> **CISTO Supports iGrid 2005 Demonstrations**
>
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> An iGrid 2005 demonstration of the electronic-Very Long Baseline
> Interferometry (e-VLBI) project correlated data from telescopes
> worldwide (Image credit: MIT Haystack Observatory).
>
> Two live demonstrations went off without a hitch at the iGrid 2005
> Workshop, with support from the Computational and Information Sciences
> and Technology Office (CISTO) High End Computer Network (HECN) team
> and their 10 gigabit-per-second fiber optic network. Using the DRAGON
> regional optical network and the National LambdaRail (NLR), data and
> video flowed 3,000 miles between Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
> and the workshop site at the University of California, San Diego.
>
> The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information
> Technology (CalIT2) hosted iGrid 2005 to encourage the development and
> use of high-speed optical networks. Researchers from 20 countries
> staged 49 exhibits during the workshop, which drew nearly 450
> attendees September 26--29.
>
> One exhibit featured the electronic-Very Long Baseline Interferometry
> (e-VLBI) project, a multi-national effort involving the GSFC
> Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory (GGAO) and the Massachusetts
> Institute of Technology (MIT). The demonstration used a technology
> called dynamic provisioning to automatically establish network
> connections between telescopes in Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, and
> the United Kingdom. Live data from these telescopes were delivered at
> over 512 megabits per second to MIT, where they were correlated with
> data from GGAO in real time.
>
> A second exhibit demonstrated a novel high-definition 3D video display
> system. Standing in front of a 4-foot-tall display podium, attendees
> could view holographic 3D video at HDTV resolution---without goggles
> or special headgear. The video originated from the HECN network lab at
> GSFC, where specially aligned HDTV cameras filmed a scene and encoded
> it for network transfer. The resulting data stream traveled through
> the DRAGON and NLR networks to the 3D display on the iGrid 2005
> exhibit floor.
>
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> A True-3D display showed real-time, stereo-HDTV video transmitted from
> GSFC to the University of California, San Diego (Photo credit: Pat
> Gary, GSFC).
>
> Echoing the theme of iGrid 2005, the HECN team emphasizes that
> high-speed optical networking services are available today within
> several GSFC facilities. Projects interested in using 10-gigabit
> networks to advance their research are invited to contact Pat Gary,
> Network Projects Leader in GSFC Code 606.1, at <Pat.Gary@nasa.gov>.
>
> **Related Links**
>
> IGrid 2005
>
> http://www.igrid2005.org
>
> e-VLBI Exhibit Page
>
> http://www.igrid2005.org/program/applications/lambdaservices_provisioning.html
>
> 3D Display Exhibit Page
>
> http://www.igrid2005.org/program/applications/vizservices_3dviz.html
>
> Pat Gary\'s iGrid 2005 Photo Gallery
>
> http://cisto.gsfc.nasa.gov/L-Netpdfs/iGrid2005_collage_small2.pdf
>
> HECN High-Speed Networking Home Page
>
> http://cisto.gsfc.nasa.gov/IRAD_Lambda.html
>
> DRAGON Regional Optical Network
>
> http://dragon.east.isi.edu
>
> National LambdaRail
>
> http://www.nlr.net