Geneva 9 October 2003
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,
is teaming up with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
and the University of Geneva in demonstrating technology of the future
on the Lake Geneva Region stand at Telecom World 2003.
From the Web to the Grid
The World Wide Web was invented at CERN to help scientists around the world
to communicate. Now CERN is in the vanguard of a new computing technology
called the Grid. Where the Web used the Internet to revolutionise information
sharing, the Grid is set to do the same for sharing computing resources for
data analysis and problem solving in a wide range of scientific applications,
from earth observation to bio-medicine. A "Grid café" portal at Telecom will
introduce this new concept for global computing.
Frontier telecommunications technology
For two decades CERN has pushed telecommunications technology to its limits
in order to run its machines and experiments and to distribute data. The laboratory
has a track record of showing innovative techniques at Telecom five years in advance
of their use in more general applications. The aim at ITU Telecom World 2003 is to
show leading developments for the future. At the exhibition CERN will highlight
advances in networking through optical fibres in various demonstrations, including:
- A new land speed long-range data transmission record, hoping to more than
double the existing record of 2.38 gigabit/second
- High-speed, high quality videoconferencing over IP
- Live transmission between ITU Telecom World 2003 and the
Internet 2 conference in Indianapolis
- Further high-speed demonstrations including new communications protocols
Activities on the stand:
- Land Speed Record
- CERN & Caltech will demonstrate multi-Gigabit/second file transfers
between Palexpo and Chicago with a possible extension to Los Angeles.
The main purpose is to establish new land speed records, breaking the
existing record of 2.38 Gb/s by a factor two at least, and also to
demonstrate alternative transport protocols such as FAST, Grid DT,
Scalable TCP and high speed TCP.
- Joint sessions with Internet2 fall member meeting in Indianapolis
- Wednesday, 15th October (14:30 – 16:00) : Direct participation in the
Performance Engineering session. Thursday 16th October (13:00 - 14:30):
Panel discussion with Doug van Houweling, CEO of Internet2/UCAID in the US,
and participants at Palexpo. Award Ceremony for the Internet2 Landspeed
Record (17:00).
- Advanced Photonic Networking
- This demo between Northwestern University and CERN will also showcase
SABUL/VDT as an alternative to traditional TCP-based transport solutions
(Monday, Tuesday).
- VRVS (Virtual Room Videoconferencing System)
[will be used by all of the above demos]
- VRVS is a high quality videoconferencing system than runs over IP
networks. It features flexible and immediate availability for conference
scheduling through the virtual rooms function. VRVS will also be demonstrated
separately on Thursday and Friday with active participation from several
sites worldwide.
- MONALISA
- A scalable dynamic realtime global monitoring system, developed by
Caltech, will be used to visualize the high speed trans-Atlantic data
traffic.
- Demonstration of the GRID for Physics Analysis
- Grid analysis demo between Caltech, CERN, KEK (Japan), Sinica (Taiwan),
NUST (Pakistan), UERJ (Rio de Janeiro), PUB (Bucharest).
- 10 Gigabit/second Trans-Atlantic Communications Testbed
- On behalf of the EU DataTAG Project, the 10 Gb/s trans-Atlantic testbed
will be physically extended to Palexpo. Thanks to various sponsors this
extended testbed should be the largest distributed 10 Gigabit Ethernet
deployment demonstrated so far.
- 10 Gigabit per second Ethernet to Canada
- Demonstrations of 10 Gigabit Ethernet between CERN and Canada on
another 10 Gb/s path through Amsterdam and Chicago will also be attempted.
These demos should nicely complement the Caltech, CERN, Northwestern
University demos.
PR14.03
09.10.2003