ORNL leads SCinet at SC99
ORNL's Dr. William Wing, of the Computer Science and Mathematics Division was asked to lead the team which assembled this year's SCinet network at SC99, the technical conference and trade show which is the annual highlight of the high performance computing, networking and storage worlds. He was assisted by Chuck Fisher and Rex Duncan of Computing, Information, and Networking Division's Networking and Workstation Services Section. SCinet is built each year by about 25 volunteers, selected for their recognized expertise and ability in high performance networking.
SCxx is the largest and most respected technical conference devoted to high performance computing, networking, and storage. It is held each fall, sponsored in alternate years by the IEEE and the ACM and combines a conventional conference (refereed papers and proceedings) with a trade show at which vendors such as Cray, IBM, SGI, Storage Tech, Cisco, and Nortel, show off their latest and most powerful systems. In addition, the most prominent research labs showcase some of their current capabilities. The network, which illustrates the state of the art in high performance networking and simultaneously ties the show together, is known as SCinet. This network is assembled specifically for the show, and for its duration represents the highest performance LAN on earth. This year's network, SCinet99 was no exception. It was based on a multiple-lambda DWDM loop on the show floor carrying seven OC192 channels on a single fiber. In the wide area, it used four quadrants of OC48 and distributed SC99 to the Internet, the vBNS, and all the major agency networks.
SC99 slides / SCxx (Who, What, When, Where, Why and How) slides