April 23, 2021 at 7:00am Florida International University (FIU) and Energy Science Network (ESnet) have been awarded a two-year, $760,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure research grant for Q-Factor, a framework that enables high-speed data transfer optimization.
Q-Factor, a concept developed by FIU and ESnet, will help automate the data transfer speed between computers at end points. The technology, for example, will help increase the speed with which an office computer (one end point) receives a large data file from a web server (another end point). This optimization will allow for smoother data transfer across a high-speed network.
As the trend towards data-intensive research continues, scientists and university IT experts are investing significant resources to facilitate the efficient movement of large amounts of data from computers that are far apart from each other. Because many university campus networks are not currently configured to support the data movement requirements of data-heavy science, campus researchers require new tools to address poor network performance.