Abstract of the talk on The Conference
"Information Systems in Science-95" which was held 10-13 Janury 1995
in Moscow.

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NETWORK ACTIVITY AT ST.PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE}

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{\bf  S.A. Kulikov, A.N. Lodkin, A.E. Shevel }

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{\sl Petersburg Nuclear Phyysics Institute - PNPI}

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Our institute is St.Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) 
of Russian Academyy of Science. The Institute consists
of four parts: High Energy Physics Division, Neutron Division,
Theory Division, Biophysics Division.
 

Our main task is to create the Institute INFOstructure and include it
into the World INFOstructure.
 
To participate in Information Super High Way we realized the IP connection
through the two ISKRA lines to NPI MSU (Moscow) - Radio-MSU.NET - which
in turn is connected to DESY (Hamburg, Germany) over satellite channel.
 
 
Our connection is realized through Telebit NetBlazer ST and two modems Telebit
WorldBlazer and ZyXEL 1496E Plus. This network equipment and a computer
SGI Power Series were supplied by Germany HEP Research Centre - DESY.

 
More than 50 physicists are using the IP connection. Main problem
in increasing this
number is rooted in lack of equipment (terminals, Ethernet cards,
modems, routers, bridges, etc.).

Among other general software
it has been installed USENET news, Mosaic, Gopher client, ....

We have anonymous ftp service - ftp.pnpi.spb.ru. Our home page
for Mosaic is available from "file://rec03.pnpi.spb.ru/web/home.html". 
 
 
Nearest future needs: www-server, AFS, network FAX facility, scaner,
audio talking through IP, Video in snapshot mode through IP ...

All above facilities will help us
to participate in the existing scientific virtual groups
and to create the scientific virtual groups.

The main problem is IP channel. It can't be less than 64 Kbit/sec.
We are now in progress of a satellite channel realization.
The satellite project in our institute is realized with help of
INTAS funds.

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