Announcing: CSIR web service

[David E. Bernholdt]

I hope you will find this interesting and useful.


We are pleased to announce a new web-based service...

	     Chemistry Software and Information Resources
			 http://www.csir.org

CSIR (pronounced caesar) is an information resource for chemistry
software, its development, and its use (in the broadest sense). It
brings together a great deal of information scattered across the
Internet, often hard to find and use, and makes it easily available to
anyone with a web browser.

CSIR incorporates several major components...

* Chemistry Software Exchange

A catalog of commercial and non-commercial software for chemists.

Right now we have about 140 software packages cataloged in the
repository, and clearly that's just a fraction of what's out there.
We'd like to make this "the" resource for anyone looking for
chemistry-related software, so we need your help to expand our
holdings.  If you're a software developer, please "submit" your
software to CSIR.  If you're a software user, tell us about your
favorite packages (with as much contact information as you can provide
on the supplier).  We'll add it to the catalog.  The web pages have
forms with the information we need. Also for software developers: we
can act as an additional distribution point or archive location for
your software.  We're developing the capabilities to handle
"electronic shrinkwrap" license agreements as well.

* AskNPAC Chemistry Mailing List Archive

Browse or search a large selection of chemistry-related mailing lists
and newsgroups.

The idea here is to collect in a single place a rather substantial
body of information about chemistry-related software, its use, and
about chemistry in general which is presently widely scattered across
the Internet. In this way, we hope to make it easier to find and use.

CSIR currently subscribes to and archives more than 80 mailing lists and
Usenet newsgroups of interest to chemists.  The archive currently
contains more than 60,000 messages, representing about six months of
traffic. We plan to add "back issues" where we can, as well.  You can
browse the archive in a Hypermail-like format, or you can search for
specific information in any combination of mailing lists.  Information
is available on all of the lists CSIR subscribes to, and if you're
aware of anything we don't carry we'd love to hear about it.


The CSIR web pages contain more information about the goals and design
of the system, but you may also want to read a recent Trends in
Analytical Chemistry Internet Column about CISR
(http://www.elsevier.nl:80/inca/homepage/saa/trac/resource.htm).

CSIR is a free service, brought to you by the Northeast Parallel
Architectures Center (http://www.npac.syr.edu) at Syracuse University
and the National HPCC Software Exchange (http://www.nhse.org). We
welcome your feedback on the service and ideas for improvement.


NOTE: If your web browser complains that www.csir.org "does not have a
DNS entry" or "was not found" (as opposed to "did not respond"), it
may be because the browser was too impatient to wait for the DNS
lookup to complete (csir.org is relatively new and probably is not
widely cached in DNS servers yet).  Often if you try exactly the same
URL again, it will be successful.  This "trick" applies to many
relatively new sites, not just CSIR.
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David E. Bernholdt                      | Email:  bernhold at npac.syr.edu
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center | Phone:  +1 315 443 3857
111 College Place, Syracuse University  | Fax:    +1 315 443 1973
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100                 | URL:    http://www.npac.syr.edu
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