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\chapter{Facilities and resources}

The proposed research will carried out at the MIT Laboratory for
Computer Science. Besides our own resources, we will have access to
the the pool of Laboratory's facilities and resources.

The main computing platform will be represented by the \cam-8 machine,
which we developed with \darpa\ funding and of which we presently have
two prototypes. We are in the process of commissioning the assembly of
a few more prototypes, to be used by us and our collaborators.  The
cost of these extra units is expected to be covered by support from
\darpa{}, {\sc sun} Research, and contributions from our
collaborators' grants. We have several {\sc sparc}stations that will
be used as hosts for the \cam-8 units as well as for software and
documentation development.

The \$12,000/yr amount budgeted under ``equipment'' represents
replacement and upgrading costs for our current equipment: a few large
hard-disks, at approximately \$2,500 each, for storage of simulation
data; and a few extra \cam-8 modules, at \$2,000 each, to fully
populate our prototypes.
