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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
wishes to thank the following organiations for
providing mirror sites to host the Mars missions.

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USA

Silicon Graphics, Inc.
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mtn. View CA 94043
1-800-800-7441

http://www.sgi.com

Silicon Graphics is a world leader in high-performance computing technology, dedicated to unleashing the power of human creativity. The company's systems, ranging from desktop workstations and servers to the most powerful supercomputers in the world, deliver advanced computing and 3D visualization capabilities to scientific, engineering, and creative professionals and large enterprises.

Connection: 200 Mbps

Server: Two Load Sharing SGI Origin 200 Servers


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USA

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2550 Garcia Ave.
Mtn. View CA 94043-1100
1-800-555-9786

http://www.sun.com

Founded in 1982 by four idealistic young pioneers with a shared vision of decentralized, heterogeneous computing systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc. has emerged as a global Fortune 500 leader in enterprise network computing, with operations in 150 countries.

Connection: 100 Mbps

Server: Load Sharing Network of Sun Supercomputers


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USA

Digital Equipment Corporation
250 University Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301

http://www.digital.com

Digital is a multi-faceted computer firm which concentrates not only on the Internet, but on the other essential building blocks of the networked enterprise--Windows NT and high-performance computing--and the associated services needed by its customers.

Connection: 300Mbps via fiber directly into the the Palo Alto Internet Exchange.

Server: A single 2000-mips AlphaStation 500/500 workstation running Digital UNIX.


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USA

America Online, Inc.,
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, Virginia 20166
(800) 827-3338

http://www.aol.com

Founded in 1985, America Online (AOL) is a multi-brand interactive services company. AOL is headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, with operations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom (also serving Sweden), France, Germany (also serving Austria and Switzerland), and Japan.

Connection: 10BaseT - 80 Mbps

Server: DEC AlphaStation 255/333


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USA

Excite, Inc. - Corporate HQ
555 Broadway
Redwood City, CA 94063
Phone: 650-568-6000
Fax: 650-568-6030
http://mars.excite.com

Excite is a leading Internet search engine company based in Silicon Valley

Connection: OC3 - 155 Mbps

Server:


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USA

WiseWire Corporation
5001 Centre Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
1-888-WiseWire
412.688.8870 FAX 688.8853

http://mars.wisewire.com

WiseWire applies intelligent agent technology to find, filter, and organize online content. Web sites and intranets select topics and WiseWire automatically delivers a continuous stream of highly relevant content from the Web, premium sources, newsgroups, and even a company's own proprietary content.

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Server:


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USA

iHighway.net
4209 Balloon Park, NE
Albuquerque, NM
800-755-7170
408-280-0410

iHighway.net, Inc., founded in 1996, provides internet connectivity to the corportate, medical and educational markets.

Connection: Traffic Shaped - 3 Magabit per second

Server: iHighway.net's Mars Mirror site runs on a dedicated Solaris x86 Pentium server, located at iHighway's San Jose, California data center. In addition, iHighway maintains a redundant server in Albuquerque, New Mexico based on a Solaris SPARC system.


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USA

Keyway Internet Services
124 East F Street, Suite #2
Ontario, CA 91764 (USA)
909-933-3699
http://www.keyway.net

Keyway Internet Services is a service of Keyway Network Systems©, a privately owned company in Ontario, California. Started in 1995, Keyway Internet Services is Ontario's first Full Service/commercial Internet access provider

Connection: Our current bandwidth to mars.keyway.net is (3) 45Mbps lines from Interex, Goodnet and ELI for an aggregate bandwidth of 90 Mbps.

Server:


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USA

NCSA - University of Illinois
605 E Sprignfield Ave
Champaign, IL 61820
217-244-3228

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is the leading-edge site for the National Computational Science Alliance. NCSA is a leader in the development and deployment of cutting-edge high-performance computing, networking, and information technologies. The National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, industrial partners, and other federal agencies fund NCSA.

