High-Performance Computing and Communications Division (HPCC)

The ISI HPCC division activities can be roughly divided into two categories:

Extensive participation in research under the High Performance Computing and Communications Program of the US Government.

Operational responsibility for a number of Internet services (including acting as the IANA and the RFC Editor), maintaining document archives, and operating network (Los Nettos, the Los Angeles area regional network), and participation in the NSF Routing Arbiter (RA) project.

ISI's participation in the High Performance Computing and Communications Program (HPCC) includes the following research projects:

High speed network research under our Netstation Architecture and Advanced ATOMIC Network (NAAAN) contract, including:
- A gigabit speed local area network ATOMIC2
- A network-based workstation architecture Netstation
Research by the Global Operating System Technologies Group (GOST-GROUP), including the:
- Distributed Virtual Systems Project (DIVIRS)
- Security Infrastructure for Large Distributed Systems Project (SILDS)
- Global Operating System Technologies Project (in formation)
- Traffic Flow Confidentiality Project
A group of projects under our Gigabits Networking Research contract GIGA:
- Multimedia Conferencing for the Internet (MMCONF), including support for the multicast backbone (MBONE)
- A Resource Reservation Setup Protocol for the Internet (RSVP).
- The Gigabits Networking Research effort at ISI also includes a number of smaller tasks in support of the research infrastructure of the Internet (INFRA).
A group of projects under our Teranode Network Technology contract TNT:
- Reservation Protocol for Real Time Servicve (RSVP),
- Scalable Personal Teleconferencing (SPT),
- Low-Latency Distributed Information Access (LOWLAT),
- Scalable Computing Infrastructure (SCOPE),
- Network Infrastructure Activities (NIA),
- Distributed Instrumentation and Mesurement Environment (DIME).
Other projects include:
- Cities Online (CITIES), and
- Rational ATM Internet Suite (RAISE).

ISI provides several Internet services and maintains several document archives, these include:

Operating the Los Angeles area regional network LOS NETTOS,
Operating the DARTNET research testbed DARTNOC,
Serving as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IANA,
Serving as the editor of the IETF protocols standards and other network documents RFC EDITOR, and
participating very significantly in the NSF Routing Arbiter project (RA).

Public Internet Documents and Activities

In connection with Internet infrastructure activities, ISI maintains public archives of Internet documents, including:

Internet Notes, including
- RFCs, or "Requests for Comments", the official documents and standards of the Internet
- FYIs, RFCs published primarily to conveniently summarize information from other RFCs or from common Internet practice
- STDs, those few RFCs that are considered standards that are considered essential to Internet
- IMRs, Internet Monthly Reports, which are also emailed monthly-- email the list maintainer for details.
- Internet Drafts (draft RFCs, FYIs, and STDs)
The Minutes of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
Bytecounters -- The email archive for the NNStat program, a network monitoring tool
ISI maintains records for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA):
- MIB -- The official Management Information Bases for SNMP.
- Media-Types -- the official MIME media types.
See RFC 1700, "Assigned Numbers," for more information on what the numbers mean and how the IANA works.

Other ISI Internet activities include:

IETF working groups homed at ISI:
- ConfCtrl/MMusic/MMCC -- Multiparty Multimedia Session Control
- Int-Serv -- Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture
The domain administrator for the Internet .US domain can be found at ISI. See RFC1480, "The US Domain", or email to usdomreg@isi.edu for information.
ISI is also the home of Los Nettos, a Southern California regional Internet service provider. (See map.) As of January 1995, Los Nettos members are connected at T3 speeds to the MCInet backbone via Cal State University.

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