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Nova Scotia GigaPOP ACORN-NS / Dalhousie University ACORN-NS, through Dalhousie University, operates the CANARIE GigaPOP for Nova Scotia. The GigaPOP provides access to the CANARIE network for ACORN-NS members, as well as advanced services such as MBONE, IPv6, etc. For more information, contact: John Sherwood         Usenet News over IPv6 Dalhousie University, ITS Department Usenet news has been one of the leading Internet applications for almost 2 decades. As the Internet begins its lengthy transition to IPv6 it is natural that the news protocol, nntp, is one of the first to be converted and to account for substantial amounts of bandwidth. Dalhousie has established news peerings with several sites in Canada and around the world. For more information, contact: Brandon Hume         NFB Cineroute National Film Board / Acadia University / Dalhousie University Drama, documentary and animation: over 800 films that have made the NFB's reputation are on the CineRoute bill. Classics, shorts and features. There are films for everyone, and all you have to do is click. For more information, contact: Albert Ohavon, or John Sherwood         NRC/CBR Backbone NRC's Institute for Marine Biosciences The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) uses the CANARIE network as its advanced network backbone to interconnect its Institutes throughout Canada. The Institute for Marine Biosciences and the Institute for Biodiagnostics Atlantic Branches located in Halifax are connected to CANARIE through ACORN-NS. For more information, contact: Ken Quick       Halifax Metro Dark Fibre Dalhousie University Dalhousie University is the owner of 10km of dark fibre in the Halifax downtown core. ACORN was an initial contributor to the project in exchange for a 20 year IRU on 9 pairs of fibre. Other initial contributors were NRC/IMB and St. Mary's University. For more information, contact: John Sherwood       FundyWeb Western Valley Development Authority A key aspect of the Smart Community demonstration project in Annapolis and Digby counties is the creation of a community-owned high-speed fibre optic network, to be owned by a local partnership of communities. Using fibre-optics, the FundyWeb network will offer the same speeds of data transfer that are available in the largest metropolitan areas of Canada. For more information, contact: Dennis Kingston       Life Science Village NRC / Dalhousie / QEII The NRC fMRI facility at the QEII Health Science Centre in Halifax has been connected to CA*net4 for interoperation with NRC's Institute for Biodiagnostics in Winnipeg and the Brain Repair Centre at the Life Sciences Village in Halifax. For more information, contact: Ken Quick       The Terra Wide Data Mining Testbed University of Illinois at Chicago / Dalhousie University The Terra Mining Testbed will be built on top of DataSpace, whose current infrastructure supports the remote analysis, distributed mining, and real time exploration of scientific, engineering, and other complex data. Terra Mining applications will be designed to exploit the high bandwidth provided by emerging domestic and international networks so that Gigabyte and Terabyte data sets can be remotely explored in real time. The Terabyte Challenge (TC) Testbed consists of DSTP-clusters located at several sites and connected with OC-3 and higher links, which are interconnected at Startap in Chicago. The sites include: * StarLight in Chicago * NCAR in Denver * Dalhousie University Computer Science * Parallel Data Center, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm * Internet 2, Ann Arbor. For more information, contact: Dennis Kingston       MusicPath Acadia University The goals of the MusicPath project are to interconnect digital acoustic pianos in "real time" via high speed networks over long distances using the MIDI protocol, to investigate the twinning of the delivery of MIDI with videoconferencing and to examine how such an inter-connection could change the delivery of music education, examination and performance. For more information, contact: Karen Wilder       Know What I Know Acadia University The KWIK six week pilot project (Know When I Know, Know What I Know) was an opportunity for rural Nova Scotia Western Valley students to gain access to an expanded range of expertise and educational programs without leaving their schools. By exploring educational delivery using a high- speed fibre optic network and video conferencing equipment, students at two test-site schools participated in a gamut of enhanced learning opportunities limited only by the school year and the availability of experts willing to instruct. Full Summary For more information, contact: Karen Wilder