John Blondin, a professor at NCSU
specializing in astrophysics and relativity and involved in the CHEETAH
project. "We're excited to participate in this project leveraging the NLR
infrastructure.html

About MCNC
Since 1985, MCNC has developed and operated the North Carolina Research
and Education Network (NCREN) in collaboration with the University of North
Carolina's 16 campuses. NCREN also provides access to national
research networks.

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"Our goal is to develop a high-speed optical testbed to provide
connection-oriented networking services.nlr.
Successful proposals to the INCITE program will describe high-impact
scientific research in terms suitable for peer review in the area of research
and also appropriate for general scientific review comparing them with
proposals in other disciplines. Applicants must also present evidence that
they can make effective use of a major fraction of the processors of the high-
performance computing systems offered for allocation.

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National LambdaRail Selects N.C. Research Network Organization to Lead Nationwide Networking Support

MCNC and N.
MCNC, with support from N.net/ess/
Other NLR research projects are profiled at http://www.

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S. Large-scale research projects typically involve teams of scientists
and scientific equipment from multiple geographic locations. This will enable rate-guaranteed
services for remote collaboration of geographically distributed scientists.
"IBM invested in BGW, the fastest privately owned supercomputer in the
world, to explore a range of fields including life sciences, hydrodynamics ,
materials sciences, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and fluid dynamics
-- as well as business applications," said Dave Turek, vice president Deep
Computing, IBM.

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State University Lead National Network
Technology Research on Unique Optical Infrastructure

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N. These high-speed networks,
capable of transmitting 10 gigabits per second, are physically and
operationally independent of each other.
Additionally, it offers new research frontiers for networking researchers and
distributed systems researchers," said University of Virginia Associate
Professor Malathi Veeraraghavan, who leads the CHEETAH research project and
holds a joint position in the university's Computer Science and Electrical and
Computer Engineering departments.nlr." BGW is the
second fastest computer in the world ( http://www. Examples cited by the Council include full
vehicle design, oil and gas recovery, auto crash safety, textile manufacture
and customized catalysts to improve crude oil yields. Drawing on resources from across
IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions
and technologies that enable customers, large and small , to take full
advantage of the new era of e-business.S.

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C. Networks linking
these locations can enable the transfer of massive amounts of data, remote
visualization of results and remote control of scientific equipment. NLR puts the control, the power and the promise
of experimental network infrastructure in the hands of our nation's scientists
and researchers.

Particle physics, often called High Energy Physics (HEP) deals with the smallest building blocks of everything around us - subatomic elementary particles.

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State University, is facilitating research
and experimentation in networking technologies and applications as the
nationwide provider of experiment support services for NLR, an innovative and
unique national fiber optic infrastructure designed to foster the advancement
of networking research and next generation network-based applications in
science, engineering and medicine .
"NLR is one of the most ambitious national research and education
networking initiatives of our time and a giant leap in driving the evolution
of the Internet," said John Crites, MCNC's president and chief executive
officer. The
network infrastructure makes the research teams more efficient, and in some
cases, is essential to the feasibility of projects. (NLR) is a major initiative of U.org ), with a
capacity of 91 teraflops -- 91 trillion calculations per second .
Proposals can be for one to three years.

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Argonne Taps IBM Blue Gene for DOE INCITE Program

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Georgia Tech
has joined in as a participant on the CHEETAH network. "Due to the overwhelming demand of requests for this platform,
we are pleased to be participating in the INCITE program with Argonne and the
DOE, and look forward to the results of research conducted on Blue Gene. At Argonne, 10 percent of the
resources on its IBM Blue Gene/L will be available under the INCITE program. The program seeks computationally intensive
research projects of large scale that can make high-impact scientific advances
through the use of a large allocation of computer time and data storage.

About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years
of leadership in helping businesses innovate.

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State University bring a long
history of nationally recognized leadership in the most advanced aspects of
networking.

About National LambdaRail
National LambdaRail , Inc.
Argonne and IBM are developing a plan for researchers to request
computation time on the IBM Blue Gene system nicknamed "BGW. Recent accomplishments under the INCITE program have
included detailed three-dimensional combustion simulations of flames,
providing new insight into reducing pollutants; astrophysics simulations of
the forces that help newly born stars and black holes increase in size; and
protein simulations designed to advance scientists' knowledge about the
function of proteins and their use in drug design.
The computer time will be made available to researchers through the
Department of Energy's INCITE program -- Innovative and Novel Computational
Impact on Theory and Experiment.

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Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N. The INCITE program also provides the opportunities for industry
to use high-end computing as encouraged in recent reports by the Council on
Competitiveness.

