HONG KONG OPEN EXCHANGE (HKOX) UPDATES Wai Man CHEUNG, Francis FONG Joint Universities Computer Centre Limited (JUCC) 8 August 2018
HKOX Initiatives • Global Network Architecture (GNA) Vision: • Sustainable high performance global interconnect for Research and Education • Bring the intercontinental R&E network infrastructures within reach • The concept of setting up a Hong Kong Open Exchange Point was first mentioned in APAN42 in Hong Kong, with the topic “The Possible Hong Kong Open Exchange Point” • JUCC, being a consortium of tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, feels the obligation to create an “architecture” (HKOX) to increase collaboration and achieve resource sharing within the global R&E Community
HKOX Initiatives • JUCC formed a HKOXP Task Force in Nov 2016 to evaluate how JUCC participates in setting up an Open Exchange Point in Hong Kong • JUCC considered different operational models • Collaboration model with the Hong Kong Internet Exchange (HKIX) • Meetings conducted with HKIX for possible collaboration, such as leveraging the existing HKIX-R&E node, manpower, expertise • HKOX and HKIX to operate the R&E nodes independently • JUCC represents the Hong Kong universities research community and has the mandate to serve and develop the community
HKOX Initiatives • Independent business model • JUCC operates our own exchange point • Port charge will be waived for at least two years • Subsidized business model • HKSAR OGCIO (Office of the Government Chief Information Officer) sent representatives to join the APAN42 in order to understand the establishment of a Hong Kong Open Exchange Point • HKSAR OGCIO showed support to JUCC for establishing the HKOX for worldwide research and education activities • Funding support will be sought from the HKSAR Government for the continual development of HKOX
HKOX Initiatives • JUCC would like to acknowledge the previous contribution of HKIX on Internet exchange • JUCC decided to extend our existing Hong Kong Academic and Research Network (HARNET) and added an R&E node in MEGA-i to the HARNET infrastructure as a starting point for HKOX • JUCC / HKOX represents an active and vibrant research community in Hong Kong. We have hundreds of active research projects with overseas institutions. • JUCC, composed of CIOs and IT Directors of member institutions, has management oversight of the development of HKOX
HKOX Initiatives • NRENs are welcomed to connect to the HKOX so that researchers in Hong Kong can work effectively with counterparts through connected NRENs • NRENs can decide the peering (bilateral or multilateral) model as to facilitate academic and research projects • MOU with TransPAC, SingAREN and TEIN for close collaboration
R&E Projects • HKUST-MIT Research Alliance Consortium • Build up a network for local universities and leading technology companies to collaborate with their international counterparts on future advancement in high-tech research
R&E Projects • HKU School of Public Health: Mining the Antibiotic Resistance Genes • Objective: To investigate the global distribution of different antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), and study their evolution and emergence • Research using genome datasets from US databanks (National Center for Biotechnology Information, ChicagoU and Argonne National Laboratory) • Genomic Datasets: RefSeq, nt/nr, WGS, SRA databases from National Center for Biotechnology Information Phylogenetic (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) and the MG-RAST metagenomic tree of antibiotic- database (www.mg-rast.org) from The University of resistant mcr and Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory related genes
R&E Projects • CUHK Signs Agreement with CERN to Enable Physics • Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) setup a HPC Cluster linking with CERN HPC Cluster for physics calculation and analytics • HPC Cluster Configuration: • 18x worker node with 1008 Cores • 3x DPM disk nodes (436TB) • 4x DPM disk nodes (654TB) – to be deployed in summer • Future Plan: Optimize the network by LHCONE peering
HKOX Infrastructure
HKOX Infrastructure • Complied with GNA specifications • Installed a Juniper MX 10003 • Supported GE, 10GE and 100GE ports • Located at the 10/F of MEGA-i, Hong Kong • Installed perfSONAR • HKOX ASN 137207
HKOX Infrastructure
HKOX NREN PEERING PARTNERS Existing HARNET-R&E PEERING PARTNERS AS NUMBER Port Bandwidth (Announce HARNET Route only & no route exchange) (Gbps) TEIN4 24489 10 KREONET 17579 10 CERNET 4538 100 GOOGLE 15169 20 JGN TBD TBD HKOX PEERING PARTNERS AS NUMBER Port Bandwidth (Exchange all routes by default and control by peering (Gbps) partners using BGP Community) TransPAC TBD TBD SingAREN TBD TBD CSTNet TBD TBD
HKOX Layer 2 Transport Service • Support Bilateral Peering (BLP) between NREN Partners on dedicated VLAN
HKOX Layer 2 Transport Service • BGP peering between HKOX Router and NREN Partners on common VLAN • The common VLAN number is 901
Layer 2/3 Configurations on HKOX Router
HKOX Layer 3 Transport Service • Routes exchange control between NRENs by using BGP Community
HKOX Layer 3 Transport Service • Multilateral Peering (MLP) with HARNET Institutions and NREN Partners on HKOX Router • By default, routes are not exchanged among NRENs on HKOX, but HKOX encourages NRENs to share their routes with others
JUCC HKOX Web Site URL: https://www.hkox.hk/
JUCC HKOX Web Site All of us can get our updated information from the web site or directly contact HKOX.
JUCC HKOX Web Site You are welcomed to join us.
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