CHPC Networking
The University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) Network team brings together various levels of networking talent to form a strong group dedicated towards execellence and service. The CHPC team comprises several network geeks who strive to meet the following goals:
- Learn and fully understand the fundamentals of Networking (Know the theory, NOT just the vendor implementation!)
- Share networking information with the University of Utah Campus and the worldwide Networking populace (Share what you learn or its not worth much.
- Establish the University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing as an internationally recognized contributor of advanced networking and computing ideas (pretentious goal, yes?)
The CHPC Networking team is striving to meet its goals by various methods.The team is constantly building and maintaining a research network for the Intermountain Networking and Scientific Computation Center building on the University of Utah campus. The goal of this network is to provide a leading-edge (just shy of bleeding-edge) network that will handle the most computationally intensive and latency-sensitive research needs. The team is also working to begin monthly or bi-monthly presentations on upcoming network technologies. The team is participating in different networking research projects from implementation (i.e. the Access Grid) to actual research on aspects of networking.