Energy Sciences Network
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| Abbreviation | ESnet |
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| Formation | 1986 |
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United States |
| Website | www |
The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is a high-speed computer network serving United States Department of Energy (DOE) scientists and their collaborators worldwide. It is managed by staff at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
More than 40 DOE Office of Science labs and research sites are directly connected to this network. The ESnet network also connects to more than 140 other research and commercial networks, allowing DOE researchers to collaborate with scientists around the world.
ESnet is a 100 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) network serving thousands of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) scientists and collaborators worldwide. ESnet links researchers at national laboratories, universities and other research institutions. In December 2014, ESnet deployed three 100 Gbps links and one 40 Gbps connection between the United States and Europe to enhance collaborative research. ESnet was formed in 1986, combining the operations of earlier DOE networking projects known as HEPnet (for high-energy physics) and MFEnet (for magnetic fusion energy research).
Managed and operated by the ESnet staff at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet's high speed network provides direct connections to 40 major DOE sites, as well as interconnections to over 140 other research and commercial networks. ESnet is funded principally by the DOE Office of Science through the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.
From 1990 to 2015, ESnet's average traffic has grown by a factor of 10 every 47 months. By 2005, the core network used packet over SONET links at 10 Gbit/s.
ESnet development programs include:
In October 2011, ESnet rolled out its 100 Gbps backbone network, known internally as ESnet 5. The network is the world’s fastest science network, serving the entire DOE national laboratory system, its supercomputing centers, and its major scientific instruments at speeds 10 times faster than ESnet’s previous generation network.
ESnet partnered with Internet2, the network that connects America’s universities and research institutions, to deploy its 100 Gbps network over a new, highly-scalable optical infrastructure that the two organizations share for the benefit of their respective communities.
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