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ACL Advanced Computing Laboratory, LANL ACTS Advanced Computational Testing and Simulation AFS Andrew File System AGEX aboveground experiments AGS Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, BNL ANL Argonne National Laboratory ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency ASCI Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative ATLAS Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode AUP authorized use policy BABAR B/B-bar detector, SLAC BEPC Beijing Electron-Positron Collider BER Biological and Environmental Research BES Basic Energy Sciences BITnet "Because It's Time" Network BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory bps bits per second CADD computer-aided design and drafting CART Cloud and Radiation Testbed CBR constant bit rate CCS Center for Computational Sciences, ORNL CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center CEBAF Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (now JLab) CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research CESR Cornell Electron Storage Ring CHAMMP Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics, and Model Physics CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty DANTE Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe Ltd.

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DCC Diesel Combustion Collaboratory DESY German Electron Synchrotron Laboratory DOD-IP Department of Defense Internet Protocol DOE Department of Energy DP Office of Defense Programs DPSS Distributed Parallel Storage System DSIT Data and Science Integration Team ECCE' Extensible Computational Chemistry Environment EE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy EIA Energy Information Agency EMSL William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory EPR electronic paramagnetic resonance ER Energy Research ERSUG Energy Research Supercomputer Users Group ESCC ESnet Site Coordinating Committee ESnet Energy Sciences Network ESSC ESnet Steering Committee ETP Environmental Technology Partnerships EXERSUG Executive Committee, Energy Research Supercomputer Users Group FDDI fiber distributed data interface FES Fusion Energy Sciences FIX-E Federal Interagency eXchange-East FIX-W Federal Interagency eXchange-West FNAL Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory FTICR Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer GA General Atomics Gbps giga (billion) bits per second GC Grand Challenge GCM general circulation model HEP High Energy Physics HEPAP High Energy Physics Advisory Panel

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