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>EnLIGHTened Computing</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>EnLIGHTened Computing</b><br/> <br/> </h1> <table width="735" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="TOP"> <p class="text">At the GLIF 2006 meeting in Tokyo, Japan (September 11, 2006), researchers in the US and Japan demonstrated  automated interoperability between network and computing resources on two national grid computing research testbeds: the G-lambda project in Japan, and the Enlightened Computing project in the US. More specifically, a software application in a research testbed in one country was able to reserve, manage and monitor computing and network resources across both countries " a key milestone toward developing a Global Grid of networked, interoperable resources. <br> Researchers working with the G-lambda group in Japan and the Enlightened Computing group in the US demonstrated how software applications can establish network connections  on demand to computing resources, databases of information and scientific instruments. The duration of these connections is based on the particular application s requirement for precisely the amount of time that is needed, and no more. Whether seconds or days, the network and resources are connected and managed to perform a task. Then, the connection is released in order to share resources for other purposes. <b>This demonstration was also done at SC 06.</b> <br> </p> <h2>URL:</h2> <p class="text"> <a href="http://www.enlightenedcomputing.org">www.enlightenedcomputing.org</a><br /> </p> <h2>Collaborators:</h2> <p class="text"> <em>USA:</em><br> North Carolina State University<br> Renaissance Computing Institute at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <br> MCNC <br> Louisiana State University <br> Southeastern Universities Research Association <br> Naval Research Laboratory <br> National LambdaRail <br> <br> <em>Japan:</em><br> National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) <br> KDDI R&D Laboratories <br> NTT Network Innovation Laboratories<br> National Institute of Information and Communications Technologies (NICT) <br> <br> <em>Corporate sponsors: </em><br> Cisco<br> IBM <br> AT&T Labs - Research <br> Calient Networks <br> <br> <em>Collaborators: </em><br> Computing resources were donated by the North Carolina State University Virtual Computing Laboratory and MCNC, Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University, California Institute of Technology, and 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/enlight.jpg" height="80" width="120" align="top" /> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>