Evaluation of Nb-base alloys for the divertor structure in fusion reactors

Argonne National Laboratory is currently positioned to provide access to high-performance regional and national networks. Much of the impetus for this effort is the anticipated needs of the upcoming experimental program at the APS. Some APS Collaborative Access Teams (CATs) are already pressing for network speed improvements and security enhancements. Requirements range from the need for high data rate, secure transmission of experimental data to the desire to establish a ''virtual experimental environment'' at their home institution. In the near future, 155 Megabit/sec (Mb/s) national and regional asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks will be operational and available to APS users. Full-video teleconferencing, virtual presence operation of experiments, and high-speed, secure transmission of data are being tested, and in some cases, will be operational. We expect these efforts to enable a substantial improvement in the speed of processing experimental results as well as an increase in convenience to the APS experimentalist