Biography
Mark Leese is the Senior Network Designer within STFC's Network and Communications Group, where he is responsible for various network development activities. He graduated in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool in 1998, and worked as a software engineer in the telecoms industry before joining the STFC (then CLRC) in 2002. Previous STFC work centred on network monitoring and performance, for which Mark contributed to various groups including GridPP and the Open Grid Forum, where he co-chaired the Network Measurements Working Group. Between 2007 and 2009 Mark was seconded to Janet where he led their measurement and monitoring activities. He has also worked to educate scientists with respect to obtaining better network performance for their applications, mainly through the Networks for non-Networkers workshops.
Abstract
How to manage the network for a large research campus (policy based routing)
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is one of seven UK publicly funded Research Councils. The STFC has a broad science portfolio, and shares its expertise with the academic and industrial communities in fields ranging from laser science to particle and nuclear physics. The Council also operates world class scientific facilities such as the ISIS pulsed neutron source and the High performance computing resources of the Hartree Centre. The STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire hosts a growing number of data centric scientific research projects which collaborate with partner organisations throughout the World. One example is the LHC Tier-1 centre which processes data in the order of PetaBytes a year from the 'big bang' machine, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Another example is the JASMIN/ CEMS project which performs data analysis on behalf of the UK and European climate and earth system modeling community. Although diverse, these projects all share a need for the timely transfer of large datasets around the World. The talk will discuss how the Rutherford Appleton network is being re-designed and re-developed to meet the current and future needs of these projects, addressing their network throughput and resilience requirements in a scalable and repeatable manner.
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