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Super Computing 2015
September 6, 2020
Research Organizations
About Caltech: With an outstanding faculty that has been honored with 32 Nobel prizes and 66 National Medals of Science and Technology, and such off-campus facilities as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Palomar Observatory and the W. M. Keck Observatory, the California Institute of Technology is one of the world’s major research centers and a premier institution of learning. The Institute conducts instruction in science and engineering for a student body of
September 6, 2020
In The News
SC15 Demonstrations in the News. Caltech Press Release UNESP (SPRACE)SPRACE participation in Supercomputing Conference 2015 Lightwaveonline FIU / AMLIGHT / CIARACIARA FIU participates in demonstration at Super Computing Conference QLogic100Gb Ethernet Technology Showcased in Software-Defined Networking Demonstration at SC15 Conference Echostreams Inventec (HPCwire)Pica8 Drives High-Speed SDN at SC15 DellThe Dell Networking Z9100-ON powers the “World’s Fastest Network” MANGSTORMangstor, Caltech and the Large Hadron Collider
September 6, 2020
Team
SC15 Team Members California Institute of TechnologyHarvey NewmanMaria SpiropuluAzher MughalIosif LegrandRamiro VoicuJustas BalcasDorian KciraWayne HendricksJulian Bunn University of MichiganShawn McKeeRoy HockettBob BallJorge BatistaDan KirklandAlok VimawalaMike BearTony ScottBenjeman Meekhof Vanderbilt UniversityMatt HellerAndrew MeloAlan TackettPaul Sheldon Academic Network of São Paulo(ANSP)Jorge Marcos de AlmeidaLuis F. Lopez RNPMichael StantonIara MachadoAlex Soares de MouraMarcos Felipe SchwarzRNP PoP-RJFabio Augusto RosaTatiana dos Santos SPRACE / São Paulo State University (UNESP)/ BrazilSergio F. NovaesRogerio IopeBeraldo LealMarcio CostaArtur
September 6, 2020
Show Floor
Network Connections This year’s focus is on demonstrating 100GE SDN using dark fiber connections within the show floor among Caltech, Univ of Michigan, StarLight, Dell, Vanderbilt Univ, Stanford Univ and Echostreams. 100GE WAN Connections: 2 x 100GE Ethernet connections 1 x 100GE Ethernet connection from StarLight Booth DF Connections 7 x 100GE Dark Fiber connections Network InterConnect The OpenFlow SDN ring is composed of Dell Z9100 switches, providing 32 x 100GE
September 6, 2020
Booth Layout
Caltech Booth#1248 had 40 x 20 feet dimension and was distributed in four main sections: 1. Display & Storage2. Equipment Racks3. Kiosks4. Workstations
September 6, 2020
Equipment
Servers are divided in two categories: A) Dell Servers 4U Servers Qty 4 Specification Processor Quad Processors (E7-8861 v3) 2.8GHz RAM 128GB Storage 5 x 200GB SSD NIC Mellanox, QLogic, 100GE NICs B) Echostreams FlacheSAN2 Servers 2U Servers Qty 7 Specification Processor Dual Intel Processor Haswell E5-2690 / E5-2697 RAM 64GB Hard Disks OS only NIC Mellanox, QLogic, 100GE Gen3 NICs C) SGI Servers 2U Servers Qty 2 (1 x
September 6, 2020
SuperComputing 2015
Austin, Texas – During the SuperComputing 2015 (SC15) conference November 16-20, an International team of high energy physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), SPRACE Sao Paulo and University of Michigan, together with teams from FIU, Vanderbilt and support from vendors including Dell, Mangstor, Mellanox, QLogic, SGI and Spirent worked together to demosntrate large data flow transfers across an highly intelligent SDN network. This work is being
September 6, 2020
OpenDaylight
OLiMPS – OpenDaylight – Addressing a yet unsolved issue in LHCONE, namely the efficiency in interconnecting multiple network domains over more than one connection, Caltech is investigating and has made significant progress in developing the use of multipath connectivity through OpenFlow networks. In the OpenFlow Link-layer MultiPath Switching (OLiMPS) project, funded by DOE/OASCR, the group has developed an OpenFlow controller based on Big Switch’s Floodlight open-source controller. To this end, we
September 6, 2020
PhEDEx
PhEDEx is the data-placement management tool for the CMS experiment at the LHC. It manages the scheduling of all large-scale WAN transfers in CMS, ensuring reliable delivery of the data. It consists of several components: an Oracle database, hosted at CERN a website and data-service, which users (humans or machine) use to interact with and control PhEDEx a set of central agents that deal with routing, request-management, bookkeeping and other