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The Motivation, Architecture and Demonstration of Ultralight Network Testbed

Newman, Harvey and Bunn, Julian and Bourilkov, Dimitri and Cavanaugh, Richard and Legrand, Iosif and Low, Steven and McKee, Shawn and Nae, Dan and Ravot, Sylvain and Steenberg, Conrad and Su, Xun and Thomas, Michael and van Lingen, Frank and Xia, Yang (2006) The Motivation, Architecture and Demonstration of Ultralight Network Testbed. In: CESNET Conference 2006: First CESNET Conference on Advanced Communications and Grids. Praha , Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 11-26. ISBN 978-80-239-6533-9. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20110728-121139631

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In this paper we describe progress in the NSF-funded Ultralight project and a recent demonstration of Ultralight technologies at SuperComputing 2005 (SC|05). The goal of the Ultralight project is to help meet the data-intensive computing challenges of the next generation of particle physics experiments with a comprehensive, network-focused approach. Ultralight adopts a new approach to networking: instead of treating it traditionally, as a static, unchanging and unmanaged set of inter-computer links, we are developing and using it as a dynamic, configurable, and closely monitored resource that is managed from end-to-end. Thus we are constructing a next-generation global system that is able to meet the data processing, distribution, access and analysis needs of the particle physics community. In this paper we present the motivation for, and an overview of, the Ultralight project. We then cover early results in the various working areas of the project. The remainder of the paper describes our experiences of the Ultralight network architecture, kernel setup, application tuning and configuration used during the bandwidth challenge event at SC|05. During this Challenge, we achieved a record-breaking aggregate data rate in excess of 150 Gbps while moving physics datasets between many sites interconnected by the Ultralight backbone network. The exercise highlighted the benefits of Ultralight's research and development efforts that are enabling new and advanced methods of distributed scientific data analysis.


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Newman, Harvey0000-0003-0964-1480
Bunn, Julian0000-0002-3798-298X
Low, Steven0000-0001-6476-3048
Additional Information:This work is partly supported by the Department of Energy grants: DE-FC02-01ER25459, DEFG02-92-ER40701, DE-AC02-76CH03000 (Particle Physics DataGrid project), DE-FG02-04ER-25613 (Lambda Station project), DE-AC02-76SF00515 (Terapaths project) and DE-FG02- 05ER41359 (LHCnet project), and by the National Science Foundation grants: PHY-0122557, PHY-0427110 (Ultralight project), ANI-0113425, EIA-0303620(WAN in Lab project). We would also like to acknowledge the generous support of our many sponsors and contributors (http://ultralight.org/web-site/sc05/html/contributors.html). Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Energy or the National Science Foundation.
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Department of Energy (DOE)DE-FC02-01ER25459
Department of Energy (DOE)DEFG02- 92-ER40701
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-AC02-76CH03000
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-FG02-04ER-25613
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-FG02-05ER41359
NSFPHY-0122557
NSFPHY-0427110
NSFANI-0113425
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