GLIF Global Lambda Integrated Facility

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GLIFGlobal Lambda Integrated Facility

• Kees Neggers
• CCIRN
• Cairns Australia, 3 July 2004

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GLIF, Global Lambda Integrated Facility

• GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, is a
  collaborative initiative among worldwide NRENs,
  consortia and institutions with lambdas
• GLIF was established by invited participants at
  the 3rd annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop, held
  August 27, 2003 in Reykjavik, Iceland

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GLIF Founding Members
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What is GLIF

• GLIF is a world-scale Lambda-based Laboratory for
  application and middleware development on
  emerging LambdaGrids, where applications rely on
  dynamically configured networks based on optical
  wavelengths
• GLIF is an environment (networking
  infrastructure, network engineering, system
  integration, middleware, applications) to
  accomplish real work

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GLIF vision

• GLIF community shares a common vision of building
  a new grid-computing paradigm, in which the
  central architectural element is optical
  networks, not computers, to support this decades
  most demanding e-science applications.
• It is no longer sufficient to connect researchers
  to the internet, they have to be connected to
  each other.

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Global Lambda Integrated Facility 2Q2004
Stockholm NorthernLight
New York MANLAN
10 Gbit/s
IEEAF 10 Gbit/s
2x10 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
2x10 Gbit/s
SURFnet 10 Gbit/s
IEEAF 10 Gbit/s
Chicago
Amsterdam
Tokyo WIDE
Dwingeloo ASTRON/JIVE
DWDM SURFnet
NSF 10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
SURFnet 10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
Prague CzechLight
London UKLight
Tokyo APAN
Geneva CERN
Sydney AARnet
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GLIF 4th Annual Workshop

• The GLIF 4th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop
  will be held in Nottingham, United Kingdom on
  September 3, 2004
• The GLIF Workshop is being co-located with the UK
  e-Science All Hands Meeting, to be held 1-3
  September in Nottingham, UK
• Workshop organizers Cees de Laat, University of
  Amsterdam and Maxine Brown, University of
  Illinois Chicago
• Workshop hosts Peter Clarke of University
  College London and David Salmon of UKERNA

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Agenda 4th Annual Workshop

• GLIF Governance and policy
• GLIF Lambda infrastructure and Lambda exchange
  implementations
• Persistent Applications
• Control plane and grid integration middleware

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GLIF 5th Annual Workshop

• The GLIF 5th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop
  will be held in September 2005 in conjunction
  with iGrid 2005 meeting in the new UCSD Cal-(IT)²
  building in San Diego, California, USA,

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GLIF Website
http//www.glif.is