ORNL to Develop UltraNet

released December 01, 2003

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, http://www.ornl.gov/, has been awarded $4.5 million from the Department of Energy's Office of Science to create Science UltraNet, a high-speed computer network capable of carrying massive amounts of science data.

The network is expected to operate at 10 gigabits to 40 gigabits. The aim is to link scientists at ORNL and other research institutions who increasingly rely on supercomputers capable of trillions of calculations per second.Researchers in the fields of high-energy physics, fusion energy, climate modeling, genetics and nanotechnology are expected to benefit.

The plan is to set up an experimental network linking the Oak Ridge lab to Atlanta, Chicago and Sunnyvale, Calif.

 

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