Test Environment

DICE offers the capability to independently evaluate existing and emerging technologies by providing an integrated, geographically distributed test environment.  DICE supports the transformation of innovations into trusted products and services, thus reducing the time-to-solution of complex, data intensive, scientific and engineering problems.

The DICE program, administered by Avetec, is a multi-location test bed using real-world, wide area networks (WANs).  The environment provides anonymity which in turn, encourages creative risk-taking and problem solving. Today, vendors and government agencies are using DICE to evaluate technologies and address critical data center issues. The DICE test bed locations are situated in traditional data centers with typical network services, rather than at pristine locations, with extremely high speed network services.

This environment forms a foundation for all users (high performance computing (HPC) and information technology (IT) centers or vendors) to collaborate in moving emerging technologies from the theoretical to the operational environment, as well as evaluate the capabilities of existing products within data centers.