Force10 wins in Amsterdam

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, Feb 7, 2003

Force10 Networks Inc. announced the University of Amsterdam has selected Force10 E-Series switch/routers to provide a high performance network infrastructure for next-generation grid computing applications. The E-Series aggregates Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections from computer nodes of the university's DAS-II (Distributed ASCI Supercomputer II) supercomputer cluster into a 10-Gigabit Ethernet upstream connection to SURFnet, which is the national research and education network in the Netherlands and connects 200 higher education and research organizations to each other as well as to other research networks in Europe and the rest of the world.

The University of Amsterdam is a leading member of DataGrid, a project funded by the European Union working towards the creation of a next-generation computing infrastructure providing intensive computation and analysis of shared large-scale databases across widely distributed scientific communities. Using 10-Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to SURFnet a s part of the DataGrid Project, research teams in Amsterdam can work on solutions that will enable international scientific collaborations to share and access massive databases in fields such as particle physics, astronomy, biology, seismology.