[GHPN-WG] SC'06 BOF announcement

[Simeonidou, Dimitra]

I would like to welcome you to bring your experiences and insight to
this BOF at SC06. Please forward the following announcement to your
colleagues planning on attending SC06.

 

SUPERCOMPUTING 2006 (SC'06): BOF session on "Delivery of Network
Services across Heterogeneous Optical Domains"

 

Tuesday 14th of November 2006, time: 12:15-1:15 pm, location: 18-19

 

A joint effort of GLIF and OGF ghpn research working group

 

 

End-to-end on-demand scheduling of optical network resources for
high-end grid applications has been advocated, studied, and implemented
by many national and international R&D organizations, NRENs and research
projects. While a lot of progress has been made in realizing this
vision, many new questions have arisen addressing technical,
organizational and policy based issues. 

 

There are still many challenges involved in building a global research
network infrastructure to meet the emerging needs of high-end Grid
applications and collaborative services.

 

To address this situation, a strategic alliance between two
international organizations has been formed; The Grid High-Performance
Networking research group (GHPN) in OGF, mostly focusing in defining
applications network requirements and network services; and the Global
Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF), working towards enabling a globally
interconnected lambda test-bed.  

 

Coordinated by the two organizations, the aims of this BoF session are: 

(1)        To increase community awareness and engagement to this common
GHPN/OGF and GLIF research and development agenda

(2)        To widen participation to a new effort in collecting,
reporting and analyzing experience concerning deployment of network
services across heterogeneous research network domains. This effort will
accelerate problem solving in delivering network services to scientific
community in a global scale 

(3)        To facilitate the interaction between the research networking
community and network researchers in order to identify new and/or
disruptive networking technologies, architectures and protocols to
address the increased scale and complexity of the Future Research
Networks

(4)        To inform and solicit input about new initiatives towards
standards regarding application and network interfaces among multiple
technology layers and administrative domains

 

 

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