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Sergi Figuerola Sergi.figuerola@i2cat.net International UCLPv2 Workshop March 15th 2006, Ottawa, CA Lambda User Controlled Infrastructure For European Research

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Disclaimer: The name “LUCIFER” is not intended to have any religious meaning in the context of the present proposal; it is used with its original meaning in Latin; from the dictionary: Lu·ci·fer (lū'sə-fər)  [Lat.,=light-bearing] [ Middle English, from Old English, morning star, LUCIFER, from Latin Lūcifer, from lūcifer, light-bringer : lūx, lūcis, light + -fer, -fer. ] The word LUCIFER comes from the latin "LUCIFERum, i", which simply means "light bearer / carrier / bringer", since it is a composed word made of: “lux, lucis” = light “-fer” suffix, coming from the irregular verb "fero, fers, tuli, latum, ferre" that means "to bring / carry / bear". Based on its etymology, the name LUCIFER has been deemed appropriate for a project dealing with full Optical networks and fibers. A fiber, after all, is a “light carrier”. Lambda User Controlled Infrastructure For European Research

Lambda User Controlled Infrastructure For European Research: 

Lambda User Controlled Infrastructure For European Research Lu·ci·fer (lū'sə-fər)  [Lat.,= light-bearing, light-carrier] EU Research Networking Test-beds FP6 IST program 30 months project, to begin in 3Q 2006 Partners and supporters Research Networks: CESNET, PSNC, SURFnet, FCCN, RedIRIS, GARR + GN2 + CAnet4 National test-beds: Viola, OptiCAT, UKLight Equipment Manufacturers: Adva, Hitachi, Nortel Tech SMEs: Nextworks Research & Academic Institutions: RESIT - AIT, Fraunhofer SCAI, Fraunhofer IMK, Fundaciò i2CAT, IBBT, Research Centre Jülich, University of Amsterdam, University of Bonn, University of Essex, University of Wales-Swansea, SARA Non-EU Research Institutes: MCNC (US), CCT (US), CRC (Canada), UCSD (US) Vision & Mission Address some of the key technical challenges that enable on-demand, end-to-end Grid network services across multiple domains Treat the underlying network as first-class Grid resource Demonstrate solutions and functionalities across a test-bed involving GÈANT2, European NRENs, CBDF and GLIF facilities Demonstrate on demand service delivery across access-independent multi-domain/multi-vendor research network test-bed on a European and international scale

LUCIFER in the overall picture: 

LUCIFER in the overall picture Test-beds Research Infrastructures NOBEL GridCC BB Network Layer Grid Layer NOBEL–II GÉANT, GÉANT2, EUMEDconnect, SEEREN2 MUPBED CBDF GLIF LUCIFER will interact with: GÉANT2 (GN2 JRA3, JRA1 & JRA 5) International activities: DRAGON, EnLIGHTened possible relationships with other EU projects focused on network layer technologies: NOBEL 1 & 2, EuQoS focused on Grid layer: EGEE-II, GridCC test-bed oriented: MUPBED

The steps forward: 

The steps forward Diversity of transport infrastructures (SDH, SONET, GE, dark fibre) network resource provisioning systems / control planes demanding requirements from advanced users (e.g. Grids) Need to find a leading overall architecture to address this EU-specific environment GN2 JRA3 & JRA5 work to provide an operational solution for this A pan-European umbrella for single control and management facility for network resources provisioning (Bandwidth-on-Demand, inter-domain operations, AAI – Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure) Tend to preserve the specificity of network resource provisioning systems within the various NRENs LUCIFER will define, implement and assess a new, integrated architecture for NRENs’ resource provisioning (based on both Control Plane and NRPSs)… …for Grid-specific network services involve additional choices of experimental network facilities (CBDF, GLIF)

Technical scope and rationale: 

