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ESnet provides access to Energy 

 Research facililies and resources for 

 DOE and DOE-supported researchers 

 and educators. 



ed analysis of algorithms used in Grand Challenge 

 applications. In addition, a researcher at DOE's Ames 

 Laboratory was awarded a patent for developing 

 SLALOM, an innovative benchmarking system for any 

 type of computer including parallel computers. Two 

 large university projects in parallel systems research at 

 the University of Illinois and at New York University were 

 extended. Several projects have been initiated to evalu- 

 ate the effectiveness of early prototype HPCC systems 

 on scientific problems important to the DOE at the 

 Department's new High Performance Computing 

 Research Centers. 



NREN 



Internet Support 



Efforts continue to build on the activities initiated in FY 

 1992 and FY 1993. The ESnet FY 1992 fast packet ser- 

 vices procurement will provide advanced network capa- 

 bilities and services to DOE sites and researchers, in 

 addition to accelerating the availability of these public 

 telecommunications vendor-based services to other 

 Federal, state, and research and education organiza- 

 tions. The ESnet is an integral part of the Internet; it 

 provides multiprotocol seamless connectivity to scientific 

 resources and facilities, for international collaborative 

 science, and supports DOE sponsored education activi- 

 ties. Other activities and accomplishments include col- 

 laborative work in packet video and voice, collaborative 

 distributed work environment tools, multiprotocol sup- 

 port, GOSIP/OSI to TCP/IP gateways for e-mail and 

 other services, and other precompetitive and short term 

 research and development efforts. 



Gigabit Research 



DOE participates in the existing gigabit testbeds, the 

 development of high speed local area networks (e.g., 

 HIPPI), tools needed to support remote experimentation 

 and distributed computing, multimedia data manipula- 

 tion, high speed network management, and the stan- 

 dards associated with each of these technologies. 



ASIA 



Support for Grand Chiallenges 



DOE set up an interagency panel, comprised of DOE 

 program managers and other HPCC agency participants 



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