[sysadmin] First Four Continent eVLBI

[Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga]

Dr. Arun Venkataraman forwarded a message from Dr. Chris Salter on this 
morning's first sustained 256Mbps eVLBI demo at the TERENA8 conference 
in Brussels, using telescopes on four continents including AO.

"In this morning's eVLBI run, the first-ever simultaneous
four-continent fringes were obtained. The telescopes involved were;

  North America: Arecibo (Tapasi, Arun & Chris observing)

  South America: TIGO, Concepcion, Chile

  Africa: Hartebeesthoek, South Africa

  Europe: Effelsberg (Germany), Westerbork (Netherlands), Medicina
  (Italy) & Onsala (Sweden)

  	The Arecibo data rate was solid at the required 256 Mbps. The
  run was also used as a demo at the annual meeting of TERENA
  (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association), a forum
  to develop and share knowledge on Internet technology, infrastructure
  and services to be used by the research and education community."

See the attached image for the combined data rates to the conference site.

Thanks to Arecibo Observatory, AMPATH, Centennial, JIVE, UPR, Atlantic 
Wave, and all the people along the path to the Netherlands.

-- 
Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga
Programmer-Archaeologist
UPR Bioinformatics Resource Center
http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/~humberto/
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