LambdaBridge: A Scalable Architecture for Future Generation Terabit Applications

—LambdaGrid applications as typified by data-intensive collaborative visualization are likely to be the first users of terabit-level networking. This paper features a main enabler of collaborative visualization over LambdaGrid, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) in particular, and anticipates the future needs of LambdaGrid applications in general. We present a scalable architecture called LambdaBridge to ‘bridge’ LambdaGrid applications with the terabit optical core networks. LambdaBridge will provision and control predictableperformance networks for end-systems (i.e. Grid clusters) using on-demand lambda/VLAN provisioning and end-system traffic shaping. The chief contribution of LambdaBridge is a deep understanding of how to synergistically bridge provisionable networks, end-systems, and future generation distributed terabit applications. This paper also introduces Scalable Visualcasting – a multicasting service for LambdaGrid that incorporates IP multicasting a...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: BROADNETS
• Authors: Xi Wang, Venkatram Vishwanath, Byungil Jeong, Ratko Jagodic, Eric He, Luc Renambot, Andrew E. Johnson, Jason Leigh
• Keywords: BROADNETS 2006, Collaborative Visualization, Data-intensive Collaborative Visualization, LambdaGrid Applications