@article{38668daa06fa41219f6350a13817b903,
title = "Large scale computational science on federated international grids: The role of switched optical networks",
abstract = "The provision of high performance compute and data resources on a grid has often been the primary concern of grid resource providers, with the network links used to connect them only a secondary matter. Certain large scale distributed scientific simulations, especially ones which involve cross-site runs or interactive visualisation and steering capabilities, often require high quality of service, high bandwidth, low latency network interconnects between resources. In this paper, we describe three applications which require access to such network infrastructure, together with the middleware and policies needed to make them possible.",
keywords = "Computational chemistry, Distributed applications, Grid computing, Network communications, Switched optical networks",
author = "Coveney, \{P. V.\} and G. Giupponi and S. Jha and S. Manos and J. MacLaren and Pickles, \{S. M.\} and Saksena, \{R. S.\} and T. Soddemann and Suter, \{J. L.\} and M. Thyveetil and Zasada, \{S. J.\}",
note = "Funding Information: This work has been supported by EPSRC grant number GR/T04465/01 (ESLEA), by EPSRC Grant EP/D500028 (SPICE) and the EPSRC funded RealityGrid project (GR/R67699 and EP/C536452/1); these grants have also supported our work with computational time on the UK{\textquoteright}s CSAR and HPCx facilities. Our work has also been supported by several NFS/TeraGrid grants including NRAC MCA04N014, PACS ASC030006P, MRAC DMR070013N and DMR070014N and DAC ASC070019T and DMR070003P. We thank the DEISA Consortium (co-funded by the EU, FP6 projects 508830/031513), for support within the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative. Funding Information: The implementation of HARC was supported in part by the National Science Foundation “EnLIGHTened Computing” project [41] , NSF Award \#0509465. Funding Information: P.V. Coveney holds a Chair in Physical Chemistry and is Director of the Centre for Computational Science (CCS) at UCL. He holds an Honorary Professorship in Computer Science, also at UCL. Coveney leads the large EPSRC RealityGrid Project, funded from 2001–2005 as a Pilot Project, and from 2005–2009 under a Platform Grant. Coveney has pioneered the application of scientific grid computing including the use of computational steering to harness distributed grid infrastructure in order to solve challenging scientific problems in the physical, life and biomedical sciences. Coveney is currently chair of the UK Collaborative Computational Projects Steering Panel. ",
year = "2010",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1016/j.future.2008.09.013",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "26",
pages = "99--110",
journal = "Future Generation Computer Systems",
issn = "0167-739X",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "1",
}