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.

StarLight的智力优势：StarLight是研究人员为研究人员计划的研究支持设施，遵循“STARTAP”项目目前建立的研究和运营模式。 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。 StarLight 将锚定未来波长丰富的 LambdaGrid，具有最高实验水平的交换和路由，为三年内的完全光交换奠定基础。 遵循早期“STARTAP”项目的传统，该项目将与研究人员一起实现下一个网络运营增长周期。光网络技术正在迅速从超昂贵的长途运营商实施迁移到负担得起的区域和城域社区网络。下一步是通过特定的大规模科学应用来扩展、集成和调整这些资源。商业趋势是为非常广泛的客户群提供具有广泛公共服务的通用基础设施。然而，光网络技术为网络研究人员提供了远远超出一般要求的机会，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，STAR TAP（一个由 NSF 资助的项目，提供先进网络的互操作性和互连性）充分服务于美国联邦网络 (Fednets)、Internet2.s Abilene、芝加哥大都会研究和教育网络以及多个国际网络之间的芝加哥 ATM 连接。网络。然而，几个月前，随着国内和国外网络开始在芝加哥请求 1 至 10Gb 交换连接，STAR TAP 迅速将其重点和连接迁移到新的托管设施 StarLight。 国家需要一个持久的设施，配备人员和设备，为使用 IP-over-lambda 网络的研究人员提供服务，解决恢复问题，构建 LambdaGrid，优化 DNS 服务，并测试长而胖连接的新颖协议。 StarLight 将作为各种 LambdaGrid 上的节点成为持久的交汇点，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。 StarLight 将发展成为： (1) 多供应商、多 lambda 1Gb、2.5Gb、10Gb（或许更高）实验交换和 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 年内向研究人员提供 60 个全供电且光纤连接的机架。 (2) 支持3D协议栈开发的设施（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）和数据传输协议由中间件社区通过主要实验性 e-Science 驱动程序来实现和测试。 (4) 主办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，并测试将数据提供给涉及自然或人为灾难的危机管理人员。 (6) 光网络高性能应用提供手段的开发/测试实验室。 (7) 广泛推广社区工作的促进者，利用文化遗产项目吸引代表性不足的社区作为数据和可视化 LambdaGrid 的内容开发者、提供者和用户。 (8) 城市规模的实验室，供 CISE 学生进入相互依存的计算和网络世界。