Slide1 : 23-26 September 2002
Amsterdam Science and Technology
The Netherlands September 26, 2002
Maxine Brown
STAR TAP/StarLight co-Principal Investigator
Associate Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory
University of Illinois at Chicago i Grid 2oo2 I N T E R N A T I O N A L V I R T U A L L A B O R A T O R Y
www.igrid2002.org
iGrid 2002 September 23-26, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands : iGrid 2002 September 23-26, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands iGrid is a conference demonstrating application demands for increased bandwidth
iGrid is a testbed enabling the world’s research community to work together briefly and intensely to advance the state of the art – moving from grid-intensive computing to LambdaGrid-intensive computing, in which computational resources worldwide are connected by multiple lambdas. www.startap.net/igrid2002
iGrid 2002 Application Demonstrations : 28 demonstrations from 16 countries: Australia, Canada, CERN/Switzerland, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the USA.
Applications to be demonstrated: art, bioinformatics, chemistry, cosmology, cultural heritage, education, high-definition media streaming, manufacturing medicine, neuroscience, physics, tele-science
Grid technologies to be demonstrated: Major emphasis on grid middleware, data management grids, data replication grids, visualization grids, data/visualization grids, computational grids, access grids, grid portals iGrid 2002 Application Demonstrations
iGrid 2002 Featured Network Infrastructures : iGrid 2002 Featured Network Infrastructures NetherLight, developed by SURFnet within the context of the Dutch Next Generation Internet project (GigaPort), is an advanced optical infrastructure and proving ground for network services optimized for high-performance applications located at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange facility.
StarLight, developed by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, and Argonne National Laboratory in partnership with Canada’s CANARIE and Holland’s SURFnet with funding from the USA NSF, is a persistent infrastructure that supports advanced applications and middleware research, and aggressive advanced networking services.
iGrid 2002 Enabling Technologies and Projects : iGrid 2002 Enabling Technologies and Projects EU-funded DataGrid Project aims to develop, implement and exploit a computational and data-intensive grid of resources for the analysis of scientific data.
www.eu-datagrid.org
EU-funded DataTAG Project is creating an intercontinental testbed (Trans-Atlantic Grid) for data-intensive grids, with a focus on networking techniques and interoperability issues among different grid domains.
www.datatag.org
iGrid 2002 Enabling Technologies and Projects : iGrid 2002 Enabling Technologies and Projects The Globus Project conducts research and development on the application of Grid concepts to scientific and engineering computing. The Globus Project provides software tools (the Globus Toolkit) that make it easier to build computational grids and grid-based applications.
www.globus.org
Quanta, the Quality of Service (QoS) Adaptive Networking Toolkit, is backward compatible with CAVERNsoft, and provides application developers with an easy-to-use system to efficiently utilize the extremely high bandwidth afforded by optical networks. .
www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/teranode/quanta
iGrid 2002 Singapore, Australia and Japan : APBioGrid of APBioNet
Bio Informatics Centre (BIC) National University of Singapore
Kooprime, Singapore
Cray, Singapore
www.bic.nus.edu.sg, www.bic.nus.edu.sg/biogrid, www.apbionet.org, http://s-star.org/main.htm iGrid 2002 Singapore, Australia and Japan Using BIC’s APBioGrid (the Asia Pacific
Bioinformatics Grid, a collection of networked
computational resources) and KOOP testbed
technology, biologists can quickly build a
complex series of computations and database
management activities on top of computational
grids to solve real-world problems.
APBioGrid mimics tasks typical of a bioinformatician – it does resource discovery over the network, remotely distributing tasks that perform data acquisition, data transfer, data processing, data upload to databases, data analysis, computational calculations and visualizations.
iGrid 2002 Canada, CERN and The Netherlands : iGrid 2002 Canada, CERN and The Netherlands ATLAS Canada LightPath Data Transfer Trial
TRIUMF, Canada
Carleton University, Canada
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
University of Alberta, Canada
University of Toronto, Canada
Simon Fraser University, Canada
BCNet, British Columbia, Canada
CANARIE, Canada
CERN, Switzerland
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.triumf.ca The Lightpath Trial hopes to transmit 1TB of ATLAS Monte Carlo data from TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics ) to CERN in under 2 hours. Using Canada’s 2.5Gb link to StarLight, SURFnet’s 2.5Gb link from StarLight to NetherLight, and from NetherLight to CERN, an end-to-end lightpath will be built between TRIUMF in Vancouver and CERN.
