Spirent Communications’ SmartBits network performance analysis equipment has been chosen to evaluate the 40-Gigabit TeraGrid fiber-optic network backbone. The TeraGrid project is a multi-year effort to build and deploy the world’s largest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. The project was launched by the National Science Foundation in August 2001 with $53 million in funding. By 2004, the TeraGrid project is expected to include 20 teraflops of computing power distributed at five sites, capable of managing and storing nearly 1 petabyte of data, high-resolution visualization environments, and toolkits for grid computing.
For the performance tests, TeraGrid project engineers are using the SmartBits platform configured with 32 one-gigabit ports and one 10-gigabit port placed at each site.
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