CENIC Today -- May 2007
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Volume 10, Issue 4
May 31, 2007
Welcome to CENIC Today, the monthly newsletter of the Corporation for
Education Network Initiatives in California.
IN THIS ISSUE:
CENIC News:
* President's Message: The GENI Project
* CalREN Update: Network Projects and Activities
* CENIC 2006/2007 Is Online -- help us to improve!
* TransitRail Update: New Participants at Ashburn, VA Node
* Second International Orthopedic Videoconference Takes Place at USC
* CCCSAT Becomes 3C Media Solutions: CA Community College Educational
Programming Network Gets a New Name
National Networking News:
* Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye Introduces Broadband Data Improvement Act
* GridNets Announces First International Conference on Networks for
Grid Applications
* Next-Generation WiFi Planned for This Summer, Final 802.11n Standard
in 2009
* North Carolina REN Organization MCNC Announces New President/CEO
* Oregon State University Adopts New Time-saving Backup Approach
* UC Berkeley/Australia Team Discover 28 New Exoplanets
* Internet2-NLR Merger Update
* Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center Provides Major Support for
Unprecedented Storm Forecast Experiment
About CENIC:
* About CENIC
* Subscription Information
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CENIC News:
President's Message: The GENI Project
It is easy to look back at various initiatives or innovations that have had
major effects on technology (specifically networking) and with perfect
hindsight, recognize the hallmarks of
their significance after the benefits have become a part of daily
life. Other innovations that failed to revolutionize society – perhaps
because they were too far ahead of their time,
because necessary supporting infrastructure was not in place, or because of
the inertia of a pre-existing legacy system – may also have been excellent
ideas, but were still fated
to disappear without realizing their potential.
And often, only the passage of time allows us to determine which category
today’s far-seeing innovations occupy. In 2007, the Model T Ford seems so
much more superior to the
Stanley Steamer because we have over one hundred years of perspective to
guide us. In 1900, choosing which technology would be the one to reshape
the landscape of human
culture would have been far more challenging. Identifying transformational
technologies is a lot harder using foresight than hindsight.
There is however one project about which you will shortly begin hearing
more that may be looked back at years from now as just one of those
watershed initiatives in the arena of
networking. That project is GENI, the Global Environment for Network
Innovations, an NSF initiative to inform the development of a new
Internet. GENI is a proposed research
platform that will allow technologists throughout the country to build and
experiment with new designs to inform the ultimate shape of the
next-generation Internet, whatever that
shape will be. Far from a traditional network testbed, with the narrower
purpose of investigating specific proposals over existing architectures,
GENI also seeks to promote a
“clean slate” approach. Optimal designs for the next generation networking
infrastructure may well be far removed from Internet we all use every day;
GENI seeks to find those
designs, wherever they may lie, as well as enabling the pursuit of
innovations designed to run on existing real-world networks.
Recently, the NSF awarded funding to BBN Technologies to serve as the GENI
Project Office, which will be responsible for working with researchers to
develop the GENI design.
The actual research projects that GENI will facilitate will still have to
pursue their own funding through the NSF. However, the funding of the
Project Office may well mark the first
step on the path toward the creation of a 21st century Internet.
In a few decades time, we should be able to tell whether GENI occupies the
same space as the Model T or the Stanley Steamer – whether it is remembered
only by historians or
indeed lived up to its potential to reshape the daily lives of millions of
people. Stay tuned and check in a decade or two from now for a hindsight
assessment.
-- Jim Dolgonas, CENIC
CalREN Update: Network Projects and Activities
CENIC engineers are finalizing the installation of an additional connection
to <http://www.qwest.com/>Qwest<http://www.qwest.com/> Communications for
increased ISP redundancy for commodity Internet traffic. With this
connection, CalREN will feature three new Gigabit connections to Qwest in
Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, and Sacramento and will offer Associates more
robust connectivity to the
commodity Internet.
CalREN-DC Refresh Project:
CENIC's Digital California network, called CalREN-DC, provides high-quality
network services for students, faculty, staff, and researchers throughout
the California K-20 system.