Connection: OC12 connection to vBNS ( 650 Mbps ) T3 connectivity to commodity internet ( 55 Mbps )

Server: Cluster of 6 HP 735 machines



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USA

San Diego Supercomputer Center
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
http://www.sdsc.edu

SDSC, a research unit of UC San Diego, is the leading-edge site of the NSF-funded National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). To support the nation's scientific research community, NPACI is developing the next generation of computational infrastructure -- hardware, software, and educational programs for computational science

Connection: 155 Mbps

Server: A cluster of five Sun Ultra2 workstations and a Sun Enterprise Server 4000. Cache was used to improve server performance.


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USA

NASA Ames Research Center
Moffet Field, CA

http://www.arc.nasa.gov

NASA Ames Research Center is located at Moffett Field, California in the heart of "Silicon Valley". Ames was founded December 20, 1939 as an aircraft research laboratory by the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) and in 1958 became part of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Ames specializes in research geared toward creating new knowledge and new technologies that span the spectrum of NASA interests.

Connection: OC3 - 155 Megabits per second

Server: Sun Enterprise 5000


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USA

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
4400 Fifth Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
http://www.psc.edu/

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center enables solutions to important problems in science and engineering by providing leading-edge computational resources to the national community and by advancing computational science, computational techniques and networking capabilities. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is supported by several funding agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private industry.

Connection: The PSC web server is attached to our internal backbone via a switched 10 Mb/s Ethernet. PSC is connected to the commodity Internet at 45 Mb/s and to the vBNS at 155 Mb/s.

Server: We are running Apache 1.2.x under Linux 2.0.33 on a 200 MHz Pentium processor.


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USA

NASA Kennedy Space Center
Cape Canaveral, FL

http://www.ksc.nasa.gov

The Kennedy Space Center is responsible for the checkout, launch and landing of the Space Shuttle and its payloads. Its unique facilities have made it a world leader in processing and launching spacecraft that have explored and studied the Earth, the Moon, the planets in our solar system, and the farthest boundaries of our universe.

Connection: 100 Mbps

Server: DEC Alpha


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USA

The Catlin Gabel School
Portland, OR

The Catlin Gabel School was formed in 1957 by the merger of the Catlin Hillside School (founded as Miss Catlin's School in1911) and The Gabel Country Day School (1936).
School. Ruth Catlin stated the philosophy of the School in 1928, when she deeded her school to the community: To maintain a school with the most enlightened ideals of education, content of work, and methods of teaching, where each pupil is the unit of consideration, under conditions that will serve to develop his fullest powers as an individual and as a group member.

Connection: 80 Mbps

Server: 200 Mhz Pentium


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USA

Hawaii Institute for Geophysical and Planetology
2525 Correa Road
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
(808) 956-8761
Fax: (808) 956-3188
http://www.pgd.hawaii.edu

HIGP is a leading-edge academic and research organization providing a focus for researchers in Planetary Geosciences, including study of Earth from space, with emphasis on geologic and atmospheric processes and planetary evolution.

Connection:

Server:


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DENMARK

SunSITE Denmark
Aalborg University
Att: Karsten Thygesen
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7, A1-207
DK-9220 Aalborg Denmark
http://sunsite.auc.dk

SunSITE Denmark is a non-commercial university driven site.

Connection: 34 Megabits per second connection to the E-bone.

Server: 4 CPU Sun Server


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GERMANY

European Southern Observatory ( ESO )
Karl Schwarzschild Str. 2,
85748 Garching, Germany
Phone: +49 89 32006 430
Fax: +49 89 32006 562
http://www.eso.org

European Southern Observatory is an intergovernmental, European organisation for astronomical research. It has eight member countries. ESO operates astronomical observatories in Chile; headquarters are in Garching, Germany.

Connection: Connection: 2 Mbit/s connection to the DFN backbone. DFN itself has a 45 Mbit/s backbone connection to TEN-34, the European network that serves the research and academic community.

