Panel on OBS and Grid Computing

Grids have received an increasing amount of attention in recent years from the research community. Grid applications developers requiring movement of petabyte and tera byte data sets have become frustrated with interference from network flow control mechanisms in TCP/IP and have turned to the use of dedicated optical channels for file transfer. OBS systems have the potential to allow sharing of these dedicated and expensive resources without incurring undesirable effects of packet networks and plans have begun developing for experimental systems to evaluate this possibility.

The panel will discuss technical issues and experimental efforts associated with grids as a driving OBS application.

Panel members

• Dr. John Bowers, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Dr. David Griffin, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Mr. Dan Stevenson, MCNC Research and Development Institute
• Dr. Jason Leigh, University of Illinois, Electronic Visualization Laboratory

Moderator Dr. Harry Perros, North Carolina State University.