[Whren-today] January 2007 WHREN-LILA Newsletter

[WHREN Editor]

WHREN-LILA Report
Volume 3, Issue 1
January 31, 2007

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.

January 2007 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 WHREN-LILA East link capacity was increased to 2.5Gbps in November, 
2006, in time for the Super Computing 2006 (SC06) event.  This 
ahead-of-schedule increase was made possible from funds provided by the 
Inter-regional Center for High-Energy Physics Research Education and 
Outreach (CHEPREO) project, NSF Award# 0312038.

The WHREN-LILA links were used extensively in the SC06 bandwidth challenge. 
New protocols and tools, such as Fast Data Transport (FDT) and LStore, used 
the LILA links to test data intensive transfers from the U.S. to Latin 
America.  The WHREN team is actively working with these teams to ensure 
optimal performance.

2. FIU-CIARA ACTIVITIES

CIARA Goes Global with CyberBridges

CIARA, in collaboration with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), 
recently won a 3-year, $765,000 Nation Science Foundation 
Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Team grant to implement Global CyberBridges.  The 
program expands on CyberBridges, which was initiated in 2005 to help FIU 
scientists and engineers from a wide range of disciplines, including biology 
and physics, advance their research through CI.  CyberBridges relies on 
graduate students to serve as bridges, transferring CI know-how from CIARA 
technical staff to FIU scientists.

For more information on this, go to 
http://globalcyberbridges.net/pdf/ciaragoesglobal.pdf

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

3. CENIC ACTIVITIES

CENIC's annual conference will take place on March 12th through the 14th at 
the La Jolla Marriott Hotel in San Diego, California.  The theme for the 
2007 conference is "Innovations in Networking".  For more information on the 
conference, go to http://cenic07.cenic.org/.

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

4. ATLANTIC WAVE ACTIVITIES

Physicists Set New Record for Network Data Transfer

An international team of physicists, computer scientists, and network 
engineers led by the California Institute of Technology, CERN, and the 
University of Michigan and partners at the University of Florida and 
Vanderbilt, as well as participants from Brazil (Rio de Janeiro State 
University, UERJ, and the State Universities of São Paulo, USP and UNESP) 
and Korea (Kyungpook National University, KISTI) joined forces to set new 
records for sustained data transfer between storage systems during the 
SuperComputing 2006 (SC06) Bandwidth Challenge (BWC).

One link provided by AtlanticWave from NYC to DC and Miami was used to carry 
traffic from CERN coming over the USLHCNet NYC-Geneva circuit and one link 
provided by UltraLight/FLR from Jacksonville.

For more information on the record, go to 
http://www.physorg.com/news85246030.html

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

5. PACIFIC WAVE ACTIVITIES

In November, Pacific Wave added a second 10 gigabit port in Los Angeles for
NLR.

Pacific Wave is also working with SingTel to bring up a new connection for
National University of Singapore-GigaPoP in Los Angeles.  It is expected to
be installed in the first quarter of 2007.

Discussions are also underway to connect Google to the exchange at multiple
points.

Jacqueline Brown chaired the Global Collaboration Workshop at the 23rd APAN
meeting held in Manila, The Philippines January 23, 2007 where John
Silvester presented a talk on the evolution of the Pacific Wave architecture
in his PacificWave Update.

Jacqueline Brown was elected as the Chair of the APAN Program Committee.

For more on these and other efforts, visit the Pacific Wave website at
http://www.pacificwave.net/

6. CUDI ACTIVITIES

CUDI's conference, Reunión de Primavera 2007, will be held on March 21, 22
and 23 in Torreón, Coah., México.  For more information, go to
http://www.cudi.edu.mx/primavera_2007/index.html

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

7. CLARA ACTIVITIES

Peering is operational between National LambdaRail (NLR) and redCLARA. CLARA
reaches the NLR Seattle router through the PacificWave exchange point in Los
Angeles.

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

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