iGrid, the biennial International Grid event, concentrates on visualizing what Grid can do. A Virtual Laboratory with a 10 GigE circuit between Seattle and Amsterdam was demonstrated. The Pacific Northwest Gigapop and the University of Washington’s Research Channel sent uncompressed HDTV over IP halfway around the world.
IEEAF’s “Global Quilt” includes member institutions like the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) represented by California State University at Hayward, California Politechnic University at San Luis Obispo, and University of Southern California), the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (represented by University of Washington), the Pacific Internet2 Coalition (represented by University of Hawaii), the University of Maryland, the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), Indiana University, and Geographic Network Affilites, Inc (GEO).
The National Center for Data Mining and their Terra Wide Data Mining Testbed explores remote analysis and distributed mining on terabyte data bases. The Data Mining Group (DMG) is an independent, vendor led group which develops data mining standards, such as the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML). Can you say future crime?
Internet2, led by 200 U.S. universities, is developing advanced network technologies with partnerships among academia, industry, and government.
The TeraGrid will include 13.6 teraflops of Linux Cluster computing power distributed at the four TeraGrid sites, capable of managing and storing more than 450 terabytes of data. It will be connected through a 40 Gbps network, which will become a 50 to 80 Gbps network or 16 times faster than today’s fastest research network. It will be used for National Science Foundation-sponsored projects and commercial applications.
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