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NEAAR Award #1638863 Year 4 Quarter 4 and Annual Report 1 June 2019 Through 31 May 2020 Jennifer M NEAAR Award #1638863 Year 4 Quarter 4 and Annual Report 1 June 2019 through 31 May 2020 Jennifer M. Schopf, Edward Moynihan, Cathrin Stöver/Tom Fryer – Principal Investigators Summary The Networks for European, American, and African Research (NEAAR) project supports circuits and network services between the US and Europe, in addition to extensive training and science engagement activities to support US collaborations with researchers in Europe and Africa. This report outlines collaborations, science engagement, operational activities, and usage statistics for Year 4 of the project. It covers the period June 1, 2019, through May 31, 2020. Highlights of Year 4 include finalizing an agreement with NEAAR partners to support West and Central African Research and Education Network’s (WACREN) circuit at GÉANT Open in London, completing a perfSONAR MeshBuilder Workshop in Mozambique, advancing new engagements to support US researchers in Madagascar and the Arctic, and strengthening biomedical health data sharing. In Year 5 we are planning to advance our partnerships to expand our support for US research collaborations in Europe, Africa, and the Arctic. We will also continue our proactive science engagement efforts to identify and fix routing anomalies and to improve intercontinental data transfer performance for US researchers. 1. NEAAR Overview NEAAR supports the use of 100G networks between the US and Europe with a focus on measurement and science engagement. The NSF funded network for this project is a 100G circuit between New York (ManLan) and London (GÉANT Open). In addition, GÉANT runs a sister circuit that is a 100G between ManLan and Paris. These circuits are used in production to support a wide variety of science applications and demonstrations of advanced networking technologies. In addition, the NEAAR award supports science engagement, application outreach, measurement tool deployments, training workshops, and security activities. 1 In Year 4, we analyzed data transfers over 10M in size that used the NSF-funded NEAAR circuit during calendar year 2019 and found that during the twelve month period, the NEAAR circuit carried traffic for 159 of the 195 countries in the world, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Countries that were sources or destinations for data transfers over 10M using the NSF-funded NEAAR circuit during 2019. The NSF IRNC solicitation to support a follow-on project to NEAAR was delayed and was not released until January 2020. Because of this, in Quarter 3, the project requested supplemental funding to extend NEAAR through December 31, 2020. The request, included in Appendix A, was submitted to NSF in December and approved on March 16, 2020. 2. Staffing At the end of Year 4, funded project staff included: ● Jennifer Schopf, Director ● Edward Moynihan, NEAAR Coordination and Science Engagement Specialist ● Hans Addleman, Network Engineer ● Scott Chevalier, perfSONAR Specialist ● Doug Southworth, perfSONAR Specialist and Analysis ● Antoine Delvaux, perfSONAR Consultant ● Heather Hubbard, Project Support 2 The only change from Year 3 was that Hans Addleman joined the project to assist with engineering support in August. In October, Brian Tierney, LBNL, came to Bloomington and consulted on interactions with Europe and energy science data flows as well as future planning. During Year 4 we began a change for the GÉANT co-PI. Tom Fryer was promoted to Head of International Relations, taking over this program from Cathrin Stover. Because of this, we started the process to change the co-PI for NEAAR to Fryer as well. The UbuntuNet Alliance hired a new CEO replacing Pascal Hoba, former PI of NEAAR, with Dr. Matthews Mtumbuka. After meeting with him and discussing options we agreed that he would not replace Hoba as a co-PI since there had been a significant lapse in time, but that he was very interested in participating in a follow-on project if it occurred. In Year 5, we do not expect to add any staff, instead we expect the staffing levels to decrease as the project winds down. 3. Conference and Workshop Travel NEAAR staff participate in various meetings to support their role in collaborations in Europe and Africa. Some of these trips were funded by other sources. Towards the end of the project year, several meetings were canceled or postponed due to travel restrictions related to COVID-19, a situation we expect to continue into Year 5. For Quarters 1-3 in Year 4, as summarized in other reports, travel included: ● Moynihan attended the LHCOPN-LHCONE meeting in Umea, Sweden, June 4-5, 2019, https://indico.cern.ch/event/772031/. ● Chevalier attended the GÉANT perfSONAR User Workshop hosted by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in London, UK, June 5-7, 2019. ● Schopf and Moynihan attended TNC19 in Tallinn, Estonia, June 