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"We are honored to have the opportunity to help researchers
throughout the nation and world develop the networking infrastructure critical
to advancements in every field of science and engineering."
NLR is not a single network -- it is a fiber optic infrastructure
supporting many networks that exist side by side. A small number of large awards are
anticipated. The Council has identified and reported on industry-specific
"grand challenges" that could make a significant contribution to national
productivity and competitiveness if more computational capability could be
made available to solve them. The University of Chicago
manages Argonne for the U.

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Tom West, chief executive officer of NLR said, "NLR's selection of MCNC to
run NLR's Experiment Support Services will further strengthen the unique
capabilities of the nationwide National LambdaRail optical infrastructure to
support leading-edge research.net/supported.J.Y.top500. Department of Energy Office of Science.

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Prospective uses of such fast computer capability include large
applications in aerospace, automotive engineering, biotechnology, chemistry,
energy and physics . For more information about IBM, visit
http://www.

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, A new collaboration between IBM and
the U . Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will provide
significant enhancements to computer capabilities available to scientific
researchers around the world.

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C. MCNC, founded in 1980 to be a catalyst for technology-based
economic development throughout North Carolina, is located in North Carolina's
Research Triangle Park. research
universities and private sector technology companies to provide a national
scale infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking
technologies and applications. Applicant codes must be
demonstrably ready to run on the requested computing systems .

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, National LambdaRail
(NLR), a consortium of leading U.
For example, an NSF-sponsored project called CHEETAH involving the
University of Virginia, NCSU, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee , and
City University of New York is being conducted to develop a next-generation
network capable of supporting these types of research projects. Visit http://www.ibm.

It is not about particles you could see under a microscope (e.

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Services will include coordinating the
deployment of experimental equipment, providing engineering support and other
assistance to researchers, serving as a facilitator for the researchers and
research collaboration, and establishing a set of tools that enables
researchers to access the NLR infrastructure in ways not possible on other
production research and education networks.C. Through the NLR
Experiments Support Services, MCNC and NCSU assisted this research by
providing engineering support.mcnc-gcns.

The World Wide Web was invented by particle physicists at CERN.

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research universities and private sector
technology companies deploying a nationwide optical networking infrastructure,
today announced that MCNC, which operates the nationally -recognized leading-
edge North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), will operate NLR
Experiment Support Services. MCNC and N. For more information, please visit
http://www.net for more information.

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Scientists and network researchers
are able to develop and control their own dedicated , end-to-end network
testbeds.
Advances in computing technologies are enabling new frontiers of research
in many fields, including earth science, high energy and nuclear physics,
astrophysics , fusion energy science, molecular dynamics, nanoscience and
genomics."
More information about the NLR ESS can be found at http://www.org.S.

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Current high-speed
networks do not provide the capabilities needed for many projects.
"This work conducted on NLR will create new scientific opportunities in
North Carolina and beyond," said Dr.
"The Blue Gene systems offer an exciting path to petascale computing.

About Argonne
The nation's first national laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory
conducts basic and applied scientific research across a wide spectrum of
disciplines , ranging from high-energy physics to climatology and
biotechnology.

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nlr. NCREN provides high-speed Internet, video, audio and data network
services for North Carolina public universities, Duke University , Wake Forest
University, other private universities and community colleges, state
government and non-profit institutions.
The INCITE program is open to all scientific researchers and research
organizations, including industry.

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C.
NLR's Experiment Support Services will provide a wide range of services
and enable new capabilities for the increasing number of projects that
leverage the unique NLR infrastructure. ARGONNE, Ill. Argonne has worked with more than 600 companies and numerous
federal agencies and other organizations to help advance America's scientific
leadership and prepare the nation for the future.

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"
The announcement was made as approximately 60 leaders in advanced
networking across the country gathered today in the North Carolina's Research
Triangle Park for the first All-Hands Meeting for NLR member organizations.S. IBM and Argonne have agreed to augment Argonne's
INCITE computer capacity with compute cycles on IBM's Blue Gene system at IBM
T . The
DOE INCITE program provides a way for researchers to explore challenging
applications on machines that are going to define the future of science," said
Rick Stevens, acting associate laboratory director of Physical, Biological and
Computing Sciences at Argonne.

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The fiber-optic, private network is dedicated to
research and education , providing a statewide network backbone to foster
innovation. The program includes high-end computing
resources not only at Argonne but also at DOE's Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley
and Pacific Northwest national laboratories. All these could benefit
from increased availability of computing power to researchers, according to
the Council.