High bit rate ACTS experiments for performing global science - Keck Telescope and global climate model

The ACTS wide bandwidth and high-speed switching provides for the first time the ability to establish nation-wide high data rate networks to control remote, high data rate instruments, process their data in near real-time, and to connect supercomputers for addressing Grand Challenge applications in the High Performance Computing and Communications program. To demonstrate these important satellite networking capabilities, a team is conducting an ACTS experiment entitled High Data Rate ACTS Experiments for Performing Global Science. Two elements are included in the experiment. In the first, remote astronomy will be conducted from the Caltech campus to the Keck telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. In the second case, a distributed global climate model simulation will be run on a meta-supercomputer. (Author)