iGrid 2002 Netherlands, USA, Canada, CERN, France, Italy, Japan, UK : Bandwidth Challenge from the Low-Lands
SLAC, USA
NIKHEF, The Netherlands
Participating sites: APAN, Japan; ANL, USA; Lab, USA; Caltech, USA; CERN,
Switzerland; Daresbury Laboratory, UK; ESnet, USA; Fermilab, USA; NASA
GSFC, USA; IN2P3, France; INFN/Milan, Italy; INFN/Rome, Italy; Internet2, USA;
JLab, USA; KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan; LANL,
USA; LBNL, USA; LBNL/NERSC, USA; Manchester University, UK; NIKHEF, The
Netherlands; ORNL, USA; Rice University, USA; RIKEN Accelerator Research
Facility, Japan; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK; SDSC/UCSD, USA; SLAC,
USA; Stanford University, USA; Sun Microsystems, USA; TRIUMF, Canada;
University College London, UK; University of Delaware, USA; University of
Florida, USA; University of Michigan, USA; University of Texas at Dallas, USA;
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/
monitoring/bulk/igrid2002 iGrid 2002 Netherlands, USA, Canada, CERN, France, Italy, Japan, UK Current data transfer capabilities to several international sites with high-performance links is demonstrated. iGrid 2002 serves as a HENP “Tier 0” or “Tier 1” site (an accelerator or major computing site), distributing data to multiple replica sites. Researchers investigate/ demonstrate issues regarding TCP implementations for high-bandwidth long-latency links, and create a repository of trace files of a few interesting flows to help explain the behavior of transport protocols over various production networks.
iGrid 2002 USA and CERN : iGrid 2002 USA and CERN Bandwidth Gluttony ― Distributed Grid-Enabled
Particle Physics Event Analysis
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), USA
Caltech, USA
CERN (EU DataGrid Project) This demonstration is a joint effort between Caltech (HEP) and ANL (Globus/GridFTP). Requests for remote virtual data collections are issued by Grid-based software that is itself triggered from a customized version of the High-Energy Physics (HEP) analysis tool called ROOT. These requests cause the data to be moved across a wide-area network using both striped and standard GridFTP servers.
In addition, at iGrid, an attempt is made to saturate a 10Gbps link between Amsterdam, ANL and StarLight and a 2.5Gbps link between Amsterdam and CERN, using striped GridFTP channels and specially tuned TCP/IP stacks applied to memory-cached data. http://pcbunn.cacr.caltech.edu/iGrid2002/demo.htm
iGrid 2002 USA : iGrid 2002 USA Beat Box
Indiana University, USA
Res Umbrae, USA
http://dolinsky.fa.indiana.edu/beatbox Beat Box presents networked CAVE participants with a playful arena of interactive sound machines. Participants cycle through sound selections and give voice to an interval by introducing it to a thoroughly odd indigenous head. Each head represents a distinct moment in a sequence that contributes to the resultant delivery of the collective instruments.
iGrid 2002 USA : iGrid 2002 USA Collaborative Visualization over the Access Grid
Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago, USA
Northern Illinois University, USA
www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/events/igrid2002.html, www.accessgrid.org, www.globus.org/mpi, www.globus.org, www.teragrid.org This demonstration shows next-generation Access Grid applications, where the Access Grid is coupled to high-speed networks and vast computational resources. Using the Globus Toolkit, MPICH-G2 and Access Grid technology, scientists can collaboratively and interactively analyze time-varying datasets that are multiple terabytes in size.
iGrid 2002 The Netherlands and USA : D0 Data Analysis
NIKHEF, The Netherlands
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), USA
Michigan State University, USA
www-d0.fnal.gov, www.nikhef.nl The D0 Experiment, which relies on the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab, is a worldwide collaboration of scientists conducting research on the fundamental nature of matter. Currently, raw data from the D0 detector is processed at Fermilab’s computer farm and results are written to tape. At iGrid, researchers show that by using the transoceanic StarLight/NetherLight network, it is possible for Fermilab to send raw data to NIKHEF for processing and then have NIKHEF send the results back to Fermilab.
