INTERCONNECTS

From November 16-19, the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR will host cutting-edge network-based experiments and demonstrations as part of this year’s Supercomputing Conference, SC09. The conference has built a reputation for revolutionary demonstrations and challenges, as well as a top-flight technical program, bringing together the best and brightest researchers and exhibitors in the world of high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis.

Pacific Wave is a distributed international network peering exchange facilitating some of this groundbreaking research. At Booth 451 on the SC09 show floor, researchers in the fields of ocean observatories and sustainable computing will showcase innovations made possible by the global advanced networking provisioned by Pacific Wave and other advanced networks. The booth theme will be “Advanced Networking for a Fragile World.” Presentations will spotlight the high-performance research being carried out thanks to Pacific Wave in disciplines of vital importance to our changing planet. More information, including the schedule of presentations, can be found at the Pacific Wave website at www.pacificwave.net.

Pacific Wave has been an integral contributor to Supercomputing events since its inception in 2004 and has supported many 'world's first' research programs and record-breaking Bandwidth Challenge activities. Groups which have benefited from Pacific Wave's close affiliation with Supercomputing in past years include AARNet, KREONet2, University of Tokyo, Caltech/Ultralight, EVL, Optiputer, GEMNET, University of Washington. SC09 is no different, with Pacific Wave facilitating connectivity for demonstrations by the University of Tokyo, Caltech, the Korean advanced networks KREONet2/KISTI, and the Japanese advanced networks GEMNET/JGN2/NICT.

Previous SC conferences have also benefited from Pacific Wave’s networking support, including last year’s conference in Austin, TX and the previous year’s conference in Reno, NV. Such support has consisted of providing extremely high bandwidth networking resources to the show floor itself, and provisioning such resources across its own internal infrastructure to support demonstrations by Pacific Wave members worldwide.