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Glimmerglass, a pioneer of fiber connection management solutions, will join the SCinet team to demonstrate Glimmerglass' fiber switching products' ability to instantly connect massive optical network connections between supercomputing applications as part of the SCinet project at SC2004 in Pittsburgh, PA, from November 6-12, 2004, the company announced. The Glimmerglass System 300 Layer 1 Fiber Switch will be used to rapidly reallocate up to ten of the 17 dedicated OC-192 circuits (10GbE) being delivered to the Convention Center to support real time monitoring of applications running in the annual High Performance Bandwidth Challenge. The Glimmerglass solution was chosen because it can switch bandwidth at performance levels that far exceed conventional switches and routers at a tiny fraction of their costs. Also, the Glimmerglass switch can re-cable all of the physical fiber connections between network interfaces, optical devices and equipment on the fly, in milliseconds, remotely and at the touch of a button. According to Jon Dugan, director of the Bandwidth Challenge; "the Glimmerglass switch will enable the SCinet team to "do more with less" by requiring dramatically fewer resources to perform on-demand network reconfigurations on the show floor." SCinet is the collection of very high performance networks built to support the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications, SC. In addition to direct wide area connectivity to Abilene, TeraGrid, ESnet, and DREN from the show floor, SCinet will for the first time have multiple 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections to the National Lambda Rail (NLR). "We're delighted to be joining the SCinet team for this year's demonstrations at SC2004," said Mark Housley, president and CEO of Glimmerglass. "We'll showcase the world's highest-performing layer 1 fiber switch working in concert with networking products from other leading suppliers in a very demanding environment -- a perfect combination for government, research and education networks."