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Seeks to stimulate, contribute to, and make available for the
research and education communities the very latest in
high-performance networking capability in both the national and
international arenas. The program seeks to enable the use of novel
and advanced research applications across all disciplines of
science and engineering; coordinate interactions with networking
and other disciplines of science; and promote the analysis,
improvement, and evolution of the Internet. The focus has shifted
from backbone networks to middleware and network services,
networked applications, and networking for new participants.
Subprograms within this activity include the following:
Network Centric Middleware Services: Enables those
entities who compose the advanced network community, including
research universities, government agencies, and industrial units,
to collaborate in assembling known and needed pieces of Network
Centric Middleware Services. Middleware refers to the software that
is common to multiple applications and builds on the network
transport services to enable ready development of new applications
and network services. By producing a working software distribution,
this program will assemble the known pieces and highlight places
where new knowledge is needed. Research is also supported on issues
relating to this area, to accomplish the above goals. For specific
program information, see program announcement NSF
01-63.
High Performance Network Connections for Science and
Engineering Research: Seeks to provide high performance network
connection support for institutions of higher education that are
not currently connected to an advanced network, and encourages
additional U.S. institutions to established such a high performance
Internet connection when such a connection is required to advance
an area of scientific research. For example, researchers at an
institution that is not yet connected may wish to collaborate on a
research project that requires high performance networking with
investigators at other institutions. For specific program
information, see program announcement NSF
01-73.
Strategic Technologies for the Internet: Improves the
operational or functional capabilities of the Internet and enables
related collateral efforts for the benefit of the research and
education communities. Areas of support include but are not limited
to complex network monitoring, problem detection, and resolution
mechanisms; development of automated and advanced network tools,
networked applications tools, or network-based middleware; creation
of usable and widely deployable networking applications that
promote collaborative research and information sharing; and
innovative access network technologies. For specific program
information, see program announcement NSF
01-90.
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