iGrid 2002 The Netherlands and USA
iGrid 2002 USA, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and UK : iGrid 2002 USA, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and UK Distributed, On-Demand, Data-Intensive and Collaborative
Simulation Analysis
Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA
Tsukuba Advanced Computing Center, Japan
Manchester Computing Centre, UK
National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
High Performance Computing Center, Rechen-zentrum Universität Stuttgart, Germany
www.cs.sandia.gov/ilab, www.tbi.univie.ac.at/research/VirusPrj.html, www.hlrs.de Grid tools applied to bioinformatics are demonstrated – specifically, predicting identifiable intron/exon splice sites in human genes based on RNA secondary structures. Modeling and simulation programs scale to geographically distributed supercomputer centers. Results are visualized in a collaborative environment, displaying spatial relationships and insights into identifying exonic splicing enhancers.
iGrid 2002 USA and UK : iGrid 2002 USA and UK Dynamic Load Balancing of Structured Adaptive Mesh
Refinement (SAMR) Applications on Distributed Systems
CS Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
ECE Department, Northwestern University, USA
Nuclear and Astrophysics Laboratory, Oxford University
AMR applications results in load imbalance among processors on distributed systems. ENZO is a successful parallel implementation of structured AMR (SAMR), incorporating dynamic load balancing across distributed systems, used by in astrophysics and cosmology. www.ece.nwu.edu/~zlan/research.html
iGrid 2002 USA and CERN : iGrid 2002 USA and CERN Fine Grained Authorization for GARA
Automated Bandwidth Reservation
University of Michigan, USA
CERN
www.citi.umich.edu/projects/qos This demonstration shows modifications to the Globus General-purpose Architecture for Reservation and Allocation (GARA). Also shown is a secure and convenient Web interface for making reservation requests based on Kerberos credentials.
GARA modifications are demonstrated by reserving bandwidth for a video application running between sites with distinct security domains. Traffic generators overload the router interface servicing the video receiver, degrading the video quality when bandwidth is not reserved.
iGrid 2002 Italy and CERN : iGrid 2002 Italy and CERN https://genius.ct.infn.it GENIUS
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Catania, Italy
Università di Catania, Italy
NICE srl, Camerano Casasco, Italy
CERN, Switzerland The grid portal GENIUS (Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission) is an interactive data management tool being developed on the EU DataGrid testbed.
At iGrid 2002, researchers demonstrate GENIUS’s data movement and discovery, security mechanisms and system monitoring techniques, as well as optimization and fail-safe mechanisms ― for example, how to find network optimized files and how to detect system failure.
iGrid 2002 USA, Japan and Taiwan : iGrid 2002 USA, Japan and Taiwan Global Telescience Featuring IPv6
National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR), UCSD, USA
San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, USA
Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Japan
National Center for High Performance Computing, Taiwan https://gridport.npaci.edu/Telescience Utilizing native IPv6 and a mixture of high bandwidth and low latency, this demonstration features a network-enabled end-to-end system for 3D electron tomography that utilizes richly connected resources to remotely control the intermediate-high-voltage electron microscope in San Diego and the ultra- high-voltage electron microscope in Osaka.
iGrid 2002 The Netherlands and USA : Griz: Grid Visualization Over Optical Networks
Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
www.cs.vu.nl/~renambot/vr/html/intro.htm iGrid 2002 The Netherlands and USA Aura, a distributed parallel rendering toolkit, is used to remotely render data on available graphics resources (in Chicago and in Amsterdam) for local display at the iGrid conference. Aura is applied to real-world scientific problems; notably, the visualization of high-resolution isosurfaces of the Visible Human dataset and an interactive molecular dynamics simulation.
