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["Michelle Pollak" <>]

INTERNET2 END-TO-END PERFORMANCE INITIATIVE TACKLES CRITICAL PERFORMANCE 
MEASUREMENT INTEROPERABILITY IN CLOSE COOPERATION WITH
EUROPE AND CANADA

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 17, 2004 - Internet2(R) today announced that the 
Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative Performance
Environment System (E2E piPEs), in close cooperation with DataTAG and GEANT 
in Europe and CANARIE in Canada, is tackling critical
performance measurement issues that face the greater Internet community.  One 
such step to address these issues is to work towards
the interoperability between the E2E piPEs project, the National Science 
Foundation supported National Laboratory for Applied
Research (NLANR) Advisor project, and the High Energy Nuclear Physics 
MonALISA (MONitoring Agents using a Large Integrated clientS
Architecture) project.

The transatlantic e2e performance measurement interoperability demonstration 
was successfully conducted at the First International
Grid Networking Workshop (GNEW 2004) and the Transatlantic Performance 
Monitoring Workshop both at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.  The
demonstration focused on moving data packets across the IP- routed 
infrastructure and a next-generation hybrid optical-packet
network, and measuring the performance of this packet transfer over three 
separate transatlantic, bi-directional paths between Los
Angeles, Calif. and Geneva.

"We were pleased to build on Internet2's long-time partnerships with the 
Canadian and European advanced networking communities to
make this demonstration a success," said Cheryl Munn-Fremon, director of 
Internet2's End-to-End Performance Initiative.  "This
demonstration highlights the degree of collaborative work going on with our 
partners to deploy, on an international basis, an
end-to-end performance measurement and monitoring infrastructure critical to 
supporting the use of high-performance networks by
global science communities."

"CERN together with the DataTAG project was very pleased to organize the GNEW 
2004 workshop with DANTE, Esnet, Internet2 and Terena,
and to host this important event at CERN.  Deployment of a proper, 
interoperable, end-to-end performance measurement infrastructure
spanning continents as well as multiple administrative domain boundaries and 
backbone networks is key to the successful
implementation of a worldwide Grid infrastructure," said Olivier Herve 
Martin, head of External Networking at CERN and manager of
the European Union DataTAG project.  "CERN, together with its LHC (Large 
Hadron Collider) partners around the world, is deploying
the LCG (LHC Computing Grid) and will need sophisticated networking tools to 
assure the service we will provide to physicists
worldwide."

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About Internet2(R)
Led by more than 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/.

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.

Contact:
Michelle Pollak
Internet2
(202) 285-4590 - mobile