Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance in 21 st Century Research Celeste Anderson and Peter Elford SLIDE 2 - COPYRIGHT 2015 Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance in 21 st Century Research AARNet/Pacific Wave Peter Elford, Director, Government Relations and eresearch peter.elford@aarnet.edu.au Celeste Anderson, Director, Customer Relations, Pacific Wave celestea@pacificwave.net 1
Agenda SLIDE 3 - COPYRIGHT 2015 The case for NRENs AARNet, Australia s NREN Asia Pacific Activities Future SLIDE 4 - COPYRIGHT 2015 THE CASE FOR NRENS 2
Research SLIDE 5 - COPYRIGHT 2015 National Research and Education Network SLIDE 6 - COPYRIGHT 2015 To provide telecommunications and related services to a nation s research and education sector which the market does not provide or does not provide at a reasonable price Capacity Bandwidth Reach Campuses, instruments Quality Low latency, Low congestion Unique Consumption Model Globally Interconnected 3
SLIDE 7 - COPYRIGHT 2015 International National Research Network Community SLIDE 8 - COPYRIGHT 2015 AARNET, AUSTRALIA S NREN 4
Australia s NREN SLIDE 9 - COPYRIGHT 2015 1 *Supported by PACCOM, a NASA (later NSF) connectivity project, led by University of Hawaii 2 Established by AVCC (later Universities Australia), Supported by Australian Research Council International Capacity Then SLIDE 10 - COPYRIGHT 2015 5
International Capacity and Now SLIDE 11 - COPYRIGHT 2015 SXTransPORT (2 x 100Gbps) 2.5Gbps SLIDE 12 - COPYRIGHT 2015 ASIA PACIFIC ACTIVITIES 6
Asia Trans-Eurasia Information Network SLIDE 13 - COPYRIGHT 2015 SLIDE 14 - COPYRIGHT 2015 Pacific Islands Most Isolated, Most Underserved 7
Pacific Fibre Footprint SLIDE 15 - COPYRIGHT 2015 Hawaii Guam Marshalls Solomons Vanuatu Fiji Samoa Tonga French Polynesia http://submarinecablemap.com Last Updated October 9, 2016 SLIDE 16 - COPYRIGHT 2015 NSF Award 1451050 IRNC: RXP - Pacific Wave Expansion Supporting SDX & Experimentation 8
Pacific Wave Experimentation SLIDE 17 - COPYRIGHT 2015 Pacific Wave experimentation is done in a "sandbox" (or parallel infrastructure) so as not to impact the production quality of Pacific Wave. Example of a sandbox environment created to explore new concepts is Pacific Wave s software-defined internet exchange (SDX). Other experiments include the creation of an exchange data transfer node (DTN) to assist with the movement of large data sets internationally (Singapore-Los Angeles), provisioning using the NSI/AutoGole model, and support for the Pacific Research Platform. NSF Award 1451050 IRNC: RXP - Pacific Wave Expansion Supporting SDX & Experimentation SX-Transport - PIREN SLIDE 18 - COPYRIGHT 2015 NSF 1451058 IRNC:Backbone SX-TransPORT Pacific Islands Research and Education Network 9
Pacific Research Platform (PRP) SLIDE 19 - COPYRIGHT 2015 NSF Award 1541349 CC*DNI DIBBs: The Pacific Research Platform The Pacific Research Platform (PRP) SLIDE 20 - COPYRIGHT 2015 NSF CC-NIE and similar projects represent significant investments in campus infrastructure including SDN, Science DMZ s (~130 projects) But the scientists are still struggling with the complexity of using the network and interoperability between different implementations of Science DMZ s PRP focuses on enabling the science communities across the Pacific region to make effective use of the high performance infrastructure Kick-off in December 2014: take advantage of the regional infrastructure; perfsonar for measurement / analysis and MaDDash for visualization Include DTN s: use a common software suite for data movement; reflect disk-to-disk performance on MaDDash Demonstrated as a proof-of-concept at the CENIC Spring meeting (March 2015) NSF Award 1541349 CC*DNI DIBBs: The Pacific Research Platform 10
PRP (GRP) Science Engagement SLIDE 21 - COPYRIGHT 2015 The old model Requires scientists to Discover new technologies Become expert in new technologies Assemble distinct technologies into an integrated solution that works for them Some scientists do this brilliantly most do not The new model New team members for team science. Technologists Understand technology Understand enough of the science to see how technology fits Help scientists adopt a useful solution Result: much more efficient and productive research outcome NSF Award 1541349 CC*DNI DIBBs: The Pacific Research Platform SLIDE 22 - COPYRIGHT 2015 FUTURE 11
Optical Fibers Link Australian and US Big Data Researchers SLIDE 23 - COPYRIGHT 2015 NSF Award 1541349 CC*DNI DIBBs: The Pacific Research Platform Next Step: Global Research Platform Building on CENIC/Pacific Wave and GLIF SLIDE 24 - COPYRIGHT 2015 Current International GRP Partners NSF Award 1541349 CC*DNI DIBBs: The Pacific Research Platform 12
