Phosphorus

Phosphorus is an alliance of European and global partners to develop advanced solutions of application-level middleware and underlying management and control plane technologies. It is a 30-month project begun in October 2006 and funded by the European Union (EU) Research Networking Testbeds IST program.
The project mission is to address key technical challenges in enabling on-demand end-to-end network service across multiple domains; to treat the underlying network as a first-class Grid resource; and to demonstrate solutions and functionalities across a testbed involving European National Research Networks (NRNs), GÉANT, Cross Border Dark Fibre and GLIF connectivity infrastructures.

URL:

http://www.ist-phosphorus.eu/

Collaborators:

Belgium:
Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT)

Canada:
Communications Research Centre

Czech Republic:
CESNET

Germany:
Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SAIC) and Institute for Media Communication (IMK)
Research Centre Jülich
University of Bonn

Greece:
Athens Information Technology Institute
RACTI, University of Patras

Netherlands:
SARA
SURFnet
University of Amsterdam

Poland:
PIONIER
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center

Spain:
Fundació i2CAT

UK:
University of Essex
University of Wales-Swansea

USA:
MCNC
Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University