With the advent of service sensitive
applications (such as remote-
controlled experiments, time constrained massive data transfers,
video-conferencing, etc.), it has become apparent that there is a need
to augment the services present in today's Energy
Sciences Network
(ESnet)
infrastructure. The On-Demand Secure Circuits and Advance
Reservation System (OSCARS) project prototypes one such new service:
dynamically provisioned, guaranteed bandwidth secure circuits both
within ESnet, and between ESnet and other network domains.
OSCARS is funded out of the DOE Office of Science. The official project page has links to
the
original proposal, a project summary, and presentations on OSCARS.
Based on the original proposal, functional
and design specifications were written
to formalize the plans for the implementation. The original
implementation
was based on the Internet2
BRUW project.
Since then, the two projects have merged and share a common code base.
A GridNets 2006 paper goes into
the details of OSCARS as of August 2006.
Four of the links at the left of this page point to major
collections of of information:
The two links under User Manual describe
how to use OSCARS two
interfaces. The DCN/Installation
manual link points to a pdf document describing how to install
OSCARS on a host that is running the Dragon software. The Installation link points to a html manual on
how to install and configure just the OSCARS IDC code.