Lighting the Blue Touchpaper for UK e-Science - Closing Conference of ESLEA Project

26 March, 07 12:00 PM - 28 March, 07 01:30 PM

The George Hotel, 19-21 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PB

Organiser: Colin Greenwood, (National e-Science Centre), Peter Clarke (National e-Science Centre) and Matthew Strong (University of Manchester)

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=748

ESLEA, an EPSRC-funded project, aims to demonstrate the potential benefits of circuit-switched optical networks (lightpaths) to the UK e-Science community. This is being achieved by running a number of “proof of benefit” pilot applications over UKLight, the UK’s first national wavelength agile optical research network. UKLight provides a new way for researchers to obtain dedicated "lightpaths" between remote sites and to deploy and test novel networking methods and technologies. It facilitates collaboration on global projects by providing a point of access to the fast growing international optical R&D infrastructure.

A diverse range of data-intensive fields of academic endeavour are participating in ESLEA project; all these groups require the integration of high-bandwidth switched lightpath circuits into their experimental and analysis infrastructure for international transport of high-volume applications data. In addition, network protocol research and development of circuit reservation mechanisms has been carried out to help the pilot applications to exploit the UKLight infrastructure effectively. Further information about ESLEA can be viewed at www.eslea.uklight.ac.uk.

ESLEA activities are now coming to an end and work will finish from February to July 2007, depending upon the terms of funding of each pilot application. The first quarter of 2007 is considered the optimum time to hold a closing conference for the project. The objectives of the conference are to:

Provide a forum for the dissemination of research findings and learning experiences from the ESLEA project.
Enable colleagues from the UK and international e-Science communities to present, discuss and learn about the latest developments in networking technology.
Raise awareness about the deployment of the UKLight infrastructure and its relationship to SuperJANET 5.
Identify potential uses of UKLight by existing or future research projects

The deliverables of the conference will be electronic and printed conference proceedings.

Target Audience

Researchers from the diverse range of scientific disciplines that use, or have the potential to utilise, data intensive applications. In particular, researchers from particle physics, radio astronomy, high performance computing and e-health will be targeted.
Researchers requiring guaranteed bandwidth and/or Quality of Service network performance.
Researchers conducting low level systems work to improve network usage.
Industrial partners
Regional Networks
Funding and policy bodies

The international e-science community will also be targeted, including representatives from network providers and end user communities.

Programme

The following topics above are indicative of the planned scope of the conference, being based largely around the ESLEA applications using UKLight:

DAY 1 – 26 th March 2007
12.00 – 13.00	LUNCH
13.00 – 14.00	Key Note Speech Eric Boyd, Internet2. Presentation tbc
	Session 1: Protocols
14.00 – 14.20	TCPdelay ( Stephen Kershaw)
14.20 – 14.40	Implementing DCCP: differences from TCP and UDP (Andrea Bittau)
14.40 – 15.00	DCCP (Richard Hughes-Jones)
15.00 – 15.20	TCP performance (Stephen Kershaw)
15.20 – 15.50	Coffee Break
	Session 2: Protocols and Performance Testing
15.50 – 16.10	Utilising UDT to push the Bandwidth envelope (Barnaby Garrett)
16.10 – 16.30	Trans-Atlantic UDP and TCP Network Tests (Anthony Rushton)
16.30 – 16.50	Performance testing of SRM and FTS between Lightpath Connected Storage Elements (Brain Davies)
16.50 – 17.10	10 Gigabit Ethernet (Richard Hughes-Jones)
17.10 – 18.00	Discussion
18.00	Close

DAY 2 – 27 th March 2007
09.00 – 10.00	Key Note Speech “Title tbc” - Edward Seidel, Louisiana State University.
	Session 3: Reality Grid
10.00 – 10.20	Application Based Network Performance Testing (Robin Pinning)
10.20 – 10.40	Large-scale lattice-Boltzmann simulations over lambda networks (Radhika Saksena)
10.40 – 11.10	Coffee Break – poster session
11.10 -11.30	Use of UKLight as a Fast Network for Data Transport from Grid Infrastructures (Mary-Ann Thyveetil)
11.30 – 11.50	Use Using Lambda Networks to Enhance Performance of Interactive Large Simulations (Matt Harvey)
	Session 4: Resource Scheduling and Hosting
11.50 – 12.10	The ESLEA Circuit Reservation Software (Clive Davenhall)
12.10 – 12.30	Co-allocation of Compute and Network resources using HARC (Jon MacLaren)
12.30 – 12.50	The Application Hosting Environment: Lightweight Middleware for Grid Based Computational Science (Stefan Zasada)
12.50 – 13.10	Grid-empowered Optical Burst Switched Network: Architecture, Protocols and Testbed (Reza Nejabati)
13.10 – 14.00	LUNCH
	Session 5: HEP
14.00 – 14.20	Configuration of an Endsite to enable Lightpath Capabilities (Brian Davies)
14.20 – 14.40	Building a distributed software environment for CDF within the ESLEA framework (Valeria Bartsch)
14.40 – 15.00	An Extended Storage System across MANs (Brian Davies)
15.00 – 15.20	IS Security in a World of Lightpaths (Robin Tasker)
15.20 – 15.50	Coffee Break – poster session
	Session 6: e-VLB
15.50 – 16.10	Contribution of ESLEA to the Development of e-VLBI (Ralph Spencer)
16.10 – 16.30	Investigating the e-VLBI Mark 5 end systems in order to optimise data transfer rates (Matt Strong)
16.30 – 16.50	Inv. the effects of missing data upon VLBI correlation using the VLBI_UDP application (Ralph Spencer)
16.50 – 17.10	e-VLBI developments at JIVE (Arpad Szomoru)
17.10 – 18.00	Discussion
18.00	Close
19.00	Conference Dinner

