Florida LambdaRail Joins Forces with CiscoWave
and UltraLight/PLaNetS
to enable the AtlanticWave and Brazil’s CMS Tier2
facilities to
participate in Super Computing 2008
November 18, 2008,
Austin, TX, – Florida
LambdaRail (FLR) joined
forces with CiscoWave (C-Wave), UltraLight/PLaNetS and
AtlanticWave (A-
Wave) for the Super Computing 2008 event to enable Brazil’s
CMS
distributed Tier2 facility to participate in the bandwidth
challenge
competition. The CiscoWave made it possible for A-Wave
and its
connectors from Brazil - the Academic Network of São
Paulo (ANSP), the
national research and education network of Brazil (RNP),
the
SouthernLight GOLE in São Paulo and the Tier2
facilities in São Paulo
(SPRACE) and the Tier2 facility in Rio de Janeiro (HEPGRID)
- to
access the Super Computing 2008 (SC08) venue in Austin,
Texas.
CiscoWave is a project developed in partnership with
National
LambdaRail (NLR), its regional members, Cisco and the
broader R&E
community. The project helps to promote and enable collaborative
projects within the R&E community, including experimental
networking
research, development and testing of innovative network
services, and
early deployment of advanced applications.
A-Wave interconnected with the C-Wave in Jacksonville,
Florida,
through a 10 Gigabit lambda from Miami to Jacksonville
over FLR's
optical backbone combined with a temporary 10 Gigabit
Ethernet
connection on the UltraLight/PLaNetS project switch of
the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech). C-Wave provided a
layer2 service
from Jacksonville to Austin, Texas by which A-Wave accessed
the SC08
show floor, and then extended the layer2 services to
Brazil, using the
WHREN-LILA project international research network connection
link,
which is connected to the Brazilian research networks
ANSP and RNP
through the SouthernLight GOLE in São Paulo.
Brazil has emerged as a significant member of the Compact
Muon
Solenoid (CMS) high-energy physics experiment at CERN – the
European
Organization for Nuclear Research. Key resources that
have
contributed to this achievement have been the Western
Hemisphere
Research and Education Networks – Links Interconnecting
Latin America
(WHREN-LILA) and the A-Wave projects. WHREN-LILA and
A-Wave, for the
past four years, have been enhancing U.S-Latin American
science
collaborations for the CMS Tier2s of Brazil, and in general
for the
science research and education collaborations between
the U.S. and
Latin America, through a high-performance communications
network
connection between Miami, Florida and São Paulo,
Brazil.
AMPATH, in Miami, Florida, an A-Wave exchange point
and the
international exchange point connecting the U.S. to Latin
America, is
collaborating with Cisco and FLR to establish a more
permanent
connection to the C-Wave at AMPATH, around the January
2009
timeframe. The C-Wave program is aiming to enhance network
research
and enable prototype application experimentation activities
between
the U.S. and the emerging NRENs of Latin America. Domain
researchers
in Latin America will be able to access research universities
and
laboratories in the US, events like SuperComputing, and
eventually
will be able to access labs within Cisco to participate
in network-
enabled collaborative science research and education.
About AMPATH: Florida International
University’s
Center for Internet
Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) has developed
an
international, high-performance research connection point
in Miami,
Florida, called AMPATH (AMericasPATH; www.ampath.fiu.edu).
AMPATH
extends participation to underrepresented groups in Latin
America and
the Caribbean, in science and engineering research and
education
activities through the use of high-performance network
connections.
AMPATH is home to the WHREN-LILA high-performance network
link
connecting Latin America to the U.S., funded by the National
Science
Foundation (NSF), award #0441095 and the Academic Network
of Sao Paulo
(award #2003/13708-0).
About AtlanticWave: AtlanticWave provides research and
education
network exchange and peering services for multiple advanced
networks
that interconnect at key exchange points along the Atlantic
Coast of
North and South America. AtlanticWave was proposed as
an integral
component of the successful Western-Hemisphere Research
and Education
Networks – Links Interconnecting Latin America
(WHREN-LILA) proposal
submitted to the National Science Foundation International
Research
Network Connections (IRNC) program by Florida International
University
(FIU). AtlanticWave is collaboration between the Southeastern
Universities Research Association (SURA), FIU-AMPATH,
Florida
LambdaRail, Southern Crossroads (SoX)/Southern Light
Rail (SLR), Mid-
Atlantic Crossroads (MAX), and Internet2/MANLAN.
About Caltech: With an outstanding faculty, including
five Nobel
laureates, and such off-campus facilities as the Jet
Propulsion
Laboratory, Palomar Observatory, and the W. M. Keck Observatory,
the
California Institute of Technology is one of the world's
major
research centers. The Institute also conducts instruction
in science
and engineering for a student body of approximately 900
undergraduates
and 1,300 graduate students who maintain a high level
of scholarship
and intellectual achievement. Caltech's 124-acre campus
is situated in
Pasadena, California, a city of 135,000 at the foot of
the San Gabriel
Mountains, approximately 30 miles inland from the Pacific
Ocean and 10
miles northeast of the Los Angeles Civic Center. Caltech
is an
independent, privately supported university, and is not
affiliated
with either the University of California system or the
California
State Polytechnic universities. http://www.caltech.edu.
