New computer network links US, Russain and China

Scientists in the United States, China and Russia will soon be able to collaborate in cyberspace over a new high-speed computer network that includes the first direct computer link across the Russia-China border.

The network, expected to go online next month, will connect computers in Chicago with machines in Amsterdam, Moscow, Siberia, Beijing and Hong Kong, said Greg Cole of the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, one of the leaders of the Little GLORIAD project.