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Recent Posts
- Tripti Sinha Appointed to Internet2 Board of Trustees
- Tripti Sinha Re-Appointed as Chair of the ICANN Board of Directors
- Terrapin Fast: New Zaratan High-Performance Computer Boosts UMD Researchers’ Problem-Solving Power
- UMD Introduces “Zaratan” – The Latest Investment in State-of-the-Art High Performance Computing
- Q&A with Tripti Sinha: MAX Among the ‘First to 400G’ on Internet2’s Network
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
MAX Awarded NSF and GENI Grants to Expand High-Performance Network
COLLEGE PARK, MD (September 18, 2013) – Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) was recently awarded more than $900,000 as the result of two separate grant proposals, which were submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) Project Office respectively. Both awards will take effect on October 1, 2013, and the funds will be allocated over the next two years. The awards will enable growth of MAX’s research and high-performance networking infrastructure, which facilitates big science … Read More
MAX Introduces New AWS Direct Connect Service Offering
COLLEGE PARK, MD (September 5, 2013) – Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) recently unveiled Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect as a new part of its service offering. Through Direct Connect, MAX participants can now establish a dedicated 10 Gbps network connection to AWS’s U.S. East (Northern Virginia) Region (US-EAST-1), which decreases data transfer cost while increasing network reliability. … Read More