Performance Analysis of Parallel Visualization Applications and Scientific Applications on an Optical Grid

One major challenge for Grid environments is how to efficiently utilize geographically distributed resources given large communication latency introduced by wide area networks interconnecting different Grid sites. In this paper, the authors use optical networks to connect four clusters from three different sites: Texas A&M University, University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of California at San Diego to form an optical Grid as an OptIPuter testbed, and execute parallel visualization applications and scientific applications to analyze the performance of these applications on the optical Grid.