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ATLAS

Canada LightPath Data Transfer Trial The Lightpath Trial is attempting to transmit 1 TeraByte (TB) of ATLAS data from TRIUMF, Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, to CERN at high speed. ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one of the experiments being constructed for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Using SURFnet’s entire 2.5Gbps capacity between StarLight and NetherLight, as well as the planned 2.5Gbps links from Canada to StarLight and from NetherLight to CERN, an end-to-end lightpath is being built between TRIUMF in Vancouver and CERN. The goal is to transfer a 1TB of Monte Carlo data between a cluster at TRIUMF and a cluster at CERN in under 2 hours. Acknowledgment: CANARIE; BCnet; HEPnet Canada; Extreme Networks; Intel Corporation; EU DataGrid; EU DataTAG; The Globus Project. Contact Corrie Kost TRIUMF, Canada kost@triumf.ca Collaborators Corrie Kost, Steve McDonald, Peter Gumplinger, Fred Jones, Mike Losty, Jack Chakhalian, Renee Poutissou, TRIUMF, Canada Wade Hong, Carleton University, Canada Randy Sobie, Dean Karlen, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Jim Pinfold, Bryan Caron, University of Alberta, Canada Pekka Sinervo, University of Toronto, Canada Mike Vetterli, Simon Fraser University, Canada Mike Hrybyk, BCNet, British Columbia, Canada Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE, Canada Olivier Martin, CERN, Switzerland Leon Gommans, Bert Andree, Cees de Laat, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.triumf.ca