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NERSC 3 Greenbook

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Strengthen the networks.

The network is the glue that holds the computational resources and scientific collaborations together. The use of the World Wide Web (WWW), email services, data exchange, remote visualization, etc., are daily operations of professional scientists. Many sites operate distributed file systems (AFS, DFS, NFS, etc.) and when the local network is down work is not possible. The operation of networks between sites are handled by ESnet. We recommend that specific site-to-site connections and increased bandwidth be added on a continuing basis to meet the rapidly increasing communication requirements, but defer any specific recommendations to the various ESnet governing committees.