Scalable Information Infrastructure and theResearch University Community

SC99

19 November 1999

Portland, Oregon

Douglas Van Houweling

President & CEO, Internet2/UCAID

DVH@Internet2.edu

Lessons on Scalability from the Internet

Has grown more than 100% per year since 1985

Non-hierarchicalBased on evolving & open standardsBottom-up innovationIncludes small to large-scale

testbeds

Research andDevelopment

Commercialization

PartnershipTestbeds

Privatization

Internet Development Spiral

Today’s Internet

Internet2

NSFNetARPANet

NYSERNet

SURANet

MichNet

ANS/Core

PSI

UUNet

InternetMCI

AOL

GigaBitTestbeds

MBone

NGIIntelligentNetworks

NTONvBNS

The Internet Today

Hundreds of millions of usersWeb, email, low-quality audio & videoApplications adapt to underlying

technologyImportant, not mission-critical usesScale orders of magnitude beyond

the design point

Tomorrow’s Internet

Billions of users and devicesConvergence of today’s applications

and services with real time rich media environments

New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)

Mission-critical uses

Tomorrow’s Internet Requires

Bigger pipesCapacity allocation & assuranceCore middlewareApplication-enabling middlewareExemplary applications

Our Role

Create leading edge R&E network capability

Implement required middlewareEnable new generation of applicationsProvide the platform for scalability

researchTransfer technology and

experience to the global Internet

We Hold the Key

High performance applications Middleware innovations and deploymentProgressively larger testbedsRelationships with government and

industryResearch capability to discover,

diagnose, and innovate in response to scalability challenges

The Scalability Agenda

Comprehensively instrument the high performance network environment

Apply advanced processing, storage, data analysis and modeling tools

Engage three communities• Users• Infrastructure providers• Computer Science network research