Annual Report 2010
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to present NYSERNet’s 2010 annual report. To articulate for a broad audience the work of the NYSERNet Board, staff and community, and the possibilities that advanced networks and network applications enable, in 2010, our twenty-fifth anniversary year, we produced our first annual report ever — a mixture of history and accomplishments in 2009 — and revamped our web site. This second report continues that discussion with the same overarching goal, but with an additional caveat. Global problems like energy, climate change, and health care are larger than any one institution, discipline, or sector. Solutions require the cooperation of governments, industry, and academe, and rely on ever more advanced technologies and networks. The contribution that NYSERNet and our member institutions can make in addressing these broad challenges certainly underlies much of the guidance that the NYSERNet Board offers us. Some of this report concerns itself with core competencies like advanced networks, optical infrastructure in New York City and statewide, our global peering and colocation facility in Manhattan, and technical training. But we also discuss work in a wider community, where NYSERNet is just one of many participants.The High Performance Computing Consortium, for example, is an effort by academic institutions, industry, and New York State to make advanced computing resources more widely available. Another is our efforts with New York’s K12 schools, Regional Information Centers and BOCES to incorporate live international interactions between classrooms here and abroad into the curriculum. Perhaps the best effect a report like this can have is to catalyze a suggestion in someone’s mind of some new task that we (NYSERNet or the broader community) should take on.
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