In the core of our DCI, we aim to build a high-speed intra-campus network that will connect separate lab groups on campus to LSU’s primary supercomputer facility. Along with industrial partners such as Samsung who made a commitment for high-speed network developement as well as donated large memory storage units on campus, our DCI can handle the massive amounts of data generated by Big Data applications. This high-speed network, supporting over 10 gigabyte-per-second network speed to LSU supercomputing clusters, helps domain scientists who produce a large amount of data but suffer from the utilization of available high-perfrmance machines. Recent NSF funding for our Big Data project is clearly indicative of the national level interest that LSU houses the unusual combination of talents that is required to make complex and innovative projects of this type successful. We believe that LSU not only has a diverse group of scientists and engineers that can take advantage of this new capability, but also highly skilled technical staff who can implement the new cyperinfrastructure. The project will continue to extend this “Big Data network” to Louisiana as a whole, bringing LSU’s supercomputing cluster capabilities to research projects at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Tulane and other institutions interested in Big Data.