Server: Two Sun Sparc Station 20 servers at a load balanced IP address


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GERMANY

Fachhochschule Ostfriesland
University of Applied Sciences
Constantiaplatz 4
D26723 Emden / Germany

Situated in the north-west of Germany, the university offers a diverse range of social science, economics and engineering disciplines with a special focus on international cooperation.

Connection: 2 Megabits per second (Mbps)

Server: Pentium 200 MHz 128 MB RAM 4+4 GB HD SCSI


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SWITZERLAND

Arpa Networks
Zum wisse Segel 15
Postfach 121
4144 Arlesheim
Switzerland

Arpa Networks is a leading provider for high quality Virtual Servers and Webhosting Services in Switzerland.

Connection: 2 Megabits per second (Mbps) to Unisource

Server: Pentium Pro 200MHz, 128MB Ram, 7GB HD, running Linux/Apache


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JAPAN

Tsukuba Space Center(TKSC)
National Space Development Agency of Japan(NASDA)

http://www.nasda.go.jp

Tsukuba Space Center, located in Tsukuba Science City plays a central role in NASDA's current and future space activities. The center includes the office of research and development, the office of space utilization systems, the tracking and control center for the satellites, and the administration department.

Connection: 1.5 Mbps to domestic and 0.5 Mbps to international

Server: DEC AlphaServer 1000A


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JAPAN

The Instiute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)

2-1, Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-01, Japan http://www.riken.go.jp

RIKEN is a non-profit research institute supported by the Japanese government's Science and Technology Agency. It aims to promote creative and advanced research, while maintaining a harmonious balance between basic and applied science.

Connection: 6 Megabits per second (Mbps) to IMNET

Server: Sparc Station 5 with 64 MB of RAM


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KOREA

Hyundai Jeonja B/D 9F
66, Jeokseon-dong, Jongro-gu
Seoul, 110-052 Korea
Tel: 82-2-738-1085
Fax: 82-2-723-1140

Hyundai Information Technology Co., Ltd. Company Description: System Integration Company
Division: Internet Business Division "Shinbiro"

Connection: Six E1 ( T1 * 12 ) - 18.48 Mbps

Server: SGI Challenge XL, with 2 Giga Memory


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URUGUAY

WEB2MIL

Tel : 598 2 7113621
Fax: 598 2 7116251

http://web2mil.intercanal.com


WEB2MIL an Uruguayan company founded in 1995, provides Internet solutions for the media and large companies.

Connection: T1 connection burstable to 10 Mbs upon demand

Server: Linux/Apache


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UNITED KINGDOM ( Yorkshire )

BlueChip Internet Ltd
78 Main Street Garforth Leeds
Tel:44-(0)113 2320801
Fax:44-(0)113 2320802

http://www.bchip.com

BlueChip Internet Limited is a ( UK ) Total Solution Internet Service Provider
for schools, colleges, University's and Business

Connection: 155 Megabits per second ( UK Backbone )

Server: SGI Indy, with 5 Gigabytes of Memory


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FRANCE

Visuanet
La grande Ferme du Chateau de Lanniron 29000 Quimper
Tel : +33 (0)2 98 10 05 15
Fax : +33 (0)2 98 10 05 11
http://www.visuanet.com

Connection: T2 line - 3 Mbps

Server: 512 KO ligne


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SINGAPORE

Singapore Science Centre

http://www.sci-ctr.edu.sg

The Singapore Science Centre is a non-profit organisation under the purview of the Ministry of Education with the following mission statement: To promote interest, learning and creativity in science and technology through imaginative and enjoyable experience and contribution to the nation's development of its human resource.

Connection: 128 kbps

Server: Silicon Graphics Challenge S Server 128 MB memory


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FRANCE

Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) France
CNES, DGA/T/TI/PS/TD, BPI 1501
18 Avenue Edouard-Belin
31401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 4 FRANCE

Connection: 3 Mbps


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AUSTRALIA

CSIRO Division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics (CTIP) Bradfield Rd
West Lindfield, NSW AUSTRALIA 2070
Ph: +61 2 9413 7000
Fx: +61 2 9413 7631
http://www.tip.CSIRO.AU

Based in the Northern suburbs of Sydney, the mirror is run by the Computer Services Group that supports the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility and the Division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics. Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an independent statutory authority.

