Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!hubcap!intvax!diegert From: intvax!diegert@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Carl F. Diegert) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: Hypercube Summary: Network Use of Sandia's NCUBE Message-ID: <4494@hubcap.UUCP> Date: 20 Feb 89 13:05:38 GMT Sender: fpst@hubcap.UUCP Lines: 32 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu Tait is correct; Sandia's 1024-processor NCUBE is not presently "on" the internet. However, many research contracts underway in Sandia's Computer Sciences group are greatly enhanced by computer networking, including networking with hosts outside Sandia. Sandia has long been on Arpanet (now Milnet). Recent functionality, however, has been less than satisfactory. Sandia is a member (I believe a charter member) of New Mexico Technet (NMT). NMT is the exclusive representative in our state for NSFnet services. Netnews, shall we say, isn't an established priority. However, at least one of us, at least on this occasion, did see your note on comp.parallel. Once we receive a few Cisco routers (multiple months of backlog on these popular babies) and procure and configure come additional security hardware we will likely allow certain reserachers outside Sandia to connect to a few of our local machines through NMT/WestNet/NSFnet. The NCUBE isn't presently configured to be used on a wide-area net. However, we are considering a new, Sun-based, front-end processor for the NCUBE. Network connections with the world outside our own labs are important to many of our staff and management. Sandia does not, however, provide computer cycles to outside researchers on the same scale as, for example, Los Alamos National Labs. B.T.W. Tait's school continues to offer greatly appreciated connection to the UUCP world. You can probably mail all the way to my Sun with something like . Alternatively, try . Disclaimer: These are my informal perceptions, NOT official policy.