SC20 Supercomputing Forum for Experiments and Demonstrations Showcased Innovations in Large-Scale, Data-Intensive Science Networking

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Each year the ACM/IEEE SC conference supports large-scale networking experiments and demonstrations through its SCinet initiative, many of which are conducted as part of the SCinet Network Research Exhibition (NRE) program. However, given that the SC20 conference was virtual and the SCinet network was not implemented, a research community partnership was formed to design an international networking testbed using existing facilities, with several international extensions. This community staged demonstrations and experiments prior to SC20 and then discussed results during an invitation-only, virtual SC20 Forum held via Zoom on November 19, 2020. The SC20 Supercomputing Forum for Experiments and Demonstrations Showcased Innovations in Large-Scale, Data-Intensive Science Networking agenda and participant presentations are made available here.

The SC20 Supercomputing Forum research community partnership includes: AARNet; Academia Sinica; AmLight; Asia-Pacific Research Platform (APRP) Consortium; AutoGOLE Consortium; Caltech; CANARIE; CENIC; CERN; Ciena Research Lab; ESnet; Cybera; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL); Global Research Platform (GRP) Consortium; International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University; KISTI; LHC Networking Consortium; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Metropolitan Research and Education Network (MREN); MREN Research Platform (MRP) Consortium; Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX); National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); National Science Foundation (NSF); Naval Research Laboratory (NRL); Pacific Research Platform (PRP) Consortium; Pacific Wave; RNP; SingAREN; StarLight International/National Communications Exchange Facility Consortium; SURFnet; Towards a National Research Platform (TNRP) Consortium; TWAREN; University of Amsterdam; University of California, San Diego; University of Illinois Chicago; et. al.

OVERVIEW


Each year, ACM/IEEE Supercomputing: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, supports large-scale networking experiments and demonstrations through its SCinet initiative. Many are conducted as part of the SCinet Network Research Exhibition (NRE) program. In past years, to showcase emerging advanced networking services, techniques, and technologies for data-intensive science, an international coalition of researchers partnered with SCinet to design and implement a global networking testbed to support these experiments and demonstrations. 


However, given that the SC20 conference is virtual this year and the SCinet network will not be implemented, a research community partnership was formed to design an international networking testbed using existing facilities, with several international extensions. This community plans to stage demonstrations and experiments prior to SC20 and then discuss results during a virtual SC20 forum.


This SC20 Supercomputing Forum for Experiments and Demonstrations Showcasing Innovations in Large-Scale, Data-Intensive Science Transport Over WANs will communicate: (a) the motivation behind these experiments and demonstrations; (b) their design; (c) technologies used; (d) results; and, (e) future research in these areas. This Forum was scheduled via Zoom. Attendance is limited to encourage dialog among participants; individuals who registered for the meeting were sent a Zoom link.

AGENDA/PRESENTATIONS