iGrid 2002 USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Sweden and UK : iGrid 2002 USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Sweden and UK High Performance Data Webs
Laboratory for Advanced Computing, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, University of London, UK
Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SARA, The Netherlands
Center for Parallel Computers, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden www.ncdm.uic.edu, www.dataspaceweb.net DataSpace is a high-performance data web for the remote analysis, mining, and real-time interaction of scientific, engineering, business, and other complex data. DataSpace applications are designed to exploit the capabilities of high-performance networks so that gigabyte and terabyte datasets can be remotely explored in real time.
iGrid 2002 Spain and USA : HDTV Transmission over IP
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Ovide Broadcast Services, Barcelona, Spain
ResearchChannel, Pacific Northwest GigaPoP, USA
iCAIR, Northwestern Univ., USA
Starmaze, Spain
www.i2cat.net, www.researchchannel.com, www.washington.edu, www.icair.org iGrid 2002 Spain and USA First transcontinental HDTV broadcast using “Year Gaudi 2002” footage:
UPC 1.5Gbps (HDSDI) compressed/transmitted at 270Mbps (SDTI) over IP
ResearchChannel uncompressed bi-directional HDTV/IP using prototype Tektronix hardware at 1.5Gbps, Sony HDCAM/IP at 270Mbps, MPEG-2 at 10 Mbps, VideoOnDemand at 5.6Mbps, and AudioOnDemand at 1.4Mbps
ICAIR is streaming 270Mbps over IP
iGrid 2002 Taiwan and Germany : Image Feature Extraction on a Grid Testbed
National Center for High Performance Computing, Taiwan
Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
High Performance Computing Center, Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart
http://motif.nchc.gov.tw/DataGrid iGrid 2002 Taiwan and Germany For medical imagery (confocal laser-scanning microscopes, CT, MRI and PET), NCHC does image processing, analysis and 3D reconstruction. For biotechnology imagery (e.g., microarray biochips), NCHC uses a data clustering procedure for feature extraction that provides insight into an image, such as identifying diseases caused by some protein. Grid techniques enable the use of distributed computing resources and shared data. High-speed networks enable fast processing; typical medical doctors want the procedure accomplished in 5 seconds for use in daily operations.
iGrid 2002 USA, Canada, France, Japan, The Netherlands. Singapore : iGrid 2002 USA, Canada, France, Japan, The Netherlands. Singapore Kites Flying In and Out of Space
Jacqueline Matisse-Monnier, Visting artist
NCSA, UIUC
Mountain Lake Workshop, Virginia Tech Fndn , USA
Virginia Tech, USA
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
EVL, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
SARA, The Netherlands
Sorbonne/La Cité Museum de Musique Paris, France
Tohwa University, Japan
Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
New Media Innovation Center, Canada
http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ART/MATISSE/ This virtual-reality art piece is a study of the physical properties of the flying kinetic artwork of Jacqueline Matisse-Monnier. One PC supports the simulation of one kite. For iGrid, distributed grid computing for the arts is demonstrated.
iGrid 2002 Germany and USA : iGrid 2002 Germany and USA www.cactuscode.org, www.griksl.org Network Intensive Grid Computing and Visualization Scientists run an astrophysics simulation at a USA supercomputing center and then computing detailed remote visualizations of the results. One part of the demo shows remote online visualization – as the simulation continues, each time step’s raw data is streamed from the USA to a Linux cluster in Amsterdam for parallel volume rendering. The other part demonstrates remote off-line visualization using grid technologies to access data on remote data servers, as well as new rendering techniques for network-adaptive visualizations. Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut/Golm, Germany
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik/Berlin, Germany
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, USA
iGrid 2002 USA : iGrid 2002 USA PAAPAB
Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, USA
Res Umbrae, USA
New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation, University at Buffalo, USA
http://resumbrae.com/projects/paapab, www.ccr.buffalo.edu/anstey/VR/PAAPAB, www.nyscedii.buffalo.edu PAAPAB (Pick An Avatar, Pick A Beat) is a shared virtual-reality disco environment inhabited by life-size puppets (user avatars). Users tour the dance floor to see the puppets they animate, dance with the puppets, and dance with avatars of other users. This research focuses on creating interactive drama in virtual reality; that is, immersive stories. PAAPAB serves as a testbed for technology development as well as character and world design.
