Projects

• National LambdaRail (NLR)  National LambdaRail, Inc. (NLR) is a major initiative of U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies to provide a national scale infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications. NLR puts the control, the power and the promise of experimental network infrastructure in the hands of our nation's scientists and researchers.
• Three Rivers Optical Exchange:  regional network aggregation point providing high speed commodity and research network access to sites in Western and Central Pennsylvania.

• Networking at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center:
• Support for LAN, MAN and WAN production, research and experimental networks.
• Network research projects focusing on nework support for distributed applications.
• Web100:  a project focused on providing the software and tools necessary for end-hosts to automatically and transparently achieve high bandwidth data rates (100 Mbps) over the high performance research networks. This project is a collaboration with NCAR and NCSA and is funded by the NSF and Cisco.

• Net100: The Net100 Project is creating software that allows computer operating systems to adjust dynamically to network conditions. Net100 is funded by a three year grant from the Mathematical, Computational Sciences Division in the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy.

• TheQuilt:  a UCAID Project whose participants are non-profit advanced regional network organizations dedicated to advancing research and education in the United States

Current Grants

Completed Projects and Grants