The Ultralight project: the network as an integrated and managed resource for data-intensive science
H. B. Newman, Julian James Bunn, Iosif Charles Legrand, Steven H. Low, D. Nae, S. Ravot, Conrad Steenberg, Xun Jia Su, Michael Thomas, Frank van Lingen, Yang Xia, Richard Cavanaugh, S. P. Mc Kee · Computing in Science & Engineering · 2005
Looks at the UltraLight project which treats the network interconnecting globally distributed data sets as a dynamic, configurable, and closely monitored resource to construct a next-generation system that can meet the high-energy physics community's data-processing, distribution, access, and analysis needs.