DWDM-RAM: enabling Grid services with dynamic optical networks

Advances in Grid technology enable the deployment of data-intensive distributed applications, which require moving Terabytes or even Petabytes of data between data banks. The current underlying networks cannot provide dedicated links with adequate end-to-end sustained bandwidth to support the requirements of these Grid applications. DWDMRAM1 is a novel service-oriented architecture, which harnesses the enormous bandwidth potential of optical networks and demonstrates their on-demand usage on the OMNInet. Preliminary experiments suggest that dynamic optical networks, such as the OMNInet, are the ideal option for transferring such massive amounts of data. DWDM-RAM incorporates an OGSI/OGSA compliant service interface and will promote greater convergence between dynamic optical networks and data intensive Grid computing.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Silvia M. Figueira, Sumit Naiksatam, Howard J. Cohen, Doug Cutrell, Paul Daspit, David Gutierrez, Doan B. Hoang, Tal Lavian, Joe Mambretti, Steve Merrill, Franco Travostino
• Keywords: CCGRID 2004, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Dynamic Optical Networks, Grid, Optical Networks