Notional High Speed Coherent Asia-Pacific R&E Architecture SLIDE 25 - COPYRIGHT 2015 Korea KISTI 100G Chicago TransPac-Pacific Wave 100G Japan Seattle SG HK AARNet 2.5G link going to 10G Guam UHawaii 100G (pending) SINET-5 100G Hawaii SX TransPORT 2x100G SingAREN-I2 100G Pacific Wave Backbone 2x100G LA AU NZ NSF 1451058 IRNC:Backbone SX-TransPORT Pacific Islands Research and Education Network V0.3 15May16 Research Outcomes SLIDE 26 - COPYRIGHT 2015 The volume of data being generated, collected and analysed continues in leaps and bounds. The scale and cooperation needed to support such projects continues to evolve and leverage the world s global subsea fibre network. More countries will be able to participate in the open exchange of data to support the planet s research and education challenges. An astronomer needs access to a telescope and an oceanographer needs access to a ship. I'm a climate scientist and I need access to a petaflop computer and a petabyte storage array for my data. AARNet provides me with those services and capabilities wherever I happen to be located in the world and that enables me to do my research Professor Andy Pitman, Director ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science. Through its relationship with CSIRO and Australian universities, AARNet s contribution to radio astronomy in Australia over the past two decades played an important role in positioning Australia for the SKA. Dr Brian Boyle, Australia/New Zealand SKA Director AARNET's reliable, fast and cost-effective research network has played a significant role in the success of the Australian site to deliver the storage and computing resources to the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS experiment. Dr Geoffrey Taylor, Director ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics While Twitter creates 1-17PB per year, Astronomy 1,000 PB/year, YouTube 1,000-2,000 PB/year but Genomics will be 2,000-4,000 PB/year IEEE Spectrum, Genomic Data Growing Faster than Twitter or Youtube 13
Thank You! SLIDE 27 - COPYRIGHT 2015 Questions? Acknowledgements SLIDE 28 - COPYRIGHT 2015 SX-Transport The landmark partnership with AARNet began in December 2003, with Southern Cross Cable Network agreeing to generously sponsor dual 10Gbps undersea circuits between Australia and the West Coast of the United States for the Southern Cross Trans-Pacific Optical Research Test bed (SXTransPORT). SXTransPORT is a high capacity fibre optic connection linking AARNet to research and education networks around the world. Current US National Science Foundation awards supporting this work. NSF Award 1451050 IRNC: RXP - Pacific Wave Expansion Supporting SDX & Experimentation NSF Award 1451058 IRNC Backbone: SXTransPORT Pacific Islands Research and Education Network NSF Award 1541349 CC*DNI DIBBs: The Pacific Research Platform NSF Award 1451045 IRNC: ENgage: Building Network Expertise and Capacity for International Science Collaboration 14
Pacific Wave SLIDE 29 - COPYRIGHT 2015 Pacific Wave began as first geographically distributed Internet Exchange in 2004, providing interconnections between NRENs and other research and education networks. Pacific Wave is an open exchange supporting both commercial and R&E peers. The exchange current supports 25 participants representing 29 countries. Current activities include Support for 100G port upgrades, including those to Australia, Japan and Canada. a trial for dynamic provisioning for network connections via the AutoGole project. SDX development platform. Pacific Research Platform support. NSF Award 1451050 IRNC: RXP - Pacific Wave Expansion Supporting SDX & Experimentation PIREN SLIDE 30 - COPYRIGHT 2015 Recent Project goals: Current Activities: Support 2x100Gbps R&E SX-Transport circuits from New Zealand and Australia via Hawaii to U.S. West Coast. Foster research and education (R&E) network capacity to interconnect Pacific Islands with each other and the global R&E network fabric Opportunistically connect Mauna Kea and Haleakala observatories. Efforts are underway to connect Guam to Hawaii at 100G and to create a Guam R&E exchange. Network Training workshop organized by Network Resource Startup Center (NRSC) recently in Guam for Pacific Island networks. Discussions with observatories on future requirements for new instruments. Network measurement activities. NSF 1451058 IRNC:Backbone SX-TransPORT Pacific Islands Research and Education Network 15
Notional High Speed Coherent Asia-Pacific R&E Architecture SLIDE 31 - COPYRIGHT 2015 SG Japan NII 10G JP-SG link NICT 2.5G JP-HK & HK-SG links going to 10G I2 1G HK-SG link going to 10G Possible US (I2 HKor IU) Investment in Guam-HK link SingAREN-I2 100G Key New System Routes Pending Japan-Guam-Australia Palau-Yap-Guam (via SEA-US) AU-NZ AU-NZ-(Pacific Islands)-HI-US Key New Exchange Activities Tokyo exchange & Peering Singapore open 100G exchange Hong Kong exchange Korea Possible JP investment in new JP-Guam link Guam AARNet 2.5G link going to 10G AU KISTI 100G UHawaii 100G (pending) SX TransPORT 2x100G TransPac-Pacific Wave 100G SINET-5 100G NZ Hawaii Seattle LA Pacific Wave Backbone 2x100G NOTES/OPPORTUNITIES This includes significant/hub sites for 100G R&E networks Commercial fiber systems available and planned on AU-Guam, Guam-JP and Guam-HK paths Direct JP-Hawaii route available NSF 1451058 IRNC:Backbone SX-TransPORT Pacific Islands Research and Education Network V0.3 15May16 Chicago 16