A rising tide of scientific data is being produced by wide-scale research collaborations in scientific areas ranging from physics to climate studies, astronomy, and combustion research. Our mission at the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is to foster scientific discovery by connecting Department of Energy scientists at the 17 national laboratories, 28 user facilities, and dozens of large-scale scientific instruments via high bandwidth, high-performance access to their collaborators and scientific resources around the world.
We help scientists manage, analyze and exchange large data sets generated by powerful supercomputers, large-scale research collaborations and unique facilities such as the Large Hadron Collider. We also conduct groundbreaking research on the networking technologies and protocols that will make up the next generation Internet as well as explore ways to build networks that can keep up with the increasing torrent of scientific data, but at a reduced carbon footprint.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science and based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the ESnet’s current network boasts 46 Terabits per second of capacity along the entire backbone and now extends across the Atlantic directly into Europe in collaboration with CERN and GEANT.
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