At the Internet2 2008 Fall Member Meeting, an innovative keynote session took place to highlight the importance of the community’s investment in cyberinfrastructure to enable the global LHC collaboration. Internet2 presented a live peek behind the scenes at the LHC using advanced uncompressed high-definition videoconferencing technology called iHDTV, developed by the ResearchChannel and University of Washington, to provide a first-hand view of the biggest science device on the planet.
The Internet2 audience in New Orleans was linked to the CERN Control Centre (CCC) in France. The audience got a short tour of the CCC, and was had a live dialogue with Jim Virdee, head spokesperson for the LHC CMS experiment, and David Foster, head of communications and networking at CERN.
The videoconference was hosted by Ed Seidel, Director of the NSF’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure, and Harvey Newman, Caltech professor of Physics.
The networks used interoperated across three Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) domains, including LONI, Internet2 and US LHCNet. While this demo did not use TransLight/StarLight, it leveraged DOE US LHCNet transatlantic connectivity.
URL:
http://events.internet2.edu/2008/fall-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=10000236&event=911
www.researchchannel.org/news/press/i2_hd.asp
Collaborators:
USA:
Internet2; DOE US LHCNet; Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI)
Switzerland:
CERN
