"A Testbed For A Multi-network Infrastructure for Research"

该奖项是根据NCRI宣布的“连接到互联网”的高性能连接部分颁发的，NSF96-。它为OC-3连接提供部分支持，以增强和适应位于亨茨维尔的阿拉巴马大学的研究需求，方法是通过位于同一地点的国家超级计算应用中心建立到甚高性能主干网络服务(VBNS)的连接，现有连接到vBNS。该提案中的一些项目包括：闪电研究、臭氧与环境、全球气候数据的国家分布、用于龙卷风研究的雷达数据、卫星遥感努力、热带能量平衡评估、太阳等离子体物理、空间和天体物理等离子体物理研究的高性能通信、紫外线成像仪、SSME流动过程建模、遥感偏振传感数据分析、光学相控阵系统、概率和统计虚拟实验室、阿拉巴马州激发教育计算研究的超级计算计划、远程医疗手术规划和排练及相关调查的远程高性能可视化和虚拟现实、以及协作多档案数据挖掘。利用这种高性能的网络能力，位于亨茨维尔的阿拉巴马大学将扩大目前的研究以及与学术机构和联邦实验室的合作。在该项目上，合作机构包括：宾夕法尼亚州立大学、国家大气研究中心、麻省理工学院林肯实验室、德克萨斯农工大学、亚利桑那大学、威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校、佐治亚理工学院、弗吉尼亚大学、华盛顿大学、马里兰大学、科罗拉多大学、加州大学圣地亚哥分校、NOAA/NCDC、EDC、NASA/LARC、NASA/MSFC、NASA/GISS、NASA/GSFC、NASA/JPL、环境保护局和三角研究园区的国家环境评估实验室。

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 an OC-3 connection to the enhance and accommodate research needs for the University of Alabama in Huntsville by establishing a connection to the Very High Performance Backbone Network Service (vBNS) via the co-located National Center for Supercomputing Applications existing connection to the vBNS. Some of the projects in this proposal include: Lightning Studies, Ozone and the environment, National distribution of global climate data, Radar data for tornado research, Satellite Remote Sensing Efforts, Tropical Energy Balance Assessment, Solar Plasma Physics, High Performance Communication for Space and Astrophysical Plasma Physics Research, Ultraviolet Imager, SSME Flow Process Modeling, Remote Polarization Sensing Data Analysis, Optical Phased Array Systems, Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics, Alabama Supercomputing Program to Inspire Computation Research in Education, Remote High Performance Visualization and Virtual Reality for Surgical Planning and Rehearsal and Related Investigations in Telemedicine, and Collaborative Multi-Archive Data Mining. With this high performance network capability the University of Alabama in Huntsville will expand current research and collaboration with both academic institutions and federal laboratories. On this project, collaborating institutions include: Pennsylvania State University, National Center for Atmospheric Research, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, Texas A&M, University of Arizona, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Virginia, university of Washington, University of Maryland, University of Colorado, University of California-San Diego, NOAA/NESDIS, NOAA/NCDC, EDC, NASA/LaRC, NASA/MSFC, NASA/GISS, NASA/GSFC, NASA/JPL, Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Environmental Assessment Laboratory in Research Triangle Park.