The Future of NRENs

Bill St. Arnaud

Bill.st.arnaud@gmail.com

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Looking Back• Internet started with R&E networks world wide

– SURFnet was one of the first in Europe to deploy Internet

• Most popular Internet applications like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc started at universities connected to high speed networks like SURFnet

• SURFnet started AMS-IX which has made The Netherlands global hub for Internet traffic

• SURFnet pioneered the concept of customer owned dark fiber– Led to significantly lower costs for broadband and made The Netherlands world

leader in consumer broadband

• SURFnet led world optical networks which has transformed Internet

• R&E networks have enabled a trillion dollar industry, approximately 6% of GNP

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NRENs will play an even more important role looking forward

• Technologies developed at SURFnet today may have bigger impact on Dutch society then Internet had in the past

• Green networking

• Big Data

• Global Collaboration

• Next generation Internet of integrated optical and wireless networks

Changing NRENnetworking environment

• Global Virtual Research Communities

• Increasing co-operation between public and private researchers

• Rapidly changing users demands

• Increasing potential of commercial ICT-service providers

• Education: any time, any place, any device

• Citizen Science and M2M communications and sensors

The ICT energy consumption inhigher- ed

• Campus computing 20-40% electrical energy consumption on most campuses– Studies in UK and The Netherlands– http://goo.gl/k9Kib

• Campus data center alone represents 8-20% of electrical consumption– http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?pno=1341

• IISD study demonstrated that moving Canadian research to cloud would pay for itself in energy savings and CO2 reduction– http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?pno=1341

• Internet and ICT can reduce CO2 emissions by 15-20%– No other tool has this potential

R&E biggest consumer!!

Australian Computer Society Studyhttp://www.acs.org.au/attachments/ICFACSV4100412.pdf

Per employee Per sector

The real cost of campus computing

• Land - 2%• Core and shell costs – 9% • Architectural – 7%• Mechanical/Electrical – 82%

– 16% increase/year since 2004Source: Christian Belady

Belady, C., “In the Data Center, Power and Cooling Costs More than IT Equipment it Supports”, Electronics Cooling Magazine (February 2007)

The Data Deluge

Genomic sequencing output x2 every 9 month

Climate model intercomparisonproject (CMIP) of the IPCC

2004: 36 TB

2012: 2,300 TB

1330 molec. bio databases Nucleic Acids Research (96 in Jan 2001)

MACHO et al.: 1 TBPalomar: 3 TB2MASS: 10 TBGALEX: 30 TBSloan: 40 TB

Pan-STARRS: 40,000 TB

Source: Ian Foster, UoChicago

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Growth in sensor networks and Citizen Science

Real Time Health Monitoring

Glacier Tracking

Smart Trash

NREN Brokered Cloud for IT departments and Researchers

• Internet 2 Net +– Provisioning of multi vendor cloud services leveraging the Internet2

Network and InCommon Federated Authentication – Interoperable marketplace for services where individual institutions

might procure services from a wide range of cloud services providers.

• HEFCE and JISC to Deliver Cloud-Based Services for UK Research

– Besides providing brokered cloud services they are also providing cloud “solutions” for IT departments and researchers

– http://www.hpcinthecloud.com/hpccloud/2011-06-27/hefce_and_jisc_to_deliver_cloud-based_services_for_uk_research.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

• SURFnet: Community Cloud Models and the Role of the R&E network as a broker for cloud services– http://www.slideshare.net/haroldteunissen/community-clouds-shared-infrastructure-as-a-service

OpenFlow Follow the wind/Follow the sun

Cloud Manager

Host Resource

Cloud Manager

Network Manager

VM

Mantychore2

Host Resource

Canadian GSN Domain

European GSN Domain

Dynamically ConfigureIP Tunnel

• Shudown VM• Copy Image • Update VM Context

• Start VM

Export VM

VMVM

Internet

Notify EU Cloud Manager

Cloud Proxy Host Cloud Proxy

Lightpath

Optical switch Optical switch

Shared storage

Shared storage

Host

Building a NREN wireless network

• Vision: to allow students, researchers and employees to collaborate, research, learn anytime and anywhere they seem fit!

• Also Internet of Things – Machine to Machine communications

• Existing 3G and 4G networks cannot handle data load– Roaming gateways prevent global seamless access– Voice centric architectures

• New mobile networks seamlessly integrate with WiFi on campus– Utrecht SURFnet 4G wireless pilot– Already demonstrating with vetinanary students

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GLIF

GOLE

e-Research Scenario

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Towards “research IT as a service”

Source: Ian Foster, UoChicago

Virtual Organisations

NBIC

Group

Netherlands BioInformatics Centre (NBIC)

Apps.NBIC.nl

Supporting Services• SURFfederatie• SURFteams• OpenSocial

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Source: SURFnet

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Left wings pointing to the future

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