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HEPnet High Energy Physics Network HERA Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage, DESY HIPPI high performance parallel interface HPC high performance computing HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications program HPCRC High Performance Computing Research Center HR Human Resources and Administration HRC HEPnet Review Committee ICFA-NTF International Committee on Future Accelerators-Network Task Force IEEE/NPSS Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IHEP Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia IHEP Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China INSP International Nuclear Safety Program I/O input/output IP Internet protocol ISMA Internet Statistics and Measurements Analysis ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor JET Joint Engineering Team JINR Joint Institute for Nuclear Research JLab Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (formerly CEBAF) kbps kilo (thousand) bits per second KEK Japanese National Laboratory for High Energy Physics LAN local-area network LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory LBNL Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LEP Large Electron-Positron Collider, CERN LHC Large Hadron Collider, CERN LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Mbone Multicast backbone Mbps mega (million) bits per second MFEnet Magnetic Fusion Energy Network

MICS Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division MIPS million instructions per second MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology MMC Materials MicroCharacterization Collaboratory MOU Memorandum of Understanding MPP massively parallel processor MSCF Molecular Science Computing Facility, EMSL NABIR Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research NANOG North American Network Operators Group NAS National Academy of Sciences NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research NE Office of Nuclear Energy NERSC National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, LBNL (formerly National Energy Research Supercomputer Center and NMFECC at LLNL) NFS Network File System NGI Next Generation Internet NIH National Institutes of Health NII National Information Infrastructure NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NMFC National Magnetic Fusion Collaboratory NMFECC National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center (now NERSC) NMR nuclear magnetic resonance NREN National Research and Education Network NSF National Science Foundation NTTP Numerical Tokamak Turbulence Project OBER Office of Biological and Environmental Research OBES Office of Basic Energy Sciences OCTR Office of Computational and Technology Research OFES Office of Fusion Energy Sciences ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory PEP-II Positron-Electron Project II, SLAC PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PPPL Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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