[Internet2] Re: [sysadmin] Internet2 forms part of a large scientific instrument.

["José G. Conde"]

Congratulations to you and to all the HPCf staff.

Conde

Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga wrote:

>The Internet2 allowed scientists to construct a transatlantic scientific
>instrument. The Arecibo Observatory and 3 other sites in Europe
>participated in an experiment where the 4 radiotelescopes were joined
>into an "electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometer" (eVLBI). The link
>is achieved by transmitting the data from the telescopes live over
>high-speed research networks to a central processing station in Europe.
>
>>From the eVLBI news:
>
>"eVLBI research achieved another first on Friday 10th September when
>real-time fringes were detected between the 305m Arecibo radio telescope
>and three antennas located in Europe."
>
>Pictures and more information at the eVLBI site:
>
>http://www.evlbi.org/evlbi/te024/te024.html
>
>During the experiment, 32 Mbps (millions of bits per second,
>approximately 21 T1 lines or 600 times faster than dial up modems) of
>data were transmitted from each of the telescopes to a processing center
>in the Netherlands, where the results were analyzed live. Press releases
>of an earlier experiment are also available:
>
>http://www.jive.nl/docs/pr/pr_realtime.html
>
>--
>Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga
>Programmer-Archaeologist
>High Performance Computing facility
>University of Puerto Rico
>http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/~humberto/
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