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What is REDDnet?

REDDnet (Research and Education Data Depot network) is an NSF-funded data collaboration project. We have deployed an extremely large (>700 Terabytes) distributed storage facility with a core focus of speed and fault tolerance. For example, at the Supercomputing 2006 Conference in Tampa, Florida, REDDnet demonstrated sustained transfers at a rate of 10 Gigabits per second between Caltech and the convention floor. These transfers were limited by the bandwidth of the network connection. At the same conference, REDDnet demonstrated fault tolerance by striping data across thirty depots and then successfully reading the data even after turning off nine of these depots.

Research Projects Using REDDnet

• AmericaView - Satellite remote sensing data and technologies in support of applied research, K-16 education, workforce development, and technology transfer.

• CMS - Elementary Particle Physics at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

• Structural Biology - Image reconstruction of large macromolecular assemblies through a collaborative effort of Vanderbilt and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers.

• Terascale Supernova Initiative - a multidisciplinary collaboration to develop models for core collapse supernovae and related enabling technologies.

• National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA) - a collecting network for the archiving of geospatial images and data.

• Retinopathy - Diabetic Eye Disease Screening in Peru and Bolivia

Collaborators

Core Institutions

Vanderbilt	Tennessee	Stephen F. Austin	ORNL	nevoa	N. C. State	Delaware
Vanderbilt	Tennessee	S. F. Austin	ORNL	Nevoa Networks	N. C. State	Delaware

Collaborating Host Institutions

USP	UERJ	Michigan	Florida	Fermilab	Caltech
São Paulo	Rio de Janeiro	Michigan	Florida	Fermilab	Caltech

AMPATH	FIU FIU	LOC	LOC	LOC	LOC
AMPATH	FIU	Library of Congress	SDSC	Stanford	UCSB

Support

This work is supported by NSF Grant PHY-0619847 and by the Vanderbilt Center for the Americas