3rd International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems

Research Article

LambdaBridge: A Scalable Architecture for Future Generation Terabit Applications

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374342,
        author={Xi  Wang and Venkatram Vishwanath and Byungil Jeong and Ratko Jagodic and Eric He  and Luc Renambot and Andrew Johnson and Jason Leigh},
        title={LambdaBridge: A Scalable Architecture for Future Generation Terabit Applications},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2006},
        month={10},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374342}
    }
    
  • Xi Wang
    Venkatram Vishwanath
    Byungil Jeong
    Ratko Jagodic
    Eric He
    Luc Renambot
    Andrew Johnson
    Jason Leigh
    Year: 2006
    LambdaBridge: A Scalable Architecture for Future Generation Terabit Applications
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374342
Xi Wang1,*, Venkatram Vishwanath1, Byungil Jeong1, Ratko Jagodic1, Eric He 1, Luc Renambot1, Andrew Johnson1, Jason Leigh1
  • 1: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
*Contact email: xiwang@uic.edu

Abstract

LambdaGrid applications as typified by data-intensive collaborative visualization are likely to be the first users of terabit-level networking. This paper features a main enabler of collaborative visualization over LambdaGrid, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) in particular, and anticipates the future needs of LambdaGrid applications in general. We present a scalable architecture called LambdaBridge to 'bridge' LambdaGrid applications with the terabit optical core networks. LambdaBridge will provision and control predictable- performance networks for end-systems (i.e. Grid clusters) using on-demand lambda/VLAN provisioning and end-system traffic shaping. The chief contribution of LambdaBridge is a deep understanding of how to synergistically bridge provisionable networks, end-systems, and future generation distributed terabit applications. This paper also introduces Scalable Visualcasting - a multicasting service for LambdaGrid that incorporates IP multicasting and optical multicasting.