[CAnet - news] Remote synchrotron research with lightpaths

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[Some excerpts from  Lab Canada article. Thanks to Dave Macneil for this
pointer--BSA]

http://www.labcanada.com/issues/PrinterFriendly.asp?story_id=&id=56031&RType
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Remote research now possible at Canada's synchrotron

Saskatoon, SK - Researchers across the country will soon have access to the
Canadian Light Source synchrotron at the University of Saskatchewan right
from their desktops, thanks to an ultrafast computer link pioneered by the
Alberta Synchrotron Institute (ASI) at the University of Alberta and
Canarie, Canada's advanced Internet development organization.

"It's like having a synchrotron on your desktop," says Ernst Bergmann, ASI's
executive director, who in April successfully tested the system from his
Edmonton office. "Remote access will allow protein crystallographers and
eventually other synchrotron researchers to greatly reduce travel time, turn
around experiments faster, and use the synchrotron facility much more
effectively."

Using dedicated fibre optic networks, called lightpaths, from Netera
Alliance, SRNet, Canarie and BigBangwidth, researchers can view synchrotron
experiments, directly control their samples using remote manipulation, and
transfer data back to their home labs in real time.

The project uses Canada's research network, CA*net4, and local lightpath
networks to transfer information at rates up to 1 billion bytes per second,
the equivalent of two DVD discs. It provides a fast, predictable and totally
secure connection from a researcher's lab to a control computer at the CLS
beamline.

By the end of 2006, many more Canadian researchers will have remote access
thanks to a follow-up project funded by Canarie, BigBangwidth and IBM that
will extend dedicated fibre optic networks to other research centres across
the country. The new project, under Canarie's intelligent infrastructure
program, will also allow connection to the new Vespers beamline for material
sciences at the CLS.



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