ESnet Honored as One of Top 10 Government IT Innovators

BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 16 -- Once a year, InformationWeek magazine honors the most innovative players in the field of information technology, including the top 10 government agency innovators. And on Sept. 14, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) was recognized as a member of this select group for its work helping thousands of researchers worldwide manage the massive amounts of scientific data stemming from the application of petascale supercomputers and high-precision instruments to cutting-edge disciplines such as climate science, high energy physics, astrophysics and genomics.

ESnet, which provides the high-bandwidth networking infrastructure supporting DOE researchers, implemented a highly innovative design consisting of two separate, parallel networks.

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