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gr id a nd n ext ge neration net work. www.grangenet.net. Started in March 2001 unincorporated joint venture $14M funding from Australian Government. objectives. Build and operate a gigabit network for Australian research and education. Foster the development of advanced
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gridandnextgenerationnetwork www.grangenet.net
Started in March 2001 unincorporated joint venture $14M funding from Australian Government
objectives Build and operate a gigabit network for Australian research and education Foster the development of advanced communications & grid services
GrangeNet POP Perth DSTC QPSF QUT UQ GrangeNet POP Brisbane AARNet Trans Pacific link Network • 10 Gbps • IPv6 • Multicast • DWDM POS • low latency • low jitter - DSTC UTS GrangeNet POP AC3 Sydney VisLab ATP AARNet ANU GrangeNet POP APAC Canberra CSIRO BoM GrangeNet POP VPAC Melbourne I - cubed Uni Melb RMIT -
2000 Km of fibre ~ mostly along high voltage power transmission lines 19 amplifiers 3 regenerators
Backbone schematic Cisco ONS 15801 DWDM
Core Routers ~ Cisco GSR 12410 • Core Router • Canberra • Sydney • Distributed architecture scalable to 300 Gbps • All links are 2.5Gbps
Edge Routers ~ Cisco OSR 7609 • Edge Router • Melbourne • Canberra • Sydney • Brisbane • Clients 1Gbps • Core links 2.5Gbps
International Peering 1.2Gbps 10Gbps 155Mbps
objectives Build and operate a gigabit network for Australian research and education Foster the development of advanced communications & grid services
Grid services • Compute grid • Data grid • Access grid & distributed visualisation • Instrument grid - telepresence
So what are “Grid Services”? • From the power grid • A standard connection into a standard service, with a standard interface • You don’t need to worry what is behind it. • In IT: • Transparent use of distributed, networked resources • Resources from multiple “administrative domains” • I.e. other people’s resources become available to you • Computing, Data, Visualisation, Instrumentation, etc.
Computing Grid • 3 Major areas (not distinct): • Linking supercomputers • Clusters of Clusters • Massively parallel • Many applications, areas such as • Astronomy, Agriculture, Physics, Engineering, GeoSciences, Meteorology, Film&Media, BioInformatics, Pharmaceutical, Financial/Economics, …
Computing Grid ~ Middleware? • Need to handle (amongst other things): • Security (authentication and authorisation) • Scheduling, • Accounting, • Data movement, network performance, … • Multiple management domains • Other people own/manage these resources
Computing Grid ~ contacts • Commercial • IBM (www.ibm.com/grid) • Sun (www.sun.com/grid) • Entropia (www.entropia.com) • UnitedDevices (www.uniteddevices.com) • Software and Organisations Globus (www.globus.org) Global Grid Forum (www.ggf.org)
Data Grid • Large scale, distributed data repositories • Integrated with other grid services • Issues of • storage, • metadata, resource discovery, • access & performance, • security, • rights-management
Data Grid ~ projects • Astronomy: Virtual Observatories • BioInformatics: Bio-Mirror • Film&Media: Education and historical archives • Linguistics: Endangered Languages • Physics: • Arts/History
The Access Grid is a collaborative working environment that supports large-scale distributed meetings, collaboratories, seminars, lectures, tutorials and training. • It is a grid of rooms with multimedia displays, pervasive audio, interfaces to grid middleware, and interfaces to visualization environments.
International High-Tech Teamwork in the Fight against SARS Taiwan’s National Centre for High-Performance Computing demonstrates value of Access Grid technology for quarantined hospitals
Instrument Grid • Remote Instruments • Connecting facilities to networks • Making major one-off resources widely available • Electron microscopes (NANO) • Telescopes (radio, optical, …) • Accelerators, Synchrotron • Surgical/medical facilities • Manufacturing, prototyping facilities
Tele-microscopy at the NANO facility ~ Sydney University JEOL 3000F 300kV transmission electron microscope with field emission gun. 0.2nm resolution (ie atomic scale). Accessible from 5 sites
Australian Synchrotron ~ Melbourne
framework for the development of grid services, • test-drive high speed networks, • explore novel techniques and new collaborations How would your life change if bandwidth was free and unlimited ?
The People who make this work • Markus Buchhorn ~ Grid Services Coordinator • John Barlow ~ Advanced Communications Services Coordinator • Greg Wickham ~ Network Manager • Cloudye Carew-Reid ~ Sales & Marketing • Janelle Stewart ~ Administration • AARNet experts across Australia • About 20 dedicated researchers who are delivering the Grid and Advanced Communications Services outcomes