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Force10 Networks today announced that the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea's national supercomputer center, has deployed the Force10 TeraScale E-Series in an international grid network to connect the country with scientists and researchers worldwide via the Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD). Leveraging the high density and resiliency of the TeraScale E600 at the core of its network, KISTI is building the foundation for Korea's next generation information infrastructure. "To build a high performance grid network that is used by scientists around the world we needed the most advanced and reliable equipment available," said Dr. Dong-Gyun Kim, senior researcher at KISTI's supercomputing lab. "The Force10 E-Series brings to us not only the high density and resiliency we require but also the experience of having been deployed in demanding grid networks for many years." The Force10 TeraScale E600 is the foundation in an international grid network that connects Daejon, Korea, with Seattle. In addition, the E600 is connected to the Korea Research Environment Open Network (KREONET2), a high performance government-funded network that provides scientists with supercomputing resources and enables the exchange of science and information technology data. Part of the GLORIAD project and Korea's own government initiatives to build a next-generation information infrastructure, this international grid will connect scientific organizations in Korea with similar groups in Russia, China, the United States, the Netherlands, Korea and Canada. The network provides scientists around the globe with advanced networking tools and computing resources to further scientific data exchange and enable collaboration on such topics as geosciences, high energy physics, atmospheric sciences and astronomy. KISTI was chartered by Korea's Ministry of Science and Technology to establish the national science and technology information infrastructure. Heavy government support to enable e-science is propelling Korea's adoption of grid-based supercomputer architectures. As part of that initiative and to play a major role in advancing research and development around the world, KISTI is connecting its supercomputer resources to the GLORIAD grid. Force10's TeraScale E-Series leads the industry in density, performance and resiliency. The TeraScale E-Series supports 1,260 Gigabit and 56 line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single chassis and can process one billion packets per second, the highest in the industry. And, with support for an industry-leading one million access control lists (ACLs), the TeraScale E-Series provides scalable protection against denial of service attacks.