Partners

To become a Teraflow Testbed Partner, please send email to staff@teraflowtestbed.net.

Some of the current partners and their projects are listed below.

StarLight

The networking infrastructure for the Teraflow Testbed is provided by StarLight and its partners.

StarLight is a 1GigE and 10GigE switch/router facility for high-performance access to participating networks, and a true optical switching facility for wavelengths. Since summer 2001, StarLight management and engineering has been working with the international academic and commercial communities to create a proving ground in support of grid-intensive e-Science applications, network performance measurement and analysis, and computing and networking technology evaluations.

StarLight is being developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR) at Northwestern University, and the Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS) at Argonne National Laboratory, in partnership with Canada's CANARIE and the Netherlands' SURFnet.

Funding for StarLight comes from the National Science Foundation (Award #SCI-0229642).

International Center for Advanced Internet Research

The International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR) at Northwestern University is focused on developing digital communications for the 21st Century. The Center, which was created in partnership with a number of major high tech corporations, focuses on large scale next-generation communications infrastructure, networks, and applications (metro, regional, national, and international). The Center also undertakes public policy projects related to large-scale communications infrastructure.

The Photonic Data Services initiative is a joint initiative between the Laboratory of Advanced Computing (LAC) and the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR) at Northwestern University.

This research project is creating and experimentally investigating novel methods for managing extremely large scale, high performance, global flows of digital information. Multiple emerging data intensive applications require specialized management of extremely large volumes of such digital information. Traditional data communications infrastructure and services were not designed and implemented to support these information flows, either locally or world-wide. Consequently, there are numerous restrictions on capabilities for creating and provisioning of many required data intensive applications. For example, most implementations have been optimized for modest levels of data transit consisting of large numbers of microflows and cannot support large scale flows.

The Photonic Data Services initiative was established to design, create, and experimentally investigate new protocols, methods and technologies required to support data-intensive applications whose requirements far exceed the capabilities of traditional types of communication systems. These novel methods include closely integrating advanced layer 3 protocols and services with layer 2 and layer 1 services, based on dynamic lightpath switching supported by advanced optical control planes and leading edge photonic technologies.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Transfer Partners

United States

Robert Brunner and Michelle Butler

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Peter Arzberger

San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)

With Reagan Moore, Chaitan Baru et al.

John Good

California Institute of Technology

International

Pacific Rim

Sadanori Okamura

Japan, University of Tokyo

Naoki Yasuda

Japan, University of Tokyo

Chenzhou Cui

China, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Acadamey of Sciences

Changbom Park

Korea, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

Jongsoo Kim

Korea, Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute

Bongkyu Kim

Korea, Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute

Il-Sun Hwang

Korea, Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information

David Barnes

Australia, University of Melbourne

Central Asia

Ajit Kembhavi

India, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)

Europe

Istvan Csabai

Hungary, Institute of Physics, Eötvös University

South America

Claudia Mendes de Olivera

Brazil, University of Sao Paulo