View from Washington and Germantown Vincent Dattoria Acting

View from Washington and Germantown Vincent Dattoria Acting Director, Facilities Division, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research February 4 th, 2009

Talk Outline • • • ASCR Organization Next-Generation Networks SBIR/STTR Satisfaction Survey Results ECS Upgrade Upcoming Activities

ASCR Organization

Next-Generation Networks Program The next-generation networks program supports R&D activities to develop advanced networks to enable distributed high-end science Program elements: Network research – core network research Middleware research – Grid technologies The program coordinates with ESnet to develop and deploy networks that enable scientists to push the limits of today’s networks Next-generation network technologies have enabled the efficient and rapid distribution of massive data generated by the LHC experiment and climate modeling Major activities in FY 09: Network research program announcement Terabit Networks for Petascale Science

Satisfaction Survey Results • 13 Responses (large SC: 6, small SC: 4, large NNSA: 1, small NNSA: 1, partner: 1) • Scale from 1 to 5 • “ESnet support for your site connectivity”: 4. 6 • “Technical and engineering support provided by ESnet staff”: 4. 5 • “ESnet troubleshooting and performance analysis support”: 4. 5 • “Higher level network services provided by ESnet”: 4. 2 • “Overall satisfaction with the quality of ESnet services provided to your site: 4. 75

Satisfaction Survey Results (cont’d) • Several overall favorable comments received • Site-specific comments – – – More network statistics wanted Include “impact” of network outage in announcements Spotty engineer schedules SLA requested ESnet CA needs to be a “real” CA ECS services critical, demand growing, need HD, better support before outsourcing

ECS Upgrade • Planned for and budgeted this year • Requirements need to support upgrade • ESCC is an important stakeholder for gathering user requirements

Upcoming Activities • Expedition workshop (Perf. SONAR-like framework deployment planning for JET) (Wash): February 9 th (http: //colab. cim 3. net/cgi- bin/wiki. pl? Expedition. Workshop/Leveraging. Service. Oriented. Architecture_Ad vancing. Cyberinfastructure. Capabilities_2009_02_09) • • Composing Collaboratories (Chicago): February 24 -25 ASCAC (Wash): March 3 -4 ESnet ASCR requirements workshop (Wash): Mid-April ESnet Annual Operational Assessment (ORNL): August/September – Satisfaction Survey* – Renew ESnet Services document* (http: //www. es. net/hypertext/ESnet. Service. Levels-V 3. pdf )