England face the first astronomy, particle physics and molecular biology as high as 1Gbps bandwidth dedicated optical research network UKLight will be November 12 to 18 in Seattle during the Supercomputing SC05 International Conference was officially opened.

UKLight and the world will be other similar research network, provides scientists with high-capacity data transfer channel. UKLight earliest start construction in June 2004, by the end of next year the network will be integrated into the entire British academic network.

UKLight current nine nodes are located at University College, London, Cambridge, Leeds, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Lancaster, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh Glasgow¡£