iGrid 2002 USA and The Netherlands : iGrid 2002 USA and The Netherlands Photonic TeraStream
iCAIR, Northwestern University, USA
EVL, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Materials Sciences Research Center, Northwestern University, USA
Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Argonne National Laboratory, USA www.icair.org/igrid2002, www.uva.nl, www.icair.org/omninet The Photonic TeraStream, supported by OMNInet, demonstrates that photonic-enabled applications are possible. OMNInet is used to prototype tools for intelligent application signaling, dynamic lambda provisioning, and extensions to lightpaths through dynamically provisioned L2 and L3 configurations – to access edge resources. The goal is to develop “Global Services-on-Demand” technologies for optical networks, enabling scientists to find, gather, integrate, and present information –large-scale datasets, scientific visualizations, streaming digital media, computational results – from resources worldwide.
iGrid 2002 Japan : iGrid 2002 Japan TACC Quantum Chemistry Grid/Gaussian Portal
Grid Technology Research Center (GTRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
http://unit.aist.go.jp/grid/GSA/gaussian Gaussian code, used in computational chemistry, sometimes receives inadequate computational resources when run on large computers. The Tsukuba Advanced Computing Center (TACC) Gaussian Grid Portal efficiently utilizes costly computational resources without knowing the specifications of each system environment. It consists of a Web interface, meta-scheduler, computational resources, archival resources and Grid software.
iGrid 2002 USA : iGrid 2002 USA TeraScope: Visual Tera Mining
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA
National Center for Data Mining, UIC, USA www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/teranode/terascope, www.dataspaceweb.net TeraScope is a massively parallelized set of information visualization tools for Visual Data Mining that interactively queries and mines terabyte datasets, correlates the data, and then visualizes the data using parallelized rendering software on tiled displays. TeraScope’s main foci are to develop techniques to create TeraMaps (visualizations that summarize rather than plot enormous datasets) and to develop a distributed memory cache to collect pools of memory from optically connected clusters. These caches are used by TeraScope to bridge the impedance mismatch between large and slow distributed data stores and fast local memory.
iGrid 2002 USA : iGrid 2002 USA TeraVision: Visualization Streaming over Optical Networks
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/teranode/teravision TeraVision is a hardware-assisted, high-resolution graphics streaming system for the Access Grid, enabling anyone to deliver a presentation without installing software or distributing data files in advance.
A user giving a presentation on a laptop or showing output from a node of a graphics cluster plugs the VGA or DVI output of the computer into the TeraVision Box. The box captures the signal at its native resolution, and digitizes and broadcasts it to another networked TeraVision Box, which is connected to a PC and DLP projector. Two Boxes can be used to stream stereoscopic computer graphics. Multiple Boxes can be used for an entire tiled display.
iGrid 2002 USA and UK : iGrid 2002 USA and UK The Universe
NCSA, UIUC
University of California, San Diego
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Stephen Hawking Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK http://virdir.ncsa.uiuc.edu/virdir/virdir.html Virtual Director and related technologies enable multiple users to remotely collaborate in a shared, astrophysical virtual world. Users collaborate via video, audio and 3D avatar representations, and through discrete interactions with the data. Astrophysical scenes are rendered using several techniques, including an experimental renderer that creates time-series volume animations using pre-sorted points and billboard splats, allowing visualizations of very large datasets in real-time.
iGrid 2002 USA, France, Germany and Italy : iGrid 2002 USA, France, Germany and Italy Video IBPster
Logistical Computing and Internetworking (LoCI) Lab, University of Tennessee, USA
Innovative Computing Lab, Univ. Tennessee, USA
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
University of California, San Diego, USA
ENS, Lyon, France
Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
High Performance Computing Center, Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart, Germany
http://loci.cs.utk.edu, http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu Logistical Networking is the global scheduling and optimization of data movement, storage and computation. LoCI develops tools for fast data transfer, such as the Data Mover, using as much bandwidth as is available. At iGrid, a geographically distributed abstraction of a file is replicated, transported to depots that are closer according to network proximity values, and downloaded from the nearest site in a completely transparent way.
iGrid 2002 The Netherlands : iGrid 2002 The Netherlands Virtual Laboratory on a National Scale
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.vl-e.nl/VLAM-G/ This demonstration of upper middleware complements Grid services, enabling scientists to easily extract information from raw datasets utilizing multiple computing resources.
