EIN: Collaborative Research: End-To-End Provisioned Optical Network Testbed for Large-Scale eScience Applications

这项提议是一项全面的努力，旨在发展基础设施和网络技术，以支持广泛的eScience项目，特别是Terascale超新星倡议。拟议的工作将建立一个高性能的实验性光网络基础设施，该基础设施支持：(A)按需提供端到端高速电路，(B)稳定的传输以支持控制和流操作，以及(C)中间件和应用软件，以支持数据传输、可视化、转向和控制。智力优势：研究人员计划通过这些组件的垂直集成，展示大型eScience应用程序(如TSI)如何充分利用光网络的优势。该团队由光网络研究人员、传输层和中间件研究人员以及射电天文学科学家组成。这个项目的成功完成将使Awardee能够确定沿着两个分组交换Internet2主干网络Abilene和vBNS.创建主干高速共享电路交换网络的好处和成本。广泛影响：由于目标eScience应用范围广泛，该项目应该会产生广泛的社会影响。鉴于该项目研究人员队伍的多样性，结果应该在各个研究社区迅速传播，并提高人们对这一方法的兴趣。这个项目极大地利用了大学和ORNL的各种资源。来自这些大学的学生将获得ORNL的超级计算机和高带宽链路方面的计算和网络资源。此外，这项工作还将用于向美国能源部教育项目的学生提供项目，这些项目支持来自全国各地大学的本科生和研究生。该项目将特别包括来自ORNL少数族裔研究联盟项目的暑期学生。

This proposal is a comprehensive effort to develop the infrastructure and networking technologies to support a broad class of eScience projects and specifically the Terascale Supernova Initiative. The proposed work will build a high-performance, experimental, optical network infrastructure that supports: (a) on-demand provisioning of end-to-end high-speed circuits, (b) stable transport to sustain control and streaming operations, and (c) middleware and application software to support data transfers, visualization, steering and control.Intellectual Merit: Through a vertical integration of these components, the researchers plan to demonstrate how a large-scale eScience application, such as TSI, can fully exploit the benefits of optical networks. The team consists of optical networking researchers, transport-layer and middleware researchers, and radio-astronomy scientists. Successful completion of this project will allow the Awardee to determine the benefits and costs of creating a backbone high-speed shared circuit-switched network along the same lines as the two packet-switched Internet2 backbone networks, Abilene and vBNS.Broader impact: Due to the broad spectrum of target eScience applications, the project should have a broad societal impact. Given the diverse team of researchers on this project, results should be disseminated in various research communities rapidly and increase the level of interest in this approach. This project significantly leverages various resources at the universities and ORNL. Students from these universities will be provided access to computational and network resources at ORNL, in terms of supercomputers and high-bandwidth links. Also, this work will be used to provide projects to students from DOE educational programs, which support undergraduate and graduate students from universities across the country. This project will specifically include summer students from ORNL's Research Alliance for Minorities program.