ADD SOMETHING ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH EXPLORER, NETSCAPE 6+?
Why is my Biology Workbench session sometimes very slow? We have long been aware that the connections with the Biology Workbench can be rather slow. I’ve had suspicions over the cause of these problems, but until now have been unable to determine the cause(s) for certain. Information provided to be by Mary Ball helped me determine the likely culprit. Mary noted that connections to Mihye Won’s student interface for the Biology Workbench were quite a bit faster and more reliable. Since Mihye’s program acts as a front end for the Biology Workbench, this places the blame on the Internet connection between the site of the user(s) and UC-San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). The connection between the University of Illinois / National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and SDSC is on the Internet 2 — a much faster network with much less traffic. Illinois must have sufficient capacity to handle incoming traffic from the public/commercial network that the users are on,