The Virtual Laboratory develops a formal series of steps, or process flow, to solve a particular problem (data analysis, visualization, etc.) in a particular application domain. Various clusters (DAS-2) are assigned parts of the problem (retrieval, analysis, visualization, etc.)
iGrid 2002 Greece and USA : iGrid 2002 Greece and USA Virtual Visit to the Site of Ancient Olympia
Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW), Greece
University of Macedonia, Greece
Greek Research & Technology Network
EVL, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
www.fhw.gr/fhw/en/projects, www.fhw.gr/fhw/en/projects/3dvr/templezeus.html, www.grnet.gr/grnet2/index_en.htm In preparation for the 2004 Olympic Games hosted by Greece, the FHW, a cultural heritage institution based in Athens, is developing an accurate 3D reconstruction of the site of Olympia as it used to be in antiquity. if access to a high-performance network were available, the FHW’s museum could serve as a centre of excellence, delivering educational and heritage content to a number of sites worldwide. One of the most important monuments of the site is the Temple of Zeus, which houses the famous statue of Zeus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world of which nothing remains today.
iGrid 2002 The Netherlands, Finland, UK and USA : vlbiGrid
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, The Netherlands
Metsahovi Radio Observatory, Finland
Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, UK
Haystack Observatory, MIT, USA
University of Manchester UK
University College London, UK
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.jive.nl, www.jb.man.ac.uk, www.haystack.edu iGrid 2002 The Netherlands, Finland, UK and USA Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in which an array of physically independent radio telescopes observes simultaneously to yield high-resolution images of cosmic radio sources. The European VLBI Network (EVN) has access to multiple data sources that can deliver 1Gbps each and a data processor that can process 16 data streams simultaneously. High-speed networks would enable the EVN to achieve many-fold improvements in bandwidth.
iGrid 2002 …in addition, SURFnet Streaming Video Documentary!!! : iGrid 2002 …in addition, SURFnet Streaming Video Documentary!!! iGrid 2002 to be streamed live on the Internet!
http://www.igrid2002.org/webcast.html Live streams. SURFnet is streaming live conference plenary sessions and demonstration material over the Internet using Real Surestream, IP multicast H.261, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2.
Documentary. SURFnet is making a documentary of iGrid 2002 demonstrations.
On-demand video. After the conference, all video, both plenary sessions and documentary, will be available for on-demand viewing through the iGrid 2002 website and the SURFnet A/V streaming service.
Acknowledgments Organizing Institutions : Acknowledgments Organizing Institutions The Netherlands:
Amsterdam Science & Technology Centre
GigaPort Project
SARA Computing and Networking Services
SURFnet
Universiteit van Amsterdam/ Science Faculty
United States of America:
Argonne National Laboratory/ Mathematics and Computer Science Division Indiana University/ Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
Northwestern University/ International Center for Advanced Internet Research
University of Illinois at Chicago/ Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Acknowledgments Participating Organizations : Acknowledgments Participating Organizations CANARIE
Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF)
Global Grid Forum
Globus Project
GRIDS Center
National Lab for Applied Network Research, Distributed Applications Support Team (NLANR/DAST)
Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA)
TERENA
UCAID/Internet2
University of California, San Diego/ California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2]
Acknowledgments Sponsors : Acknowledgments Sponsors Amsterdam Internet Exchange
Amsterdam Science & Technology Centre
Cisco Systems, Inc.
City of Amsterdam
GEOgraphic Network Affiliates–International
GigaPort Project
Glimmerglass Networks
HP
IBM
Juniper Networks
Level 3 Communications, Inc.
National Computer Facilities (NWO/NCF), NL
National Science Foundation, USA
Royal Philips Electronics
SARA Computing and Networking Services
Stichting FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter
Stichting HEF
Stichting SURF
SURFnet
Tyco Telecommunications
Unilever NV
Universiteit van Amsterdam
For More Information : For More Information University of Illinois at Chicago
Maxine Brown, maxine@uic.edu
Tom DeFanti, tom@uic.edu
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Cees de Laat, delaat@science.uva.nl