[Whren-today] July 2006 WHREN-LILA Report

Tue Aug 1 17:08:04 EDT 2006

WHREN-LILA Report
Volume 2, Issue 4
July 31, 2006

The Western Hemisphere Research and Education Networks (WHREN) - Links 
Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) report summarizes activities from 
participating networks.  The WHREN-LILA Report is published under National 
Science Foundation (NSF) Award # 0441095 and Academic Network at São Paulo 
(ANSP) award Projeto Fapesp no. 04/14414-2.

July 2006 Issue:

1. WHREN-LILA Activities
2. FIU-CIARA Activities
3. CENIC Activities
4. Pacific Wave Activities
5. AtlanticWave Activities
6. CLARA Activities
7. CUDI Activities

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1. WHREN-LILA ACTIVITIES

The WHREN project continues to work with partners through out the Western
Hemisphere to support research and education. To these ends, an engineering
meeting has been called in Santiago Chile on September 3rd and 4th, prior to
REUNA's e-Science meeting.

In support of Brazilian and U.S. researchers, JUMBO FRAMES have been
configured and tested across from RNP to the U.S.

For more information on WHREN-LILA, visit the website at
http://www.whren-lila.net/index.htm

2. FIU-CIARA ACTIVITIES

CYBERBRIDGES:
The CIARA CyberBridges proposes that graduate students engaged in inquiry
based learning activities can effect transfer of CI research and that this
transfer will increase scientists' rates of discovery and create a CI
empowered workforce.

Just six months have passed since CIARA awarded CyberBridges Fellowships to
four of FIU's most gifted and technologically-minded graduate students.
Chosen for their experience with grid technology and their ideas for
incorporating this technology into their own research disciplines, these
students are already benefiting from the skills they have acquired through
the program

For more information on the CyberBridges project, visit
http://www.cyberbridges.net/

CHEPREO
The UltraLight project is conducting a workshop at FIU on August 9-11 to
train aspiring undergraduate and graduate computer and discipline science
students in state of the art network and distributed system science and
technologies using the UltraLight interactive toolkit.  For more information
or for an application to attend the workshop, visit
http://ultralight.caltech.edu/web-site/ultralight/html/index.html

For more information on CIARA, visit their website at http://ciara.fiu.edu/

3. CENIC ACTIVITIES

On June 15th, CENIC announced the connection of its high-performance
California Research and Education Network (CalREN) to CAnet 4, the Canadian
research and education network managed by CANARIE. This Gigabit link was
announced at the Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership Summit
which took place June 11-12 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

During the first Canada-California partnership summit in January 2006, held
at UCLA, group leaders focused on a high-bandwidth connection between Canada
and California as an absolutely vital part of any collaboration. According
to the summary of proceedings from that event, "connecting California to
CANARIE should be a high priority, as this powerful connection could serve
as an enabling platform for all the other envisioned collaborations in our
new Canada-California Partnership." The CENIC/CANARIE connection is can
benefit a variety of researchers including those at the Communications
Research Centre Canada (CRC) in Ottawa, the primary Canadian laboratory for
research and development in advanced telecommunications.

For more information on CENIC, visit their website at http://www.cenic.org/.

4. PACIFIC WAVE ACTIVITIES

10 Gigabit Ethernet Connects TransLight/Pacific Wave and
TransLight/StarLight

As of June 30th, TransLight/Pacific Wave and TransLight/Starlight are now
directly connected through a 10Gigabit Ethernet connection. The connection,
donated by Cisco Systems in support of the TransLight project, is deployed
by National LambdaRail. TransLight/StarLight and TransLight/Pacific Wave are
projects funded by the National Science Foundation under the International
Research Network Connections (IRNC) Program of the Office of
CyberInfrastructure.

This new network fabric between the two TransLight entities creates a way
for participating networks to easily configure direct connections whenever
they are needed. In a demonstration of this new capability, engineers at
SURFnet in Amsterdam and T-LEX (operated by WIDE) in Tokyo easily
established a direct path between their two routed networks using the new
Pacific Wave to StarLight network fabric and without using any routed third
party network facilities.

Pacific Wave has nodes in Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Los Angeles and serves R&E
networks throughout the Pacific Rim, including North America, South America,
Australasia, Asia and the Middle East. The StarLight R&E exchange facility,
an early leader and innovator in global networking, continues its networking
leadership today with participating R&E organizations from Europe, North
America and Asia.

For more information see www.pnw-gigapop.net/news/translight_conn.html.

For more Pacific Wave, visit the website at http://www.pacificwave.net/.

5.  AtlanticWave ACTIVITIES

Progress is continuing with first tests from NYC to Jacksonville. Equipment
has been ordered to connect all the way to Miami, and should be in soon.

6. CLARA ACTIVITIES

Over 60 million researchers and students around the world are now benefiting
from global collaboration through access to the GÉANT2 next generation
research and education network. Celebrating its first anniversary, GÉANT2 is
now 90 per cent deployed within Europe and has installed links to the US,
Latin America and Asia to facilitate a true global research community.

The first hybrid network deployed on an international scale, GÉANT2 utilizes
both packet and circuit switching. It was officially launched in June 2005
and is co-funded by the European Commission and 30 of Europe's National
Research and Education Networks (NRENs). coordinated by research networking
organization DANTE, the pan-European network now has connections to research
networks in the US (Internet2 and ESnet), Asia-Pacific (TEIN2), China
(ORIENT), Japan (SINET), Latin America (ALICE-RedCLARA) and North
Africa/Middle East (EUMEDCONNECT).

For more information on this topic, visit
http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/canal1.shtml?http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/eng_2006.shtml?AA_SL_Session=fbae07abf76f38b8a53f29063ee82059&x=1241

For more information on CLARA, visit http://www.redclara.net/en/03/01.htm.

7. CUDI ACTIVITIES

CUDI has planned a series of "Virtual Days" as a forum to show what
applications can do and to allow researchers to expose and explore the
capabilities of the network.

Researchers are invited to participate in the Virtual Days planned for the
remainder of the year.  Interested parties should contact their community
coordinators.  Information about the coordinators can be found at
http://www.cudi.edu.mx/organizacion/orga03.html#CC.

The planned virtual days are:

* August 22 - Health
* August 30 - Libraries
* September 7 - Grids
* September 19 - Health
* October 11 - Special Education
* November 9 - Astronomy
* November 16 - Laboratories
* November 27 & 28 - Earth Sciences

For more information on CUDI, visit their website at
http://www.cudi.edu.mx/.

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