CENIC's support of K-12 networking extends the existing CalREN backbone to
each of the 58 California counties to facilitate connectivity by
California's K-12 schools.
The current CalREN-DC backbone speed is 2.5 Gb/s, and CENIC is currently
undertaking an upgrade/refresh of the entire CalREN-DC network that will
increase this speed to
10 Gb/s as well as upgrading and replacing vital equipment. This project
is called the <http://www.cenic.org/calren/expansion.html>CalREN-DC Refresh
Project and consists of retrofitting the DWDM optical system and
replacing routers and associated equipment along the entire CalREN-DC
network. A substantial undertaking, the project includes an assessment of
space and power needs
throughout the network as well as shipping, installation, and removal of
numerous systems at backbone hub sites throughout California. In addition,
the project involves
considerable hardware tracking, inventory, and asset management activities.
Currently, CENIC engineers and contract resources are surveying and
documenting both space and power requirements along the CalREN backbone. At
the same time, fiber
splicing and testing is being performed and documented on an as-needed
basis. Site surveys are nearing completion, and CENIC is working closely
with collocation providers to
identify completion dates for the necessary rack and power build-outs that
are needed before Cisco Professional Services can begin their site surveys
in preparation for
installation of their new optical equipment.
Keep in touch with the status of the CalREN-DC Refresh Project in future
issues of CENIC Today!
-- Ed Smith, CENIC
CENIC 2006/2007 Survey is Online -- help us to improve!
CENIC is keenly aware of the importance of what we provide to our
community: cost-effective, high-bandwidth networking to support the needs
of faculty, researchers, staff, and
students. This requires not only expertise and commitment, but a constant
desire to improve -- and to do that, we need your help.
We would like you to complete a survey to help us continue to improve. In
our <http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226B7B3GSW2>CENIC 2006/2007
Survey, you'll find questions covering the technical performance both of our
people and the CalREN networks, our promotional and informational
materials, CENIC project management, CalREN Video Services, and how much
your participation in CalREN
benefits you and your institution. The entire
<http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226B7B3GSW2>survey will take
between 5 and 10 minutes to complete.
The <http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226B7B3GSW2>CENIC 2006/2007
Survey will be open until June 30, 2007.
TransitRail Update: New Participants at Ashburn, VA Node
In the <http://www.cenic.org/publications/cenictoday/ctv10_2.html>March 29
issue of CENIC Today, readers learned of the activation of a new node in
Ashburn, VA for the <http://www.transitrail.net/>TransitRail nationwide
peering program. The first TransitRail node to
be activated east of the Mississippi, the Ashburn node was put into service
ahead of schedule and will soon be joined by a fifth node in Chicago, IL.
Together with the current nodes in Seattle, Palo Alto, and Los Angeles,
these two new connection points will give the TransitRail peering program a
national footprint and enable
research and education institutions to take advantage of low-cost network
peering on a national scale. Already, the addition of the Ashburn node has
enhanced the significant
benefits available through participation in TransitRail. Current
participants connecting through the Ashburn node include the
<http://www.midatlantic-terascale.org/>MidAtlantic
Terascale<http://www.midatlantic-terascale.org/> Partnership, the
<http://www.psc.edu/>Pittsburgh
<http://www.psc.edu/>Supercomputer Center, the
<http://www.mcnc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=network.html>North
Carolina Research & Education Network, <http://www.merit.edu/>MERIT
Network, Inc<http://www.merit.edu/>., <http://www.flrnet.org/>Florida
LambdaRail, <http://www.sox.net/>Southern <http://www.sox.net/>CrossRoads,
and the <http://www.ena.com/>Education Networks of
America.
To learn more about TransitRail, please visit http://www.transitrail.net/.
-- Janis Cortese, CENIC
Second International Orthopedic Videoconference Takes Place at USC
On February 13 of this year, the first International Orthopedic
Videoconference, including participants from the US, Australia, Mexico,
Brazil, Chile, South Korea, and Malaysia,
took place with the Ohio Supercomputer Center managing. During the
conference, surgeons and researchers from all over the globe discussed the
utility of high-bandwidth
networking for clinical treatment, remote care, and training, and addressed
the specific needs of their countries and institutions.
