Science &Research SIG

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

Beyond Moore’s Law

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--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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