GLORIAD Links Scientists in US, Russia, China, Korea, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Egypt, Singapore and the Nordic Countries with Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Headlines
- A 1 Gbps link connecting the GLORIAD network with India's National Knowledge Network (NKN) was deployed on the GLORIAD-Taj expansion project (July 2010)
- GLORIAD's PI participated in the US-India Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation held on June 24-25, 2010 in Washington, DC. See the OSTP White House blog about the event. (July 25, 2010)
- Presentation on "New Vistas in Global Cooperation for Science and Education: India to connect to the GLORIAD network" was featured in the newsletter of the Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai (July 24, 2010)
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Sponsors
GLORIAD's supporters include the US National Science Foundation, a consortium of science organizations and Ministries in Russia with network services provided by the Russian Institute for Public Networking (RIPN), the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea, the CANARIE network of Canada, the Netherlands SURFnet team, NORDUnet and with some telecommunications services donated by our telecomm partner Tata Communications.
GLORIAD's US home is at the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment of the University of Tennessee.
This web site is provided by the US-Russia Friends & Partners Program.
Astronomy
Astronomy
Progress in astronomical research requires access to all the world's astronomical data, since insight comes from correlating data taken at different wavelengths and with different techniques, and comparison of the observational results with astrophysical simulations.
Problems in making this vision a reality include lack of sufficient bandwidth and the inhomogeneity of the data and the and the data access methods.
The International Virtual Observatory project, scheduled for completion in 2008, will produce 10 petabytes of data per year, yet the project relies on networks such as GLORIAD to solve the issue of bandwidth required to transmit enormous sums of data. GLORIAD will enable US astronomers to access IVO data resources in Russia and China and vice-versa. GLORIAD will enable real-time very long baseline interferometry between the Very Long Baseline Array in the U.S. and radio telescopes in the Netherlands, Russia, China, and Korea.
The International Square Kilometer Ray Consortium will rely on GLORIAD to provide network services for baseline interferometry between the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) with partner countries, and allow testing of the distributed SKA paradigm.
KOREA: Korean Virtual Observatory Project
- The virtual observatory projects are being developed mainly at national levels at about 15 countries including Korea. Korean Virtual Observatory (KVO, http://kvo.kao.re.kr) was started from February 2003 by astronomers in Korea Astronomy Observatory and some universities.