Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:04:02 -0400 (EDT)
Originator: friends@solar.cini.utk.edu
From: Greg Cole <gcole@www.friends-partners.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <friends@www.friends-partners.org>
Subject: Digest for 99-09-15

Digest for September 15, 1999

Dear friends,

We wanted to let you know that yesterday we held our first high quality video conference using the new MIRnet network between the US and Russia! The occasion was linking two high performance network workshops - one in the US called the "Chatauqua '99 Workshop" in Boston, MA (http://chautauqua.bu.edu/) and a similar workshop in Moscow organized by Russian Academy of Science and Moscow State University. The focus was the Access Grid -- a new technology for collaborative visualization and computing featuring video, voice, and data streams over the Internet (http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/990713.Grid.Chautauqua.html).

Participants in the US included Boston University, the University of Utah, the University of Illinois, and the NCSA Access center in Washington. Participants in Moscow (in addition to workshop participants) included a US delegation visiting to discuss joint high performance computing and networking issues. The video and audio quality was excellent. The event marked a special milestone in the development of the MIRnet project.

We will soon post a feature story and quicktime videos of the event on the F&P site.

We are looking to support many such US-Russian scientific applications requiring high performance network services. Please contact us if interested or if you have any questions. You can learn more about the MIRnet project at:

http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/mirnet/ (US site)
http://www.friends-partners.ru/friends/mirnet/ (Russian site)

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