SC2002 BANDWIDTH CHALLENGE WINNERS SET NEW NETWORK PERFORMANCE MARKS

Prizes for most daring networking awards sponsored by Qwest Communications

November 27, 2002--The High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge awards

announced last week at SC2002 established new records for network

performance, with one winning application demonstrating a five-fold

increase over the previous top-mark set last year. The High-Performance

Bandwidth Challenge, held at the annual SC Conference, is a competition

for leading-edge network applications developed by teams of researchers

from around the world.

For the third consecutive year, a team led by Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory captured the competition for the "Highest Performing

Application" with a wide area distributed simulation using Cactus,

Globus and Visapult software demonstrating a peak data transfer rate of

of 16.8 gigabits per second, nearly 25,000 times faster than a typical

home broadband connection. The winning team included the Albert Einstein

Institute, Argonne National Laboratory, ESnet, Force10 Networks,Masaryk

University, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA),

the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Poznan

Supercomputing and Networking Centers, Sandia National Laboratories, and

the University of Amsterdam.

The Data Reservoir application, demonstrated by Fujitsu Laboratories and

University of Tokyo, won the award for the "Most Efficient Use of

Available Bandwidth," with a peak of 585 megabits per second.

With a peak transfer rate of 2.4 gigabits per second, the award for the

"Best Use of Emerging Network Infrastructure" went to Project DataSpace,

which was demonstrated by a team from CANARIE, the National Center for

Data Mining at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern

University, SARA (Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum) and StarLight.

Ten outstanding entries third edition of the High-Performance Bandwidth

Challenge was again sponsored by Qwest Communications and attracted

Additional network monitoring and measurement support was provided by

CalNGI, Internet2, the National Partnership for Advanced Computational

Infrastructure, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Spirent

Communications, and the University of Florida.

The competition took place live on the SC2002 show floor in Baltimore

using SCinet, the state-of-art, on-site network designed and built

especially for the annual SC conference. SCinet featured more than 40

gigabits per second (Gbps) of external network capacity, itself a new

record and more than 50,000 times the speed of a typical home broadband

connection. For more information about this year's High-Performance

Bandwidth Challenge, see:

http://scinet.supercomp.org/bwc/

About SC Conferences

The annual SC Conferences bring together scientists, engineers,

visualization artists, programmers, and managers to share ideas and to

glimpse the future of high performance networking and computing, data

analysis and management, visualization, and computational modeling. The

conference is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics

Engineers Computer Society and by the Association for Computing

Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture. SC2003 will

be held in Phoenix, Arizona For more, see: http://www.sc-conference.org/2003/

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