Award Abstract #0441095
SCI/IRNC: WHREN (Western Hemisphere Research and Education Networks): Increasing the Rate of Discovery and Enhancing Education across the Americas

NSF Org:	OCI Office of CyberInfrastructure
Initial Amendment Date:	December 30, 2004
Latest Amendment Date:	September 18, 2009
Award Number:	0441095
Award Instrument:	Cooperative Agreement
Program Manager:	Jennifer Schopf OCI Office of CyberInfrastructure O/D OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Start Date:	January 1, 2005
Expires:	December 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$5151000
Investigator(s):	Julio Ibarra julio@fiu.edu (Principal Investigator) John Silvester (Co-Principal Investigator) Heidi Alvarez (Co-Principal Investigator) Donald Cox (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Florida International University 11200 SW 8TH ST Miami, FL 33199 305/348-2494
NSF Program(s):	INTERNATIONAL RES NET CONNECT
Field Application(s):	0000099 Other Applications NEC, 0206000 Telecommunications
Program Reference Code(s):	SMET, HPCC, 9251, 9217, 9216, 9178, 7369
Program Element Code(s):	7369

ABSTRACT

This proposal would develop WHREN (Western Hemisphere Research and Education Networks) to address the existing and future needs for improved North American (especially U.S.)-South American connectivity. This proposal specifically focuses on the need for connectivity through new links, LILA (Links Interconnecting Latin America).

The goal of the WHREN project is interconnecting North America to emerging aggregation points in South America, and evolving the connections, resources and economies. By providing a hybrid of network resources to support high performance computing and networking services between North America and South America, a robust, fault-tolerant, high-capacity set of interconnections should ensure superior networking infrastructure support for e-science across the two continents over the next five years.

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