World’s First Demonstration of X GRID Application Switching using User Controlled LightPaths

Researchers from CANARIE and CRC in Canada, NCHC in Taiwan, KISTI in Korea and i2CAT in Spain are collaborating on the world's first demonstration of multiple end users dynamically controlling the setup and switching of lightpaths to various grid application resources worldwide using CANARIE's UCLP (User Controlled LightPath) management software. In the future, grid users will be able to quickly configure (and reconfigure) global optical lightpaths among collaborating research institutions so their applications can exchange data in real time.

URL:

www.canarie.ca/canet4/uclp/igrid2005/demo.html

Contact:

Hervé Guy, CANARIE, Canada, herve.guy @ canarie.ca

Collaborators:

CANARIE, Canada:
Hervé Guy, Bill St. Arnaud, Darcy Quesnel, René Hatem

Communications Research Centre (CRC), Canada:
Michel Savoie, Scott Campbell, Hanxi Zhang, Mathieu Lemay, Bobby Ho

University of Waterloo, Canada:
Raouf Boutaba, Youssef Iraqi, Iban Touchet

i2CAT/Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain:
Sergi Figuerola, Sebastia Sallent, Artur Serra, Jesús Alcober, Luis Ribes, Marisol Hurtado, Ramon Sanguesa, Eduard Grasa, Joaquin Recio

National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC), Taiwan:
Eugene Yeh, Fay Sheu, Jing-Jou Yen, Fang-Pang Lin, Sun-In Lin, Te-Lung Liu, Jiunn-Jye Chen

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea:
Dongkyun Kim, Jong Uk Kong, Ok-Hwan Byeon, Won-Taek Hong

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea:
Jongwon Kim