A Request to Improve Computers at OIMB

该项目将使俄勒冈海洋生物研究所(OIMB)改善其局域网计算机网络，并增强其与俄勒冈大学校园网的联系。OIMB的研究计划在过去五年中有了很大的扩大，教师职位和相应的支持人员的数量翻了一番。对局域网进行了渐进的改变，但这种零敲碎打的改进跟不上当前的技术发展。通过改进计算机网络和软件包，该设施将利用适当的图形用户界面，为所有来访和常驻研究人员提供互联网接入，并将增强我们存储、操作和分析数据的能力。这些改进还将使OIMB能够通过万维网上的OIMB马赛克主页与更大的科学界共享当地重要的数据库。该项目非常符合提高实地研究设施的计算和通信能力的理念。它将把OIMB很好地置于当前技术的框架内。

This project will allow the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB) to improve its local area computer network and enhance its link to the University of Oregon campus network. The research program at OIMB has expanded considerably in the past five years and has doubled the number of faculty positions and corresponding support staff. Incremental changes have been made to the local area network, but such piecemeal improvements have not been able to keep up with current technological developments. By improving the computer network and software packages the facility will provide all visiting and resident researchers with access to the Internet, utilizing appropriate graphical user interfaces, and will enhance our ability to store, manipulate and analyze data. The improvements will also allow OIMB to share locally significant databases with the larger scientific community via an OIMB Mosaic Homepage on the World Wide Web. This project fits well with the philosophy of advancing computing and communications capabilities of field research facilities. It will place OIMB well within the framework of current technology.