EVERGROW: Ever-growing global scale-free networks, their provisioning, repair and unique functions.

EVERGROW ist ein internationales, interdisziplinäres Projekt, in dem Informatiker und Physiker die zukünftigen Möglichkeiten des Internets untersuchen, sowohl experimentell als auch theoretisch. Für den experimentellen Teil wird ein "virtuelles Netzwerk-Observatorium" Eingerichtet, bestehend aus 9 Hochleistungsrechnern an 9 Standorten in Europa und Israel. Magdeburg ist einer dieser Standorte. Mehr Informationen unter http://www.evergrow.org.

EVERGROW

Our objectives are to integrate in a single project advances in our knowledge of data networksand the content they carry, through new techniques of measurement, advances in the theoryof the emergent phenomena which are encountered in these large, ever-growing dynamic networks, with a focus on mechanisms to regulate their growth and channel user behaviour in the most effective directions, and advances in the architecture and functioning of overlay networks, which are the critical tool for exploiting this growing wealth of computing and communications power.To do this we will provide a common platform and laboratory, our "virtual observatory", of computers coupled through the latest GRID technology. In the observatory we will provide archived measurements, tools to extrapolate them to 2025, test environments in which new services can be prototyped and evaluated against our network mock-ups, and the computing power to support the extensive computer experimentation that is needed to allow surprises to surface in the theoretical study of such complex systems as these.EVERGROW will achieve a second sort of integration, integration of disciplines. We bring together to a common focus members of several distinct computer science and physics communities. We start with involvement from the communications, network measurement, distributed computing and physics of complex systems communities