Metacomputing in the Gigabit Testbed West

The ‘Gigabit Testbed West’ is one of two Testbeds for the upgrade of the German scientific network to Gigabit capacity, that is planned for the year 2000. It currently uses a 2.4 Gigabit/second ATM link to connect the Research Centre Julich and the GMD — National Research Center for Information Technology in Sankt Augustin. The testbed is the basis for several application projects ranging from metacomputing to multimedia. This contribution gives an overview of the infrastructure of the testbed and the applications.