<http://www.usc.edu/>USC's
<http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/ksom.html>Keck<http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/ksom.html>
School of Medicine saw the second in this ongoing series of
videoconferences on May 18, 2007 at 8am Pacific Time. This time,
participants hailed from the US and
Africa, with surgeons, researchers, and other specialists in California,
Indiana, and Washington DC as well as Kenya (Nairobi), Tanzania (Dar es
Salaam), and Egypt discussing
how they plan to put the Orthopaedic Research and Education Network of East
Africa (ORENEA) to work to improve patient care, training, and
research. Representatives from
<http://www.sicot.org/>SICOT (The International Society of Orthopedic
Surgery and Traumatology), the <http://www.gdln.org/>Global Development
Learning Network (GDLN), <http://www.internet2.edu/>Internet2, and
<http://www.polycom.com/>Polycom also discussed the
upcoming SICOT meeting this August in Marrakech, Morocco where Kenya and
Tanzania look forward to announcing membership in the organization.
Dr. A. Kinasha from the <http://www.udsm.ac.tz/>University of Dar
Es<http://www.udsm.ac.tz/> Salaam's
<http://www.muchs.ac.tz/>Muhimbili<http://www.muchs.ac.tz/> University
College of Health Sciences expressed great interest in the network and
SICOT membership. The
institution offers orthopaedic and neurosurgery specialties with 14
practicing surgeons. They were recently pleased to host Dr. Chadwick
Smith, President of SICOT, and
Internet2 health sciences advisor W. Edward Johansen, and look forward to
benefiting from remote learning and eHealth. Dr. Smith, along with Mr.
Johansen, participated from
USC, and congratulated the team from the University of Dar es Salaam on the
intense, high-level work done toward achieving membership in SICOT.
Darrell Bailey of the Indiana University
<http://informatics.iupui.edu/>School of
<http://informatics.iupui.edu/>Informatics also participated from
Washington, DC and expressed anticipation at being able to work together
with <http://www.ampath.co.za/>AMPATH,
Kenya's <http://www.mu.ac.ke/>Moi Unive<http://www.mu.ac.ke/>rsity, and the
<http://medicine.iu.edu/>IU<http://medicine.iu.edu/> School of Medicine on
pressing issues of global interest, including AIDS training and
professional development for physicians in Kenya,
where <http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/18/news/aids.php>the epidemic
shows signs of easing but nonetheless has exacted a high toll. Specialists
participating from Kenya also looked forward to achieving SICOT membership,
and opening a GDLN learning center in mid-June, currently in the process of
installation and testing. Polycom's Director of Health Care Markets Ron
Emerson stated that he
looked forward to seeing videoconferencing technology break down geographic
barriers, making experts and centers of excellence available worldwide.
The entire videoconference is available in Windows Media and Quicktime
formats at http://sg60.oar.net/eHealth/ under the heading of "eHealth East
Africa." Be sure to watch
and see how high-bandwidth networking can benefit not only California and
the US, but global medical research and education.
-- Janis Cortese, CENIC
CCCSAT Becomes 3C Media Solutions: CA Community College Educational
Programming Network Gets a New Name
Based out of Palomar College -- the first community college to receive
Gigabit connectivity to the CalREN backbone -- 3C Media Solutions (formerly
CCCSAT) is the educational
distribution network dedicated to assisting the California Community
Colleges (CCC) in providing ubiquitous access to academic and vocational
instruction as well as CCC
relevant information and entertainment. They serve over 2.5 million
students and 85,000 faculty and staff throughout the state.
3C Media Solutions delivers high-quality, digital broadcasts to 127
Affiliate locations including every California Community College, college
district office and the CCC
Chancellor's Office. These entities not only contribute relevant
programming, but also serve as locations where students, faculty, staff and
administrators can meet, collaborate,
learn and enrich their lives.
3C Media Solutions is a statewide, grant-funded initiative established by
the California Community College Chancellor's Office in 1997 to advance
distance learning and support
the mission of the California Community College system.
