Louisiana Optical Network Initiative Provides High-Speed Network Access to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for Oil Spill Response
As teams from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, deploy to Louisiana and respond to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, is assisting their efforts by providing the NOAA team with access to high-speed networking connections.
Because there is no central NOAA office in Louisiana, the response teams would otherwise have to rely on low-bandwidth Internet connections available in hotels or on Wifi connections in public places to transfer data to NOAA’s main office in Washington, D.C.
This would be a long, slow process, especially since the NOAA teams must send large data files and coastal aerial imagery to coordinate response efforts at the federal level with on-site teams.
LONI, a high-speed, fiber optic network that connects supercomputing resources among six universities – LSU, Southern University, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana Tech University, University of New Orleans and Tulane University, along with the two LSU health sciences centers in New Orleans and Shreveport, will provide NOAA with high-bandwidth network access so they can share and transfer data quickly.
The LONI staff at LSU and Tulane University worked last week to quickly provide network connections for NOAA staff arriving in New Orleans. These workers will use Tulane’s high-performance computing resources, which are housed on campus, to upload their data and send it directly to federal response coordinators in the nation’s capital.
Because LONI connects Louisiana’s network to the national Internet 2 high-speed network, data transfer will occur quickly, and federal teams will be able to respond faster than if relying on regular-speed network connections.
For more information on LONI, please visit http://www.loni.org.
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• Susanne Brenner was a keynote speaker at the 6th Singular Dayson Asymptotic Methods for PDEs conference, which was held at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics in Berlin, Germany, April 28 - May 1.
• Susan Ryan, LSU College of Art & Design and CCT, received the Tiger Athletic Foundation President’s Award for teaching.
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Publish Date:
05-04-2010
