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data link for December 2000 |
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- Special Notice Regarding
PSC Computer Awards
- With the addition of the TCS1 system at the Pittsburgh Supercompting Center to the PACI program,
computational resources options are expanded. This page provides you with some details about the March 2001
NRAC as well as information about supplemental requests for PIs with NRAC grants that expire in September 2001.
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- Improvements to Automatic TCP Window
Tuning Sparks Award
- Two NLANR staff were awarded first prize for their "research gem" -- improvements to Internet file transfers --
at SC2000, the annual high-performance computing and networking conference. Read the press release then
download the software for your use.
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- New Release of HDF
- HDF 4.1r4 is now available. HDF is a library and multi-object file format for the
transfer of graphical and numerical data between machines. The release includes new utilities
that convert images as well as chunking and chunking with compression
options. Read the HDF newsletter for more details.
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- Internet2 Member Meeting Town Meeting Summary
- During the recent Internet2 meeting in Atlanta, a town meeting was held -- with five discussion groups -- to
solicit feedback from member
representatives about I2 participation. The summary of the meetings is now available with instructions on how you can
add your thoughts. Even if you are not an I2 member or participant, the issues raised are interesting reading.
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- Focus on NCSA's
Computational Structural Mechanics Team
Learn about the services and support provided by the NCSA CSM team. Their pages give you details about
software, current projects, courses, conferences, and more.
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New Look at Alliance Documentation
A new perspective on Alliance user documentation was recently released. In addition to the information
resources on Alliance HPC/HTC systems, the table at the bottom of the page gives a summary of other pages
that you might find handy.
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Blast from the Past: Tim Berners-Lee's Original WWW Proposal
March 1989. More than a decade ago, the Web was a mere thought in Berners-Lee's head. As he writes
in his preface to this historic document, his text was an 'attempt to persuade CERN management that a global
hypertext system was in CERN's interests. Note that the only name I had for it at this time was "Mesh"--
I decided on "World Wide Web" when writing the code in 1990.'
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A Note from the Editor
As 2000 comes to an end, data link's editor has some closing thoughts and
an invitation.
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