About Padtec S/A: Padtec is based in Brazil and is the largest optical communications manufacturer in South America, besides providing commercial equipment and solutions in over 30 countries and in all continents.Padtec is a company with strong focus on technological innovation and a leader in providing solutions for large telecommunication networks, including long haul, metropolitan, access, and storage applications. Padtec is partnered with important telecom operators and public and private utilities
Super Computing 2014
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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
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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
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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
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In The News
Caltech Press Release http://supercomputing.caltech.edu/docs/Caltech-SC14-Press-ReleaseV10B-Nov25.pdf Lightwaveonline http://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/2014/11/padtec-demos-sdn-controlled-directionless-roadm-at-sc14.html Market Wired http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/Padtec-Optical-SDN-Controlled-Directionless-ROADM-Demonstration-Supercomputing-1971033.htm FIU / AMLIGHT / CIARA http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a0c7341537ba1e6ba03aa1e8c&id=e0054b3b03&e=bf3e174d8a
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Team
SC14 Team Members California Institute of TechnologyHarvey NewmanMaria SpiropuluArtur BarczykAzher MughalIosif Legrand Ramiro VoicuVlad LapadatescuIndira KassymkhanovaSamir CuryDorian KciraJulian Bunn University of MichiganShawn McKeeRoy HockettBob BallJorge BatistaDan KirklandAlok VimawalaMike BearTony ScottBenjeman Meekhof University of VictoriaIan GableRandall SobieComplete list ES.netBrian TierneyEric Pouyoul Vanderbilt UniversityMatt HellerAndrew MeloAlan TackettPaul Sheldon FIU / FLRJulio IbaraHeidi AlvarezJames GraceJeronimo Aguiar PadtecUriel Ramon Crisóstomo de MirandaSérgio TimóteoEnrique Lozoya Academic Network of São Paulo(ANSP)Jorge Marcos de AlmeidaLuis Lopez University of
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Show Floor
SCInet WAN Connections This year’s focus was on utilizing the 100GE connections from the ShowFloor to the Univ of Victoria, Univ of Michigan and Caltech. Also ordered were DarkFiber Inter Booth connections. 100GE Connections 1 x dedicated 100GE to the Univ of Victoria 1 x 100GE Univ of Michigan 1 x dedicated 100GE to Caltech1 x shared 100GE used for CERN/Brazil/KNU University DF Connections 1 x DF connection to the Vanderbilt Booth1
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Booth Layout
Caltech Booth# 3115 had 30 x 30 feet dimension and was distributed in four main sections: 1. Display & Storage2. Equipment Racks3. Kiosks4. Workstations
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Equipment
Servers are divided in two categories: A) Echostreams FlacheSAN2 Servers 2U Servers Qty 26 Specification Processor Dual Intel Processor IVY Bridge E5-2690 / E5-2697 RAM 128GB Hard Disks Mix of SSD drives from Seagate 600, Intel, Micron, Toshiba and Samsung. NIC Mellanox 40GE Gen3 NICs B) Dell Servers 4U Servers Qty 2 Specification Processor Quad Processors (E7-8857 v2) RAM 256GB Hard Disks 12 x Intel NVMe drives. 7 used