NCSAnet _A_d_d_r_e_s_s: NCSAnet attn: Charlie Catlett National Center for Supercomputing Applications 605 E. Springfield Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 _E-_m_a_i_l: network@ncsa.uiuc.edu _P_h_o_n_e: (217) 244-8297 [NCSA Networking Office] _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n 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. 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. 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. NCSAnet is operated by the National Center for _________________________ The information in this section is provided in accor- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front of this guide. June 20, 1989 NNSC Section 5.7, Page 1 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. 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. _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _a_c_c_e_s_s 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. _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _N_e_t_w_o_r_k 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. _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n See also, NCSA and CICnet. June 20, 1989 NNSC Section 5.7, Page 2