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SUMMARY:Quantifying the Digital Divide: A scientific overview of the conne
 ctivity of South Asian and African Countries
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Dr. COTTRELL\, Roger (Stanford Linear Accelerator Ce
 nter)\nThe future of computing for HENP applications depends increasingly 
 on how well the\nglobal community is connected. With South Asia and Africa
  accounting for about 36% of\nthe world’s population\, the issues of int
 ernet/network facilities are a major concern\nfor these regions if they ar
 e to successfully partake in scientific endeavors.\nHowever\, not only is 
 the International bandwidth for these regions low\, but also the\ninternal
  network infrastructure is poor\, rendering these regions hard to access f
 or\nthe global HENP community. In turn this makes collaborative research d
 ifficult and\nhigh performance grid activities essentially impractical. In
  this paper\, we aim to\nclassify the connectivity for academic and resear
 ch institutions of these regions as\na function of time\, as seen from wit
 hin\, without and between the regions\, and draw\ncomparisons with more de
 veloped regions. The performance measurements are carried out\nusing the P
 ingER methodology\; a lightweight approach using ICMP Ping packets. PingER
 \nhas measurements to sites in over 110 countries that contain over 99% of
  the world’s\nInternet connected population and so is well-positioned to
  characterize the world’s\nconnectivity.  These measurements have been s
 uccessfully used for quantifying\,\nplanning\, setting expectations for co
 nnectivity and for identification of problems.\nThe beneficiaries of this 
 data range from international funding agencies and\nexecutive-level planne
 rs to network administrators.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay
 .py?contribId=52&sessionId=6&confId=048
LOCATION:Tata Institute of Fundamental Research D405
URL:http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=52&sessionId=6&
 confId=048
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