Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Build "UltraNet"

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has awarded Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) $4.5 million to design a high-speed, experimental network to be call the “Science UltraNet.” The three-year project will support high-performance computing and other large facilities at the Department of Energy and at universities. The plan is to set up a testbed network operating at 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps and connecting ORNL to facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Sunnyvale, California.
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