To learn more about CCCSAT, now 3C Media Solutions, visit
<http://www.cccsat.org/>their website, where you will find information on
the history of the network, its distribution channels and programming
schedule, technical information, and legal and copyright information. The
new website at http://www.3cmediasolutions.org/ will go live on July 1, 2007.
-- Janis Cortese, CENIC
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National Networking News:
Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye Introduces Broadband Data Improvement Act
On May 24, 2007, Commerce Committee Chairman
<http://inouye.senate.gov/>Daniel K. <http://inouye.senate.gov/>Inouye
(D-HI), with the co-sponsorship of Senators <http://kerry.senate.gov/>John
<http://kerry.senate.gov/>Kerry (D-MA), <http://dorgan.senate.gov/>Byron
<http://dorgan.senate.gov/>Dorgan (D-ND),
<http://cantwell.senate.gov/>Maria <http://cantwell.senate.gov/>Cantwell
(D-WA.), <http://pryor.senate.gov/>Mark <http://pryor.senate.gov/>Pryor
(D-AR), and <http://klobuchar.senate.gov/>Amy
<http://klobuchar.senate.gov/>Klobuchar (D-MN), introduced the
<http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=248822&Month=5&Year=2007>Broadband
Data Improvement Act, S. 1492, which seeks to improve the quality of
federal broadband
data collection and encourages state initiatives that promote broadband
deployment.
“The first step in an improved broadband policy is ensuring that we have
better data on which to build our efforts,” said Chairman Inouye. “In a
digital age, the world will not wait for
us. It is imperative that we get our broadband house in order and our
communications policy right. But we cannot manage what we do not measure.”
The Broadband Data Improvement Act specifically would direct the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) to reevaluate its current 200 kilobit
broadband standard. It also
would require the FCC to create a new metric known as “second generation
broadband” to be used to reflect network connections capable of reliably
transmitting high-definition
video content. Other directives of the Act focus on benchmarks for
broadband availability and deployment, measuring broadband use versus
dial-up, comparing the US's broadband
penetration versus other nations, and measuring the impact of broadband
speed and price on small businesses.
The Act would also authorize a 5-year, $40 million per year program that
would provide matching grants to State non-profit, public-private
partnerships in support of efforts to more
accurately identify barriers to broadband adoption throughout the State.
<http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=248822&Month=5&Year=2007>More
information, including the full text of the Act, can be found online at the
<http://commerce.senate.gov/public/>US Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation.
GridNets Announces First International Conference on Networks for Grid
Applications
The <http://www.gridnets.org/>GridNets conference series is an annual
international meeting which provides a focused and highly interactive forum
where researchers and technologists have the opportunity
to present and discuss leading research, developments, and future
directions in the Grid networking area. The objective of this event is to
serve as both the premier conference
presenting best Grid Networking research and a forum where new concepts can
be introduced and explored.
The previous events in this series were: GridNets 2004 in San Jose (USA),
GridNets 2005 in Boston (USA), GridNets 2006 in San Jose (USA). All of
these events have been
successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international
participation. From the first event through the fourth, we have been known
as the GridNets Workshop affiliated
with the IEEE BroadNets conference series. For this, our fifth event, we
will convene our first meeting as a conference and in Europe. The
proceedings will be published by ACM
and will be available through <http://portal.acm.org/>ACM Digital Library.
Best papers will be considered for publication in a special section of
Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) -
The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Application.
The conference will be held from October 17-19, 2007 in Lyon, France and
information about the conference program, workshops, committees, and
lodging/travel can be found
online at the
<http://gridnets.org/2007/>GridNets<http://gridnets.org/2007/> 2007
conference website.
Next-Generation WiFi Planned for This Summer, Final 802.11n Standard in 2009
The <http://www.wi-fi.org/>Wi-Fi<http://www.wi-fi.org/> Alliance says it
will begin certifying wireless routers and other networking equipment that
conforms to the "Draft N" standard next month, even though the final 802.11n
standard -- which is expected to be about five times faster than the widely
used "g" variety and will offer better reach through walls and into dead
spots--won't be available until
2009.
The Wi-Fi Alliance announced on May 16 that it will begin certifying
wireless routers, networking cards, microchips, and other so-called "Draft
N" products in June. The products,
which take their name from the upcoming 802.11n technical standard, are
expected to reach schools and other consumers shortly thereafter.
