Our Participants
As a Research and Education Network (REN), MAX’s role is to support research-focused, mission-driven entities to what they do best. This has led MAX to support multiple federal, state, and local agencies over the past 25 years, enabling direct collaboration, dependable networking, and high speeds. As part of an R1 university itself, MAX also connects higher education institutions to enable connectivity on campus, across states, and to other research labs or universities. MAX also has the ability to offer connect to all major cloud service providers.
Recently, MAX has emerged into provide connectivity for quantum research. Being situated in the Capital of Quantum, MAX is able to provide networking that meets the needs and demands of quantum computing and research.
MAX's Contribution to Research
MAX is also involved in a number of research activities through federally-funded projects. We conduct research in some core areas around dynamic optical networks, control plane architectures, network management, optical performance, and network virtualization.
ACIGS unit encompasses the center MAX, HPC services, D-root services and QLab.
ACIGS/MAX manages the University of Maryland’s enterprise High Performance Computing (HPC) resource – Zaratan, MAX’s HPC cluster – Juggernaut, and an advanced and innovative intelligent edge resource – MAXedge. MAX operates UMD’s DNS root service – D-root, one of the 13 root DNS servers of the Internet. Moreover, ACIGS oversees Q-Lab, the National Quantum Lab at Maryland, a facility which provides research and teaching opportunities in the field of quantum computing to serve the UMD community and others.
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MAX has an innovative high performance networking architecture that is constantly evolving and expanding to meet current and future requirements of high performance networking.