The Pacific Research Platform, a cutting-edge research network infrastructure based on ESnet’s Science DMZ architecture, will link together the Science DMZs of dozens of top research institutions in California. The Pacific Research Platform was announced Monday, March 9, at the CENIC 2015 Annual Conference/
The new platform will link the sites via three advanced networks: the Department of Energy’s Energy Science Network (ESnet), CENIC’s California Research & Education Network (CalREN) and Pacific Wave. Initial results for the new infrastructure will be announced in a panel discussion during the conference featuring by Eli Dart (ESnet), John Haskins (UC Santa Cruz), John Hess (CENIC), Erik McCroskey (UC Berkeley), Paul Murray (Stanford), Larry Smarr (Calit2), and Michael van Norman (UCLA). The presentation will be live-streamed at 4:20 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, March 9, and can be watched for free at cenic2015.cenic.org.
Science DMZs are designed to create secure network enclaves for data-intensive science and high-speed data transport. The Science DMZ design was developed by ESnet and NERSC.
“CENIC designed CalREN to have a separate network tier reserved for data-intensive research from the beginning, and the development of the Science DMZ concept by ESnet has enabled that to reach into individual laboratories, linking them together into a single advanced statewide fabric for big-science innovation,” said CENIC President and CEO Louis Fox. “Of course, CENIC itself also functions as a way to create a fabric of innovation by bringing researchers together to share ideas, making the timing of this announcement at our annual conference just right.”