Wi-Fi comes in several flavors -- "b," "a," "g," and soon "n" -- referring
to the subsection of the technical guidelines issued by the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
a technical professional organization.
The "n" version is expected to be about five times faster than the widely
used "g" variety, reaching hypothetical data rates of up to 248 megabits
per second (Mb/s) -- though in
practice, speeds rarely reach what is listed on the box. Draft N products
are said to offer better reach through walls and into dead spots ...
Source:
<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7087>eSchool<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7087>
News Online
North Carolina REN Organization MCNC Announces New President/CEO
MCNC, which developed and operates the nationally recognized
<http://www.mcnc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=network.html>North
Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) and a catalyst for
technology based economic
development in North Carolina for the last 27 years, announced on May 11,
2007 that Joseph A. (Joe) Freddoso will become the organization's CEO on
July 1. Freddoso most
recently was Senior Director of Community Relations for
<http://www.cisco.com/>Cisco.
MCNC Board Chairman Mike Murphy announced Freddoso's hiring on behalf the
MCNC Board of Directors. "The MCNC board conducted a nationwide search to
fill the leadership
role for our organization. We are pleased to have reached agreement with
someone who is familiar to many North Carolinians, particularly those in
the education community,"
Murphy said. "Joe's track record of commitment to students at all levels of
education in North Carolina is well known, and his leadership provides a
great foundation to maintain
and enhance the high level of service MCNC has been providing to our
continually expanding education customers."
MCNC's core focus is delivering high speed, reliable network services to
enable research and education at all public universities and many private
universities and colleges
throughout North Carolina. A growing number of community colleges and K-12
schools are also supported by NCREN.
More information about MCNC and the NCREN can be found online at
http://www.mcnc.org/.
Source: <http://www.mcnc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=news_item&id=134>www.MCNC.org
Oregon State University Adopts New Time-saving Backup Approach
A new backup and restore system at <http://osufoundation.org/>Oregon State
University Foundation has reduced weekly backup time for the system
administrator from days, to just 90 minutes. "I'd hate
to think how my Mondays would be without it," said Systems and Database
Administrator Lyle Utt.
The system, on which all of the foundation's data is backed up to either
disk or tape, is "a huge time-saver," according to Utt, who backs up about
a terabyte of data nightly. "I
was spending all day Monday doing backups. So I'm quite pleased with
<http://www.storserver.com/>STORServer; it's freed me up to do other things."
The OSU Foundation, with assets of more than $500 million, is a nonprofit
organization chartered to raise and administer private funds in support of
Oregon State University
education, research and outreach. Utt backs up two server locations, a
local office in Corvalis, OR, where the foundation is located, and another
in Portland, on OSU's campus.
The OSU computer, which is also used for offsite storage, is synched up
nightly with the local system and is backed up to disk only; the local
server is backed up to disk first,
then from there eventually to tape.
Source: <http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/48251/>Campus Technology
UC Berkeley/Australia Team Discover 28 New Exoplanets
Astronomers on teams from UC Berkeley and Australia reported the discovery
of 28 new planets all at once on Monday, and their leader -- working
through the night all this
week at the world's biggest telescope in Hawaii -- is now on the hunt for
rocky planets that might resemble Earth.
"An overarching question now is whether our own solar system is really
alone," said Geoffrey Marcy, the Berkeley astronomer whose team has led in
the discovery of what are
now widely known as "exoplanets."
The 28 planets they and their Anglo-Australian colleagues reported bring
the total number of exoplanets discovered to 236 since the first one was
detected barely a dozen years
ago, and now the rush is on.
The two teams reporting Monday said that besides the 28 planets they
discovered during the past year, they also found seven brown dwarfs -- huge
and strange objects much
larger than Jupiter that are called "failed stars" because they never grew
to a size and mass big enough to turn on their nuclear fires and blaze
forth as true stars.
But among the confirmed solar systems detected during the past year, four
of the stars hold at least two planets in orbit and maybe more that are as
yet undetected, the
astronomers said. Two other stars hold objects that are even more puzzling:
They could be either giant gas planets or brown dwarfs, and only more
investigations with more
sensitive instruments will be able to identify them for certain.
