SDSC, Calit2 Create Cyberinfrastructure Network for ‘Big Data’ Transmissions.

After developing one of the most advanced research communications infrastructures on any university campus during the past decade, UC San Diego took another leap forward in the name of enabling data-intensive science. The Prism@UCSD project built a research-defined, end-to-end cyberinfrastructure on the La Jolla campus that is capable of supporting bursts of data between facilities that might otherwise cripple the main campus network. The network is a hybrid design – part “production” infrastructure for real-world use, and part “experimental” system for researchers to test networking ideas.