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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2221)	12/23/2003 6:42:11 PM
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Scientists in Russia, China and US to link up New high-speed network will ring Northern Hemisphere CHAMPAIGN (Illinois) - Soon, scientists in the United States, China and Russia will be able to collaborate in cyberspace over a new high-speed computer network that includes the first direct computer link across the Russia-China border, developers say. The network, expected to go online next month, will ring the Northern Hemisphere, connecting computers in Chicago with machines in Amsterdam, Moscow, Siberia, Beijing and Hong Kong before hooking up with Chicago again, said Mr Greg Cole of the US National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), one of the leaders of the Little Gloriad project. Data will flow at 155 million bytes per second. 'This new network permits us to learn more from each other in areas where we have not worked together in the past,' he said on Monday. The NCSA received US$2.8 million (S$4.8 million) from the National Science Foundation to fund the US portion of the network for the next three years. Russia and China are spending similar amounts, Mr Cole said. Scientists have always had computer networks separate from the consumer Internet. These networks can transfer huge volumes of information at speeds much faster than typical Internet transfers and allow for real-time collaboration on high-tech experiments, Mr Cole said. Little Gloriad - an acronym for Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development - will allow scientists and educational researchers to work together on issues such as responding to natural disasters, safeguarding nuclear material, monitoring earthquakes or joint space exploration. They also could collaborate to remotely monitor or control high-tech equipment and even get together face-to-face by video-conferencing over the network, he said. 'This is specifically so our scientists and educators can work together more easily,' Mr Cole said. 'The technology is really rather amazing.' The fiber optic connection between China and Russia that makes the network possible was completed a few months ago, Mr Cole said. Final touches are being put on the China-Russia link, and the global network should see its first traffic on Jan 5. A formal launching ceremony is planned for Jan 12 in Beijing, he said. Little Gloriad is a 'first big step' towards development of the higher-speed Gloriad, Mr Cole said. That effort, expected to be launched later this year, will move data at 10 gigabytes per second, 60 times faster than the Little Gloriad. Computer connections have fostered scientific collaborations that otherwise might not have happened, Mr Cole said. 'There's some advantage to having people being able to talk more regularly,' he said. 'There are fewer misunderstandings. I think these networks are going to be more important to the more critical issues that we're all addressing together.' -- AP straitstimes.asia1.com.sg