[pr0035] - News Releases (fwd)

===============================================================================
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