[Whren-today] November 2006 WHREN-LILA Newsletter

[WHREN Editor]

WHREN-LILA Report
Volume 2, Issue 5
November 30, 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.

November 2006 Issue:

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

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1. WHREN-LILA ACTIVITIES

The presentation from the International Research Network Connections (IRNC)
Program Review on October 24-25 is available online in both PowerPoint and
PDF versions.

The PDF version of the presentation can be found at
http://www.whren-lila.net/pubs/irnc-review_Oct06_whren-lila3s.pdf.  The
PowerPoint version can be found at
http://www.whren-lila.net/pubs/irnc-review_Oct06_whren-lila3s.ppt.

The full agenda and a group photo from the September Engineering Meeting in
Santiago, Chile are now available on the web at
http://www.whren-lila.net/events/steering0906.htm

A PDF version of the new WHREN-LILA brochure is available online at
http://www.whren-lila.net/pubs/WHREN_LILA_Trifold_Web.pdf

2. FIU-CIARA ACTIVITIES

CYBERBRIDGES:

Heidi Alvarez and all of the CyberBridges Ph.D. fellows presented in the
National LambdaRail booth at SC06 followed by a CyberBridges
Birds-of-a-Feather meeting.  Dr. Yan Bao Ping, Chief Engineer of the
Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Science gave
the keynote address, marking the start of a new three year Global
CyberBridges collaborative project.  Afterwards the fellows presented their
findings and received their CIARA Cyberinfrastructure Science Certificates
of completion. Information on the presentations, along with the presentation
slides can be found at http://www.nlr.net/sc06/presentations.php?aid=33

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

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

3. CENIC ACTIVITIES

No new activities to report.

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

4. ATLANTIC WAVE ACTIVITIES

Atlantic Wave offered Layer 2 connectivity to the SC'06 conference show
floor. Direct connections into Atlantic Wave were available from the
following locations and exchange points:

* MAN LAN (New York) - 10 GE Layer 2 connections
* MAX (Washington)
* SLR/SOX (Atlanta)
* AMPATH (Miami)
* Sao Paulo Exchange - 1 GE Layer 2 connections

For more information on Atlantic Wave, visit the website at
http://atlanticwave.net/

5. PACIFIC WAVE ACTIVITIES

In October, Pacific Wave added three new participants in Los Angeles:

* L-Root (ICANN) (1 GigE) in Los Angeles
* Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet A. C. Internet2
Mexico (CUDI) in Los Angeles (1 GigE)
* Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (CLARA) in Los Angeles (1
GigE)

Also during October, a CINEGRID event took place at the Audio Engineering
Society (AES) convention in San Francisco, October 5-8th. For the first time
ever, 4K resolution digital motion pictures and 24 channel digital audio was
transmitted separately in real time via globe-spanning IP networks, from Los
Angeles, San Diego and Tokyo. The picture and sound was synchronized and
then mixed "live" for an audience of audio experts, cinema professionals and
international technology leaders.

The CineGrid event included a consortium of partners in addition to
CineGrid.  The consortium included:
  * CENIC/ CalREN
  *  Industrial Light & Magic, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company
  *  Skywalker Sound, A Lucasfilm Ltd. company
  *  Keio University Research Institute for Digital Media and Content (DMC)
  *  NTT Network Innovation Laboratories
  *  Pacific Interface, Inc.
  *  San Francisco State University, Institute for Next Generation Internet
  *  University of California San Diego
      *** California Institute for Telecommunications and Information
         Technology (Calit2)
      *** Center for Research and Computing in the Arts (CRCA)
  * University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
    used Pacific Wave and CENIC/CalREN facilities for these real-time
    demonstrations.

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

6. CUDI ACTIVITIES

CUDI Fellows Pilot program
The program will give four students an economic scholarship of $2000
monthly, for a period of six months to develop applications that require use
of the CUDI network.

These activities will permit the fellows to better understand career
opportunities in practical and real situations, as well as to be involved
with ideas and situations that will allow them to develop the abilities that
will develop them as future investigators and scientists of Mexico.

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

7. CLARA ACTIVITIES

Predicting eruptions will become easier now scientists are using technology
to translate the patterns in a volcano's behavior into sound waves. The EU
funded "Enabling Grids for E-sciencE" (EGEE) and the "E-Infrastructure
shared between Europe and Latin America" (EELA) projects, which are already
investigating volcano sonification at Mount Etna, Sicily, are using the
GEANT2 and ALICE-RedCLARA networks to further extend this important study to
include Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano.

To read more about this project, visit
http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=11729

To find out more about CLARA, visit http://www.redclara.net/

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