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FIU AmLight supporting the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS)

April 22, 2022

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced an additional investment of $52 million through the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support, or ACCESS, program. ACCESS will improve the accessibility of national cyberinfrastructure centers and increase integration with systems and research communities on campuses across the nation. The 2022 ACCESS awardee teams comprise 71 researchers, students, staff, and more than 90 partner organizations across the country. The five 2022 ACCESS awardees will work to improve the agility, accessibility, usability, and coordination of the research cyberinfrastructure ecosystem.
Florida International University (FIU) and AmLight are participating in Track 3: Operational & Integration Services with sub-award “The COre National Ecosystem for CyberinfrasTructure (CONECT) Award” to provide operations, data and networking, and cybersecurity support. CONECT will be led by NCSA in partnership with the FIU, Indiana University, PSC, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, and the University of Chicago … Read More

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Q-Factor: enabling host tuning using In-band Network Telemetry

June 13-17, 2022

At TNC22, Jeronimo Beserra’s presentation covered the motivations to tune data-transfer hosts, how the Q-Factor leverages In-band Network Telemetry (INT), the use of Linux socket level information for tuning, and results from tuning network endpoints. Q-Factor is a framework that enables high-speed data transfer tuning and optimization based on real-time network state information provided by programmable data planes and network sockets. Q-Factor addresses data transfer tuning and optimization processes by changing how network endpoints, including Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs), consume network state information. Q-Factor is a project led by Florida International University (FIU) and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF Award #2018754) … See recording

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Connecting the Poles: What the R&E networks are doing to reach the ends of the world

April 21, 2022

Are the Poles the final frontiers of research and education (R&E) networks? What are the technical, political, and scientific implications of connecting the Arctic and Antarctic to the global network for research and education? What is, for Latin America, the importance of the connectivity of Antarctica from the southernmost city in the world, Punta Arenas? The answers to all these questions were discussed among the leaders of academic networks in the Americas … Read More

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Evolution of the Internet in Brazil

July 10, 2022

The country’s first internet network is turning 30 in 2022 and continues to evolve to this day, to serve the education, research, and innovation ecosystem in Brazil. In 1992, the realization of Rio-92, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, in Rio de Janeiro, made it possible for RNP, until then a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT), to have the role of creating an internet infrastructure for the event. From this first connection, the first internet network in Brazil emerged, connecting ten states and the Federal District. In other words, at first, internet access was for academic purposes, so that Brazilian researchers could be connected with each other and with their international peers … Read more (Portuguese)

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Registration is open for CENIC 2022

September 26-28, 2022 Hyatt Regency, Monterey, CA

Registration is open for the 2022 Conference in September of 2022 in Monterey, California. The Right Connection: CENIC 2022 brings together CENIC’s richly diverse community, with participants from all education segments. Please join us to discuss and learn new ways that networks can support leading-edge research and create rich educational opportunities for all of our communities … Read More

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AmLight-ExP project is supported by NSF Award #1451018 and #2029283. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in AmLight ExP materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.