This award is made under the high performance connections portion of ANIR's "Connections to the Internet" announcement, NSF 96-64. It provides partial support for two years for a DS-3 connection to the vBNS. Applications include projects in high performance scientific computations, high energy physics, software verification, digital libraries, distributed simulation modeling and collaborative circuit design. Collaborating institutions include the University of Illinois, University of Kentucky, Sandia Labs, Michigan State, California Institute of Technology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Fermi Labs, University of Cinncinati and Columbia University.