It's not always a good indication of true speed, according to the High Performance Computer User Forum . They have their own Top 100 List . Bader's Supercomputer List makes big iron digestable. The high-speed consortium is developing applications that may become commercialized in the near future. In October 1996, a group of 34 US universities created the Internet2 project.
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The federal government has its own high-speed Internet. NGI serves the DoD, DoE, NASA and NIH but reseachers often work in both worlds. The NCSA Alliance coordinates wide area computing and computational grids . The Science of the Millenium is going where no one has gone before. Our 6 page walking tour of the SC99 show may be a glimpse into the future.