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A Decade After TeraGrid, U of I Heads Up Digital Network

Story air date: Saturday, July 30, 2011

John Towns, Director of Persistent Infrastructure at the U of  I's National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The University of Illinois is the lead researcher for a $121 million digital network funded by the National Science Foundation. The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, or XSEDE for short, is seen as an expansion of the TeraGrid project, which started in the late 1990s.

Illinois Public Media’s Jeff Bossert spoke with project leader John Towns about how the focus has shifted to a larger partnership with more top-research universities.

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