The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and provides high-performance computing resources to researchers in the United States. NCS
NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, Illinois 61801
UIUC Engineering Hall
The National Science Foundation Network was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation from 1985 to 1995 to promote advanced research and education networ
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
…the United States. NCSA is currently led by Professor Rayadurgam Srikant. NCSA is one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program. The idea for NCSA and the four other supercomputer centers arose from the frustration of its founder, Larry Smarr, who wrote an influential paper…
NSF's three-tiered network architecture
NSFNET Traffic 1991, NSFNET backbone nodes are shown at the top, regional networks below, traffic volume is depicted from purple (zero bytes) to white (100 billion bytes), visualization by NCSA using traffic data provided by the Merit Network.
Packet Traffic on the NSFNET Backbone, January 1988 to June 1994
New network architecture, c. 1995