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A meeting to discuss the implementation of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Research Network was held on Friday, February 16, in Rust by the design and implementation group members Tommy Foley (ENG), Puri Bangalore and Fran Fabrizio (CIS), Doug McLean, Phillip Lindley, and John-Paul Robinson (IT).

The 10GigE Research Network (10GigErNET) is a project to facilitate inter-cluster job scheduling between clusters in the CIS and Engineering compute centers and eventually form a high bandwidth pathway between UAB research computing resources and research computing resources at other institutions. It is an important component of the UABgrid grid computing initiative.

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The Internet2 2006 Fall Member Meeting was held in Chicago, Illinois from Monday December 4th through Thursday December 7th. I attended the meeting to participate in a SURAgrid presentation and demonstration of applications running on SURAgrid, including the UABgrid BLAST application which leverages DynamicBLAST to distribute gene sequence queries across grid resources. I also participated in a meeting to discuss next steps for the continuing myVocs and GridShib integration efforts and project updates.

SURAgrid is a collaborative effort to build a production grid computing environment leveraging existing infrastructure and applications.

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The conference opened with a keynote by Ed Seidel from LSU. He
started out by laying out the vision for the grid: an environment of
virtualization for transparent access to resources.

He made an interesting point about the growth of network bandwidth
versus the growth of computation power. Computing power has been
doubling every 18 months, but network capacity has been doubling every
9 months. The bandwidth rapidly outstrips the the computational
increases to the point where bandwidth effectively becomes
infinite. While latency will always be a consideration, we should

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The SURA Grid Workshop, January 2005, was an enjoyable event with a good collection
of people with different levels of expertise and an excellent exchange
of ideas. There were around 100 or so attendees (rough personal
estimate), a size which allowed for plenty of direct involvement with
conference presenters.

What follows are some impressions about and notes from the
presentations I attended. I try to follow with order of presentation
at the conference. You can find the schedule and the presentation
slides here:

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwacs/suragridconf/

Update 2005.03.23: