Network Development and Deployment Initiative (NDDI)
Internet2, Indiana University and the Clean Slate Program at Stanford University have formed the Network Development and Deployment Initiative (NDDI), a partnership to create a new network platform and complementary software, which together will support [...]
AmLight Enables Dark Energy Camera Data Flow from Chile to U.S.
In late 2011 the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a 520 megapixel camera designed and built as part of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), will be installed on the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) 4-meter [...]
High-energy physicists set record for network data transfer
Researchers have set a new world record for data transfer, helping to usher in the next generation of high-speed network technology. At the SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference in Seattle during mid-November, the international team transferred [...]
Open Science Data Cloud Sessions at SC11
This past summer Florida International University (FIU) was selected to be part of a 5-year grant awarded to the University of Chicago (PI Robert Grossman) Open Science Data Cloud National Science Foundation's Partnership for International [...]
Overseas Update Future Internet Testbeds in Brazil: Activities and Goal
The National Education and Research Network (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP) provides global integration and collaboration supported by information and communication technologies, for the generation of knowledge and excellence of education and [...]
ALMA Opens Its Eyes
Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers at its 16,500-feet elevation site in northern Chile.Thousands of scientists from around the world competed to be the [...]