The Global Wide Area Applications Testbed (G-WAAT) at Supercomputing '96 offers a unique combination of high-end resources available to national and international Grand Challenge application teams. The emphasis for this GII testbed will be on Application demonstrations and performance. The SUPERCOMPUTING conferences have traditionally showcased very high speed wide-area network connectivity to the Convention Center, and state-of -the art visualization facilities on the show floor itself. This trend continues at Supercomputing '96, where we expect a connection to the NSF-sponsored vBNS, with expectations of operating at 155 Mbps with selected portions operating at 622 Mbps, and to other high speed networking testbeds. Furthermore, this year we plan to expand the range of applications supported and demonstrated to include International Grand-Challenge applications by providing high-speed connectivity to networks throughout the other G7 countries (Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and Canada). This will be a exciting opportunity to networks throughout the other G7 countries and for collaboration amongst scientists and technologists spanning multiple continents.
While SC '96 plans to provide a shared visualization device,
similar to last year I-WAY display devices, we are encouraging
participants to also utilize this infrastructure for demonstrations
and exhibits on the show floor. In order to facilitate access to
the network resources, we are requesting that exhibitors and researchers
planning to use this infrastructure send mail by September 15, 1996 to
scinet-reqs@pgh.supercomp.org
SCinet's High Speed Network infrastructure, utilizing FDDI, ATM
and HiPPI technologies, will give researchers, Exhibitors, and
attendees high speed network access to other computers, network
and HiPPI technologies, network services and information services on the show floor, at their
home institutions and across the Global Internet. This infrastructure
will be tied into both experimental and commodity wide area networks
providing connectivity for a range of applications and services,
including: Heterogeneous Supercomputing Challenge,
G-WAAT applications and exhibitor and research booth demonstrations.
The network infrastructure will use leading edge networking equipment
supplied by a range of vendors. As in previous years, researchers and
exhibitors must provide network connection requests to SCinet
in order to receive show network connections. More information
on network resources available at the show, fee schedules for
network connections and connection request deadlines can be
found at:
SC'96
For the first year, we plan to offer a commodity ethernet connections to
every booth on the show floor. This infrastructure will use
off-the-shelf ethernet equipment and will be connected to at least
one Commodity Wide Area Network Service Provider. We are currently planning
for this connection to be available to exhibitors and researchers
alike as they move into their booths. We hope to manage this network
as a production network, providing near 24 by 7 availability.
Booths will still need to provide network connection requests and
information to the SCinet committee. More information on deadlines
for these requests can be found at
SC'96
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