– Research prototype --> production environment
– iGrid2005 tech --> future(?)
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