roy hockett [email protected] april 28, 2015. the science is the key to the proposal, without the...
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Where to start?• The science is the key to the proposal, without
the science the proposal has little chance.• What infrastructure do the researchers need?• Single or Multi-institutional proposal?• Do you have someone that knows the faculty’s
research?• University requirements for proposal?
Advance Research Computing• Staff that liaison with Faculty to understand
their research and connect them with IT Staff and services they need.
• Help identify infrastructure needs.• Identify researchers that fit for the proposal.• Have proposal writing expertise.• Handled the submission of proposal.
It’s a team effortTeam members:• PI and co-PIs• Faculty Liaison (ARC)• Researchers• Task Master (ARC)• IT Staff• Proposal Writer (ARC)
NSF CC-NIE Grant #1245488
• Increase capacity to Cyber Infrastructure– 100GE to HPC (FLUX) @ Modular Data Center– 100GE to Research Storage @ MACC– 100GE to Internet2 and other R&E networks– Multiple 10GE to 3D Visualization LAB
• Network Testing and Performance Platform• ScienceDMZ integrating DYNES/ION/AL2S,
GENI, SDN/Openflow services.
Dependencies
• Data Center Routers Upgrade• MiLR (RON) 100GE Upgrade.• Campus Backbone 100GE Upgrade• OmniPOP 100GE Upgrade.
Obstacles to Implementation• Testing platform that was just released..• Issues not addressable in the Proof of Concept
Lab (POC).• New Hardware presented hurdles• Unforeseen Delays• Unexpected outages
Extra Slides
Testing 100GE links• Wanted to test the links before we
implemented them in the production.• Tested both Layer2 forwarding and Layer3
forwarding.• Limited time and traffic generation resources– Used perfSONAR boxes with 40GE interfaces to
generate traffic.– Single box could generate ~50-60Gbps in both
directions.
perfSONAR and FDT platforms• Desired platforms that support 40Gbps and
100Gbps NICs• Initial quoted boxes for the project only
supported 10GE NICs• Had to wait for IvyBridgev2 Processors to be
released.– Support for PCIv3 x8 needed for 40GE card– Support for PCIv3 x16 needed for 100GE card