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Trans Pacific Internet Project

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Indiana University proposes to establish a high bandwidth international Internet connection from the vBNS to the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) through the Science, Technology, and Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAP) in Chicago. This will support high bandwidth research applications and collaborations between various research and education (R&E) institutions in APAN (who are proposed to be HPIIS-authorized), Indiana University, the NSF’s two premier high performance computing centers - the National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computing Infrastructure (NPACI), and over 30 HPIIS-authorized R&E institutions (HPIIS institutions) in the United States including both vBNS Authorized Institutions (vAIs) and vBNS Partner Institutions (vPIs). 
 

The development of this trans-Pacific research network and accompanying services will support collaboration between researchers in the US and Asia in a broad range of applications including astronomy, molecular biology, high energy physics, medicine, meteorology, visualization, and computational science. The complementary nature of research being conducted in the US and Asia, the access that will be provided to unique resources, and the benefits of closer ties with the economies of the Asia-Pacific Rim are compelling reasons to construct TransPAC. Based solely on the applications discussed in this proposal without considering future growth of the user community, the $10.1M requested from the NSF for TransPAC will support and leverage approximately $276M in US research investments and $105M in investments made by APAN member countries. 

For more information: http://www.indiana.edu/~uits/cpo/transpac3/

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