The MAGIC Testbed

MAGIC-IIMAGIC-II

Dr. Ira RicherCorporation for National Research Initiatives

Reston, Virginia, USA

richer@cnri.reston.va.us

Prof. Joseph B. Evans (speaker)Information & Telecommunications Technology Center

EECS Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

evans@ittc.ukans.edu, http://www.ittc.ukans.edu/~evans

and

Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory, 24a Trumpington Street, Cambridge, UK

University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

The MAGIC Testbed

MAGIC-II OverviewMAGIC-II Overview

The MAGIC-II scenario is based on applications such as mission planning and crisis management

Application requirements– locate, process, display real-time and/or archived datasets on-the-fly

– fuse multiple types of data (e.g., weather, terrain)

– be able to transfer large volumes of data for interactive visualization

– support a range of user capabilities (e.g., large command center, or a mobile user)

The objective of MAGIC-II is to build on work and facilities of MAGIC-I to solve the scaling problems associated with these application scenarios

The MAGIC Testbed

MAGIC-II ParticipantsMAGIC-II Participants DARPA-funded

– Corporation for National Research Initiatives– Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center– Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory– Minnesota Supercomputer Center– SRI International– University of Kansas

Organizations contributing resources– Southwestern Bell Telephone– Splitrock Telecom– Sprint– US West Communications

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MAGIC ScenarioMAGIC Scenario

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MAGIC Application - TerraVisionMAGIC Application - TerraVision

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MAGIC Scaling IssuesMAGIC Scaling Issues

MAGIC-I MAGIC-II

Size of datasets ~ 1 Gbyte 100s of Gbytes

Visualization of real-time data Off-line processing Near real-time processing

Fusing multiple types of data Only terrain data Terrain plus othergeo-referenced data

IP/ATM internetworking Bridged network(single LIS)

Large-scale internetworkwith multiple autonomousdomains

Network throughput ~ 150 Mb/s(limited by hosts)

~ 1 Gb/s

Range of access speeds 100s of Mb/s 10s of kb/s to100s of Mb/s

Range of host capabilities High-endworkstations

Laptops to high-endworkstations

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MAGIC Nationwide Test EnvironmentMAGIC Nationwide Test Environment

Core Network

Partners

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MAGIC Application - Data FlowMAGIC Application - Data Flow

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MAGIC Application - ComponentsMAGIC Application - Components

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MAGIC - NetworkingMAGIC - Networking

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For More Information….For More Information….

MAGIC Web sites– MAGIC home page

http://www.magic.net/

– includes pointers to research organizations’ pages

This talk available athttp://www. ukans.magic.net/gbn97/talk.pdf