SC 2006
November 11-17, 2006
Tampa Convention Center
Tampa, Florida
Internet2 and Internet2 members are participating in SC06, the annual Supercomputing conference, 11-17 November in Tampa, Florida. This year the conference will take its inspiration from Albert Einstein who said "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination."
SC|06 Exhibit Schedule
Exhibition Opening Gala:
Monday, November 13, 2006
7:00-9:00pm
Exhibits Open:
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
10:00am-6:00pm
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
10:00am-6:00pm
Thursday, November 16, 2006
10:00am-4:00pm
Stop by during Internet2 Office Hours to speak with Internet2 management and technical staff.
Internet2 Members in the SC|06 Exhibit Area
More than 40 Internet2 members are exhibiting throughout the show floor at SC|06. Click one of the following links for a floor plan listing all Internet2 member participating in the technical exhibits:
Download the SC06 Exhibit Hall Floorplan [pdf]
Demonstrations
The Internet2 booth, #1451, in the SC06 exhibit area will feature several demonstrations:
Infinera: Breakthrough 100 Gigabit Ethernet Demonstration
Developed by: Infinera in collaboration with Finisar, Internet2, Level 3 Communications, University of California at Santa Cruz
A team of leading research and industry collaborators have created a first-ever demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) technology. The 100 GbE system will link the Infinera booth (booth #1157) and the Internet2 booth (booth #1451) to continually transmit 100 GbE traffic over the show floor. This proof-of-concept demonstration shows that 100 GbE technology is viable and capable of implementation in existing optical networks with multiple 10 Gigabit/second (Gb/s) wavelengths. Internet2 and Infinera will also showcase an advanced two-way videoconferencing application. Reliable, two-way video technology is quickly becoming a critical and necessary component of many important research and education initiatives including those in telemedicine, seismology and astronomy. 100 GbE technology would enable over 3000 DVTS or over 60 uncompressed HDTV video applications to operate simultaneously on a single interface.
VFER: High-Performance Transport in User Space
Presented by: Internet2 and Google
VFER is a portable, user-space tool for high-performance data transport. VFER enables the use of advanced congestion control without kernel modifications. Two modes of use are supported: stand-alone file transfer tool and use as a library for multimedia and other complex applications that currently use simple UDP and can benefit from congestion control. The stand-alone file transfer tool uses normal SSH credentials users already have. VFER uses advanced TCP-friendly congestion control that, by taking delay into account, quickly recovers from non-congestive packet loss. The `V' in VFER stands for `velocity' and `FER' is from the Latin `fero,' to carry, which appears in words such as `transfer.'
Phoebus: High-Performance Data Transfer for Hybrid Optical/Packet Networks
Presented by: University of Delaware
Phoebus is an environment for high-performance optical networks that allows for various adaptation points in the network. By using an end-to-end session protocol, transportation and signaling adaptation points can be controlled and better performance is possible. In addition, the Phoebus adaptation library allows existing applications to take advantage of advanced networks with little or no modification. The Phoebus project aims to help bridge the performance gap by bringing revolutionary networks like Internet2’s Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure testbed to users.
DRAGON: Integrating Hybrid Network Services with Cyber Resources
Developed by: The DRAGON Project, Internet2, NASA, ADVA, Xnet, and NICT
Funded by: NSF
The DRAGON project (Dynamic Resource Allocation via GMPLS Optical Networks)—in collaboration with Internet2, NASA, ADVA Optical Networking, Xnet, and NICT—is showcasing several different demonstrations at SC|06 that focus on the integration of hybrid network services with scientific instruments, computation and storage facilities, high resolution video and visualization environments, and other cyber resources to create powerful new concepts in globally distributed applications.
These demonstrations utilize technologies, developed by DRAGON and its collaborating partners, that allow application-specific networks to be established dynamically and on demand, combining hybrid network infrastructure from the US, Japan, and Europe. GMPLS network control software and middleware, developed by DRAGON, meet the needs of applications in such areas as electronic very long baseline interferometry (eVLBI), grid computing, and high resolution video distribution. DRAGON-developed technology was deployed and demonstrated on the Internet2 Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) testbed at SC|05, and is helping to drive the deployment of dedicated circuit services on the new Internet2 Network.
SCinet
The SCinet architecture incorporates a number of features that support network monitoring. Internet2's One-way Ping (OWAMP) and Bandwidth Test Controller (BWCTL) tools will be used to monitor reachability over the external links and latency to key sites. Additionally, Internet2, in conjunction with SCinet, will provide a "weather map" showing current utilization on all SCinet external links, based on the technology used for the Abilene NOC weather map developed by the Abilene NOC at Indiana University.
SC06 users will be able to self-test their end systems and the "last mile" network infrastructure using Internet2's web-based Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) to detect common infrastructure and performance problems.
For more information, please refer to the SC|06 Network Performance Monitoring webpage.
