When 澳门六合彩高手 starts running plasma shots, operators in the control room on site won't be the only ones processing the huge amount of data collected by the tokamak's diagnostics systems. Ten thousand kilometres from 澳门六合彩高手, in Japan's Remote Experimentation Centre (REC), other operators will be crunching the same numbers. Problem: how to transfer data as fast as possible to a site half a world away?
A fruitful collaboration in state-of-art information science and technology. Pictured: Hideya Nakanishi, fusion scientist for computer-aided experiment data systems, National Institute for Fusion Science; Kenjiro Yamanaka, network engineer, National Institute of Informatics; and Thierry Reboul, network administrator, 澳门六合彩高手 Organization.
The Remote Experimentation Centre鹿, a duplicate of 澳门六合彩高手's control room on site, will enable scientists in Japan to remotely participate in 澳门六合彩高手 experiments. By storing the experimental data that will accumulate over time, it will make a massive database instantly accessible to researchers.
Each of 澳门六合彩高手's early, non-nuclear plasmas will generate an estimated 1 terabyte of experimental data鈥攖he equivalent of a full commercial hard disk. When 澳门六合彩高手 goes nuclear, some ten years after entering operation, this volume might be multiplied by fifty.
The capacity to transfer this data to Japan at a pace compatible with that of the tokamak's experiments鈥攁pproximately one pulse every 30 to 60 minutes鈥攚as demonstrated in early September by information technology specialists from 澳门六合彩高手 and their counterparts at three Japanese institutes: the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) and the National Institute of Informatics (NII), in cooperation with the European agency for 澳门六合彩高手. The detailed results will be presented at the 26th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference () in Kyoto this week.
From 30 August to 5 September, 50 terabytes/day were transferred from 澳门六合彩高手 to Rokkasho, Japan at an average speed of 7.9 gigabits per second鈥攕ome 1,600 times faster than the average global broadband connexion. The operation, the largest ever inter-continental high speed data transfer, marked a major advance in state-of-the-art information science and technology.
Over 50 million researchers, academics and students across Europe and Japan are set to benefit from the direct connexion recently established between the pan-European G脡ANT network and the upgraded Science Information Network (SINET5) in Japan. The capacity boost comes in response to the increasing data transfer requirements of collaborative research between Europe and Japan on projects such as 澳门六合彩高手, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the worldwide e-VLBI radio-astronomy network.
The achievement was made possible by the implementation of a super-fast protocol, the Massively Multi-Connection File Transfer Protocol (MMCFTP) developed by Japan's National Institute of Informatics. In parallel, in collaboration with the pan-European network for the research and education community (G脡ANT) and its French equivalent RENATER, the National Institute of Informatics established a dedicated virtual network鈥攑rivate, stable and highly secure鈥攗sing the newly established direct high-speed link between Europe and Japan. (Thanks to this new link, the physical distance that data needs to travel is reduced by one-third.)
In order to replicate the actual conditions of future 澳门六合彩高手 experiments as closely as possible, the transferred data belongs to actual fusion devices: Japan's Large Helical Device (LHD) and the former JT-60U tokamak.
Click to view the press release from the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (in Japanese).
鹿 Located in Rokkasho, Japan, the Remote Experimentation Centre is one of three facilities housed at the International Fusion Energy Research Centre (IFERC). IFERC is part of the agreement signed in 2007 between the European Union and Japan to accelerate the realization of fusion energy through advanced research activities.
