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Where can you go to see the high performance networking future today?
Every November the IEEE/ACM supercomputing series of conferences holds
demonstrations of the highest-end networking technologies. MITRE is organizing
the networking component of SC98: High Performance Networking and Computing,
November 7-13, 1998, in Orlando, FL.
MITRE is designing the all-fiber SC98 show-floor network that interconnects
exhibitors' booths. We are working closely with network technology vendors
to incorporate their state-of-the-art networking technologies into the
SCinet98 Network Operations Center (NOC), including gigabit-per-second
networking technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, HiPPI, and Fiber
Channel.
MITRE is also coordinating the SC98 connectivity to various experimental
wide area network (WAN) technologies that make up the Next Generation
Internet (NGI) and Internet2 initiatives. These WAN technologies include:
Internet 2 (a.k.a., Abilene)
vBNS (NSF's Very high performance Backbone Network Services)
DREN (DOD's Research and Education Network)
NREN (NASA's Research & Education Network)
ACTNet (Advanced Technology Demonstration Network)
ESNET (The Energy Sciences Network)
MITRE is working with the President's National Coordination Office for
Computing, Information, and Communications to support demonstrations involving
the NGI and Internet2 at SC98. The NGI will have 100 to 1000 times the
bandwidth of the present Internet. Examples of scheduled NGI networking
demonstrations that require such high bandwidths include collaborative
immersive visualization, remote telemedicine, battlefield simulations
and visualization, and multi-media information-on-demand environments.
For more information, please contact David
Koester using the employee directory.
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