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FIU-AMPATH's connectivity to UltraLight and AtlanticWave is via optical waves which

traverse the FLR DWDM network. FLR optical transponders hand off this connectivity to the

AMPATH 7609 at the NAP of the Americas where both of these circuits terminate. A third 10

GigE circuit serves to connect the AMPATH 7609 and the core FLR-Miami 7609. This last

circuit trunks multiple VLANs such as the AMPATH-FLRnet primary peering VLAN and the

AMPATH-Abilene (SoX ) peering VLAN. Backup connectivity to Abilene and FLR is achieved

through a Gigabit Ethernet circuit which is provisioned from the AMPATH 7609 in Miami and

the FLR-Tampa 7609.

Global CyberBridges:

The Global CyberBridges (GCB) international program goals have three key areas of support,

which are:

1.

Science and Engineering graduate student exchange with China and Brazil

2.

Cultural, experiential, and scientific Educational Outreach with China and Brazil

3.

Networking & High Performance (Grid) Computing with China and Brazil

The program goals include:

1.

Bringing together graduate students & faculty from various disciplines through 2

semester fellowships.

2.

Offering greater understanding of research and education cyberinfrastructure

3.

Increase opportunities for cross-disciplinary research and education

4.

Increases scientists' rate of discovery

5.

Create a cyberinfrastructure empowered workforce.

6.

Provide network engineering & grid computing technical support for domestic and

international activities.

7.

Provide technology transfer support and infrastructure (SAGE) for distributed research

collaboration.

The GCB international program is comprised of a series of geographically distributed projects

each supported for a one year period with the goal of having the graduate students and their

faculty advisors adopt longer term collaborative strategies. Successful instantiation and ongoing

administration of the program requires input from professionals who contribute from globally

dispersed locations in Beijing, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Hong Kong. It implies that the

student researchers who participate in the GCB international program from geographically

distributed project locations must have the skills to bridge existing gaps successfully, e.g.

geographic distance, cultural, time-zone, governance- and infrastructure differences.

The global CyberBridges project facility consists of two distinct cluster computing systems. The

first, which can be referred to as the Analysis cluster, has been deployed using ROCKS software

and is comprised of eight total nodes arranged in the standard head node + n compute nodes

configuration (see Figure 89 below).

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