Grand Opening for 'Big GLORIAD'
Grand Opening for 'Big GLORIAD'
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A more competitive Northeast Asia R&D hub role The big GLORIAD (Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development), which has the potential to equip the entire globe with an optical network, with priority given to cooperation among six countries -- namely Korea, the United States, China, Russia, Canada and the Netherlands -- is expected to accelerate a more competitive Northeast Asia R&D hub role. Korea is thus paving the way to become a huge driving force in this dynamic new industry, with the potential to become a global leader in a scientific technology research network which has been relatively fragile until now, due to the dominance of the Internet.
Gloriad is the first global science technology cooperation research network that can link the globe with a high-speed optical communication network. This Gloriad facility provides Korean researchers in the scientific technology fields such as nuclear fusion energy, celestial space, air atmospheric phenomena and bio-engineering, with an environment in which they can cooperate with some of the world's leading researchers. Accordingly, an epoch-making turning point is forecasted to emerge for the development of Korea in the science technology field. Notably, by proactively taking part in the GLORIAD consortium, which is composed of global scientific technology powers, Korea, despite its geopolitically-difficult location, has come to implement a more competitive Northeast Asian R&D hub role than neighboring countries such as Japan and China by constructing a globally-competitive scientific technology research network belt. Preparing the groundwork to extend its reach as a science technology power The GLORIAD construction, says Ok- Hwan Byeon, Ph.D., Head/Principal Researcher, High Performance Research Networking Dept., KISTI, is to prepare the groundwork for Korea to expand as a science technology power with an epoch-making development in the high-tech science technology field such as high energy physics, nuclear fusion, and bioengineering.
After the completion of the GLORIAD network gearing (between China-Korea and the United States.) of 10 giga notch in August 2005, GLORIAD is inducing utilization and activation by means of its stable management operation and technology support leading up to 2006-2007 as it prepares an increase speed foundation to 40 giga notch. The Head Researcher said that GLORIAD will provide Korean scientists with an infrastructure needed to be able to carry out cutting-edge science technology application research by offering GLORIAD's network service of 40 giga notch by 2008. Furthermore, he explained, the organs concerned will allow application researchers to enhance their research performance by researching and developing network application performance improvement technology and next-generation Internet technology. As GLORIAD is an international joint project involving a consortium including Korea, Russia, China and the United States, diverse international technology cooperation is indispensable, not only involving government- level cooperation, but also cooperation between the organs concerned and between GLORIAD network users (application researchers), Dr. Byeon pointed out. The two interviewees were of the same opinion in that it is a breakthrough for the development of Korea's science technology research network to be able to utilize by opening an international link of 10 giga notch, linking China (Hong Kong)-Koreaand the United States (Seattle), through an opportunity to take part in as a core member of GLORIAD consortium. An epochal turning point for the development of domestic science technology The director of the Supercomputing Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Dr. Jysoo Lee, explained in a special interview on the occasion of the launch of GLORIAD, how scientists of the most advanced countries in the world, such as the United States, China, and Russia, are promoting joint research by forming a powerful application research group, with priority given to nine application researches (high energy physics, nuclear fusion energy, celestial space, bio-engineering, medical science, grids and computing) of advanced science technology fields that need to transmit and deal with research data of large-sized capacity of several hundred Mbps~several Gbps. Along with the opening of the GLORIAD network on August, 2005, the director stressed that Korea would carry out brisk international joint research in these fields, pointing out that it is necessary to construct a science technology research high-speed network among countries in order to support e- Science-based advanced science technology R&D. For readers' background reference, the process leading up to the formation of GLORIAD was as follows: To boost the research network infrastructure supporting joint international research in the science/education field, the United States and Russia launched an advanced network (NaukaNet) construction project of 45Mbps in January, 1994. Since 2004, this project had been propelled by being enlarged as the nascent GLORIAD business, a pilot international research network of testbed character of 155Mbps~2.5Gbps notch in which three countries, namely China plus the United States and Russia took part. In conclusion, Korea has come to proceed GLORIAD project centering around Korea, the United States, China, Canada, the Netherlands and Russia six countries through 10Gbps notch network gearing between China (Hong Kong)-Korea (Daejeon), and the United States (Seattle) in August, 2005 while forming a consortium with China, the United States, Canada and the Netherlands. Success or failure of GLORIAD depends on how effectively we utilize its potential Elaborating on the significance GLORIAD holds for Korea and the other three nations involved in the project, the two scientists said that most importantly, GLORIAD is expected to provide the physical foundation for the advancement of the nation's entire science technology R&D, including national e-Science construction projects currently under way on a national level. Second, the unique high-speed/high efficiency networking capacity of several tens giga notch that this GLORIAD network holds, can address new research methods in fields where research was hampered by the limited capacity of the established research network or commercial network. Third, by utilizing high-priced overseas science technology equipment jointly through GLORIAD, it can not only cut down on the huge expenses needed for equipment construction, but also achieve the same effects to lure advanced overseas laboratories, as cooperation with advanced country researchers is now possible, they asserted. On the other hand, KISTI president Cho Young-Hwa, who concurrently serves as chairman of the Daedeok Science Town Association, stressed that the success or failure of GLORIAD, which paves the way toward an age of a new multinational science technology research network, depends on how effectively it can be utilized, besides how well the necessary infrastructure is being constructed. To achieve this, he emphasized that the full support and commitment of all those involved are urgently needed, not only from those who implement GLORIAD firsthand, but also science technology application researchers in Korea, as well as associated government ministries.

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