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'Nortel links Russia's scientists to Large Hadron Collider'Sep 11, 2009 (DMEUROPE via COMTEX) -- Nortel's optical technology has been selected by Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna (JINR Dubna) for an upgrade and capacity increase on the optical link that connects Russia's scientists to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Nortel has designed and delivered the optical service for the JINR Dubna outside Moscow with Nortel partner Jet Infosystems providing installation and deployment of the network upgrade. The upgraded optical backbone connects scientists in Russia to the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), enabling them to take part in the international scientific project and receive data direct from the collider after its restart in November. A global collaboration of more than 170 computing centres in 34 countries, the WLCG builds and maintains the data storage and analysis infrastructure for the international high-energy physics community that will use the LHC located at the European organisation for nuclear research CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The Russian segment of the WLCG includes institutes affiliated with the Russian Data Intensive Grid (RDIG) community. In Russia, data communication between RDIG sites is performed via the Russian Backbone network operated by the Russian Institute for Public Networks. Distributed for DMeurope.com via M2 Communications (www.m2.com) |