ScienceDataandtheNDNparadigmInderMongaCTO,ESnetDivisionDeputyofTechnology,Scien?ficNetworkingDivisionLawrenceBerkeleyNa?onalLab NDNComm2015

Experimental and observational science deals with big and small

instruments, and a lot of data!

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●  DatavolumesareincreasingfasterthanMoore’sLaw

●  Newalgorithmsandmethodsforanalyzingdata

●  Infeasibletoputasupercompu>ngcenterateveryexperimentalfacility

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Alltoocommonprocessofdiscovery

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‘Superfacility’Vision:Anetworkofconnectedfacili>es,soFwareandexper>setoenablenewmodesofdiscovery

ESnetisadedicatedmissionnetworkengineeredtoaccelerateabroadrangeofscienceoutcomes.

Wedothisbyofferinguniquecapabili?es,andop?mizingthenetworkfordataacquisi?on,data

placement,datasharing,datamobility.

ESnetisdesignedfordifferentgoalsthan

generalInternet.

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High-levelobjec>vesforscien>ficdata:alignmentwithNDNapproach

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•  Radicallysimplifyhowscien?ficusersmanage,moveandmanipulatelarge,distributed,sciencedatarepositories,butwithhigh-throughputend2end

•  Abstractthestorageandnetworkcapabilityandloca?ondependencefromtheuser-datainterac?on

•  Enabletheabilityforuserstospecifyandretrievepor?onsofdatatheworkflowneeds

•  Createasecure,scalableframeworkbasedonintegrateddatamanagementandnetworktransport

UseCase#1

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ResearchersfromBerkeleyLabandSLACconductedproteincrystallographyexperimentsatLCLStoinves>gatephotoexcited

statesofPSII,withnear-real->mecomputa>onalanalysisatNERSC.

“Takingsnapshotsofphotosynthe?cwateroxida?onusingfemtosecondX-raydiffrac?onandspectroscopy,”NatureCommunica.ons5,4371(9July2014)

50TBmovedanight

UseCase#2:LHCONEdata–mul>plereplicas,globalreach

UseCase#3:Interna>onalClimateData

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Percep>onoflimita>onsofNDNmo>va>ngresearchques>ons

1.  IfIammoving50TBofdatathroughasinglepath,fromanexperimenttoastoragefacility,IreallydonotwanttocacheitateveryintermediateNDNnode

–  Whatistherightstrategyforalloca?ngdiskresourcestocaching?Whatifonedatatransferconsumesallcacheresourcesorthereisnotenoughspace?

2.  Whatistheperformanceoftheend-to-enddatatransfer?HowcanIgetlineratethroughput?

3.  HowdoIleveragetheknowledgeofnetworkcapabilityinchoosingthetransferpath?HowdoIbuildintheknowledgeofunderlayintotheNDNoverlay?

4.  HowdoIleveragenetworkprogrammabilitytodotheabove?

5.  Andmanyotherques?ons….

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Whereareweat?

•  Collabora?onwithChristosandColoradoState–high-poweredNDNdevicesbetweenthreerepresenta?veclimatesitesasatestbed–  Susmitworkingonansweringsomeofthehigh-levelobjec?vesasdescribed

•  HEPandASCRinterestinNDNfromaresearchperspec?ve–paperearlierthisyear@CHEP,andPhilwilltalkaboutnext-stepsrightaher

•  Interestinexpandingafedera?onofhigh-poweredNDNdeviceswiththerightstrategyforcachinganddatamanagement

•  CombiningNDNwithSDN–wehaveanext-genSDNtestbedacrossUSandEurope–canwecombinethattoprovidetherightprimi?vesforhigh-performanceNDN?–  Letsdoitera?veexperimenta?onandimprovement!!!!!!!

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August2015 iDiscovery2020InderMonga15

StatusUpdate:•  Testbeddeployedatallloca?ons•  QoSsupportverified,pressrelease

nextweek•  ENOSdemoonTestbed@SC

Thankyou!

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