The New York Times

The National Science Foundation has provided a five-year, $5-million grant to deploy a series of ultra-high-speed fiber-optic cables to link West Coast university laboratories and supercomputer centers into the Pacific Research Platform. The network is designed to keep up with the acceleration of data compilation in disciplines such as physics, astronomy, and genetics, moving torrents of data at speeds of 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps among participating labs and institutions. The network will not have a direct Internet connection, and Larry Smarr at the University of California, San Diego's (UCSD) California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology says it also will function as a template for future computer networks. "I believe that this infrastructure will be for decades to come the kind of architecture by which you use petascale and exascale computers,"  To read further, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/science/research-scientists-to-use-network-much-faster-than-internet.html?_r=0.