Real-Time Applications

World’s First Demonstration of X GRID Application Switching using User Controlled LightPaths

URL:
www.canarie.ca/canet4/uclp/igrid2005/demo.html

Contact:
Hervé Guy, CANARIE, Canada, herve.guy @ canarie.ca

Collaborators:
CANARIE, Canada: Hervé Guy, Bill St. Arnaud, Darcy Quesnel, René Hatem
Communications Research Centre (CRC), Canada: Michel Savoie, Scott Campbell, Hanxi Zhang, Mathieu Lemay, Bobby Ho
University of Waterloo, Canada: Raouf Boutaba, Youssef Iraqi, Iban Touchet
i2CAT / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain: Sergi Figuerola, Sebastia Sallent, Artur Serra, Jesús Alcober, Luis Ribes, Marisol Hurtado, Ramon Sanguesa, Eduard Grasa, Joaquin Recio
National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC), Taiwan: Eugene Yeh, Fay Sheu, Jing-Jou Yen, Fang-Pang Lin, Sun-In Lin, Te-Lung Liu, Jiunn-Jye Chen
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea: Dongkyun Kim, Jong Uk Kong, Ok-Hwan Byeon, Won-Taek Hong
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea: Jongwon Kim

Researchers from CANARIE and CRC in Canada, NCHC in Taiwan, KISTI in Korea and i2CAT in Spain are collaborating on the world’s first demonstration of multiple end users dynamically controlling the setup and switching of lightpaths to various grid application resources worldwide using CANARIE’s UCLP (User Controlled LightPath) management software. In the future, grid users will be able to quickly configure (and reconfigure) global optical lightpaths among collaborating research institutions so their applications can exchange data in real time. While other iGrid 2005 demos may also use UCLP, these groups are accessing resources at each other’s institutions in order to demonstrate how one controls 40,000 kilometer of lightpaths; the applications driving these demonstrations are described elsewhere in this brochure:

Special thanks to Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NiCT) and Tokyo Electronics Limited (TEL) for use of Ruff Systems, a High Definition Video (HDV) teleconferencing system.