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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- NCSAnet
- attn: Charlie Catlett
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- 605 E. Springfield Ave.
- Champaign, IL 61820
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- _E-_m_a_i_l: network@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (217) 244-8297 [NCSA Networking Office]
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- June 20, 1989 NNSC Section 5.7, Page 1
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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.
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- 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.
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _a_c_c_e_s_s
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- 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.
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _N_e_t_w_o_r_k
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- 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.
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- _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n
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