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A new data highway connects high-performance computers at various universities and research institutions. Photo: Michel Tronchetti, CC BY-NC 3.0
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New Data Highway
A part of a new data highway, the so-called "FAIR Tera Net" has been commissioned at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH. It connects high-performance computers at various research institutions and universities in Hessen and, in particular, is to provide data transmission for the future accelerator centre FAIR, which is being built at the GSI. Since the FAIR experiments will yield huge amounts of data, the researchers need an extremely efficient IT infrastructure. "FAIR Tera Net" links the emerging accelerator centre with other high-performance computers in Hessen and thereby creates direct access to stored data. During the pilot phase, the transmission speed will be 120 gigabit per second; later, this will be increased to 1 terabit per second.
