Mid Atlantic Terascale Partnership

{{Unreferenced, date=January 2009 The Mid Atlantic Terascale Partnership (MATP) is a consortium cofounded by the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech to facilitate access to the

National LambdaRail National LambdaRail (NLR) was a , high-speed national computer network owned and operated by the U.S. research and education community. In November 2011, the control of NLR was purchased from its university membership by a billionaire Patrick Soon ...

in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. MATP members have NLR member network access rights through a license granted by the Virginia Tech Foundation. MATP also provides a forum for collaboration for terascale computing and high performance networking among members. Membership is open to any university, government agency, or commercial research institution in the mid-atlantic region. MATP operates an NLR network access facility in McLean Virginia. This facility provides access to NLR's Layer2 and Layer3 networks as well as Internet2's Abilene Network and commodity Internet services for member participants. Past members (as of December 2005) included: *

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* J. Craig Venter Institute *

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(associate member) *

Old Dominion University Old Dominion University (Old Dominion or ODU) is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia. It was established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary and is now one of the largest universities in Virginia with ...

*Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) on behalf of Jefferson Lab (DOE) and other SURA programs *

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