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AT&T, Southern Universities Team to Advance the Grid
December 16, 2003
By OpticallyNetworked Staff
AT&T and the Southeastern Universities
Research Association (SURA) yesterday announced a collaboration agreement designed to allow the consortium of approximately 60 research institutions in the southern U.S. and the
District of Columbia to use AT&T's newest national network infrastructure for experimental work on grid computing.
The collaboration agreement is designed to speed the creation of regional
and national grid services to support the nation's research and education
(R&E) community. AT&T will make available, at no cost, 8,000 miles of dark fiber network as well as an inventory of optical networking equipment.
SURA serves as an entity through which colleges, universities,
and other organizations may cooperate with one another, government and
industry in acquiring, developing, and using laboratories and other research
facilities and in furthering knowledge and the application of that knowledge
in the physical, biological, and other natural sciences and engineering.
The assets provided by AT&T will be used to develop experimental network services to support advanced research
that would not be possible using a commercial network, according to statement released by AT&T. The company will also lease
to SURA and its partners additional network facilities and capacity as needed.
By using Grid networking to share computing facilities, data repositories
and applications researchers can solve
complex problems, conduct computer-intensive research or analyze vast amounts
of data. For example, advances in the areas of database mining, particle
detectors, telescope observatories, electron microscopes and technical testing
devices are all being networked, allowing data to be shared, managed and
accessed.
"We
want to help scientists in the U.S. to continue to lead the world in the field
of networking. Additionally, we want to extend the availability of AT&T's
leading edge network resources beyond top-tier research institutions to
include universities that until now have not enjoyed access to high-speed
facilities. Finally, we plan to leverage what we jointly learn and build with
the R&E community to advance AT&T's leadership in the commercial grid
connectivity business," said Hossein
Eslambolchi, President of AT&T Labs and AT&T's Chief Technology Officer.
Louisiana State University chancellor and chair
of SURA's council of presidents, Mark Emmert, described the agreement as an "important step in helping to realize a vision for a new national optical
networking capability for research and education."
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