NSF Award $2.9 Million for Web100 Research

Joyce Winslow
jwins@oregon.uoregon.edu

The National Science Foundation recently gave a $2.9 million dollar boost to a project called "Web 100" that aims to help researchers attain real data transmission rates of 100 megabits per second at their desktops.

The three-year grant was awarded last fall to help researchers develop software that automatically "tunes" computer operating systems to fully exploit available network bandwidth.

Because of a bandwidth delay problem, most researchers currently attain only a fraction of the maximum performance that high-speed research networks are designed to provide. To address this problem, researchers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications have joined forces to craft a solution.

More information on the Web 100 Project is available at http://www.web100.org