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The Director of the E-Science Core Programme has established a Grid Network Team (GNT)
to advise the directorate and its Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on matters related to
computer networking. The GNT's terms of reference are specified in a
separate document, but include formal interactions with the TAG for assessment of the
networking aspects of project proposals submitted within the programme, liaison with
the e-science centres (National, Regional and Grid-support) and activities related to
network monitoring in an e-science/grid context.
GNT membership
- David Hutchison, University of Lancaster, Chair
- Tim Chown, University of Southampton
- Chris Cooper, UKERNA & Oxford Brookes University
- Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge
- Peter Clarke, University College London
- Bob Day, UKERNA
- Paul Jeffreys, University of Oxford
- David Salmon, UKERNA - Secretary
- Jeremy Sharp, UKERNA
- Roland Rosner, University College London
- David Williams, CERN
In addition, there are observers from the DTI and core e-Science programme management
- James Fleming, EPSRC
- Anne Trefethen, EPSRC/DTI
- Ray Browne, DTI CII5b
E-Science centre visits
The GNT has started a programme of visits to the e-science centres and this will
continue over the coming weeks. Two or three GNT members will visit each centre to
introduce the GNT and discuss any immediate networking issues that the centre has
identified. We hope to find out about the projects being supported by the centres
and introduce the questionnaire which will be used to assess their network
requirements.
Applications questionnaire
A questionnaire has been drafted to help the GNT to assess the network requirements
of e-Science projects. This will be used as a framework for discussions between
GNT members and project representatives during which we will seek to understand the
project's application architecture, identify the most significant and demanding
traffic-flows and exmine scalability issues.
Contacting the GNT
The GNT is developing relationships with the other centres within the programme, and
the Grid support centre in particular. For the time being, please send any questions
you may have to the chair and
vice chair, copied to the
secretary.
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