Acknowledgement

      We are thankful to all valuable assistance of many people who have contributed to the OptIPuter and VGrADS project. This work would not have been possible without the support from the National Science Foundation (NFS) under awards NSF EIA-99-75020 Grads and NSF Cooperative Agreement ANI-0225642 (OptIPuter), NSF CCR-0331645 (VGrADS), NSF NGS-0305390, and NSF Research Infrastructure Grant EIA-0303622.  Support from the UCSD Center for Networked Systems, Hewlett-Packard, BigBangwidth, Microsoft, and Intel is also gratefully acknowledged.

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Concurrent Systems Architecture Group (CSAG)
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Andrew A. Chien <achien@ucsd.edu>

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