Research Data Networks (RDN) Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)

The RDN CRC is one of of a number of Information Technology Cooperative Research Centres funded under the Australian Commonwealth Government's CRC Program. RDN funds four projects whch are hosted by other institutions:

• Distributed and High-Performance Computing (DHPC) Group, within the On-Line Data Archives (OLDA) program of the Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys) CRC;
• Distributed Interactive Multimedia Information Services (DIMMIS) in the Digital Media Libraries program of the ACSys CRC;
• Resource Discovery Project at the Distributed Systems Technology CRC, Brisbane;
• Network Applications and Performance at the Advanced Network Systems Performance and Applications Group (ANSPAG).

CRC's are collaborative organisations set up to promote interaction between Australian Industry and Academia and to stimulate Australian Research, Development, Commercial Activities and Education. The RDN CRC has brought together groups researching into networks and distributed computing at the host institutions and provided a common framework for wide area network experiments. This network framework was initially in the form of the Experimental Broadband Network provided by Telstra, and more recently in the form of next generation Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet), coordinated by the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee (AVCC).

You can find more information at:

• Research Data Network CRC work at DSTC, Brisbane
• The Commonwealth Government's CRC Program at DIST's Web site

• DHPC Group at Adelaide
• DHPC's Network Evaluation Project
• The Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys) CRC

  Distributed Systems Technology Research Centre (DSTC) in Brisbane.

• The AARNet2 Project

• Ken Hawick for more information on On-Line Data Archives, the Distributed and High Performance Computing Group at Adelaide and the Advanced Computational Systems CRC.
• Bruce Tonkin for more information about ANSPAG and the Research Data Networks CRC.
• George McLaughlin for information about AARNet2.
• enquiries@avcc.edu.au for information about the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee.