The Clipper Project Computational grids* providing middleware that supports applications requiring configurable, distributed, high-performance computing and data resources.

1935: Pan American's "China Clipper" - a Martin M-130 - inaugurates Pan Pacific passenger service, flying from San Francisco to the Orient. Like these "flying boats" at the beginning of large-scale airline service, the China Clipper Project anticipates future data-intensive environments in both flexibility and performance. (See "Early Clipper Airships" for more about Pan Am's Clipper line of planes.)

This project evolved out of tests using a DPSS system at LBNL, and STAF HENP Physics Analysis code run at SLAC over the NTON OC-12 network, and achiving sustained data transfer rates of 57 MBytes/sec.

Clipper overview (Adobe PDF format)

(2-up page format, PDF)

Draft whitepaper/workplan (Adobe PDF format)

Bandwidth Reservation: Policy Based Differentated Network Services (Adobe PDF format)

A breif description of a network QoS architecture that uses the Akenti policy engine to provide policy-based admission control for IP differentiated services classes.

Grids '98 Workshop Research Challenges and Directions Panel (Adobe PDF format, 1 up)

(Adobe PDF format, 2 up)

(PostScript)

(PostScript, 2 up)

CHEP '98: paper or presentation . "The China Clipper Project: A Data Intensive Grid Support for Dynamically Configured, Adaptive, Distributed, High-Performance Data and Computing Environments"

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Data intensive networking:

"Strategy and Five Year Technology Goals for Developing and Deploying Network and Distributed Systems Services to Support DOE's Mission Based Needs for Dynamically Configured and Adaptive, Wide Area, Distributed, High Performance Computing and Data Environments" (private DRAFT) (Adobe PDF format)

(Postscript)

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*See, e.g., The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
Edited by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman. Morgan Kaufmann, August, 1998.

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This book explores the current ideas and technology for building general, persistent, large scale, and routinely available distributed computing infrastructure.

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Home page for the Globus project.

The Globus project is developing basic software infrastructure for computations that integrate geographically distributed computational and information resources.

Globus concepts are being tested on a global scale on the GUSTO testbed. GUSTO currently spans twenty-seven organizations and includes some of the largest computers in the world.

Clipper project working area (private)

Clipper project QoS working area