About Florida International University: FIU, Miami's
public research
university, educates 38,000 students on campuses throughout
South
Florida and Latin America, has 1,000+ full-time faculty
and 130,000
alumni. FIU is one of the 25 largest universities in
the nation, based
on enrollment. FIU is the youngest university to have
been awarded a
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest
and most distinguished
academic honor society. FIU delivers high-quality education
and
training, conducts and promotes research to enhance Florida's
role as
a leader in telecommunications and information technology,
offers
training necessary to fostering business development
and workforce
preparedness and promotes technology transfer to enhance
enabling
technologies for the telecommunications and information
technology
industries. More information about FIU can be found at
www.fiu.edu .
About Florida LambdaRail: Florida LambdaRail LLC (FLR)
is a Florida
limited liability company formed by member higher education
institutions to advance optical research and education
networking
within Florida. Florida LambdaRail is a high-bandwidth
optical network
that links Florida's research institutions and provides
a next-
generation network in support of large-scale research,
education
outreach, public/private partnerships, and information
technology
infrastructure essential to Florida's economic development.
For more
information: http://www.flrnet.org
About National LambdaRail: National LambdaRail (NLR)
is a major
initiative of U.S. research universities and private
sector technology
companies to provide a national scale infrastructure
for research and
experimentation in networking technologies and applications.
NLR puts
the control, the power, and the promise of experimental
network
infrastructure in the hands of the nation's scientists
and
researchers. Visit http://www.nlr.net for more information.
About WHREN-LILA: The Western-Hemisphere Research and
Education
Networks – Links Interconnecting Latin America
(WHREN-LILA) increases
the rate of discovery and enhances science research and
education
across the Americas through the creation of a distributed
exchange
infrastructure to provide a hybrid of network services
to support
discipline-specific and general-purpose high-performance
distributed-
computing and networking services over wide geographical
distances.
WHREN-LILA is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation,
award
#OCI-0441095, and is supported through the Academic Network
of Sao
Paulo, project #04/14414-2.
About the Academic Network of
Sao Paulo (ANSP): ANSP unites São
Paulo's University networks with Scientific and Technological
Research
Centers in São Paulo, and is managed by the State
of São Paulo
Research Foundation (FAPESP). The ANSP Network is another
example of
international collaboration and exploration. Through
its connection to
WHREN-LILA, all of the institutions connected to ANSP
will be involved
in research with U.S. universities and research centers,
offering
significant contributions and the potential to develop
new
applications and services. This connectivity with WHREN-LILA
and ANSP
will allow researchers to enhance the quality of current
data,
inevitably increasing the quality of new scientific developments.
http://www.ansp.br
.
About RNP: RNP, the National Education and Research
Network of Brazil,
is a not-for-profit company that promotes the innovative
use of
advanced networking, with the joint support of the Ministry
of Science
and Technology and the Ministry of Education. In the
early 1990s, RNP
was responsible for the introduction and adoption of
Internet
technology in Brazil. Today, RNP operates a nationally
deployed multi-
gigabit network used for collaboration and communication
in research
and education throughout the country, reaching all 26
states and the
Federal District, and provides both commodity and advanced
research
Internet connectivity to more than 300 universities,
research centers,
and technical schools. http://www.rnp.br
About SouthernLight (SoL): SouthernLight is the GOLE
(GLIF Open
Lightpath Exchange) in São Paulo, Brazil, fruit
of collaboration
between ANSP and RNP, and is responsible for providing
end to end
circuits between Brazilian scientific institutions and
their
international collaborators. Currently, international
connectivity of
SouthernLight is provided by the WHREN-LILA link to the
GOLE located
at AMPATH. See http://wiki.glif.is/index.php/SouthernLight.
About UNESP (São Paulo):
Created in 1976 with the administrative union
of several isolated Institutes of higher education in
the State of São
Paulo, the São Paulo State University, UNESP,
has 39 institutes in 23
different cities in the State of São Paulo. The
university has 33,500
undergraduate students in 168 different courses and almost
13,000
graduate students. Since 1999 the university has had
a group
participating in the DZero Collaboration of Fermilab,
which is
operating the São Paulo Regional Analysis Center
(SPRACE). This group
is now a member of CMS Collaboration of CERN. See http://www.unesp.br.
About UERJ (Rio de Janeiro): Founded in 1950, the Rio
de Janeiro State
University (UERJ; www.uerj.br) ranks among the ten largest
universities in Brazil, with more than 23,000 students.
UERJ's five
campuses are home to 22 libraries, 412 classrooms, 50
lecture halls
and auditoriums, and 205 laboratories. UERJ is responsible
for
important public welfare and health projects through
its centers of
medical excellence, the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital
(HUPE) and
the Piquet Carneiro Day-care Policlinic Centre, and it
is committed to
the preservation of the environment. The UERJ High Energy
Physics
group includes 15 faculty, postdoctoral, and visiting
Ph.D. physicists
and 12 Ph.D. and master's students, working on experiments
at Fermilab
(D0) and CERN (CMS). The group has constructed a Tier2
center to
enable it to take part in the Grid-based data analysis
planned for the
LHC, and has originated the concept of a Brazilian "HEP
Grid," working
in cooperation with USP and several other universities
in Rio and São
Paulo.
Media contact:
Omaida Hennessey
Florida International University
hennesse@fiu.edu
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