“When a national network of ocean observatories begins streaming environmental sensor data in March 2012, researchers … will be able to use … high-speed academic networks to transmit some of that data to storage and computing clouds operated by Amazon Web Services.
“CENIC and PNWGP today announced two 10 Gigabit per second (Gbps) connections to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for the use of CENIC’s members in California, as well as PNWGP’s multistate K-20 research and education community. With these new ultra-high-performance peering connections, members of CENIC and PNWGP can take full advantage of those services, whether for K-12 education or for university-based research …
“’21st century discovery will be driven by the automated analysis of massive amounts of sensor data captured from the world around us,’ said Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering and Director of the eScience Institute at UW. ‘The focus is on data, more than cycles. Cloud resources are an essential component. The direct connections to the Amazon Web Services cloud from CENIC and PNWGP provide scientists with the bandwidth they need to utilize these resources.'”
Read the full announcement here.