i2-news - I2-NEWS: Next Generation Internet Protocol Marks Shattered in Internet2 Land Speed Record Competition

Subject: News for and about the Internet2 community

List archive

I2-NEWS: Next Generation Internet Protocol Marks Shattered in Internet2 Land Speed Record Competition

From: Greg Wood <>
To:
Subject: I2-NEWS: Next Generation Internet Protocol Marks Shattered in Internet2 Land Speed Record Competition
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:28:50 -0400
Organization: Internet2

NEXT GENERATION INTERNET PROTOCOL MARKS SHATTERED IN INTERNET2 LAND
SPEED RECORD COMPETITION

IPv6 Single and Multi-Stream Categories Near One Gigabit per Second

WASHINGTON, DC – An international team set new Internet2 Land Speed
Records using next generation Internet Protocols (IPv6) by achieving 983
megabits-per-second with a single IPv6 stream for more than an hour
across a distance of 7,067 kilometers (more than 4,000 miles) from
Geneva, Switzerland to Chicago, Ill. The record is comparative to
transferring the equivalent of approximately one feature-length
DVD-quality movie every 36 seconds, or more than 3,500 times faster than
the typical home broadband connection.

The record setting team consisted of members from the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN. The new records were set
through the efforts of the DataTAG project and CERN using a standard
Linux TCP implementation demonstrating the broad possibilities of
today’s high-performance networks. Major sponsorships came through the
support of the European Union, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the
Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois in Chicago
and the U.S. Department of Energy through Caltech.

"This record demonstrates the ability of IPv6 to support gigabit per
second class speeds over intercontinental network links," said Olivier
Herve Martin, Head of External Networking at CERN and Manager of the
European Union DataTAG project. "The record further proves that real
science data can be transported around the globe in a timely manner and
underscores that we are reaching network performance enabled
international scientific collaboration."

Harvey Newman, Professor of Physics at Caltech and U.S. Compact Muon
Solenoid Collaboration Board Chair added, "The efficient use of long
distance networks at gigabit per second speeds is critical to the future
of the high energy and nuclear physics community. This demonstration of
gigabit per second transfers over intercontinental distances using IPv6
marks an important milestone in the development of our facilities and
protocols needed to support the data analysis needs and the mission of
emerging experimental programs in high energy physics."

"Matching efforts in the global academic community, the Internet2
community in the United States is actively deploying IPv6 on campus,
regional and national backbone networks," said Guy Almes, Chief Engineer
for Internet2. "This new record shows that IPv6, crucial to the
Internet’s continued scalable growth and innovation, also supports the
stringent high-performance networking requirements of research and
education."

The Internet2 Land Speed Record is an open and ongoing competition.
Details of the winning entries, complete rules, submission guidelines
and additional details are available at: http://lsr.internet2.edu.

Caltech and CERN also hold the current Internet2 Land Speed Record in
the IPv4 class, in collaboration with the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center (SLAC) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The team
transferred one terabyte of data across 10,037 kilometers (more than
6,000 miles) in less than one hour, from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Geneva,
Switzerland. This corresponds to a sustained TCP rate of 2.38 gigabits
per second for more than one hour.

About CERN and DataTAG
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has its
headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of
America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have observer status.

The DataTAG is a project co-funded by the European Union, the U.S.
Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation. It is led by
CERN together with four other partners. The project brings together the
following European leading research agencies: Italy’s Instituto
Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), France’s Institut National de
Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), the UK’s Particle
Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), and Holland’s University
of Amsterdam (UvA). The DataTAG project is very closely associated with
the European Union DataGrid project, the largest grid project in Europe
also led by CERN. For more information, visit http://www.datatag.org.

About Caltech
With an outstanding faculty, including four 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 1,000 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. For
more information about Caltech, visit: http://www.caltech.edu.

About Internet2(R)
Led by over 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and government,
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and
technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the
creation of tomorrow’s Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnerships
among academia, industry, and government that helped foster today’s
Internet in its infancy. For more information about Internet2, visit:
http://www.internet2.edu/

# # #

Contacts:
Michelle Pollak, Internet2

(202) 331-5345

Olivier Herve Martin, CERN

Harvey B. Newman, High Energy Physics Department, Caltech

(626) 395-6656

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news-+
For list utilities, archives, subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. please visit the
ListProc web interface at
http://archives.internet2.edu/

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news--
From LP-APPROVED-BY-MODERATOR
Return-Path:
<>
Delivered-To:

Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by basie.internet2.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CC97B4F9
for
<>;
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:11:08 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from internet-he8b52.internet2.edu (aa103.internet2.edu
[207.75.164.103])
by basie.internet2.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A81877B500
for
<>;
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:11:06 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id:
<>
X-Sender:

X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:08:11 -0400
To:

From: Kathleen Young
<>
Subject: Sign-Up Now! Joint Techs Workshop: August 3-7 Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="=====================_2078538==_.ALT"
X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8
Message-Tag: 3265
Reply-To:

Sender:

X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN

--=====================_2078538==_.ALT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

