Bioscience and Computational Expertise Lift Tennessee's Scientific Prospects

摘要

Last June, light began to shine through a new ultra high-speed fiber-optic research computing network in Memphis, signaling the break of a new day in Tennessee's ongoing evolution as a seat for scientific and technological development. The network, funded by a $3 million state grant and operated by the non-profit Memphis Coalition for Advanced Networking, initially links the University of Memphis, the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Memphis Bioworks Foundation to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) near Knoxville, more than 300 miles to the east, and beyond to the diverse institutions around the world communicating via Internet2.