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October 3 r d 2912Jason Zurawski – zurawski@internet2 .edu Sen ior Research Eng ineer – In te rne t2 Of f i ce o f the CTO
• Comprehensive end-to-end support for the research community
– Work with the research community to understand their needs
– Provide network engineering, planning and pricing for project and proposal development
– Collaborate with the community to anticipate research needs
– Foster network infrastructure and service research that can be incubated, tested and deployed
Research Support Center
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• Provide a clearinghouse for “researchers” who have questions regarding how to utilize Internet2 resources– Support extends to those who support researchers
as well (e.g. sysadmin/netadmin at regional/campus nets).
– Emphasis on cross domain needs – home for the homeless
• Simple contact mechanisms– Email - rs@internet2.edu – Updated web presence – http://www.internet.edu/
research
Research Support Center (cont)
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• Data as of 9/17/2012• Total Tickets = 137
– 47 Open/In Progress– 90 Closed
• Categories:– Network Performance = 36%
• Increase from 25% since 7/2012
– GENI = 2%– Letters of Support = 21%
• CC-NIE rush during Spring 2012
– Network Connectivity (Layer 2/General) = 7%– Research Support & Demo/Paper Collaboration = 15%– Internet2 Initiatives = 17%
• Spike related to Internet2 NET+, Internet2 Innovation Platform, etc.
– General = 2%
• Other Tags:– 20% of tickets involve an international component– 9% are related to Healthcare/Medical topics– 7% (mostly in the performance space) are related to Internet2 NET+ activities
Dissecting the Research Support Center
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• Is it daylight … or a train?• Specific performance concerns
– End-to-end problems (campus to campus, Virtual Organizations, International links)
– Application Fortitude– Instrumentation of Networks– Configuration of Tools– Training
Light At The End of the Performance Tunnel?
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• Our Read:– We are seeing more reports
• Less suffering in silence? More end-to-end work? Effective advertising?
– Encouraging that people want to fix them, and that some are taking initiative in the community
• Many campuses establishing “Research Engineer”, network-user interaction• VOs (SSERCA in Florida) pooling community computation and network
resources. Serving as liaison between researchers and network providers (Campuses, FLR)
• The Tools– The community has invested heavily
in the perfSONAR framework.– One of many R&E success stories
• The Deployments– Wide adoption (and use!) in all parts
of the R&E community. – Emerging in the Commercial sector
Performance – Community XRoads
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• The Use Cases– Keeping campus infrastructure available and highly capable– Directly supporting science
• The Training– Measurement and monitoring are made easier with tools– Fixing the “hard problems” has a strong human aspect
Global Reach of perfSONAR Monitoring
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• Approach Performance Training in some new ways
• TTT: Restructure materials to encourage franchising to larger groups.
– The knowledge will be passed down in a tree-like fashion
The Way Forward - Training
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• E1T1: One on one (or one to small number) explanation of the materials
– Encourage recipients to pass along the knowledge
• Architectural and procedural changes can have a big impact
– E.g. Science DMZ
• The scalability of traditional “TCP/IP” networks is being tested
– Increasing number of users– Increasing number of use cases– The drive to do things better and more
efficiently
The Way Forward – Network Innovation
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• New paradigms to consider– “Feedback” from the network – Intelligent switching and routing– Application based control– All working in harmony with the operational component
• DYNES – NSF MRI Grant– Deliver hardware capable
of advancing “Layer 2” networking deep into the campus and regional infrastructures
– Encourage “Application Adoption” – particularly within scientific Vos
– ~90% Deployed
Shaking up the Application/Network Model
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• New Twist – How to integrate SDN/OpenFlow ideas?– Testing new hardware/software currently
• … Oh, and Monitoring is Necessary …– Reaching out to all participants to provide additional monitoring hardware
Drinking from the Firehose
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PhysicsLarge Hadron Collider (LHC)
Life SciencesMagnetic Resonance Imager (MRI)
Source: http://www.colinmcnulty.comImage by: CERN
Visualization Zen
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PhysicsLHC – Lead Ion Collision
Life SciencesMRI – Monkey Brain
Source: Van Wedeen, M.D., Martinos Center and Dept. of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University Medical School
Source: CERN (ALICE detector)
The Facil i t ies & Collaborators
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Physics22 Particle Accelerators
Life Sciences758 Genome Sequencers
Source: http://omicsmaps.com/, Dec. 5, 2011Source: //find.mapmuse.com/map/particle-accelerators, Apr. 22, 2012
--Size, ++Data
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Mid - 2012Illumina HiSeq 2500/1500
2013Handheld USB Sequencer
Image: Oxford Nanopore TechnologiesSource: http://www.illumina.com/systems/hiseq_systems/hiseq_2500_1500.ilmn
• Some Campuses are creating a “Research Engineer” position explicitly– Interface with the researchers regularly– “Human networking”– Gauge needs (services, connectivity)– Translate into IT/NetEng requirements– Escalate problems to other domains
• Examples:– SSERCA– University of Colorado Boulder– The Pennsylvania State University
Preparedness
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• Who is doing what in the audience• What ways do you need help
– From Internet2/Backbones– Regionals
• Challenges?• CC-NIE – expectations• AOB
Disscusion
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