Project Grant 2201231

This federal Project Grant award of $976,496 from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund the creation of a 400 gigabit per second network connection from the University of Maine to the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center and the Northern Crossroads Gigapop. Intermediate add/drop support will also be provided in Keene, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine to interconnect other northern New England research partners in the future. This 10-fold increase in connectivity capacity using existing dense wavelength division multiplexing networks will improve collaboration, data sharing, and resource sharing between Maine institutions and the rest of the world. Specifically, the project will fund networking equipment to establish diverse 400 gigabit per second connections to benefit researchers at small, under-resourced institutions with typically limited access to cyberinfrastructure. The award period is from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2024.