Christopher P.
Paolini
[email protected]
Implementation of a Science DMZ at San Diego State University
Facilitate high-performance data transfer for scientific applications
Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 10K (core device)
Two Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6900s (satellite devices)
Dedicated and independent 10GE uplink to Internet2 and ESnet via CENIC
Optimized network for high-volume bulk transfer of scientific datasets
Unencumbered, high-speed access to online scientific applications and data
generated at SDSU
External access to science resources not impacted by regular “enterprise” or
business class Internet traffic
Focus on “BigData” Intensive Science: earthquake rupture and wave
propagation, parallel 3D unified curvilinear coastal ocean modeling, geologic
sequestration simulation of supercritical CO 2, large-scale proteomic data,
bioinformatics of gene promoter analysis, microbial metagenomics, and high-
order PSIC methods for simulation of pulse detonation engines
Network performance measurement based on the PerfSONAR framework
InCommon Federation global federated system for identity management and
2013 NSF GENI CC-NIE
authentication to DMZ connected hosts and services
Workshop
January 7 and 8
The Westin Arlington Gateway
Science DMZ Infrastructure
• Alcatel-Lucent 10
and 40 Gbps
switching devices,
per CSU policy
• DMZ spans four
campus buildings:
Administration, Life
Sciences (CSRC Data
Center), Education
& Business
Administration
(UCO Data Center),
and Chemical
Sciences (VizCenter)
• Primary users: CSRC
affiliated faculty
and students
• AL OmniVista 2500
for network
management
• HPR connection
purchased on 1/2,
all AL equipment
scheduled for 1/14
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Workshop
January 7 and 8
The Westin Arlington Gateway
Computational Science Network (CSRCnet)
• Existing
computational
science network will
connect to the DMZ
• Funded in 2009
through NSF MRI
award 0922702
• 8 Cisco 10 Gbps
Catalyst 4900M
switching devices
• CSRCnet spans five
campus buildings:
Administration, Life
Sciences (CSRC Data
Center), Education
& Business
Administration
(UCO Data Center),
Physics, and
Engineering
• Sole users: CSRC
affiliated faculty
and students
• 10G access to SDSC
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Workshop
January 7 and 8
The Westin Arlington Gateway
GENI Planning and Integration
Primary campus IT faculty/staff for SDN/GENI:
Name Role E-Mail Phone
Christopher Paolini CSRC Affiliated Faculty, Network [email protected] (619) 594-7159
Engineering and Research
Rich Pickett Campus CIO [email protected] (619) 594-8370
Kent McKelvey Director of Network Services [email protected] (619) 594-3245
Skip Austin Network Planning and Design [email protected] (619) 594-4211
Gene LeDuc Technology Security Officer (TSO) [email protected] (619) 594-0838
Robert Osborn Infrastructure Installation, [email protected] (619) 594-6004
Current and planned SDN/GENI-related research and researchers:
Configuration, and Support
Christopher Paolini and Mahasweta Sarkar: Development of new MAC schemes that provide QoS
constraints through contention and contention-free channel access for different traffic classes and use
a Nash bargaining solution to ensure Pareto-optimality
Christopher Paolini and Jose Castillo: Development of new transport layer protocols that use
compressed sensing techniques to perform sparse sampling on streaming petabyte sized datasets
originating from remote electronic structure, molecular dynamics, curvilinear coastal ocean modeling,
and earthquake rupture and wave propagation simulations
Christopher Paolini: Development of a new Alcatel-Lucent SDN/Application Fluent Network based
protocol for the OS10K that bridges Lustre RDMA traffic between 40GE and 4xQDR IB
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January 7 and 8
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