ESnet congratulates Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT on receiving the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their vision and leadership of the LIGO Laboratory. Their discovery of gravitational waves, made just two years ago, culminates decades of effort. ESnet is proud to have played a role in supporting this achievement.
LIGO’s Hanford facility in Washington was an early adopter of ESnet’s OSCARS, the On-Demand Secure Circuits and Advance Reservation System, for guaranteed bandwidth services in 2005 for early development. In fact, the project was one of the very first users of the OSCARS service.
Last year, ESnet upgraded the Hanford LIGO sites network connection to Seattle with a dedicated 10 Gbps link, which complemented a shared 10 Gbps link to Boise. The Hanford site consistently moves about 400 megabits of data per second to Caltech in Southern California.
You can see the real-time data transfer rates and other details of this connection on the MyESnet portal.
Lastly, we are also working with Caltech to improve end-to-end bandwidth at the campus as part of theascr-funded SENSE (SDN for End-to-end Networked Science at the Exascale) project. By improving scientific workflows and end-site driven intelligent services to increase data throughput, the project will help LIGO in using high throughput data transfer methods.
Again, congratulations to our LIGO colleagues and we look forward to continuing to support your research mission.
For a great explanation of the LIGO project, read this NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory blog.
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