US-Russian Networking Project: Web Cache for Science and Education
Averaging nearly 1.2 gigabytes of total traffic per day, the heaviest
single producer of MIRnet traffic during its first year has been
between the US National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) web
cache and the Russian academic web cache in Chernogolovka (scientific
city located 50 km northeast of Moscow.)
Managed by the Theoretical Physics Institute, the goal of the
project is to study the properties of www traffic, and determine optimal path
calculations for receiving and sending information via the
distributed cache server network based at NLANR. The Chernogolovka web cache
functions as the root web cache for the Russian Federation science and
education community.
