The UltraLight SC07 demonstration received the CENIC 2008 Innovations in Networking Award in Experimental/ Developmental Applications (a tie vote with the CineGrid project) at CENIC’s annual conference on March 11, 2008.
The UltraLight collaboration is comprised of an international team of researchers working on advanced global systems and networks to meet the needs of experiments due to begin at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in 2008. In a demonstration at the SC07 conference held in November 2007 in Reno, NV, seven individual 10-Gigabit fiber paths (six provided by CENIC and one by Internet2) were used bi-directionally at high efficiency to move vast files of scientific data at blinding transfer rates of 80Gbps of bi-directional transfer. This is the equivalent of 12 full-length Hollywood movie DVDs in one second!
This achievement relied in part on one of the CENIC 2006 Innovations in Networking Award Winners, MonALISA. MonALISA, developed over the last six years by Caltech and its partners at CERN and the Universitatea Politehnica Bucharest, is a globally scalable framework of services to monitor and help manage and optimize the operational performance of computing grids, networks, and applications in real time. This framework is ideal for creating and dynamically managing dispersed collaborative environments over Internet networks.
URL:
http://cenic08.cenic.org/news/FinalCENIC08Awards.pdf
Collaborators:
Switzerland:
CERN
USA:
Caltech; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab); Brookhaven National Laboratory; University of Florida; University of Michigan; Vanderbilt University; Cisco Systems
Korea:
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI); Kyungpook National University
UK:
University of Manchester
Brazil:
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)/Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Pakistan:
National Institute of Information Technology
Romania:
Universitatea Politehnica Bucharest
