[geni-announce] GENI Project Office at BBN Technologies Announces $12M in Funding for 29 Academic-Industrial Teams

[Aaron Falk]

September 29, 2008 09:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time
GENI Project Office at BBN Technologies Announces $12M in Funding for  
29 Academic-Industrial Teams

Academic and Industry Powerhouses Kick Off GENI Prototyping

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BBN Technologies, an advanced  
technology solutions firm, announced today subcontract awards totaling  
$12M for 29 academic/industrial research teams to build, integrate,  
and begin to operate the first prototypes of the GENI suite of network  
research infrastructure. GENI prototyping is sponsored by the National  
Science Foundation to support experimental research in network science  
and engineering.

GENI prototyping will be conducted using a “spiral development”  
approach, with simultaneous development and trials giving rapid  
feedback to help guide evolving designs. Spiral 1 focuses on ways to  
discover, schedule, and control resources for large-scale research  
experiments and to measure GENI capabilities. Multiple competing  
approaches are being funded to provide design insights for the  
evolving suite of experimental infrastructure. Successive spirals will  
refine and extend the GENI suite in response to the research  
community’s evolving interests in network science and engineering.

“GENI Spiral 1 has begun!” said Chip Elliott, GENI Project Director.  
“This first spiral will federate a wide variety of network research  
infrastructure, ranging from optical backbones to disk farms to sensor  
networks, with the very first prototypes up and running in six to  
twelve months.”

Awardees include the following universities, colleges, institutes and  
centers: Arizona, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Georgia Tech, Houston,  
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Langston, Maryland, Massachusetts-Amherst  
(2), Massachusetts-Lowell, Ohio State, Pittsburgh Supercomputing,  
Princeton, RENCI, Rutgers (2), Southern California, Stanford, SUNY  
Buffalo, Utah, Washington, Washington University in St. Louis,  
Wisconsin-Madison, and Williams.

Corporations, including Ciena, Cisco, CNRI, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard,  
Infinera, Microsoft Research, NEC, Netronome, SPARTA, and Qwest will  
work with these academic teams.

The complete list of proposals funded in GENI Spiral 1 is as follows:

     * Carnegie Mellon University - David Andersen
     * CNRI (Corporation for National Research Initiatives) - Larry  
Lannom
     * Columbia University - Keren Bergman
     * Georgia Tech - Nick Feamster
     * Indiana University - Jon-Paul Herron
     * Langston University - Pierre Tiako
     * Ohio State University - Anish Arora
     * Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center - Matt Mathis
     * Princeton University - Larry Peterson
     * RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute) - Ilia Baldine
     * Rutgers - Dipankar Raychaudhuri
     * Rutgers - Marco Gruteser
     * SPARTA, Inc.- Steve Schwab
     * Stanford University - Nick McKeown
     * SUNY Buffalo - Chunming Qiao
     * University of Arizona - John Hartman
     * University of Houston - Deniz Gurkan
     * University of Kansas - James Sterbenz
     * University of Kentucky - James Griffioen
     * University of Maryland/Mid-Atlantic Crossroads - Peter O'Neil
     * University of Massachusetts-Lowell - Yan Luo
     * University of Massachusetts-Amherst - Brian Levine
     * University of Massachusetts-Amherst - Jim Kurose
     * University of Southern California/ISI - John Wroclawski
     * University of Utah - Jay Lepreau
     * University of Washington - Thomas Anderson
     * University of Wisconsin-Madison - Paul Barford
     * Washington University in St. Louis - Jon Turner
     * Williams College - Jeannie Albrecht

About GENI and the GENI Project Office

GENI is a suite of experimental network research infrastructure  
sponsored by the National Science Foundation. As envisioned by the  
community, this suite will support a wide range of network science and  
engineering experiments such as new protocols and data dissemination  
techniques running over a substantial fiber optic infrastructure with  
next-generation optical switches, novel high-speed routers, city-wide  
experimental urban radio networks, high-end computational clusters,  
and sensor grids. All infrastructures are envisioned to be shared  
among a large number of individual, simultaneous experiments with  
extensive instrumentation that makes it easy to collect, analyze, and  
share real measurements. The GENI Project Office, operated by BBN  
Technologies, is responsible for project management and leading system  
development and prototyping efforts. Visit www.geni.net for more  
information.

About BBN Technologies

BBN Technologies is a legendary R&D organization that leverages its  
substantial intellectual property portfolio to produce advanced,  
repeatable solutions such as the Boomerang shooter detection system.  
With expertise spanning information security, speech and language  
processing, networking, distributed systems, and sensing and control  
systems, BBN scientists and engineers have amassed a substantial  
collection of innovations and patented solutions. BBN now employs  
approximately 700 people in seven locations in the US: Cambridge,  
Massachusetts (headquarters); Arlington, Virginia; Columbia, Maryland;  
Middletown, Rhode Island; San Diego, California; St. Louis Park,  
Minnesota; and O’Fallon, Illinois. For more information, visit www.bbn.com 
.

Contacts

BBN Technologies
Joyce Kuzmin, 617-873-8193
jkuzmin at bbn.com
or
Mark Gauthier, 978-325-7048
mgauthier at bbn.com
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