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Feature Looking Back In 2024 Link Oregon significantly increased activities supporting research and highperformance computing HPC collaborations between our university member institutions while also staying focused on the diverse and growing connectivity needs of the public and nonprofit sector members we support across our state. From new services and service upgrades to facilitating HPC innovation to preparing for the next bandwidth upgrade to our backbone 400Gbps 2024 was a year of meaningful progress and valuable learnings. Feature In collaboration with our founding member universities Link Oregon showcased leadingedge research and computational science initiatives from our states largest research universities atSC24the international conference for high performance computing networking storage and analysis. Our debut presence at this industryleading event illuminated Oregon as a hub for interinstitutional innovation and collaboration across a range of domains spanning biomedical research multidisciplinary science ocean and earth sciences robotics and AI and cyberinfrastructure.