Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Qwest Communications (Q) (formerly QWST) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nick who wrote (1097)	4/10/1998 12:39:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

[more on CalREN-2] Super Computer Network Unveiled; Will Be Faster Than Internet OAKLAND, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- Details of a computer network that will handle data much faster than the Internet were unveiled Thursday by a consortium of California universities, including the University of California, Stanford and the California Institute of Technology. The high-speed network, called the California Research and Education Network or CalREN-2, should be running by June, the Oakland-based Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California said. Group president M. Stuart Lynn said CalREN-2 will transmit data at speeds up to 2.4 gigabits per second, fast enough to download a 30-volume encyclopedia in just a little over a second. The fiber-optic technology and computer equipment will be provided by Pacific Bell, Qwest Communications, Cisco Systems, GTE and Northern Telecom. The nonprofit group will buy the hardware at a discount, said Lynn, who also is associate vice president for information resources and communication for the University of California. The network won't just be fast, it'll be smarter. Researchers around the state will be able to operate and collect data from specialized instruments, including UC Riverside's electron microscope and Hawaii's Keck Observatory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena and UC Santa Cruz. Health-care experts also will get access to clinical images available at universities on the network and the schools' super-computing resources. CalREN-2 will have access to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey, as well as the Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos national laboratories. CalREN-2's advanced networking technologies will link universities nationwide on an all-academic system. Later, the technologies will be applied commercially. "We expect many of the things we're doing to filter into the public network and benefit everyone in California," Lynn said. The system will cost $15 million. The consortium has won $4.5 million in grants from the National Science Foundation and the universities will pay the balance over three years, Lynn said.