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September 5, 2014 - by Elaine Rising

The University of New Mexico was awarded a $500,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to improve campus-wide networking in support of research. The grant was submitted as the result of a collaboration between Information Technologies, Gil Gonzales, CIO and principal investigator; the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC), Susan Atlas, director and co-PI; and Greg Taylor, professor, Physics & Astronomy and co-PI.

Additionally, 14 faculty spanning eight departments and centers are also collaborating including: Physics & Astronomy, Biology, Earth & Planetary Sciences, University Libraries, Psychology, the UNM Cancer Center, Mathematics & Statistics and Computer Science. This is the first NSF grant for cyberinfrastructure awarded to UNM.

UNM’s Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Chaouki Abdallah, said, “This award is a testimonial to what is being achieved when faculty members, research centers, and our central IT organization join their expertise and talents to serve the research enterprise and needs of UNM.”

“The UNM Research Network will enable big-data-driven research and modeling, and will facilitate new and existing collaborations between universities and laboratories within the state and nationally,” said Atlas.

The faculty co-PIs and researchers collaborating on this proposal will serve as early adopters for the research network. Their labs will be the first recipients of the enhanced, dedicated Science DMZ connectivity on the 10/40/80 Gbps Research Network.

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