Distributed applications in a German gigabit WAN

Author

Eickermann, Thomas ; Frings, Wolfgang ; Posse, Stefan ; Goebbels, Gernot ; Volpel, Roland

Author_Institution

Central Inst. for Appl. Math., Res. Center Julich, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

143

Lastpage

148

Abstract

In order to prepare for the upgrade of the German national scientific network to gigabit capacity in the year 2000, two testbeds have been set up. One of them, the `Gigabit Testbed West´, uses a 2.4 Gbit/s ATM link to connect the Research Centre Julich and the GMD-National Research Center for Information Technology in Sankt Augustin. The testbed is the basis for several application projects, ranging from metacomputing to multimedia. This paper gives an overview of the infrastructure of the testbed and its applications. As an example, the real-time analysis and visualization of functional MRI measurements of the human brain are described in detail

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; biomedical MRI; biomedical measurement; brain; computer testing; data analysis; data visualisation; distributed programming; multimedia computing; natural sciences computing; real-time systems; test facilities; wide area networks; 2.4 Gbit/s; ATM link; GMD-National Research Center for Information Technology; German national scientific network; Gigabit Testbed West; Research Centre Julich; WAN; distributed applications; functional MRI measurements; human brain; infrastructure; metacomputing; multimedia; real-time analysis; real-time data visualization; Asynchronous transfer mode; Extrapolation; Information technology; Mathematics; Metacomputing; Scientific computing; Supercomputers; Testing; Wide area networks; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1999. Proceedings. The Eighth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Redondo Beach, CA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5681-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1999.805292

Filename

805292