The EU DataTAG Project

O. Martin

CERN, Geneva

The EU DataTAG (research technological development for a transatlantic Grid) is now half way through its second and last year. The status and plan for CERN's connectivity to the Internet will first be presented together with the status and plans of the DataTAG project, the results obtained so far in the area of Gigabit/second file transfer and interoperability between, Globus based, EU and US Grid projects. Time permitting, an overview of the leading proposals to allow TCP/IP to work effectively at multi Gigabit per second speed over shared backbones will be given.