New Desktop Tools Released for Internet2 Users

released October 13, 2003

Researchers at the University of Tennessee have released a new set of desktop tools called the Logistical Runtime System (LoRS). The tools will enable any researcher, educator, student, or staff member with access to Internet2 networks to exchange data with colleagues around the world at the highest transfer rates their computers can sustain.

Many local, regional and wide-area research networks have supported data transfer rates of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) or faster for some time because they are massively provisioned with bandwidth. Yet only select groups of users within the research community have been able to get such speeds on a regular basis. The LoRS tools solve this problem by giving Internet2 users unbrokered desktop access to a worldwide collection of high-speed storage depots that form a network infrastructure called the Logistical Backbone, or L-Bone.

The LoRS tools for using this infrastructure are open source and can be freely downloaded from the LoCI Lab Web site, http://loci.cs.utk.edu/. They run on computers that use all common variants of the Unix, Linux, Apple OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The new version of the desktop tools is designed to universalize the ability to move large files at high speed across research networks worldwide. Their use will be demonstrated at the booths of Internet2 and other L-Bone participants at SC2003, Nov. 15-21 in Phoenix.

 

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