Speaker
Richard Cavanaugh
(University of Florida)
Description
UltraLight is a collaboration of experimental physicists and network engineers whose
purpose is to provide the network advances required to enable petabyte-scale analysis
of globally distributed data. Current Grid-based infrastructures provide massive
computing and storage resources, but are currently limited by their treatment of the
network as an external, passive, and largely unmanaged resource. The goals of
UltraLight are to: (1) Develop and deploy prototype global services which broaden
existing Grid computing systems by promoting the network as an actively managed
component, (2) Integrate and test UltraLight in Grid-based physics production and
analysis systems currently under development in ATLAS and CMS, (3) Engineer and
operate a trans- and intercontinental optical network testbed, including high-speed
data caches and computing clusters, with U.S. nodes in California, Illinois, Florida,
Michigan and Massachusetts, and overseas nodes in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Primary authors
Harvey Newman
(California Institute of Technology)
Richard Cavanaugh
(University of Florida)
Co-authors
Alan George
(University of Florida)
Alberto Santoro
(Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Chris Griffin
(University of Florida)
Chris Heermann
(Internet2)
Conrad Steenberg
(California Institute of Technology)
Dan Nae
(California Institute of Technology)
Dave Pokorney
(University of Florida)
Dimitri Bourilkov
(University of Florida)
Dongchul Son
(Kyungpook National University)
Ernesto Rubi
(Florida International University)
Frank van Lingen
(California Institute of Technology)
Heidi Alvarez
(Florida International University)
Iosif Legrand
(California Institute of Technology)
Jose Sanchez
(Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Julian Bunn
(California Institute of Technology)
Julio Ibarra
(Florida International University)
Kihwan Kwon
(Kyungpook National University)
Laird Kramer
(Florida International University)
Michael Thomas
(California Institute of Technology)
Paul Avery
(University of Florida)
Rick Summerhill
(Internet2)
Rogerio Iope
(Universidade de Sao Paulo)
Sanjay Ranka
(University of Florida)
Sergio Novaes
(Universidade de Sao Paulo)
Shawn Mc Kee
(High Energy Physics)
Soh Suzuki
(KEK)
Sylvain Ravot
(California Institute of Technology)
Yang Xia
(California Institute of Technology)
Yukio Karita
(KEK)
