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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UT-based Fiber Optic Network Expands Global Reach (July 22, 2010)
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GLORIAD Featured on University of Tennessee YouTube Channel (July 23, 2010)
Full Article - NSF's Cyber-Network Now Expands Across the Northern Hemisphere and Connects Half the Globe (October 14, 2009)
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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.
Network Experimentation: Wavelength Disk Drives (WDD)
Network Experimentation: Wavelength Disk Drives (WDD)
The circuit-oriented service on GLORIAD is designed not only to support individual science applications but to provide a test bed for network research. In the case of CANARIE's WDD, it actually serves both needs. This is a novel concept developed by Canadian network researchers which treats a large-scale multi-wavelength network as though it were a large disk drive -with each wavelength being a separate track and special devices on the network (running the WDD software) acting as read/write heads. The hard/software injects a data record into the network as a UDP flow. When the next WDD node receives a packet it is forwarded on to the next node, resulting in packets continuously circulating around the DWDM network. CANARIE and GLORIAD will test capability of the quite different GLORIAD network to prove the concept in the ring around the northern hemisphere – while much less capacity, it is a longer path that allows a given unit capacity to carry more data. There are applications proposed from Russia for using the WDD to enable global monitoring of certain live and time-critical data streams.