The OptIPuter –
From SuperComputers to SuperNetworks
GEON Meeting
San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD
La Jolla, CA
November 19, 2002
Dr. Larry Smarr
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technologies
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
California Has Initiated Four New
Institutes for Science and Innovation
California Institute for Bioengineering,
Biotechnology,
and Quantitative Biomedical Research
UCD
UCSF
Center for
Information Technology Research
in the Interest of Society
UCM
UCB
California
NanoSystems Institute
UCSC
UCSB
UCLA
UCI
California Institute for
Telecommunications and
Information Technology
UCSD
www.ucop.edu/california-institutes
Cal-(IT)2
An Integrated Approach to the Future Internet
220 UC San Diego & UC Irvine Faculty
Working in Multidisciplinary Teams
With Students, Industry, and the Community
The State’s $100 M
Creates Unique Buildings, Equipment, and Laboratories
www.calit2.net
SDSC and Cal-(IT)2 Have The Same
Knowledge and Data Team by Construction!
Applications: Medical informatics,
Biosciences, Ecoinformatics,…
Visualization
Data Mining, Simulation Modeling,
Analysis, Data Fusion
Knowledge-Based Integration
Advanced Query Processing
Grid Storage
Filesystems, Database Systems
High speed networking
Networked Storage (SAN)
sensornets
Storage hardware
instruments
SDSC Data and Knowledge Systems Program
Cal-(IT)2 Knowledge and Data Engineering Laboratory
The Move to Data-Intensive Science & Engineeringe-Science Community Resources
ALMA
LHC
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
ATLAS
Why Optical Networks Are Emerging
as the 21st Century Driver for the Grid
Scientific American, January 2001
The Rapid Increase in Bandwidth is Driven by
Parallel Lambdas On Single Optical Fibers
(WDM)
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Parallel Lambdas Will Drive This Decade
The Way Parallel Processors Drove the 1990s
A LambdaGrid Will Be
the Backbone for an e-Science Network
Apps Middleware
Clusters
Dynamically
Allocated
Lightpaths
Switch Fabrics
Physical
Monitoring
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Source: Joe Mambretti, NU
The Next S-Curves of Networking
Exponential Technology Growth
Lambda Grids
Experimental
Networks
Production/
Mass Market
DWDM
100%
Technology
Penetration
Internet2 Abilene
Experimental/
Early Adopters
Connections Program
0%
Research
Gigabit Testbeds
Time
Technology S-Curve
~1990s
2000
2010
Networking Technology S-Curves
Data Intensive Scientific Applications
Require Experimental Optical Networks
• Large Data Challenges in Neuro and Earth Sciences
– Each Data Object is 3D and Gigabytes
– Data are Generated and Stored in Distributed Archives
– Research is Carried Out on Federated Repository
• Requirements
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Computing Requirements  PC Clusters
Communications  Dedicated Lambdas Over Fiber
Data  Large Peer-to-Peer Lambda Attached Storage
Visualization  Collaborative Volume Algorithms
• Response
– OptIPuter Research Project
Illinois’ I-WIRE
The First State Dark Fiber Experimental Network
Starlight
(NU-Chicago)
Argonne
18 pair
4 pair
Qwest
455 N. Cityfront
UC Gleacher
450 N. Cityfront
4
10 pair
UIC
4 pair
McLeodUSA
4 pair
12 pair
151/155 N. Michigan
Doral Plaza
12 pair
Level(3)
Illinois Century Network
111 N. Canal
James R. Thompson Ctr
City Hall
State of IL Bldg
2 pair
2 pair
2 pair
UChicago
IIT
Source: Charlie Catlett 12/2001
UIUC/NCSA
CENIC Plans to Create a Dark Fiber
Experimental and Research Network
The SoCal Component
From Telephone Conference Calls to
Access Grid International Video Meetings
Can We Modify This Technology
To Create a GEON Research Virtual Laboratory?
Access Grid Lead-Argonne
NSF STARTAP Lead-UIC’s Elec. Vis. Lab
iGrid 2002
September 24-26, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Fifteen Countries/Locations Proposing 28 Demonstrations:
Canada, CERN, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, The
Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United
Kingdom, United States
• Applications Demonstrated: Art, Bioinformatics, Chemistry,
Cosmology, Cultural Heritage, Education, High-Definition Media
Streaming, Manufacturing, Medicine, Neuroscience, Physics,
Tele-science
• Grid Technologies: Grid Middleware, Data Management/
Replication Grids, Visualization Grids, Computational Grids,
Access Grids, Grid Portal Sponsors: HP, IBM, Cisco, Philips,
Level (3), Glimmerglass, etc.
