iGrid2005 announced for September

released May 17, 2005

The University of California, San Diego, and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) will host iGrid 2005 Sept. 26-29. The goal of iGrid 2005 is to push research and development of optical networking with data-intensive applications. This fourth biennial international workshop will showcase the power of high-bandwidth networking to support the world's most demanding applications—from science to art—and international collaborations among partner institutions from Europe, North America, South America and the Pacific Rim.

The iGrid workshop will be followed by the Global Lambda Integrated Facility meeting on Sept. 30. GLIF is an international virtual organization that supports persistent data-intensive scientific research and middleware development on "lambdagrids," natural extensions of the grid to include user control of lambdas (wavelengths of light on which gigabits of data are sent).

Last held in 2002, iGrid is a coordinated effort to accelerate the use of many existing 10-gigabit-per-second international and national networks to advance scientific research and educate decision makers, academicians, and industry researchers on the benefits of these advanced networks. The 2005 event provides an international testbed for participants to collaborate on a global scale to advance the state of the art in high-performance computing and communications.

iGrid consists of two tracks: real-time demonstrations and presentations about emerging global cyberinfrastructure.

The demos are driven by applications scientists, engineered by a worldwide collaboration among leaders in advanced networking, and enabled by grid middleware developers. Applications include art, astro- and particle physics, chemistry, earth and ocean sciences, neuroscience, and radio-astronomy, among others. To date, some 45 demonstration project proposals have been received from participants in 20 countries.

Attendees will learn about the underlying technologies, including high-performance optical networking, user control of lightpaths, remote control of instrumentation and supercomputer simulations, remote data gathering, interactive and high-definition TV to support distributed virtual lecture halls, visualization on large-format displays, virtual reality, global data sharing, ultra-high-performance file transfer, and other technologies.

 

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