Pacific Research Platform: Faster Than Your Internet

Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet

John Markoff | July 31, 2015

A series of ultra-high-speed fiber-optic cables will weave a cluster of West Coast university laboratories and supercomputer centers into a network called the Pacific Research Platform as part of a five-year $5 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Calit2LS/an-integrated-science-cyberinfrastructure-for-dataintensive-research

<more at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/science/research-scientists-to-use-network-much-faster-than-internet.html?_r=1; related links: http://cenic.org/news/item/high-performance-big-science-pacific-research-platform-debuts-at-cenic-2015 (High-Performance Big-Science Pacific Research Platform Debuts at CENIC 2015 Annual Conference. March 9, 2015) and http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/nsf_gives_green_light_to_pacific_research_platform (NSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform; UC San Diego, UC Berkeley lead creation of West Coast big data freeway system. August 3, 2015)>