San Diego Supercomputer Center Helps Demonstrate Internet2

In conjunction with a meeting in Washington this week of the 100 research universities which participate in Internet2, Members of Congress and others were given a demonstration of the potential for broadband applications devoted to scientific and academic uses. The demonstrations were connected to four centers around the nation via the very high performance Backbone Network Service or vBNS. Two demonstrations connected to NPACI (the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure), which is led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD. These two San Diego-based projects -- MICE (Molecular Interactive Collaborative Environment) and CMDA Telemicroscopy (Collaboratory for Microscopic Digital Anatomy) -- are examples of scientific applications that enable cross-country collaboration between researchers, and that would utilize bandwidth devoted exclusively to academic and scientific traffic, an Internet2. For further information, contact Amy Finley at NPACI, 619-822-0924, <afinley@sdsc.edu>.

Volume 4, Bulletin 34 -- October 9, 1997