The second issue of Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch Quarterly is now available online at http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/. In "The Cyberinfrastructure Backplane: The Jump to Light Speed," guest editors Larry Smarr (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology) and Phil Papadopoulos (San Diego Supercomputer Center) have assembled a collection of insightful articles that focus on the current state of large, operational research networks for the scientific and engineering community. With contributions from some of the most respected and widely known leaders in the field, this issue is designed to provide an engaging look at what is being accomplished with fast optical networks today and where high-performance network infrastructure will be going tomorrow.

Issue #3 of the CTWatch Quarterly is scheduled for August and will focus on low-power computing; the guest editor will be Satoshi Matsuoka of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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