Berkeley Lab today announced a major step toward creating one of the world’s fastest scientific networks to accelerate research in fields ranging from advanced energy solutions to particle physics. Known as the Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI), the effort represents a $62 million multi-year investment by the DOE Office of Science in next-generation networking technology.

Antimatter nuclei of helium-4, the heaviest antiparticles ever found, have been created by the STAR experiment at Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Eighteen examples of the antihelium particles were detected by STAR’s Time Projection Chamber, designed and built at Berkeley Lab, in debris from a billion high-energy collisions of gold nuclei.

In order to facilitate data-intensive research, ESnet, the Department of Energy’s high-performance networking facility managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is receiving $62 million to develop what will be the world’s fastest computer network, designed specifically to support science.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), a high-speed network linking tens of thousands of researchers around the nation, was honored on April 14, 2009 with an Excellence.Gov award for its achievements in leveraging technology.

ESNet has completed the Science Data Network, whose multiple 10-gigabit optical circuits, each capable of transferring the equivalent of 500 hours of digital music per second, will facilitate dynamic, high-speed, high-capacity communication among researchers throughout the world.

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BERKELEY, CA –The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science today (June 24, 2005) dedicated an innovative new network for scientific research at six DOE sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. By increasing bandwidth to these sites, DOE will help advance research in areas such as climate change, genetics, [...]

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BERKELEY, CA – Responding to the increasingly data-intensive demands of the scientific community, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is implementing a new architecture of [...]

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BERKELEY, CA —  The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-performance network funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has just completed an [...]