``A project to help researchers get the most out of their high-speed network links is providing free software through a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Developers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and other academic supercomputing centers around the country have developed the Web100 application for the Linux platform. The software maximizes the way the operating system makes use of its network connection and is freely available for download from the Internet. Potentially, the software could boost performance by a factor of 300, and already it has helped to keep Web-based tools working smoothly at the Visible Human Project at the University of Michigan. Web100's creators said they started with the Linux operating system because it is an open-source operating system, making it easier to write new software for it.''

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