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Print, Profiles | September 25, 2015

Larry Smarr on Solving the Big Data Challenge in HPC – HPC Wire

September 25, 2015 - Internet pioneer Larry Smarr once had a vision of bringing connected computers out of academia and into the consumer world. Today, he envisions a second virtual highway, one capable of delivering on the promise of big data by leveraging fiber optic networks to transmit data at speeds of 10 gigabits to 100 gigabits per second.

Print | September 5, 2015

Larry Smarr: Building the Big Data Superhighway – Enterprise AI

Internet pioneer Larry Smarr once had a vision of bringing connected computers out of academia and into the consumer world. Today, he envisions a second virtual highway, one capable of delivering on the promise of big data by leveraging fiber optic networks to transmit data at speeds of 10 gigabits to 100 gigabits per second.

Print | August 4, 2015

NSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform – HPC Wire

BERKELEY and LA MIRADA, Calif., Aug. 4 — For the last three years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a series of competitive grants to over 100 U.S. universities to aggressively upgrade their campus network capacity for greatly enhanced science data access.

Print | July 30, 2015

Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet – New York Times

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.