Featuring “end-to-end 10-100 gigabits per second (Gbps) connections,” the Pacific Research Platform established by UC Berkeley and UC San Diego will enable study of particle physics, cancer genomics and other data-intensive fields, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced Monday.
The data-sharing platform eventually is designed to securely connect the dedicated research networks used at 10 University of California campuses, Stanford, San Diego State University, Caltech and USC, as well as other universities outside California on the West Coast, and national laboratories.
The Pacific Research Platform was conceptually unveiled in spring 2015. The regional platform will link science researchers via three cutting-edge networks: CENIC’s California Research & Education Network (CalREN), the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), and Pacific Wave.
“Research in data-intensive fields is increasingly multi-investigator and multi-institutional, depending on ever more rapid access to ultra-large heterogeneous and widely distributed data sets,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “The Pacific Research Platform will make it possible for PRP researchers to transfer large data sets to where they work from their collaborators’ labs or from remote data centers.”
This story originally appeared on TechWire.
