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[Greg Wood <>]

SCINET 2003 BANDWIDTH CHALLENGE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Notification Deadline 18 July 2003

Continuing the tradition started at SC2000, SCinet and Qwest 
Communications are sponsoring the Fourth Annual High Performance 
Bandwidth Challenge. For the Bandwidth Challenge, applicants from 
science and engineering research communities across the globe will use 
the unique SCinet infrastructure to demonstrate emerging techniques or 
applications, many of which consume enormous amounts of network resources.

At SC2002 in Baltimore, MD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
captured the competition for the "Highest Performing Application" with a 
wide area distributed simulation using Cactus, Globus and Visapult 
software that demonstrated a peak data transfer rate of 16.8 gigabits 
per second, nearly 300,000 times faster than a Internet user with a 
typical 56K connection.

For SC2003, to be held in Phoenix, AZ November 15-20, 2003, applicants 
are challenged to significantly stress the SCinet network infrastructure 
while delivering innovative application value across the multiple 
research networks that connect to SCinet. For 2003, SCinet anticipates 
delivery of as many as four OC-192c wide area network interconnects to 
the Phoenix Convention Center. To support Bandwidth Challenge 
contestants, SCinet facilitates access to the networks, provides 
technical support to applicants, and makes arrangements for equipment 
and floor and rack space to applicants with demonstrable needs.

Potential Contestants Must Submit Notification of Intent to Participate 
by July 18, 2003.

Upon receipt of this notification of intent, SCinet will contact 
contestants with instructions on the content and format of the formal 
proposal. Full proposals must be received by August 8 to be included in 
the Conference Final Program.

The judging criteria for 2003 have been expanded to include:

1. Measurement of sustained TCP utilization

2. Quality of IPv6 implementation

3. Innovative features of non-stock TCP implementations

4. Applicability to the real world

5. Efficiency and effectiveness of multi-continent implementations

6. Improvement over previously demonstrated method

7. Quality of first time demonstrations

Qwest Communications is sponsoring the award of one or more monetary 
prizes for the applications that make the most effective and/or 
courageous use of SCinet resources. The primary measure of performance 
will be the verifiable network throughput as measured from the 
contestant's equipment through the SCinet switches and routers to 
external connections.

Details are available at:
http://scinet.supercomp.org/2003/ExhibitorKit/EK-BWC.html

For more information, please send email to:

Kevin Walsh, SDSC
.

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