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The main objectives of this program activity are to provide access to the Internet for a critical mass of key environmental problem-solving groups in State environmental communities in order to accelerate the wider use of more accurate and reliable environmental tools, and to provide capabilities for testing distributed computing approaches with complex multi-pollutant and cross-media environmental models. This activity supported the initiation of network connections for four State and several federal pilot projects for evaluation of environmental assessment tools, Grand Challenge team research, and agency access to high performance computing.
This activity also provided high speed (45 million bits per second) interconnection through the Internet to the EPA's National Environmental Supercomputing center in Bay City, Michigan with dedicated high speed connectivity to the EPA National Computing center and HPCC research network in North Carolina. This interconnection established a basic foundation for the use of advanced environmental assessment tools throughout the agency and facilitates technology transfer to State environmental groups. Continued support for these critical network connections have been transferred to the program offices and will no longer be supported within the EPA HPCC program. |
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Tested the use of ATM technology for environmental applications.
Maintained agency Internet and State connections. |
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