DOE Network 2025: Network Research Problems and Challenges for DOE Scientists (Workshop Report)
The growing investments in large science instruments and supercomputers by the US Department of Energy (DOE) hold enormous promise for accelerating the scientific discovery process. They facilitate unprecedented collaborations of geographically dispersed teams of scientists that use these resources. These collaborations critically depend on the production, sharing, moving, and management of, as well as interactive access to, large, complex data sets at sites dispersed across the country and around the globe. In particular, they call for significant enhancements in network capacities to sustain large data volumes and, equally important, the capabilities to collaboratively access the data across computing, storage, and instrument facilities by science users and automated scripts and systems. Improvements in network backbone capacities of several orders of magnitude are essential to meet these challenges, in particular, to support exascale initiatives. Yet, raw network speed represents only a part of the solution. Indeed, the speed must be matched by network and transport layer protocols and higher layer tools that scale in ways that aggregate, compose, and integrate the disparate subsystems into a complete science ecosystem. Just as important, agile monitoring and management services need to be developed to operate the network at peak performance levels. Finally, these solutions must be made an integral part of the production facilities by using sound approaches to develop, deploy, diagnose, operate, and maintain them over the science infrastructure.
- Research Organization:
- US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington, DC (United States). Office of Science
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- Contributing Organization:
- Colorado State Univ., Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Energy Sciences Network; Univ. of Southern California; Univ. of Massachusetts; Univ. of California Los Angeles
- OSTI ID:
- 1367529
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: DOE Network 2025: Network Research Problems and Challenges for DOE Scientists Workshop, Bethesda, MD (United States), 1-2 Feb 2016; Related Information: http://www.orau.gov/networkresearch2016
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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