Dr. Purushotham BangaloreDr. Purushotham Bangalore, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Collaborative Computing Laboratory (CLL), has been awarded nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project on a high-speed campus research network.

“In order to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for transferring large amounts of data generated by various instruments and computational simulations, the focus of this project is to develop a dedicated high-speed research network at UAB,” Bangalore says. He explains that the networking infrastructure provides researchers at UAB with 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) connections and accelerates campus data transfers at least 10-fold. That capacity supports researchers downloading/uploading large datasets from external data and national computational resources.

 “This high-speed research network provides researchers and their graduate students with faster access to state-of-the-art cyber infrastructure, thereby accelerating their research and improving their research productivity,” Bangalore says. “Important research activities across several disciplines are enabled by this infrastructure, and each project offers significant societal impacts in their respective areas of science and engineering. Underlying these efforts are UAB’s strong commitments to a diverse student body and faculty, and long-term commitments by individual faculty involved in this project to training, mentoring, and recruiting women and underrepresented groups into science and engineering.”

Bangalore will have funding from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2017.