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该奖项是根据NCRI的连接到互联网的公告，NSF 96-64的高性能连接部分。 它为以下四所大学的连接提供部分支持：佛罗里达大学、佛罗里达州立大学、中央佛罗里达大学和迈阿密大学。根据该合同，每个机构将实施一个DS-3（45 Mbps）ATM连接到佛罗里达的gigaPop，反过来，该gigaPop将通过一个共享的OC-3（155 Mbps）连接到GCATT的南部十字路口连接点，从那里可以访问vBNS。 该提案将支持一些先进的基于网络的研究项目，如：大脑研究，图像处理，量子物理学，核磁共振光谱学，全球天气预报，实时多播，虚拟现实3D诊断解剖学，全球卫星遥感，海洋建模，医学信息学等领域。 这些新的vBNS连接不仅将促进四个机构之间的研究合作，还将促进与桑迪亚和NASA喷气推进实验室等联邦实验室、其他研究机构以及NASA兰利等机构的研究合作。该奖项为建立和运营四个机构vBNS连接提供部分支持，为期两年。 在接下来的几个月里，更多的研究型大学将连接到佛罗里达的千兆PoP，个别机构连接的带宽将从DS-3增加到OC-3。

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 the connection of four universities: the University of Florida, Florida State University, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Miami to the NSF very high performance Backbone Network Service (vBNS). Under this award, each institution will implement a DS-3 (45 Mbps) ATM connection to a Florida gigaPop which, in turn, will be connected to the vBNS through a shared OC-3 (155Mbps) connection to the Southern Crossroads connection point at GCATT, from which there is access to the vBNS. This proposal will support a number of advanced network-based research projects, in areas such as: brain research, image processing, quantum physics, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, global weather forecasting, real-time multicasting, virtual reality 3D diagnostic anatomy, global satellite remote sensing, ocean modeling, medical informatics and many others. These new vBNS connections will facilitate research collaboration not only among the four institutions but also with federal laboratories such as Sandia and Nasa Jet Propulsion laboratory, other research institutions, and agencies such as NASA Langley. This award provides partial support for establishing and operating the four institutional vBNS connections for a period of two years. Within the next several months, additional research universities will connect to the Florida gigaPoP, and the bandwidth of individual institutional connections will be increased from DS-3 to OC-3.