UIC
www.startap.net/igrid2002
iGrid 2002 Was Sustaining 1-3 Gigabits/s
Total Available Bandwidth
Between Chicago and Amsterdam
Was 30 Gigabit/s
The NSF TeraGrid
A LambdaGrid of Linux SuperClusters
This will Become the National Backbone to Support Multiple
Large Scale Science and Engineering Projects
Applications
Caltech
0.5 TF
0.4 TB Memory
86 TB disk
Intel, IBM, Qwest
Myricom, Sun, Oracle
TeraGrid Backbone (40 Gbps)
Data
SDSC
4.1 TF
2 TB Memory
250 TB disk
$53Million from NSF
Visualization
Argonne
1 TF
0.25 TB Memory
25 TB disk
Compute
NCSA
8 TF
4 TB Memory
240 TB disk
From SuperComputers to SuperNetworks-Changing the Grid Design Point
• The TeraGrid is Optimized for Computing
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1024 IA-64 Nodes Linux Cluster
Assume 1 GigE per Node = 1 Terabit/s I/O
Grid Optical Connection 4x10Gig Lambdas = 40 Gigabit/s
Optical Connections are Only 4% Bisection Bandwidth
• The OptIPuter is Optimized for Bandwidth
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32 IA-64 Node Linux Cluster
Assume 1 GigE per Processor = 32 gigabit/s I/O
Grid Optical Connection 4x10GigE = 40 Gigabit/s
Optical Connections are Over 100% Bisection Bandwidth
The OptIPuter is
an Experimental Network Research Project
• Driven by Large Neuroscience and Earth Science Data
– EarthScope and BIRN
• Multiple Lambdas Linking Clusters and Storage
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LambdaGrid Software Stack
Integration with PC Clusters
Interactive Collaborative Volume Visualization
Lambda Peer to Peer Storage With Optimized Storewidth
Enhance Security Mechanisms
Rethink TCP/IP Protocols
• NSF Large Information Technology Research Proposal
– UCSD and UIC Lead Campuses—Larry Smarr PI
– USC, UCI, SDSU, NW Partnering Campuses
– Industrial Partners: IBM, Telcordia/SAIC, Chiaro
Networks, CENIC
• $13.5 Million Over Five Years
Metro Optically Linked Visualization Walls
with Industrial Partners Set Stage for Federal Grant
• Driven by SensorNets Data
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Real Time Seismic
Environmental Monitoring
Distributed Collaboration
Emergency Response
• Linked UCSD and SDSU
– Dedication March 4, 2002
Linking Control Rooms
UCSD
SDSU
44 Miles of Cox Fiber
Cox, Panoram,
SAIC, SGI, IBM,
TeraBurst Networks
SD Telecom Council
OptIPuter NSF Proposal Partnered with
National Experts and Infrastructure
Asia
Pacific
Vancouver
Seattle
Portland
CA*net4
Pacific
Light
Rail
Chicago
UIC
NU
San Francisco
Asia
Pacific
SURFnet
CERN
PSC
NYC
NCSA
USC
Los Angeles UCI
UCSD, SDSU
San Diego
(SDSC)
Atlanta
AMPATH
Source: Tom DeFanti and Maxine Brown, UIC
OptIPuter LambdaGrid
Enabled by Chiaro Networking Router
Medical Imaging
and Microscopy
Chemistry,
Engineering, Arts
switch
switch
• Cluster – Disk
• Disk – Disk
Chiaro
Enstara
• Viz – Disk
• DB – Cluster
switch
San Diego
Supercomputer Center
switch
• Cluster – Cluster
Scripps Institution of
Oceanography
www.calit2.net/news/2002/11-18-chiaro.html
The UCSD OptIPuter
The UCSD OptIPuter Deployment
LambdaGrid Testbed
To Other
OptIPuter Sites
Phase I, Fall 02
Phase II, 2003
Collocation point
SDSC
SDSC
SDSC
SDSC
Annex
Annex
JSOE
Engineering
CRCA
Arts
SOM
Medicine
Chemistry
Phys.
Sci Keck
Preuss
High
School
6th
Undergrad
College
College
Node M
Collocation
SIO
Earth
Sciences
½ Mile
OptIPuter Transforms Individual Laboratory
Visualization, Computation, & Analysis Facilities
Fast polygon and
volume rendering
with stereographics
+
GeoWall
= 3D APPLICATIONS:
Earth Science
Underground
Earth Science
Anatomy
Neuroscience
GeoFusion GeoMatrix Toolkit
Rob Mellors and Eric Frost, SDSU
SDSC Volume Explorer
Visible Human Project
NLM, Brooks AFB,
SDSC Volume Explorer
Dave Nadeau, SDSC, BIRN
SDSC Volume Explorer
The Preuss School UCSD OptIPuter Facility