Technical scope and rationale 3-layers wide perspective: Application Service Plane (Grids) Network Resource Provisioning plane (D-RAC, UCLP, ARGON) Network Control Plane (Grid-GMPLS – G2MPLS) Network should support generic transport services for both Grids and ‘less’ demanding users... but with a special care for Grids Network & Grid-specific resources are controlled and set-up at the same time and with the same priority, with a set of seamlessly integrated procedures The Service and Control Planes (Grid middleware, NRPS, GMPLS / G2MPLS) will be integrated in a hierarchy of architectures that interwork to build the GNS ( GGF-GHPN) Optical test-bed @ Optical Network Layer (G²MPLS, inter-NRPS communications) @ Grid Layer (Middleware extensions, APIs & policies) EU wide, spanning to US and Canada

The LUCIFER Project Key Features/Objective: 

The LUCIFER Project Key Features/Objective Develop integration between application middleware and transport networks, based on three planes: Service plane: Middleware extensions and APIs to expose network and Grid resources and make reservations of those resources Policy mechanisms (AAA) for networks participating in a global hybrid network infrastructure, allowing both network resource owners and applications to have a stake in the decision to allocate specific network resources Network Resource Provisioning plane: Adaptation of existing Network Resource Provisioning Systems (NRPS) to support the framework of the project Implementation of interfaces between different NRPS to allow multi-domain interoperability with LUCIFER’s resource reservation system Control plane: Enhancements of the GMPLS Control Plane (G²MPLS) to provide optical network resources as first-class Grid resource Interworking of GMPLS-controlled network domains with NRPS-based domains, i.e. interoperability between G2MPLS and UCLP, DRAC and ARGON

The LUCIFER Project Key Features/Objective: 

The LUCIFER Project Key Features/Objective Studies to investigate and evaluate further the project outcomes : Study resource management and job scheduling algorithms incorporating network-awareness, constraint based routing and advance reservation techniques Develop a simulation environment, supporting the LUCIFER network scenario Disseminate the project experience and outcomes, toolkits and middleware to EU NRENs and their users, such as Supercomputing centres

LUCIFER Architecture: 

LUCIFER Architecture LUCIFER Architecture

Integration & interoperation of architectures: 

LUCIFER test-bed 2 LUCIFER test-bed 1 GMPLS (G-)GMPLS Integration & interoperation of architectures NRPS (G-)GMPLS MW services NRPS MW services MW services SNMP, TL1, CLI resource conf. (G.)E-NNI G.O-UNI O-UNI (G.)O-UNI E,W I/F N I/F N I/F (G-)GMPLS Layer Grid Middleware Layer NRPS Layer Grid Application Layer Optical Transport Layer

An overview of the LUCIFER test-bed (EU scope): 

An overview of the LUCIFER test-bed (EU scope) VIOLA ARGON UKLight Essex All Optical Test-bed GÉANT2 CESNET OptiCAT UCLP GMPLS/G2MPLS PIONIER SURFnet GLIF E-NNI E-NNI E-NNI G-OUNI E-NNI G-OUNI E-NNI E-NNI E-NNI G-OUNI G-OUNI G-OUNI KoDaVis KoDaVis GridOn GridOn Distributed Storage Distributed Storage Distributed Storage Optical links Network-Network signalling User-network signalling APIs & AAA WISDOM WISDOM Data Streaming Data Streaming APIs & AAA APIs & AAA APIs & AAA APIs & AAA APIs & AAA APIs & AAA APIs & AAA GMPLS/G2MPLS GMPLS/G2MPLS GMPLS/G2MPLS GMPLS/G2MPLS DRAC E-NNI E-NNI G-OUNI G-OUNI SARA CBDF

The International Extensions: 

The International Extensions CRC Fi2CAT

Initial Grid applications: 

Initial Grid applications WISDOM - Wide In Silica Docking On Malaria: large scale molecular docking on malaria to compute million of compounds (in silico experimentation) in LUCIFER: deployment of a CPU-intensive application generating large data flows to test the Grid infrastructure, compute and network services KoDaVis - Distributed visualisation to be adapted to the LUCIFER environment to make scheduled synchronous reservations of its resources via the UNICORE middleware Compute capacity on the data server and the visualisation clients Allocate network bandwidth and QoS between server and clients Streaming of Ultra High Resolution Data Sets over Lambda Networks (FHG, SARA) Distributed Data Storage Systems

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For any further details, please feel free to contact: Sergi Figuerola sergi.figuerola@i2cat.net Artur Binczewski (Project Leader) artur@man.poznan.pl Thanks