SCinet '91—Supercomputing '91s gigabit network
Alex Nussbaum · ACM SIGSMALL/PC Notes · 1992
Albuquerque, NM: In a spirit of cooperation unparalleled in the computing business, technicians, company CEOs, scientists, and engineers worked together to create SCinet '91, a gigabit network designed specifically for the fourth conference on high-performance computing, SUPERCOMPUTING '91, held November 18-22 in Albuquerque. In addition to hundreds of person-hours in the past few weeks and several months of planning, donations of cable and equipment came from Cray Research, IBM, Digital Equipment, USWest Communications, Network Systems, Ultra Network Technologies, SynOptics Communications, Broadband Communications Products, Interop, Aquila Group, and Siecor to develop this unique example of the cooperation and networking envisioned in the National Research and Education Network (NREN). NREN is part of the President's High Performance Computing and Communication initiative, a bill that just passed in the House of Representatives and is currently in the Senate. D. Allan Bromley, Science Advisor to the President, gave the keynote address at SUPERCOMPUTING '91 and expressed strong hope that the bill would pass.