Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:34:33 -0800
To: stewart@cs.sdsu.edu
From: Rick Moore 
Subject: FWD>NSF Approves 29 New Connections to High-Performance Comp...

>Date: 26 Feb 1998 08:51:35 -0800
>From: "Kenneth Swisher" 
>Subject: FWD>NSF Approves 29 New Connections to High-Performance Comp...
>To: "stan hebert" ,
>        "Rick  Moore" ,
>        "cynthia pringle" 
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>Hi,
>Here's the final draft
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>Date: 2/26/98 8:42 AM
>From: egaston@nsf.gov
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>                      NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
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>Media contact:                                       February 26, 1998
>Beth Gaston                                               NSF PR 98-13
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>NSF APPROVES 29 NEW CONNECTIONS TO HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTER NETWORK
>
>     The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that  29
>additional institutions will be connected to the very high performance
>Backbone Network Service (vBNS), allowing scientists and engineers
>across the country to collaborate and share powerful computing and
>information resources.  This latest round of connections brings the
>total number of institutions approved for connections to 92.
>
>     The vBNS is a crucial player in the president's Next Generation
>Internet and is the initial interconnect for Internet2 member
>institutions.
>
>     "By building an Internet that is faster and more advanced, we can
>keep the United States at the cutting edge of Internet technology, and
>explore new applications in distance learning, telemedicine, and
>scientific research," said President Clinton.
>
>     The NSF will make more connections-up to 150 institutions-should
>the Congress continue to support NSF's role in the Next Generation
>Internet (NGI) initiative.  NSF's fiscal 1998 appropriation bill
>directs NSF to use $23 million of the domain name intellectual
>infrastructure fund toward Next Generation Internet activities.
>However a preliminary injunction in a pending lawsuit (William Thomas,
>et al, v. Network Solutions and National Science Foundation) currently
>prevents NSF from spending this money.  For FY 99, NSF has requested
>another $25 million for NGI activities.
>
>     "The vBNS is a facility-like a laboratory or a supercomputer
>center-that will accelerate science in all disciplines as well as push
>the limits of networking technology and applications," said George
>Strawn, director of NSF's Advanced Networking Infrastructure and
>Research division.
>
>     The vBNS, begun in 1995, is an investment of  $50 million in a
>five-year project with MCI Telecommunications Corporation.
>Connections are evaluated by a peer review process and are approved
>based on scientific and technical merit.
>
>     The sophisticated telecommunications network currently runs at
>622 million bits per second and is expected to operate at 2.4 gigabits
>per second (2,400 mbps) by the year 2000.  By comparison, the average
>home modem transmits 28,800 bits per second.  The vBNS is expected to
>always be several steps ahead of commercially available networking.
>
>     This large capacity allows scientists to collect and share large
>amounts of data, to collaborate better across large distances, and to
>run complex equipment from remote sites.  The ability to share data and
>equipment helps scientists studying everything from atoms to galaxies,
>and  to remotely run simulations of science from environment to the
>beating heart.
>
>     Most institutions receive High Performance Connections grants of
>up to $350,000 from NSF over two years for their connections to offset
>the cost of linking from their sites to the vBNS backbone. NSF is
>spending a total of $9,022,859 for this round of connections grants.
>

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>Attachment: List of institutions
>
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>___________________________________
>
>
>INSTITUTIONS APPROVED FOR
>HIGH PERFORMANCE CONNECTIONS
>February, 1998
>
>
>#250# Washington University (St. Louis)
>#250# University of Alabama at Birmingham
>#250# University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
>#250# University of Alabama in Huntsville
>#250# University of Missouri-Columbia
>#250# University of Florida
>#250# Florida State University
>#250# University of Miami
>#250# University of Wyoming
>#250# Washington State University
>#250# Montana State University
>#250# California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
>#250# California State University, San Bernardino
>#250# San Diego State University
>#250# University of California-San Diego
>#250# Wayne State University
>#250# University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>#250# Drexel University
>#250# Purdue University
>#250# George Washington University
>#250# Columbia University
>#250# New York University
>#250# University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>#250# Princeton University
>#250# Georgetown University
>#250# University of Idaho
>#250# University of Nebraska-Lincoln
>#250# University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>#250# Cornell University
>
>
>__________________________________
>
>FACT SHEET
>
>
>High Performance Networking and NSF
>
>
>Media contact: Beth Gaston
>(703) 306-1070/egaston@nsf.gov
>
>
>National Science Foundation's vBNS
>
>The National Science Foundation (NSF) has long been a leader in
>networking.  After ARPAnet in the 1970s, NSF created NSFNET in the
>1980s to link researchers to each other and to supercomputer centers.
>NSF involved commercial partners early on, which later smoothed the
>transition of the Internet into a largely private realm.
>
>NSF continues to support the fundamental research that drives advanced
>Internet technology and has entered into a partnership with MCI
>Telecommunications Corporation to create the very high performance
>Backbone Network Service (vBNS).
>
>The vBNS, begun in 1995, is an investment of $50 million in a
>five-year project with MCI. Ninety-two institutions have been approved
>for connections. Up to 150 may be connected when funds become
>available from the Next Generation Internet initiative. Approvals for
>connections are based on merit as determined by a peer review process.
>The network currently runs at 622 megabits per second and is expected
>to operate at 2.4 gigabits per second (2,400 mbps) by the year 2000.
>The vBNS is expected to always be several steps ahead of commercially
>available networking.  Sixty-three universities have been approved for
>connections and the next round of connections is expected to be
>approved soon.  For more information, see:
>http://www.cise.nsf.gov/ncri/hp-connections.html http://www.vbns.net
>
>NSF and the Next Generation Internet
>
>Announced by President Clinton and Vice President Gore on October 10,
>1996, the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative will create a
>foundation for the more powerful and versatile networks of the 21st
>century.  Based upon strong research and development programs across
>federal agencies, NGI will foster partnerships among academia,
>industry and government that will keep the U.S. at the cutting-edge of
>information and communications technologies.  NGI will accelerate the
>introduction of new networking services for businesses, schools and
>homes.  Agencies are already taking actions to accomplish the
>initiative's goals, which are to:
>
>#250# conduct experimental research in advanced network technologies #250#
>develop a high performance network testbeds
>#250# create revolutionary science and engineering applications.
>
>NSF is involved in all three of these goals.  Research to advance
>networking technologies is underway.  The vBNS serves as the core
>component of the NGI high performance network testbed.  Universities
>connected to the vBNS are creating the revolutionary science and
>engineering applications.
>More information about NGI can be found at: http://www.ngi.gov
>
>NSF and Internet2
>
>The university-led Internet2 project seeks to accelerate the next
>stage of Internet development in academia.  The project seeks to:
>
>#250# create and sustain a leading edge network for the nation's research
>community
>#250# enable a new generation of applications to take advantage of
>advanced networks, such as media integration, interactivity and real
>time collaboration
>#250# rapidly transfer new network services and applications to all levels
>of educational use and to the broader Internet community.
>
>The vBNS serves as the initial interconnect for Internet2 university
>members.
>For more information about Internet2, see: http://www.internet2.edu or
>contact: Greg Wood, 1-800-786-5918, ghwood@internet2.edu
>
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