Source:
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/29/MNG9CQ336T1.DTL>SFGate.com
Internet2-NLR Merger Update
The <http://www.internet2-nlr.org/npt/>Network Planning Team (NPT) and the
Merger Planning Team (MPT) held an initial joint meeting this week.
The NPT has been developing a plan for creating the national backbone
architecture that best serves the research and education community's needs.
They have assimilated
information and guidance from the community to develop their set of
recommendations. The MPT will take up the NPT recommendations to develop
the definitive agreement to
merge <http://www.internet2.edu/>Internet2 and
<http://www.nlr.net/>National LambdaRail.
The MPT, jointly led by the chairs of Internet2 and NLR, will now build on
the NPT's efforts and focus on the business aspects of work towards a
merger. It is the MPT's
responsibility, with the assistance of counsel, to prepare the definitive
agreement that will be presented to the Internet2 and NLR Boards. The MPT
will also provide guidance
about which issues need to be addressed as part of the process to finalize
the definitive agreement and which issues will be better addressed by the
new merged organization.
The latest available information about the merger process can always be
found at: <http://www.internet2-nlr.org/>http://www.internet2-nlr.org/,
including <http://www.internet2-nlr.org/faqs/>detailed
<http://www.internet2-nlr.org/faqs/>FAQs,
<http://www.internet2-nlr.org/statements/>team statements, and
<http://www.internet2-nlr.org/contact.shtml>contact
<http://www.internet2-nlr.org/contact.shtml>information.
Source: <http://www.internet2-nlr.org/>Internet2-NLR.org
Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center Provides Major Support for Unprecedented
Storm Forecast Experiment
A major goal of the 2007 <http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hwt/>NOAA Hazardous
Weather <http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hwt/>Testbed (HWT) Spring Experiment is
to assess how well "ensemble" forecasting -- a very computationally demanding
approach -- works to predict thunderstorms, including the "supercells" that
spawn tornados. It is the first time ensemble forecasts, multiple runs of
the same forecast model (to
measure the uncertainty inherent in weather forecasts), are being carried
out at the spatial resolution at which storms occur (finer than operational
forecasts, thereby requiring
more computing). It is also the first time ensemble forecasts are being
carried out in real time in an operational forecast environment.
"Ensembles have been used extensively in larger-scale models," said Steven
Weiss, Science and Operations Officer of the NOAA
<http://www.spc.noaa.gov/>Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman,
Oklahoma. "But they have never before been used at the scale of storms.
This is unique - both in terms of the forecast methodology and the enormous
amount of computing. The
technological logistics to make this happen are nothing short of amazing."
Collaborators in the experiment, in addition to PSC and SPC, are the
<http://www.caps.ou.edu/>Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
(CAPS) at the University of Oklahoma, Norman; the NOAA
<http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/>National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman;
LEAD (<https://portal.leadproject.org/gridsphere/gridsphere>Linked
Environments for Atmospheric Discovery), an NSF Large Information
Technology Research grant program and
TeraGrid Science Gateway; and the <http://www.ncsa.edu/>National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois, a lead
<http://www.teragrid.org/>TeraGrid resource provider.
Source:
<http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/news/2007/2007-05-10-storm.php>Pittsburgh
Supercomputer Center
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About CENIC:
California’s education and research communities leverage their networking
resources under CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in
California, in order to obtain
cost-effective, high-bandwidth networking to support their missions and
answer the needs of their faculty, staff, and students. CENIC designs,
implements, and operates CalREN,
the California Research and Education Network, a high-bandwidth,
high-capacity Internet network specially designed to meet the unique
requirements of these communities, and
to which the vast majority of the state’s K-20 educational institutions are
connected. In order to facilitate collaboration in education and research,
CENIC also provides connectivity
to non-California institutions and industry research organizations with
which CENIC’s Associate researchers and educators are engaged.
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institutions also donate expertise through their participation in various
committees designed to ensure
that CENIC is managed effectively and efficiently, and to support the
continued evolution of the network as technology advances.
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