16-20, 2019, https://tnc19.geant.org/. ● Moynihan attended the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) summer meeting in Tacoma, WA, July 16-19, 2019, https://2019esipsummermeeting.sched.com/. ● Moynihan attended the Nelson Mandela Washington Fellowship Program in Bloomington, Indiana, July 24, 2019, https://eca.state.gov/mandela-washington- fellowship. ● Moynihan attended the TICAL19 meeting and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Networking (LSST-NET) workshop in Cancun, Mexico, September 2-5, 2019, http://tical2019.redclara.net/index.php/en/. ● Southworth and Delvaux led a perfSONAR MeshBuilder Workshop for our partners at the Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet) in Maputo, Mozambique, September 2-6, 2019. ● Moynihan attended the eScience and Science Gateways co-located meetings in San Diego, CA, on September 23-27, 2019, https://escience2019.sdsc.edu/. 3 ● Schopf attended the CC*PI/National Research Platform/Quilt meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 22-26, 2019, https://www.thequilt.net/public- event/2019-nsf-nrp-and-the-quilt-workshops-and-meetings/. ● Moynihan attended the 2019 NSF Cybersecurity Summit for Large Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure in San Diego, CA, October 15-17, 2019, https://trustedci.org/2019-nsf-cybersecurity-summit/. ● Moynihan attended the UbuntuNet Connect19 conference in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Oct 30-Nov 2, 2019 https://events.ubuntunet.net/event/24/. Schopf, Addleman, Chevalier, and Southworth attended SC’19 in Denver, CO, November 17- 22, 2019, https://sc19.supercomputing.org. ● Moynihan attended the e-AGE19 conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 11-12, 2019, http://asrenorg.net/eage19/. ● Schopf attended the ESIP Winter Meeting in Bethesda, MD, January 7-9, 2020, https://2020esipwintermeeting.sched.com. ● Addleman attended the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Open Network Environment (LHCONE) January Meeting at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, January 13-14, 2020, https://indico.cern.ch/event/828520/. ● Schopf, Addleman and Moynihan attended theTrans-Pacific Research and Education (TPRE) meeting and the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) annual conference in Honolulu, HI, January 19-22, 2020, https://www.ptc.org/ptc20/. ● Schopf attended the Quilt Winter Meeting in San Diego, CA, February 5-7, 2020 https://www.thequilt.net/public-event/2020-winter-member-meeting/. In Quarter 4, travel was significantly impacted by COVID-19 travel restrictions. Many meetings were canceled or moved to virtual meetings. Virtual meetings attended in Quarter 4 included: ● Addleman virtually attended the Polar Technology Conference, March 10-12, 2020, https://www.arcus.org/logistics/2020-polar-technology. Presentations were focused on Arctic science drivers, technology advances, and upgrades to polar research centers. New and upgraded satellite systems that serve the Arctic regions were also explored in detail. ● Addleman virtually attended the Large Scale Networking (LSN) Workshop on Huge Data: A Computing, Networking and Distributed Systems Perspective, April 13-14, 2020, https://protocols.netlab.uky.edu/~hugedata2020/. He participated in discussions on improving global networking for big data projects and on science engagement best practices. ● Addleman virtually attended the FABRIC workshop, April 15-16, 2020, https://www.whatisfabric.net/events/fabric-community-workshop-2020. He participated in a number of talks describing the architecture and deployment plans of the project, including talks on the network experiments that will be run on FABRIC and on linking international testbeds together with FABRIC. ● Moynihan virtually attended the VRO-NET working group meeting, April 23- 24, 2020, https://www.amlight.net/?p=4013. He participated in discussions on future 4 trans-Atlantic connectivity plans for the project, as well as procurement of VNOC services. ● Addleman virtually attended the LHCONE Meeting, May 13, 2020, https://indico.cern.ch/event/888924/. He participated in discussions on using the LHC model for other high bandwidth scientific projects and on updates to the LHCONE perfSONAR MaDDash and mesh. Additionally, NEAAR had planned to attend the following meeting that was cancelled: ● Internet2 Global Summit, in Indianapolis, IN, March 29-April 1, 2020, https://meetings.internet2.edu/2020-global-summit/update-coronavirus/. Presentations and write ups for the year included: 1. Moynihan, Edward, “International Networks at Indiana University, 2019 Overview”, invited presentation, LHCONE meeting, Umea, Sweden, June 4, 2019. Slides available at: https://indico.cern.ch/event/772031/contributions/3416875/attachments/18557 81/3048036/LHCONE_INIU_overview_.pdf 2. Chevalier, Scott, “International Networks- perfSONAR with NEAAR and TransPAC”, GÉANT perfSONAR
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