Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Engineer to Lead National Network Project
From MIKE SCHNEIDER <schneider@psc.edu>:
PITTSBURGH -- September 28, 2001 -- Gwendolyn Huntoon, assistant director of the Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center, has agreed to serve as the first executive director
of The Quilt, an effort of many U.S. regional networking organizations to
promote and extend research network services. She will continue in her
leadership role at PSC while taking responsibility, through The Quilt, to
coordinate many groups nationwide in development of next-generation network
technologies.
Huntoon directs the networking resource group at PSC, which carries out
advanced research and provides consulting and training for universities and
research centers nationwide. In this role, she has led development of the
Pittsburgh GigaPop, a high-speed network hub that provides advanced network
services for Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania State University, the
University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia University.
"I'm pleased to have this opportunity to expand upon the work that PSC's
networking group has done in high-performance network research and
infrastructure," said Huntoon. "Many of the projects The Quilt will be
focusing on are of strategic interest to PSC, CMU and the broader
Pittsburgh GigaPop community."
Over 15 non-profit research and education network organizations, which
provide network resources for thousands of U.S. research and education
institutions, have pooled resources to form the Quilt. The University
Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), a Washington,
DC-based organization that promotes networking for education and research,
is providing organizational support for The Quilt.
The Quilt's initial objectives include: (1) to provide a forum for best
practices related to implementation of fiber-optic network infrastructure,
(2) to support improved end-to-end network performance through uniform
standards to measure and assess performance, and (3) to aggregate the
Internet services buying power of The Quilt's participants.
For more information about The Quilt, see: http://www.thequilt.net
For more information about networking at PSC, see:
http://www.psc.edu/networking
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon
University and the University of Pittsburgh together with Westinghouse
Electric Company. It was established in 1986 and is supported by several
federal agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private industry.
CONTACT:
Michael Schneider
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
412-268-4960
schneider@psc.edu
Sean Fulton
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
412-268-4960
sfulton@psc.edu
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