DAY 3 – 28 th March 2007
09.00 – 10.00	Key Note Speech “Recent developments in Lambda networking” - Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam.
	Session 7: Arts & Humanities
10.00 – 10.20	Music and Audio – Oh how they can stress your network (Rob Fletcher)
10.20 – 10.40	Video-Conferencing from the City Halls, Glasgow (Gill Davies)
10.40 – 11.10	Coffee Break
11.10 -11.30	Who "owns" the network: a case study of new media artists' use of high-bandwidth networks (Frédérik Lesage)
11.30 – 11.50	Always the Bridesmaid and never the Bride! Arts, Archaeology and the E-Science Agenda (Rob Fletcher)
	Session 8: Closing Session
11.50 – 12.10	Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for e-Health: Constraints and Challenges (Lee Momtahan)
12.10 – 12.30	Evolution Strategies for Next Generation Networks ( Craig Michie)
12.30 – 12.50	Exludus RepliCator, Virtual Machines and UKLight (Aaron Turner)
12.50 – 13.20	Managed Bandwidth Services in SuperJANET5 ( David Salmon)
13.20 – 13.30	Closing speech (Peter Clarke)
13.30	Close

Please Click here to view abstracts of the above presentations.

The conference dinner will be held at the George Hotel on the 27th March 2007 at 19:00.

Please note that the organisers will wish to contact attendees after the event.

Presentation Slides

All speakers will be requested to provide their presentation slides in MS PowerPoint or pdf format by 16 March 2007 for review by the Conference Organising Committee. Speakers will be able to update their slides up until 30 minutes before their session begins.

Speakers will not be allowed to show their slides from their own laptops. In the event that a speaker wishes to show a demo in addition to the presentation slides, an additional screen and connection for his/her pc will be provided. The request for this should be made to the Conference Organiser.

Publication

Authors of abstracts that are selected to be presented at the conference and all invited speakers will be encouraged to submit a full paper of up to 4 pages. Poster submissions will also be accepted and presenters will also be encouraged to submit a paper of up to 4 pages. Formatting guidelines for papers can be downloaded here. The compressed ESLEA.zip file contains instructions (PoSauthmanual.pdf), a template for LATEX users (PoS.cls, PoSlogo.ps and PoSlogo.pdf) and a template for MS Word users (PoStemplate-1.doc).

Proceedings will be published in hard copy print and online at PoS - Proceedings of Science ( http://pos.sissa.it) - a service based on the Open Access philosophy.

PoS is organized by SISSA Medialab, a spin-off company of the International School for Advanced Studies based in Trieste, making the most of its longstanding experience in the field of online publishing, creating and running electronic journals like JHEP ( http://jhep.sissa.it), JCAP (http://jcap.sissa.it), JSTAT ( https://jstat.sissa.it), JINST ( http://jinst.sissa.it) and JCOM ( http://jcom.sissa.it).

With Open Access a much wider diffusion is possible, as the published material is no longer read only by those who purchase the printed volume, but is made available online with no time limit.

PoS has made a strong choice for Open Access, choosing a suitable model for copyright that is fully retained by the author (see http://pos.sissa.it/POSlicense.html).

Important Dates

First announcement Registration open s	15 December 2006
Second announcement	19 January 2007
Abstract submissions due	16 February 2007
Notification of acceptance of abstracts	26 February 2007
Close of registration Presentation slides due	16 March 2007
CONFERENCE	26-28 March 2007
Papers due	27 April 2007

Registration

Registration for this event is now closed. To enquire about an application or to cancel a previous application please contact NeSC Administration.

Enquiries

Enquiries should be made directly to our Conference Administrator.

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