A vBNS Connection for Carnegie Mellon University

该奖项是在NCRI的“连接到互联网”公告的高性能连接部分下颁发的，NSF 96-64。它为OC-3 ATM连接到现有OC-12 SONET环提供了两年的部分支持，该环将匹兹堡地区的四个站点连接到非常高性能骨干网服务（vBNS）。其他地点是匹兹堡超级计算机中心、西屋能源中心和阿勒格尼医院。应用包括Informedia：数字视频库和新闻点播；自动交互显微镜；地震模型;虚拟现实;国家医疗实践知识库；网络研究。合作院校包括密歇根大学、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校、加州大学伯克利分校、斯坦福大学、伊利诺伊大学、麻省理工学院、康奈尔大学和弗吉尼亚大学。

This award is made under the high performance connections portion of NCRI's "Connections to the Internet" announcement, NSF 96-64. It provides partial support for two years for an OC-3 ATM connection to an existing OC-12 SONET ring which connects four sites in the Pittsburgh area to the Very High Performance Backbone Network Service (vBNS). The other sites are the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, Westinghouse Energy Center and Allegheny Hospital. Applications include Informedia: Digital Video Library and News on Demand; Automated Interactive Microscope; Earthquake Modelling; Virtualized Reality; National Medical Practice Knowledge Banks; and Networking Research. Collaborating institutions include University of Michigan, UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley, Stanford, University of Illinois, MIT, Cornell and University of Virginia.