High Performance Connections to the Internet

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。提供2台OC-3c ATM连接到vBNS的部分支持，为期2年。连接的机构是功绩大学、密歇根大学和密歇根州立大学。应用包括：*数字图书馆项目*高层大气研究合作实验室*网络流量频谱分析*大容量模拟*应用计算机技术促进K-12合作研究社区*多线程路由工具包这些应用涉及与伊利诺伊大学的合作；圣地亚哥超级计算机中心；斯坦福大学;加州大学伯克利分校、圣巴巴拉分校和洛杉矶分校；马里兰大学；阿拉斯加大学；和南加州大学，以及其他一些机构。

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 for two OC-3c ATM connections to the vBNS for two years. The institutions being connected are Merit, University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Applications include: * Digital Library Project * Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory * Spectral Analysis of Network Traffic * High-volume Simulations * Application of Computer Technology to Promote Collaborative Research Communities in K-12 * Multi-threaded Routing Toolkit These applications involve collaboration with the University of Illinois; the San Diego Supercomputer Center; Stanford University; University of California campuses at Berkeley, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles; University of Maryland; University of Alaska; and the University of Southern California, as well as several other institutions.