ÿþ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>ESLEA</title> <style type="text/css" media="screen"><!-- h1 { color: #f00; font-size: 1em; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.67em 0 } h2 { font-size: 0.85em; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; background-color: #e7e4e1; margin: 0.83em 0; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-left: 12px } .text { font-size: 0.85em; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e7e4e1; padding: 5px 12px 12px; position: relative; top: -12px } a:link { color: #f00; font-size: 0.85em; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; text-decoration: none } a:hover { background-color: #fcc } body { color: black; background-color: white; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border: solid 3px #666 } --></style> </head> <body> <h1><b>ESLEA</b><br/> <br/> </h1> <table width="735" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="TOP"> <p class="text">The UK e-Science ESLEA (Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for eScience Applications) project is a two-year EPSRC-funded project and collaboration among six leading UK research centers and two industrial partners (Cisco Systems and Boston Ltd). <br> The project has a remit to demonstrate the potential of circuit-switched optical networking to the UK e-Science community by running  proof of benefit pilot applications in several data-intensive fields of academic endeavor, including particle physics, high-performance computing, radio astronomy and e-health. <br> The pilot applications demonstrated the feasibility and benefits of transferring data across the UKLight circuit-switched network. UKLight is an optical R&D network managed through UKERNA as a complement to the SuperJanet production network. It comprises a 10Gbps backbone to selected points in the UK and connects to global optical networks via 10Gbps links to Chicago (via StarLight) and Amsterdam (NetherLight).<br> Network protocol research and development of control mechanisms and interfaces by ESLEA have helped the pilot applications to exploit the UKLight network effectively. <br> <e>A closing conference for ESLEA was held in Edinburgh, March 26-28, 2007 <a href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/748">www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/748.</a><br> ESLEA s  SPICE: Simulated Pore Interactive Computing Experiment demonstration at SC|05 won the HPC Analytics Challenge Award. Participants included University College London, University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh, Tufts University, TeraGrid, Nottingham University, NCSA/TeraGrid, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Argonne National Laboratory, and CCLRC Daresbury. <a href="http://sc05.supercomputing.org/news/press_releases_11172005.php">http://sc05.supercomputing.org/news/press_releases_11172005.php</a><br> </e> <br> </p> <h2>URL:</h2> <p class="text"> <a href="http://www.eslea.uklight.ac.uk">www.eslea.uklight.ac.uk</a><br /> </p> <h2>Collaborators:</h2> <p class="text"> <em>UK:</em><br> Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), UK Office of Science and Technology <br> Lancaster University <br> National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh <br> University of Edinburgh <br> University College London<br> University of Manchester <br> Oxford University <br> <br> <em>USA: </em><br> Tufts University <br> National Center for Supercomputing Applications/TeraGrid<br> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center <br> Argonne National Laboratory<br> StarLight <br> <br> </p> </td> <td width="30"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" height="1" width="30" /></td> <td valign="top" width="224"><img src="../../../images/eslea.jpg" height="150" width="200" align="top" /> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>