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    The International Grid (iGrid): Empowering Global Research Community Networking Using High Performance International Internet Services
    (1998) Brown, Maxine; Defanti, Thomas A.; McRobbie, Michael A.; Verlo, Alan; Plepys, Dana; McMullen, Donald F.; Adams, Karen; Leigh, Jason; Johnson, Andrew E.; Foster, Ian; Kesselman, Carl; Schmidt, Andrew; Goldstein, Steven N.
    The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Indiana University collaborated on a major research demonstration at the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing '98 (SC'98) conference in Orlando, Florida, November 7-13, 1998, to showcase the evolution and importance of global research community networking. Collaborators worked together to solve complex computational problems using advanced high-speed networks to access geographically-distributed computing, storage, and display resources. It is the collection of computing and communication resources that we refer to as the International Grid (iGrid). This paper presents an overview of the grid testbed, some of the underlying technologies used to enable distributed computing and collaborative problem solving, and descriptions of the applications. It concludes with recommendations for the future of global research community networking, based on the experiences of iGrid participants from the USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, Singapore, and Taiwan.