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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:44:52 -0600 From: Linda Miller <address@hidden> To: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden Subject: [pr0035] - News Releases (fwd) FYI-- Linda ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Monday, May 22, 2000 10:07 PM -0400 From: NSF Custom News Service <address@hidden> To: CNS Subscribers <address@hidden> Subject: [pr0035] - News Releases The following document (pr0035) is now available from the NSF Online Document System Title: NSF Awards High Performance Connections to Ten Institutions Type: News Releases Subtype: Computer/Information Sciences It may be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?pr0035 Full text follows. ---------------------------- CUT HERE ---------------------------- Title: NSF Awards High Performance Connections to Ten Institutions Date: May 22, 2000 Media contact: May 22, 2000 Tom Garritano NSF PR 00-35 (703) 306-1070/address@hidden NSF AWARDS HIGH PERFORMANCE CONNECTIONS TO TEN INSTITUTIONS The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded high performance network connections for ten additional universities, bringing the total number of institutions assisted through such grants to 177. They will join previous awardees in connecting to a national grid of research networks that operate at speeds up to 2.4 billion bits per second. The two-year awards average $350,000, which will be matched at least equally by each recipient. Awardees may use the funds to connect with the vBNS (very high performance Backbone Network System), the Internet2 consortium's Abilene network or another national research network. NSF and MCI Worldcom recently announced an agreement that will keep vBNS in operation through March 2003. Since 1995 the NSF High Performance Connections (HPC) program has given scientists and engineers better access to research facilities across the U.S., including those maintained by NSF through its Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure program (PACI). HPC and PACI are part of the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Among the latest recipients are two universities (Idaho State and Mississippi's Jackson State) in EPSCoR states, which are defined as those that have historically received fewer federal research funds. EPSCoR stands for Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. Jackson State and another awardee (the University of Texas at El Paso) are classified as Minority Serving Institutions (MSI). NSF's award to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT) is an example of how HPC improves access to research facilities. The NMIMT network link will let scientists across the world view real-time data from the Very Large Array (VLA), an advanced telescope operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico. The connection will also improve access to archived data from the VLA and the Very Long Baseline Array, a system of ten radio telescopes that work together as the world's largest dedicated, full-time instrument for astronomy. The latest institutions to be connected through the HPC program are: · Binghamton University (State University of New York) · California State University at Hayward · Idaho State University · Jackson State University (Mississippi) · New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology · Rockefeller University (New York) · State University of New York at Stony Brook · University of Texas at El Paso · Virginia Commonwealth University · Wright State University (Ohio) For information about CISE, see: http://www.nsf.gov/home/cise/ For a list of all HPC awardees, see: http://www.interact.nsf.gov/CISE/ASC/CISEWeb.nsf/program_ani -NSF- ---------------------------- CUT HERE ---------------------------- -- NSF Custom News Service http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm Please send questions and comments to address@hidden ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- Linda Miller - address@hidden External Liaison, Unidata University Corporation for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 303 497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690 URL: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/lmiller/un.act.html