The two schools have joined forces to get online with Internet 2, a new high-speed Internet system being developed through a network of U.S. colleges. We can't afford not to be connected. We don't even envision the kind of applications possible with this. Universities will buy the best bandwidth they can get to build the infrastructure. The universities don't want it just for speed - they want it because it makes new applications and research possible.
Industry has huge problems it wants to solve cheaply.
With Internet 2, instead of them having to buy and maintain a piece of code on a machine big enough to run a complicated problem, they could send the information and run the problem on a remote machine maintained by the software vendor. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh showed off an example of the possibilities Wednesday. Washington D.C. Each location could turn and manipulate the model while the other location watched in real-time. Intel Corp. announced Oct. 15 that it is awarding the gift as part of its Education 2000 grant program.