Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Distributed Computing, 1999. Proceedings. The Eighth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Redondo Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5681-0
DOI :
10.1109/HPDC.1999.805292
