TransLight / StarLight International Research Network Connections
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Problem Statement and Motivation Key Achievements and Future Goals Technical Approach TransLight/StarLight International Research Network Connections Tom DeFanti and Maxine Brown, Computer Science Primary Grant Support: National Science Foundation #OCI-0441094 In cooperation with US and European national research and education networks, UIC’s TransLight/StarLight five-year project, which began in 2005, is implementing a strategy to best serve established production science networks, including usage by those scientists, engineers and educators who have persistent large-flow, real-time, and/or other advanced application requirements. • TransLight/StarLight is the international extension to the NLR and the TeraGrid • TransLight is a USA member of GLIF • Develop a global science engineering and education marketplace for network diversity • Lead research to enable laboratories and centers to procure networking services with equipment and services budgets, just as they buy computer clusters and software today • Help close the Digital Divide separating our scientists from the rest of the world TransLight/StarLight funds two network connections between the US and Europe for production science: • OC-192 routed connection between New York City and Amsterdam that connects the US Abilene, National LambdaRail (NLR) and DOE ESnet networks to the pan- European GÉANT2 network. • OC-192 switched connection between StarLight in Chicago and NetherLight in Amsterdam that is part of the GLIF LambdaGrid fabric GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, is an international virtual organization supporting persistent data-intensive scientific research and middleware development on “LambdaGrids” – a Grid in which the optical networks themselves are resources that can be scheduled like any other computing, storage or visualization resource.
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Problem Statement and Motivation
Key Achievements and Future GoalsTechnical Approach
TransLight/StarLight International Research Network Connections Tom DeFanti and Maxine Brown, Computer Science
Primary Grant Support: National Science Foundation #OCI-0441094
In cooperation with US and European national research and education networks, UIC’s TransLight/StarLight five-year project, which began in 2005, is implementing a strategy to best serve established production science networks, including usage by those scientists, engineers and educators who have persistent large-flow, real-time, and/or other advanced application requirements.
• TransLight/StarLight is the international extension to the NLR and the TeraGrid
• TransLight is a USA member of GLIF• Develop a global science engineering and education marketplace for
network diversity• Lead research to enable laboratories and centers to procure
networking services with equipment and services budgets, just as they buy computer clusters and software today
• Help close the Digital Divide separating our scientists from the rest of the world
TransLight/StarLight funds two network connections between the US and Europe for production science:
• OC-192 routed connection between New York City and Amsterdam that connects the US Abilene, National LambdaRail (NLR) and DOE ESnet networks to the pan-European GÉANT2 network.
• OC-192 switched connection between StarLight in Chicago and NetherLight in Amsterdam that is part of the GLIF LambdaGrid fabric
GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, is an international virtual organization supporting persistent data-intensive scientific research and middleware development on “LambdaGrids” – a Grid in which the optical networks themselves are resources that can be scheduled like any other computing, storage or visualization resource.
