What is the role of NLANR?
CAIDA originated as an initiative of Dr. Claffy while working for the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR). NLANR and CAIDA became separate entities in 1997, with NLANR focused on measuring links in the research and education (e.g., universities involved in High Performace Computing) community and CAIDA focused on measuring the commodity Internet. NLANR had three components distributed among the San Diego Supercomputer Center (NLANR’s Measurement and Operations Analysis Team, MOAT); the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NLANR’s Distributed Applications Support Team, DAST); and the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (NLANR’s National Center for Network Engineering, NCNE). The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) Project has officially ended. The funding for the NLANR project expired June 30, 2006 and the National Science Foundation has no plans to continue support. Starting July 2006, CAIDA took over operational stewardship for all NLA
