1. SC|09 BWC achievements
Rogério L. Iope
V GridUNESP Workshop
December 2009

2. BWC|09 achievements - São Paulo / Brazil - November 2009
Diagram courtesy of Azher Mughal (Caltech)

3. Diagram courtesy of Azher Mughal (Caltech)

5. Switch port mapping detailed

6. Waves’ testing period (16-19 Nov)
local traffic monitored by ANSP

7. Peak transfer @ Cisco-Wave
memory‐to‐memory transfers
t t f
São Paulo contribution: ~9 Gbps

8. BWC official run (snapshot 1)
disk‐to‐disk transfers

9. BWC official run (snapshot 2)

10. BWC official run (snapshot 3)

11. BWC official run (whole picture)

12. Detailed view of C-Wave

13. São Paulo-Portland stress test
“New record of data flows between
Northern and Southern hemispheres”

14. Stress test: detailed view

15. Closing remarks
Brazil now has 2 x 10 Gbps links connecting local R&E
communities to U.S
“First
“Fi t 10G li k was i
link inaugurated i J l 2009 with a lightpath
t d in July ith li ht th
demo involving the digital cinema community, with the
transmission of compressed 4K digital media and
uncompressed HD videoconferencing between São Paulo,
UCSD and Keio University in Japan” (Prof. Michael Stanton)
Second 10G link was inaugurated in November 2009 during
SC’09 with the help of the team, led by Caltech, that won
ith th h l f th t l d b C lt h th t
the Bandwidth Challenge

16. References
http://supercomputing.caltech.edu/
http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13309

17. Acknowledgements