The strategies being adopted to analyze and store the unprecedented volumes of data being gathered by current and future High Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP) experiments is the coordinated deployment of Grid technologies such as those being developed for the Particle Physics Data Grid and the GridPhysics Network. It is anticipated that these technologies will be deployed at hundreds of institutes that will be able to search out and analyze information from an interconnected worldwide grid of tens of thousands of computers and storage devices. This in turn will require the ability to sustain over long periods the transfer of large amounts of data between collaborating sites with relatively low latency.
The purpose of the IEPM-BW project is to develop and use an infrastructure to make active end-to-end application and network performance measurements for high performance network links such as are used worldwide by Grid applications and other academic and research (A&R) applications deployed over high performance network such as ESnet, Internet2 and other (A&R) networks in the developed world.