FIRE related initiativesFI testbeds in The Netherlands
The Netherlands has been the core actor of research networks (NREN). The experimental facilities in Netherlands focus on computing and optics as can be concluded from the following list of Dutch participated testbeds.
DAS-3 (The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer 3)
The Computer Science institutes at a number of Universities have an experimental testbed named DAS-3. DAS-3 is a five-cluster wide-area distributed system designed by the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI). DAS-3 is funded by The Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research, the VL-e project, and the participating universities and organisations (see below). As one of its distinguishing features, DAS-3 employs a novel internal widearea interconnect based on lightpaths. The goal of DAS-3 is to provide a common computational infrastructure for researchers within ASCI, who work on various aspects of parallel, distributed, and grid computing, and large-scale multimedia content analysis. DAS-3 has connections with the French G5K testbed.
SURFnet runs a test network to test new developments. Part of it is StarPlane.
The test network is connected to NetherLight and to SURFnet7.
GLIF, Global Lambda Integrated Facility
GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, is an international virtual organisation that promotes the paradigm of lambda networking. GLIF provides lambdas internationally as an integrated facility to support data-intensive scientific research, and supports middleware development for lambda networking. It brings together some of the world's premier networking engineers who are working together to develop an international infrastructure by identifying equipment, connection requirements, and necessary engineering functions and services. The GLIF participants are National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), consortia and institutions working with lambdas. Administrative support is provided by TERENA with financial support from sponsoring organisations.
CineGrid: Digital Cinema and HQ media on Optical Networks
CineGrid is an interdisciplinary community that is focused on the research, development, and demonstration of networked collaborative tools to enable the production, use and exchange of very-high-quality digital media over photonic networks. The University of Amsterdam is one of the founding members.