Network challenge MAXIMUM AG Event...

[Rick Stevens]

I double checked the website and they have about a dozen apps signed up.. 
it says
that the winner wins some cash (Qwest is one of the sponsors).. if the AG 
wins :-) we will use the cash to help support some students to attend the 
AG retreat in January..

At 08:12 PM 11/2/2000 -0600, Rick Stevens wrote:
>Hi AGsters,
>
>I wanted to send a follow up note to Terry's email about the SC2000 
>Network Challenge.
>
>We have signed the Access Grid up as one of the four or five applications 
>at SC that will be trying to MAX OUT the networks.  The SCInet crew and 
>the judges from the Network Challenge will be measuring the bandwidth used 
>for the AG from noon on Tuesday to noon on Weds.  Therefore we would like 
>to try to some very high-bandwidth sessions on the AG network during the 
>monitoring time..
>
>We will have the AG nodes at ANL and in the ANL booth at SC up during this 
>time and are scheduling some high-resolution video experiments and some 
>Voyager playback experiments.. We would like to invite the entire AG 
>community to actively participate in this Network Challenge. It would very 
>cool to try to set a record for simultaneous AG node connections and 
>number of video streams.  More details will be sent to the list as we 
>learn more about how this is going to work..
>
>Cheers,
>
>--Rick
>
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