LSU grant to ease computer network bottlenecks

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• Published: Oct 2, 2009 - UPDATED: 2:07 p.m.

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An LSU professor is using $1 million in National Science Foundation grant money to help increase the number of researchers that can use networks of high-speed computers at the same time.

At present, multiple users create bottlenecks, slowing the overall speed of the supercomputing grids. It’s also difficult for researchers to modify a network’s capabilities for their particular project without creating problems for existing users. The supercomputer grids also lack applications that will operate consistently across network connections.

Seung-Jong “Jay” Park, an assistant professor in the LSU Department of Computer Science, is working on two projects to address the problems.

The projects are overlapping. A cyberinfrastructure project began in August 2008. A global environment project began Wednesday.