






                                      NCSAnet


            _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
            NCSAnet
            attn: Charlie Catlett
            National Center for Supercomputing Applications
            605 E. Springfield Ave.
            Champaign, IL  61820

            _E-_m_a_i_l: network@ncsa.uiuc.edu

            _P_h_o_n_e: (217) 244-8297 [NCSA Networking Office]


            _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n

            NCSAnet is a regional supercomputing network with sites pri-
            marily  located  in  Illinois,  Wisconsin, and Indiana.  The
            NCSAnet private corporate network is national in scale.

            NCSAnet is a dual-hub network with hubs on the  campuses  of
            the  University  of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Chi-
            cago.  The Chicago hub, or, CHUB, is a Chicago  area  metro-
            politan  network  with  current  members UI-Chicago, Univ of
            Chicago (see also CICnet), Northwestern (see  also  CICnet),
            Illinois  Inst.  of  Tech., Argonne National Laboratory, and
            Notre Dame.  The Urbana hub connects the Univ  of  Wisconsin
            Milwaukee  and  Parkside  campuses and Purdue University, as
            well as  private  corporate  labs  in  New  York,  Illinois,
            Oklahoma, and Indiana.

            Expansion of the academic portion of the network  will  con-
            tinue, primarily through a state of Illinois network, netIL-
            LINOIS, which has been proposed  to  connect  smaller,  pri-
            marily  undergraduate institutions in Illinois.  netILLINOIS
            is a proposed joint network project  led  by  the  Computing
            Services  Office  at the University of Illinois and with the
            National Center  for  Supercomputing  Applications  and  the
            University of Illinois at Chicago.

            NCSAnet   is   operated   by   the   National   Center   for
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            The information in this section is provided  in  accor-
            dance  with the copyright notice appearing at the front
            of this guide.




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            Supercomputing Applications in cooperation with the  Comput-
            ing Services Office at the University of Illinois.  The CHUB
            network is operated by the University of  Illinois  at  Chi-
            cago.

            NCSAnet interoperates with CICnet and other networks to pro-
            vide  access  to special resources or to other regional net-
            works and to the NSFNET backbone.

            _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _a_c_c_e_s_s

            Any IP host of any member organization may  access  NCSAnet.
            The  corporate  portions  of the network are private and are
            not accessible except by special arrangement.

            _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _N_e_t_w_o_r_k

            Any of the members  can  exchange  traffic  with  any  other
            member  for  any  purpose.   Any  member  may use any of the
            long-haul networks NCSAnet has connections to, subject  only
            to the restrictions of the owner of the long-haul network.

            _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n

            See also, NCSA and CICnet.


























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