Subject:  FW: SC05 Bandwidth Challenge Winners 
Date:  Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:09:28 +0100 
From:  Debbie Montano <dmontano@force10networks.com> 
To:  Debbie Montano <dmontano@force10networks.com> 

SC|05 marks the 6th annual Bandwidth Challenge, presented by Qwest and 
sponsored by Force10 Networks, Spirent and Net Optics.  
The Bandwidth Challenge highlights the best and brightest in new 
techniques for creating and utilizing vast rivers of data that can 
be carried across advanced networks.
 
The 1st prize for the Bandwidth Challenge goes to the team from 
CalTech, Fermi and SLAC for their entry:

Distributed TeraByte Particle Physics Data Sample Analysis
 
This entry demonstrated high speed transfers of particle physics data 
between host labs and collaborating institutes in the USA and worldwide.  
Using state of the art WAN infrastructure and Grid Web Services based 
on the LHC Tiered Architecture, they showed real-time particle event 
analysis requiring transfers of Terabyte-scale datasets.

Awards were presented yesterday to:

Julian Bunn  CalTech
Harvey Newman  CalTech
Les Cottrell  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Don Petravic  Fermi National Accelerator Center (Fermi  / FNAL)
Matt Crawford  Fermi National Accelerator Center (Fermi  / FNAL)

The 1st prize is $5000 provided by the Bandwidth Challenge sponsor Qwest.

We also honored two other Bandwidth Challenge entries with the awards below.

For "Most Innovative Use of New Technology" we recognized:
Jeremy Cooperstock and the team from McGill University, for their entry:
"Wide Screen Window on the World: Life Size HD Videoconferencing".
McGill used high bandwidth to reduce latency on their high definition 
video conferencing between Seattle and Montreal, so that two way 
synchronized interaction of musicians was truly possible.

For "Fastest IPv6" we recognized:
Kei Hiraki and the team from the University of Tokyo, for their entry:
"Data Reservoir on very-long-distance IPv6 / IPv4 network".
They achieved 6.84 Gbps peak traffic on IPv6.

Graphs of the traffic measured for each Bandwidth Challenge entry can be found at:
http://scinet.supercomp.org/2005/bwc/results/summary.html

The "Max Datapoint" shown at the top of each graph is the maximum of the 
"Total Aggregate In" plus the "Total Aggregate Out".  Each graph shows 
the traffic on each 10 GigE circuit, plus a "Total Aggregate In" 
and a "Total Aggregate Out", but does not show the combined Total 
In and Out.   The measured traffic is the IP packets and IP header only.   
(In a couple case, we show 2 graphs for one entry -- this occurred 
where the participant re-ran all or a portion of their application 
during their scheduled time window, and we remeasured to see if a 
higher result could be acheived).

Bandwidth Challenge entries where judged not only on bandwidth, 
but also on their impact and relevance to the science and community 
they support.  
(See: http://sc05.supercomputing.org/initiatives/bandwidth_call.php)

The Bandwidth Challenge could not occur without enormous effort, work 
and dedication by the participants, the Scinet staff, the Bandwidth 
Challenge team, the BWC judges -- Steve Wallace, IU; Scott Bradley, 
BNL; Koichi Hyodo, Force10 (Japan) -- and a host of other often 
unseen but tireless people who helped bring all of this to fruition.  
Know that your hard works is appreciated by me and by everyone 
who is involved!

Be sure to congratulate the winners and to pass on your thanks to 
all the people who supported the SC|05 Bandwidth Challenge.

Debbie Montano
SC05 Bandwidth Challenge Team Lead