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SPEED-OF-LIGHT
ACCESS Louisiana researchers could soon have access to an information network that transmits data at light speeds. The National LambdaRail Project's board will meet soon to consider approval to Baton Rouge's membership on the network.
LambdaRail can transmit information at speeds that are thousands of times faster than typical office computer networks via light wave, or lambda. Members of the LambdaRail can perform large-scale experiments, such as those conducted by LSU Center for Computation & Technology director and physics professor Ed Seidel. Recently recruited from the Albert Einstein Institute in Berlin, Seidel is renowned worldwide for his research on black holes and high performance computing. His research is aimed at producing solutions to the problem of black holes colliding in space. ON
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Louisiana Board of Regents recently approved a measure to put
up the $5 million entrance fee to join. Once approved by the LambdaRail
board, Baton Rouge will be the sole access point between Dallas,
Texas, and Jacksonville, Florida. LSU will be connected by an
"off-ramp" that will allow all of the participants to
utilize the supercomputer on campus. The $80 million National
LambdaRail is a major initiative of U.S. research universities
and private sector technology companies to build a virtual supercomputer
by linking the country's most powerful computers via a fiber optic
network.