For science, big data is the microscope of the 21st century

GigaOM (Nov 8 2011) Networking

1. Johns Hopkins is taking a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a 100 gigabit per second network to shuttle data from the campus to other large computing centers at national labs and even at Google. The network will be capable of transferring an amount of data equivalent to 80 million file cabinets filled with text each day. The head of the project, Dr. Alex Szalay, detailed the plans, which include gear from networking gear from Cisco, Arista and Solarflare, Nvidia GPUs; and 66,000 x86 cores. That’s on top of the actual fiber that will connect a new, 1-megawatt data center inside the physics building to regional Mid-Atlantic Crossroads research and engineering network at the University of Maryland. (Read Full Article)

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