Illustration of GLIF infrastructure.
Visualization by Robert Patterson, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; data compilation by Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago; Earth texture http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/.
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GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, 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. The GLIF community shares a common vision of building a new grid computing paradigm to support this decade's most demanding e-science applications. In this paradigm the central architectural element is optical networks, not computers, which use multiple wavelengths of light (lambdas) on single optical fibers to create "supernetworks."
GLIF brings together the world's premier research and education networking engineers to architect an international LambdaGrid infrastructure by identifying equipment, connection requirements and necessary engineering functions and services. Participants are building more than a network—they are building an environment (networking infrastructure, network engineering, system integration, middleware development, application drivers) in which broad multidisciplinary teams can work together.
This illustration of GLIF infrastructure shows the networks that will be in use for the iGrid 2005 workshop. iGrid showcases advances in scientific collaboration and discovery enabled by GLIF, by providing a forum for the world's premier discipline scientists, computer scientists and network engineers to meet and work together in multidisciplinary teams to understand, develop and demonstrate innovative solutions in a LambdaGrid world.
Learn more at the GLIF Web site.
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