In the frame of system@tic competivity cluster, Carriocas studies and develops the hardware and software elements of an ultra high bit rate (40Gb/s per channel) optical fiber core network with very high access rate (10 Gbit/s Ethernet) to answer in a economically competitive way, thanks to the development of high performance distributed applications, to the scientific and industrial needs in:

  Interactive numerical simulation on remote supercomputers

 To adapt ultra high bit rate networks to the requirements of the applications: To adapt physical layers of high bit rate transport, the protocols and the algorithms in order to dynamically manage the resource without service disruption and to guarantee the expected quality of service (resource availability, stable execution, low latency and security) 

To integrate and validate on an experimental network at the top-level bit rate of 40 Gb/s the developed hardware and software technical solutions (protocols, architectures, applications) with user-transparency, availability and quality guarantees. The targeted network will link in the initial phase four locations in “Ile de France”  hosting  high computing capacity or important needs in prototyping and high performance visualisation: Clamart (EDF), Bruyères-le-Châtel (CEA/Ter@Tec), Saclay (CEA) and Orsay (Université/INRIA Futurs/ Digiteo).·

 To confirm the expected benefits of the high bit rate for the applications with the industrial and academic partners of the project and later on with other interested partners from other sectors such as avionics, chemical, meteorology, genomics …. The privileged applications in this first phase concern the distributed storage of massive data on remote servers (distributed LUSTRE system between Bruyères, Orsay, Saclay and Clamart) and the remote collaborative high performance visualisation with post processing and data storage (image wall between EDF Clamart and Bruyères)