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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 21, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 29
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Breaking News -
General:
SC2003 Bandwidth Challenge
Deadline Approaches
The Fourth Annual High Performance Bandwidth Challenge will be held at
SC2003 (www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/)
in Phoenix, Arizona, November 15-20, 2003. The competition pits applicants
from science and engineering research communities across the globe against one
another to stress the SCinet network (scinet.supercomp.org/2003/)
infrastructure while using real applications to move information across the
multiple research networks that connect to SCinet.
The primary measure of performance will be the verifiable network
throughput
as measured from the contestant's equipment through the SCinet switches and
routers to external connections. The judging criteria for 2003 include:
- Measurement of sustained TCP utilization
- Quality of IPv6 implementation
- Innovative features of non-stock TCP implementations
- Applicability to the real world
- Efficiency and effectiveness of multi-continent implementations
- Improvement over previously demonstrated methods
- Quality of first-time demonstrations
Potential contestants must submit notification of intent to participate by
July 18, 2003 to bwc@scinet.supercomp.org. Upon
receipt of
this notification,
SCinet will contact contestants with instructions on the content and format of
their full proposals. The full proposals must be received by August 8 to be
included in the SC2003 Final Program.
Please note that the Bandwidth Challenge is a separate competition from the
HPC Challenge (
www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/tech_hpc.html),
which
also will be held at SC2003.
To support Bandwidth Challenge contestants, SCinet facilitates access to
the
networks, provides technical support to applicants, and makes arrangements for
equipment and floor and rack space to applicants with demonstrable needs.
SCinet anticipates delivery of as many as four OC-192c wide-area network
interconnects to the Phoenix Convention Center.
Qwest Communications (www.qwest.com/) is sponsoring the
award of
one
or more monetary prizes for the applications that make the most effective
and/or courageous use of SCinet resources. Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory won the competition for "Highest Performing Application" at SC2002
in Baltimore, Maryland, with a wide-area distributed simulation using Cactus,
Globus, and Visapult software that demonstrated a peak data transfer rate of
16.8 gigabits per second.
For more information, see
scinet.supercomp.org/2003/ExhibitorKit/EK-BWC.html, or send
e-mail to
bwc@scinet.supercomp.org.
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