GLIF Global Lambda Integrated Facility Kees Neggers CCIRN Cairns Australia, 3 July 2004

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

GLIF Founding Members

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

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.

Global Lambda Integrated Facility 2Q2004 DWDM SURFnet 10 Gbit/s SURFnet 10 Gbit/s SURFne t 10 Gbit/s IEEAF 10 Gbit/s Dwingeloo ASTRON/JIVE Dwingeloo ASTRON/JIVE Prague CzechLight Prague CzechLight 2.5 Gbit/s NSF 10 Gbit/s London UKLight London UKLight Stockholm NorthernLight Stockholm NorthernLight 2.5 Gbit/s New York MANLAN New York MANLAN 10 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s 2x10 Gbit/s IEEAF 10 Gbit/s 2x10 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s 2.5 Gbit/s Tokyo APAN Tokyo APAN Geneva CERN Geneva CERN Chicago Amsterdam Sydney AARnet Sydney AARnet 10 Gbit/s Seattle Los Angeles Tokyo WIDE Tokyo WIDE

GLIF 4 th 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

Agenda 4 th Annual Workshop GLIF Governance and policy GLIF Lambda infrastructure and Lambda exchange implementations Persistent Applications Control plane and grid integration middleware

GLIF 5 th Annual Workshop The GLIF 5 th 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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