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Archived News Stories and Releases: 1998 - 2013
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HPCwire Interviews New ESnet Manager Bill Johnston
Bill Johnston, a distinguished networking and computing researcher, was recently named Manager of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), a leading-edge, high-bandwidth network funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science. ESnet is managed by DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. ESnet is used by thousands of scientists and researchers worldwide, and provides a high-end… Read More
Bill Johnston Named New ESnet Manager
William E. “Bill,” Johnston, an LBNL senior scientist who has worked in the fields of networking and high-speed distributed computing since the creation of the Internet, was appointed this week as the project manager for the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), effective immediately. ESnet is a high-speed network serving thousands of Department of Energy scientists and collaborators worldwide. Read More
ESnet Leaps Ahead by Two Generations, Upgrades Backbone to 10 Gbps
The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-performance network funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has just completed an upgrade to 2.5gigabits (billions of bits or Gbps) per second and 10Gbps in the highest speed portion of the network. Typically, a new generation of data communications bandwidth consists of a fourfold increase in performance. ESnet’s new 10Gbps… Read More
