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The Houston Area Computational
Science Consortium (HACSC)

An Overview

Baylor Photo In August of 1996, the National Science Foundation's NCRI/NSFNET Program for High Performance Connections awarded three Houston institutions -- Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, and the University of Houston -- a high performance connection grant to anable them to enhance their high performance networking infrastructure and ultimately connect to the very High Speed Backbone Network Service. These institutions have outstanding research programs in high performance computing, virtual reality, and distributed, collaborative work, and have in recent years developed strong research programs that span disciplines and institutions.
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The Houston Area Computational Science Consortium (HACSC) is sponsored by
the National Science Foundation through Award No. 9613874.


Updated by Debbie Campbell (dcamp@cs.rice.edu)
http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/vBNS/overview.html