Hawaii High Performance Internet Connection

该奖项是根据ANIR的“连接到互联网”公告NSF 98-102的高性能连接部分颁发的。 它通过与国防研究和工程网络的合作伙伴关系，为位于马诺阿的夏威夷大学和莫纳克亚天文台的DS-3连接到vBNS提供两年的支持。 应用包括用凯克望远镜进行远程观测、时域天文学、寻找近地小行星、活火山研究、陨石学和天体生物学研究、数值天气建模和远程学习。合作机构包括加州理工学院、华盛顿大学、美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心、美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心、格鲁吉亚理工大学和位于阿尔伯克基的新墨西哥州大学

This award is made under the high performance connections portion of ANIR's"Connections to the Internet" announcement, NSF 98-102. It provides supportfor two years for a DS-3 connection to the vBNS for University of Hawaii atManoa and the Mauna Kea Observatories through a partnership with the DefenseResearch and Engineering Network. Applications include remote observing withthe Keck telescopes, time domain astronomy, search for near Earth asteroids,study of active volcanoes, research in meteoritics and astrobiology, numericalweather modeling and distance learning. Collaborating institutions includeCalifornia Institute of Technology, University of Washington, NASA GoddardSpace Flight Center, NASA Ames Research Center, Georgia Tech University andUniversity of New Mexico in Albuquerque