Quanta : A Quality of Service and Adaptive Networking Toolkit for Supporting Advanced Collaborative Environments over Optical Networks

广达是一款支持光网络上Teranoad应用程序的工具包。要让Terscalale协作应用程序在高速光网络上以最佳方式工作，并不像将一台计算机连接到互联网那么简单。今天的协议栈和科学应用程序不能也不知道如何利用这种极端级别的带宽，即使它是可用的。我们打算通过广达解决这个问题，广达是一个跨平台的自适应网络工具包，用于支持万亿级协作应用的特殊网络要求。广达将由一组新的网络协议组成，这些协议旨在处理各种极高带宽的应用流量；以及服务质量(Qos)体系结构，以灵活控制这些协议，并支持电子和光QOS机制，如通用多协议标签/波长交换(GMPLS)。其目标是提供一种易于使用的系统，该系统将允许程序员在高水平上指定其应用程序的数据传输特征，并允许量子透明地将这些要求转换为适当的传输协议和网络QOS服务。

QUANTA is a toolkit for supporting TeraNode applications over opticalnetworks.Getting terascale collaborative applications to work optimally on a highspeed optical network is not as simple as connecting ones computer to theInternet. Today's protocol stacks and scientific applications cannot and donot know how to utilize this extreme level of bandwidth even when it isavailable. We intend to address this problem with Quanta, a cross-platformadaptive networking toolkit for supporting the extraordinary networkingrequirements of terascale collaborative applications. Quanta will consist ofa collection of novel networking protocols that are designed for handling awide variety of extremely high bandwidth application traffic flows; and aQuality of Service (QoS) architecture to flexibly control these protocolsand support electronic and optical QoS mechanisms such as Generalized MultiProtocol Label/Lambda Switching (GMPLS). The goal is to provide an easy touse system that will allow programmers to specify the data transfercharacteristics of their application at a high level, and let Quantatransparently translate these requirements into the appropriate transmissionprotocol and network QoS services.