Networking
for More Powerful Supercomputers
ORNL is building a high-speed
fiber-optic link that will connect Laboratory supercomputers with those
in Atlanta, Georgia, and Research Triangle Park near Durham, North Carolina.
The network, which will be about 10,000 times faster than a traditional
T-1 connection, is expected to be operating in early 2002.
According to ORNL’s Bill Wing,
this new network will connect to the Atlanta GigaPOP (a regional aggregation
point at which high-speed networks can exchange data with each other),
giving ORNL the ability to link with several other high-performance networks,
including the Internet2 and perhaps the Supernet managed by the U.S. Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency. In addition, the new network will serve
as the core of a regional research network.
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