Science applications generate extremely large files that must be globally distributed. Most network performance methods focus on memory-to-memory data transfers as opposed to data-file-to-data-file. The DataWave project demonstrates the potential for transferring extremely large files internationally using dynamic Layer 1 services.
URL:
www.icair.org/igrid2005
www.teraflowtestbed.net
www.science.uva.nl/research/air
Contact:
Joe Mambretti, International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University (NU), USA, j-mambretti @ northwestern.edu
Collaborators:
iCAIR, NU, USA:
Joe Mambretti, Fei Yeh, Jim Chen, Rachel Gold
Nortel, USA:
Paul Daspit
Advanced Internet Research Group, University of Amsterdam, NL:
Cees de Laat, Paola Grosso, Bas van Oudenaarde, Freek Dijkstra, Hans Blom
National Center for Data Mining, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC):
Robert Grossman, Yunhong Gu, David Hanley
Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), UIC:
Tom DeFanti
