The University of Maryland was awarded a $915,900 grant by the National Science Foundation. The goal of this effort is to make existing, advanced network functions an integral component of science application workflows in the end‐to-­end sense to facilitate big data flows. The University of Maryland is partnering with The George Washington University, and the award is effective October 1, 2012. Read More »

Anthony “Tony” Conto, Director of Administration and Member Relations
Tony Conto joined the University of Maryland in July, 1977. He returned from retirement to join MAX as the Director of Member Relations in October, 2012. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Executive Director of MAX, and Associate Director for Network Infrastructure on the College Park campus. He has also served as the Acting Director for Information Technology for University Libraries with responsibility for delivering information services to … Read More »

MAX launched its 100G network to support the education and research community. Executive Director Abdella Battou speaks about the 100G deployment.
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