NSF PR 96-44 - August 15, 1996
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The Next Generation Internet: NSF Announces Awards
for New High Performance Connections
Today the National Science Foundation recommended the
first set of 13 awards for innovative high performance
connections.
As more and more increasingly sophisticated tools
are developed for the Internet, the demand for high
performance connections grows, especially within the
research and education community. In March, the National
Science Foundation introduced a new twist to its connections
program to help solve the problem: emphasizing innovative
solutions that may eventually have broad implications
for the next generation of the Internet. Funding has
now been recommended for the first set of 13. About
35 more applications will be considered in the second
round.
"There is no single ideal solution -- as evidenced
by the fact that we have already received so many
strong, fundable proposals," said Mark Luker, who
manages the program for NSF. "We've asked researchers
to come to us with a demonstrated need for high performance
networking and a willingness to work toward innovative
solutions with their campus network providers -- and
clearly there is a great interest in the community."
New applications include distributed computing, remote
access to instruments, visualization of weather, chemical
reactions, medicine, multimedia collaboration and
others, all of which depend on the advanced capabilities
of the vBNS, NSF's high performance backbone network.
These connections are expected to form the core of
a new community for advanced applications of networking
that will speed the pace of research and development
in the U.S.
The following are examples of the types of awards,
with contact information:
- Tom DeFanti, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago; tom@uic.edu;
(312) 996-3002
Award: $350K
Meritorious applications include: data intensive
computing; digital libraries; visualization and
steering of computation; and 3-D collaboration
Collaborating with: Northwestern University; University
of Chicago; and Carnegie Mellon University
- Oliver McBryan, University of Colorado-Boulder;
Oliver.McBryan@cs.colorado.edu; (303) 665-0544
and (303) 492-3898
Award: $287K
Meritorious applications include: Grand Challenge
Application Group (GCAC) - Coupled Fields and
GAFD Turbulence; HBNG users (meritorious access
HPCC groups)
Collaborating with: NCAR (National Center for
Atmospheric Research) and Pittsburgh Supercomputing
Center
- Earving Blythe, Virginia Tech; BLYTHE@VT.EDU;
(540) 231-4227
Award: $350K
Meritorious applications include: high performance
remote computing; interactive multi media; digital
libraries; mathematics; high-speed civil transportation
Collaborating with: Virginia Broadband Education
Network (VBEN)
- Paul Woodward, Univ. of Minnesota; paul@lcse.umn.edu;
(612) 626-0044
Award: $350K
Meritorious applications include: distributed
parallel storage and computing; visual Supercomputing;
collaborative scientific visualization
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