Projects using JANET LIghtpaths

Projects

46 PAQ

IPv4 + IPv6 Performance and QoS) observes and analyses the behaviour of QoS mechanisms and services, congestion control mechanisms, and new transport protocols when working together. Also, the way in which applications make use of the new services and the differences in behaviour in the use of these mechanisms from IPv4 and IPv6 are studied.

You can find information about the provisioned circuits in the table below:

Project name Supported Bandwidth Circuit Endpoints
46PaQ 2 x 1 Gbit/s UCL StarLight

AtlantIC

Provisioned circuits:

Project name Supported Bandwidth Circuit Endpoints
AtlantIC 150 Mb/s Imperial College Georgia Tech

BADC

British Atmospheric Data Centre.The British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) is the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Designated Data Centre for the Atmospheric Sciences. The role of the BADC is to assist UK atmospheric researchers to locate, access and interpret atmospheric data and to ensure the long-term integrity of atmospheric data produced by NERC projects. Provisioned circuits:

Project name Supported Bandwidth Circuit Endpoints
British Atmospheric Data Centre 1 Gbit/s RAL Daresbury Lab

ESLEA

Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for eScience Applications is a project backed by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and funded via HEFCE. It will enable,  through the UKLight project, the UK research community to participate to the global initiative of an international experimental testbed to pilot new paradigms in optical networking.The two main tasks of this project follow. 

Exploitation by e-Science applications

The application areas chosen are:

  • HEP-High Energy Physics
  • PP-Particle Physics Data transfer - experiments involved are ECDF, D0, BaBar, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE
  • VLBI: Radio Astronomy Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Data transfer
  • HPC: Computational steering and Visualisation using High Performance Computing facilities within the RealityGrid project
  • Integrative Biology
  • Other capabilities

Capability development

The capability development activity includes the technical preparations necessary to put the new UKLight infrastructure into service, for each application, high performance protocol R&D and resource allocation as well as reservation mechanisms.

Provisioned circuits:

Project

Supported Bandwidth

Circuit Endpoints

RealityGrid

300 Mb/s

UCL

TeraGrid Chicago Router

VLBI

1 Gbit/s

Jodrell Bank

JIVE

VLBI

650 Mb/s

Jodrell Bank

VLBI

1 Gbit/s

Jodrell Bank

Haystack

RealityGrid

300 Mb/s

Daresbury Lab

TeraGrid Chicago Router

CDF

1 Gbit/s

UCL

Fermi Lab

ATLAS

1 Gbit/s

Edinburgh University

Lancaster University

ATLAS

1 Gbit/s

Manchester University

Lancaster University

ATLAS

1 Gbit/s

RAL

Daresbury Lab

ATLAS

1 Gbit/s

Lancaster University

SARA

RealityGrid

300 Mb/s

Daresbury Lab

UCL

Control Plane

50 Mb/s

Manchester University

UCL

Control Plane

50 Mb/s

 

Virtual Pathology

Provisioned circuits:

Project name Supported Bandwidth Circuit Endpoints
Virtual Pathology 1 Gbit/s St James' Hospital Lancaster Royal Infirmary

MASTS

Measurement at All Scales in Time and Space) is an experimental eScience project focusing on the measurement and analysis of the evolution of very high capacity network services.  

UK LCG

The mission of the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid Project is to build and maintain a data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high energy physics community that will use the LHC. Details can also be found at the LCG Website Provisioned circuits:

Project name Supported Bandwidth Circuit Endpoints
ATLAS 4 x 1 Gbit/s RAL CERN