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October 19, 2007

SC07 Lights Up Reno with Super-Powered Network

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Ultra High Capacity Network Set to Accommodate Multiple Terabytes of Data For Conference

RENO, Nev., Oct. 18 -- For seven days, the Reno-Sparks Convention Center will be home to one of the most powerful and connected networks in the world -- SCinet.

Built each year for the annual SC conference, SCinet brings to life a highly sophisticated and extreme networking infrastructure that can support the revolutionary applications and network experiments that have become the trademark of the annual SC07 conference held in Reno, Nev., Nov. 12-16, 2007.

Sponsored by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, SC07 showcases the latest advances in high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. SCinet serves as the platform for SC07 exhibitors to demonstrate advanced computing resources from their home institutions and elsewhere by supporting supercomputing and grid computing applications.

Designed and built entirely by volunteers from universities, government and industry, SCinet connects multiple 10-gigabit per second (Gbps) circuits to the showfloor, which links the conference center to research and commercial networks around the world like the Internet2 Network, National LambdaRail, and Level 3 Communications. SCinet is powerful enough to transfer over 200 Gb of data in just one second. And without a doubt, SC exhibitors and attendees will push SCinet's capacity and capabilities to the max.

"Our team of volunteers is proud to provide SC07 with a robust network infrastructure that can support the most leading-edge applications and imaginations of the conference's exhibitors and attendees, who are known for pushing networking and computing resources to the very limit each year," said Jackie Kern, SCinet committee chair of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Once the network is fully operational in November, SC07 attendees and exhibitors will connect to push it to its limits, testing new technologies, flooding it with data and then measuring and monitoring every aspect of the network's performance. A few example highlights:

Wide Area Connectivity

The Reno-Sparks Convention Center's existing network could not initially support the high speed circuits required for SC07, so the SCinet team partnered with the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority (RSCVA) and contracted with American Fiber Systems to install new fiber optic cable and equipment into the center in order to connect to local node sites and the various national and international research and education networks. In addition, the network facilities and fiber optic cable that will be deployed by AFS to support SC07 will remain in place at the convention center.

"The partnership with AFS and the SCinet team has resulted in a long-term benefit that will help us continue to attract conferences and shows that require advanced networking for exhibitors and attendees," said Knud Svendsen, RSCVA vice president of sales and marketing.

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