UC San Diego, UC Berkeley Lead Creation of West Coast ‘Big Data Freeway’ System.

The NSF is funding a $5 million, five-year award for UC San Diego and UC Berkeley to establish the Pacific Research Platform (PRP), a high-capacity, data-centric “freeway system” that will eventually give participating universities and other research institutions the ability to move data about 1,000 times faster than speeds on today’s inter-campus shared Internet. Thomas A. DeFanti and co-PI Phil Papadopoulos, Division Director of Cloud and Cluster Software Development at SDSC, are coordinating the efforts of the large group of network engineers, network providers, and measurement programmers at the PRP institutions.