Connection: 10 Mbps to 34 Mbps - The machine is connected to the North Ryde Riverside Park CSIRO site via 34 megabit microwave. From there a 34 megabit microwave takes us to the NSW Regional Network Organisation which connects at multi-megabit rates into the Optus backbone.

Server: This Mirror is running on a Sparserver 10 clone under Redhat Linux v4.1. The server has 128 meg of memory, 3GB of disc. The web server being used is Apache v1.2 beta 8.


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SOUTH AFRICA

The House of SYNERGY
P O Box 411591
Craighall 2024
South Africa
http://www.thos.co.za
Tel: +27 11 447-8096
Fax: +27 11 447-8099

Connection: There is 128Kb/s bandwidth available at any one time.

Server: Silicon Graphics server - 200 Mhz processor and 128Mb RAM. Web Server - Netscape-Enterprise/2.0a.


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HUNGARY

Webdesign Co.
H-1083, Budapest, Leonardo da Vinci u. 50.,
Hungary
Phone no: +36 1 303-7206
Fax no: +36 1 334-2600
http://www.webdesign.hu

The WebDesign Co. is an independent Internet content developer and provider company in Hungary. This project came to life in close cooperation with the Planetarium of Budapest, Hungary

Connection: 1.5 Mbit/s

Server: IBM PC, Intel Pentium computer with Linux, Apache Server


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GREECE

Ellinogermaniki Agogi
25, D. Plakentias st.,
GR15234 Chalandri
GREECE
tel: +30-1-6853220
fax: +30-1-6821953
http://www.ellinogermaniki.gr

The private educational organisation "Ellinogermaniki Agogi", one of the largest schools with 1400 pupils, covers all the stages of primary and secondary education. We have pioneered in developing translational collaborations with participation in many European initiatives. The active utilisation of Telematique Networks within our programmes and the implementation of open and distance learning highlight some of our work.

Connection: 128 kbps.

Server: The mirroring is done on a Sun SPARCstation 5, with 64MB of RAM, OS - Solaris 2.4 Web Server - Apache



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GREECE

Egnatia Thessaloniki

Egnatia is an experimental computer network at electrical engineering department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Our network is managed by a team of students and is supervised by Mr Dimitris Mitrakos, professor of electrical engineering.

Connection: 2Mbps to the GRnet backbone. GRnet has a 10Mbps connection to the TEN-34 backbone' and about our server

Server: A cluster of two P-166/128MB RAM PC's with 12GB total storage capacity running Linux/Apache


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TURKEY

Utku Altunkaya
ITU Computer Club

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RUSSIA

Space Research Institute (IKI)
117810, 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str,
Moscow, Russia
http://arc.iki.rssi.ru

Space Research Institute (IKI) is in charge of planning and elaboration of the Russian space science programs. IKI is located in Moscow, Russia.

Connection: International: 512 Kbps link to the NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN).
Russian: 10 Mbps link to the Russian science networks via Moscow Fiberoptic Backbone.10 Mbps link to the primary Russian Internet Service Providers via M9 interconnect exchange.

Server: Sun SPARC, HTTPD version Apache/1.1.3.


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SLOVAKIA

ISTERNET SR s.r.o.
Rudlovska cesta 85 97400 Banska Bystrica Slovak Republic
tel + 421 88 746 068
fax + 421 88 746 069
http://www.isternet.sk

One of the biggest Internet Service Providers in Slovak Republic. It has also it's own astronomy and space exploration server at http://mars.isternet.sk.

Connection: 2 Mbps to Ebone

Server: Hewlett-Packard PA -RISC 9000 D with 512 MB RAM


 Location and URLs of Mars Mirror Sites

Mirroring the JPL Mars Pathfinder site is open to all U.S. firms that qualify.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory does not endorse any of the above firms or their products.


For further information contact: Kirk Goodall kirk.goodall@jpl.nasa.gov