STI: Starlight: Strategic Technologies for Internet Discovery and Development

STI：星光：互联网发现和发展的战略技术

• 批准号: 0229642
• 负责人: Thomas DeFanti
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-10-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0229642&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STI; Starlight; Strategic; Technologies; Internet

The Intellectual Merit of StarLight: StarLight is a research support facility planned by researchers for researchers that follows the mode of Research and Operations now established by the "STARTAP" project. These researchers are networking engineers, electrical engineers, computer engineers, computer scientists, e-Scientists and application programmers. StarLight will anchor future wavelength-rich LambdaGrids, with switching and routing at the highest experimental levels, laying the foundation for fully optical switching in three years. Following the tradition of the earlier "STARTAP" project, this project will enable the next cycle of network operations growth with researchers.Optical networking technology is rapidly migrating from ultra-expensive long-haul carrier implementations to affordable regional- and metro-area community networks. The next step is to expand, integrate and tune these resources with specific large-scale scientific applications. The commercial trend is to provide a general infrastructure with a wide range of common services for a very broad client base. However, optical networking technologies provide networking researchers with an opportunity to move far beyond general requirements, and support large-scale e-Science applications that exploit very advanced networking to tackle complex problems. Until recently, STAR TAP, an NSF-funded project providing interoperability and interconnectivity of advanced networks, adequately served the ATM connections in Chicago among the US Federal Networks (Fednets), Internet2.s Abilene, Chicago's Metropolitan Research and Education Network, and several international networks. However, several months ago, as domestic and foreign networks began to request 1-to-10Gb switched connections in Chicago, STAR TAP quickly migrated its focus and connections to StarLight, a new colocation facility. The Nation needs a persistent facility, staffed and equipped, to serve researchers using IP-over-lambda networks, addressing restoration issues, building LambdaGrids, optimizing DNS services, and testing novel protocols for long, fat connections. StarLight will be a persistent meeting point as a node on various LambdaGrids and will support advanced applications and middleware research, and aggressive advanced services. StarLight will grow into a: (1) Multi-vendor, multi-lambda 1Gb, 2.5Gb, 10Gb (and perhaps higher) experimental exchange and LambdaGrid nodal point that provides the "other end" or switching point for National and international experiments; Starlight has 3-year plans to make available 60 fully-powered and fiber-optic-connected racks to researchers. (2) Facility to support 3D protocol stack development (for optical management, control and data planes). (3) Middleware research environment, in which application-oriented middleware, like Globus, and data transport protocols are implemented and tested by the middleware community with major experimental e-Science drivers. (4) Host for national and global research activities in application-centric network measurement and monitoring. (5) Inter-domain security testbed to research and deploy encryption at lambda speeds and to test getting data out to crisis management personnel involved in natural or human-caused disasters. (6) Laboratory for developing/testing means for high-performance application provisioning on optical networks. (7) Facilitator of broad outreach efforts to communities, using a cultural heritage project to bring in under-represented communities as content developers, providers and users of data and visualization LambdaGrids. (8) Metro-scale laboratory for CISE students' access to the interdependent worlds of computing and networking.

"星光“的智力优势：”星光“是研究人员为研究人员规划的一个研究支助设施，它遵循“STARTAP”项目目前建立的研究和运作模式。 这些研究人员是网络工程师，电气工程师，计算机工程师，计算机科学家，电子科学家和应用程序员。星光将锚未来波长丰富的LambdaGrid，交换和路由处于最高实验水平，为三年内实现全光交换奠定基础。 继早期的“STARTAP”项目之后，该项目将与研究人员一起推动下一轮网络运营增长。光网络技术正在从超昂贵的长途运营商实施快速迁移到负担得起的区域和城域社区网络。下一步是将这些资源与特定的大规模科学应用进行扩展、整合和调整。商业趋势是为非常广泛的客户基础提供一个具有广泛共同服务的一般性基础设施。然而，光网络技术为网络研究人员提供了一个超越一般要求的机会，并支持利用非常先进的网络来解决复杂问题的大规模电子科学应用。直到最近，星星TAP，一个NSF资助的项目，提供先进网络的互操作性和互联性，充分服务于美国联邦网络（Fednets），互联网2.s Abilene，芝加哥的大都市研究和教育网络，和几个国际网络之间的ATM连接在芝加哥。然而，几个月前，随着国内和国外网络开始在芝加哥要求1到10 Gb的交换连接，星星TAP迅速将其重点和连接转移到一个新的托管设施StarLight。 国家需要一个持久的设施，配备人员和设备，为研究人员提供服务，使用IP-over-lambda网络，解决恢复问题，构建LambdaGrids，优化DNS服务，并测试新协议的长，胖连接。StarLight将成为各种LambdaGrid上的一个节点，并将支持高级应用程序和中间件研究以及积极的高级服务。星光将成长为：（1）多供应商、多波长1Gb、2.5Gb、10 Gb（可能更高）实验交换机和LambdaGrid节点，为国家和国际实验提供“另一端”或交换点; Starlight计划在3年内为研究人员提供60个全功率和光纤连接的机架。(2)支持3D协议栈开发的工具（用于光学管理、控制和数据平面）。(3)中间件研究环境，其中面向应用的中间件，如Globus，和数据传输协议的实现和测试的中间件社区与主要的实验e-Science驱动程序。 (4)主持以应用为中心的网络测量和监控方面的国家和全球研究活动。(5)域间安全测试平台，以lambda速度研究和部署加密，并测试将数据发送给涉及自然或人为灾难的危机管理人员。 (6)开发/测试在光网络上提供高性能应用的方法的实验室。 (7)促进对社区的广泛外联工作，利用文化遗产项目将代表性不足的社区作为数据和可视化LambdaGrids的内容开发者、提供者和用户。(8)为CISE学生访问计算和网络的相互依存的世界大规模实验室。