University of Illinois at Chicago StarLight Located in Northwestern’s Downtown Campus Dark Fiber to UIC Carrier POPs Chicago NAP NU UIC

University of Illinois at Chicago

StarLight

• Located in Northwestern’s Downtown Campus

• Dark Fiber to UIC

Carrier POPs

Chicago NAP

NU

UIC


Prototyping The Global Lambda Grid Now in Chicago: A Photonic-Switched Experimental Network of Light Paths


CONTROL

PLANE

Clusters

DynamicallyAllocatedLightpaths

Switch Fabrics

PhysicalMonitoring

Apps

Multi-leveled Architecture

NEW!


TokyoAPAN

Hawaii??

CA*net4

Other (DoE, AmPATH)

CalTech

AmsterdamNetherLight

CERNDataTAG

StarLight

NCSA

SDSC

Campus SWAggregation SWClusterOptical Fiber Amp

I-WIRE

TeraGrid

Global Scale Backplane


Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule

Legend

TNV TeraNode Visualization ClusterTND TeraNode Data Mining ClusterTNC TeraNode Computing ClusterEVL Electronic Visualization Laboratory, 842 W. Taylor St. UIC East CampusLAC Laboratory for Advanced Computing, 851 S. Morgan St. UIC East

Campus (next door to EVL)UIC Academic Computer Center, UIC West Campus, 3 fiber miles from EVL

and LACNU Northwestern University, Evanston Campus, ~ 20 miles north of

ChicagoStarLight International next-generation optical exchange (NGOX), at 710 N. Lake

Shore Drive, part of NU’s Chicago campus

UIC-owned fiberI-WIRE-owned fiber


StarLightUIC

Toward Terabits: Proposed Chicago Development ScheduleYear 0: September 2001-August 2002

EVL

6509650910GbE 10Gb

LAC

1GigE

TND1 TNV1

6509

TND Small TND1 clusters at LAC and StarLight

TNV TNV1 clusters at EVL and StarLight

TNC Small TNC1 clusters at EVL and StarLight (not shown in diagrams)

Netwk Cisco 6509s with 10GigE DWDM

I-WIRE StarLight to Qwest fiber (18 pair); TeraGrid/MREN to StarLight; Abilene to Starlight (other funding)

K-6 EVL VR displays deployed

Int’l Amsterdam clusters OC-48→2x1GigE (other funding)


LAC UIC StarLight

EVL

10Gb

10Gb 10Gb

TND2

65096509

DWDM

TNV1 TND2

6509

DWDM

TNV1

6509

Toward Terabits: Proposed Chicago Development ScheduleYear 1: September 2002-August 2003

TND (2) TND2s at LAC and StarLight

Netwk Cisco 6509 w/ 10GigE for LAC; 10Gb testing gear; (2) 10Gb boards for UIC, LAC

I-WIRE UIC to StarLight (1 pair); UIC to ANL to Starlight (1 pair); Seattle, California to StarLight OC-192

K-6 Wireless handheld computers

Int’l CERN, Tokyo OC-48→2x1GigE; Amsterdam OC-192→10GigE (other funding)

Indicates current-year computer and/or network purchases


LAC UIC StarLight

EVL

10Gb10Gb 2x10Gb

TND2

65096509

DWDM

10x10 GigE

TNV1 TND2

6513

DWDM

TNV2

6509

Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development ScheduleYear 2: September 2003-August 2004

TNV TNV2

Netwk Cisco 6513 10x10GigE at StarLight; (2) 10Gb DWDM lasers for a total capacity of 20Gb (between UIC to Starlight); (2) 10Gb boards for EVL, UIC

I-WIRE Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania?

K-6 Wireless handheld computers

Int’l Other internationals


EVL

LAC UIC StarLight

10x10 GigE10Gb

10Gb 2x10Gb

TNV3 TNC3

6509

TND3

65096509

DWDM

TNV3 TND3

6513

DWDM

Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule Year 3: September 2004-August 2005

TND (2) TND3s at LAC and StarLight

TNV TNV3

TNC TNC3 at AI/EVL

I-WIRE Others?

K-6 TND1 and TNV1 clusters re-deployed in schools

Int’l CERN, Tokyo OC-192→10GigE


Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule Years 4 and 5: September 2005-August 2007

TND Upgrade NICs in (2) TND clusters to (8)x 10GigE TNV Upgrade NICs in TNV3 clusters to (8)x10GigE Netwk (2) 6509 Switch Fabric Upgrades; (48) 10GigE ports for EVL, LAC, UIC,

StarLight; 2x40GigE switch/ router upgrades; 40Gb test equipment; O-E-O Optical Switch at StarLight (partial funding); (2) 40Gb DWDM lasers (EVL to StarLight); (8) 10Gb DWDM lasers (UIC to Starlight)

I-WIRE Others? K-6 Classroom full of handheld computers interfaced to TND2/TNV2 clusters Int’l Amsterdam OC-768→40GigE?

LAC

10Gb

10Gb 10x10Gb

UIC

6509

EVL

TNV3 TNC3

6509

8x10Gb

2x40Gb (UIC fiber) DWDM

2x40G

TND3

6509

StarLight

DWDM

O-E-O or O-O-Oswitch

TND3

6513

TNV3


StarLight Thanks

• StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts at the University of Illinois at Chicago are made possible, in part, by funding from: – National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-

9802090, EIA-9871058, and EIA-0115809– NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative

agreement ACI-9619019 to the National Computational Science Alliance – State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and UIC cost sharing– Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management

• Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and planning leadership

• NSF/ANIR, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, and Olivier Martin of CERN for global optical networking leadership;

• NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid opportunities• UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and their ITN• CA*net4 and CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North America and West

Coast transit


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