Registration for the Joint Techs Workshop in Lawrence, Kansas is now open. Hosted by the University of Kansas, the Workshop runs from Sunday, August 3 through Thursday, August 7. The focus will be network tuning and performance monitoring, optical networking, and security. A panel on high-speed transport protocols is scheduled for Tuesday. In addition, an in-depth session on distributed denial of service will span Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning; see the meeting page (paragraph 2) for the abstract. Several Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions are already in the wings. To organize a BoF, please contact Janet Brown (), Paul Love (), or Bill Wing (). For registration, hotel, and agenda information, please see:
http://www.ncne.org/training/techs/2003/0803/jt-lawrence.html

************************************************************************************************
Kathleen Ann Young
Technology Writer
Internet2 Member Activities, Suite 100
Phone: (734) 913-4297
Cellular: (734) 730-9240
Fax: (734) 995-1061
Hours: Monday--Wednesday & Friday: 8:00 am-2:30 pm E.S.T.
Thursday: 8:00 am-5:00 pm E.S.T.

--=====================_2078538==_.ALT
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<html>
Registration for the Joint
Techs Workshop in Lawrence, Kansas is now open. Hosted by the University
of Kansas, the Workshop runs from Sunday, August 3 through Thursday,
August 7. The focus will be network tuning and performance monitoring,
optical networking, and security. A panel on high-speed transport
protocols is scheduled for Tuesday. In addition, an in-depth session on
distributed denial of service will span Wednesday afternoon and Thursday
morning; see the meeting page (paragraph 2) for the abstract. Several
Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions are already in the wings. To organize a
BoF, please contact Janet Brown
(),
Paul Love
(),
or Bill Wing
().
For registration, hotel, and agenda information, please see: 
<=
a href=3D"http://www.ncne.org/training/techs/2003/0803/jt-lawrence.html"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.ncne.org/training/techs/2003/0803/jt-lawrence=
.html 
 
</a><x-sigsep></x-sigsep>
****************************************************************************=
******************** 
Kathleen Ann Young 
Technology Writer 
Internet2 Member Activities, Suite 100 
Phone:  (734) 913-4297 
Cellular: (734) 730-9240 
Fax:<x-tab>    </x-tab>   (734)
995-1061 
Hours:   Monday--Wednesday & Friday: 8:00 am-2:30 pm
E.S.T. 
<x-tab>        </x-tab>  
Thursday: 8:00 am-5:00 pm E.S.T. 
</html>

--=====================_2078538==_.ALT--

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news-+
For list utilities, archives, subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. please visit the
ListProc web interface at
http://archives.internet2.edu/

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news--
From LP-APPROVED-BY-MODERATOR
Return-Path:
<>
Delivered-To:

Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by basie.internet2.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D821D7B4DF
for
<>;
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:17:11 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from epscor2.phys.lsu.edu (epscor2.phys.lsu.edu [130.39.183.113])
by basie.internet2.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1C17B4DE
for
<>;
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:17:10 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from [10.0.1.2] (syr-24-59-82-1.twcny.rr.com [24.59.82.1])
by epscor2.phys.lsu.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id h5UJG7T06495
for
<>;
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:16:08 -0500 (CDT)
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Sender:

Message-Id:
<f04310105bb263c0cf004@[10.0.1.2]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:16:48 -0400
To:

From: Mary Fran Yafchak
<>
Subject: 2nd NMI Testbed Workshop on Middleware Deployment
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8
Message-Tag: 3270
Reply-To:

Sender:

X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN

The second NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) Integration Testbed results workshop, "Experiences in Middleware Deployment", will be held on Monday, November 3, 2003, preceding the EDUCAUSE annual conference.

Middleware deployment and integration with existing applications and information systems can be a daunting task for any organization. The challenges involved are often as much cultural and political as they are technical. Fortunately, while specific deployment directions and timelines may vary, there are many common problems and common solutions for those in the throes of deployment. Topics covered include:

- enterprise-wide identity and directory services case studies
- directory-enabled applications deployment and management
- campus and research grid roll-out strategies

The NMI Integration Testbed (http://www.nsf-middleware.org/testbed) sites have been actively involved in middleware integration at their institutions and have been focused since June 2002 on evaluating the utility and feasibility of this integration into key research and education activities. Throughout this process, they have learned much about what to do, what not to do, and what to expect when deploying middleware. Campuses presenting include:

* The University of Alabama at Birmingham
* The University of Florida
* Georgia State University
* The University of Virginia
* The University of Southern California

The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PDT on Monday, November 3, 2003, preceding the EDUCAUSE annual conference (http://www.educause.edu/conference/annual/2003). Though the event is located in close proximity to the EDUCAUSE conference, separate registration and logistics apply.

** There is no charge to attend this NMI Integration Testbed workshop but registration is limited and will close October 17, 2003. **

Ongoing details for this workshop will be available at:
http://www.nsf-middleware.org/testbed/meetings/workshop1103/1103agenda.html

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news-+
For list utilities, archives, subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. please visit the
ListProc web interface at
http://archives.internet2.edu/

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news--

I2-NEWS: Next Generation Internet Protocol Marks Shattered in Internet2 Land Speed Record Competition, Greg Wood, 06/26/2003

List archive

I2-NEWS: Next Generation Internet Protocol Marks Shattered in Internet2 Land Speed Record Competition