Sunsite Explained

SunSITE (Sun Software, Information & Technology Exchange) is a network of Internet servers providing archives of information, software and other publicly available resources. The project, started in the early 1990s, is run by a number of universities worldwide and was initially co-sponsored by Sun Microsystems.^[1]

The more notable SunSITEs include:

• SunSITE Canada, operated by University of British Columbia = Found Without Content - 2022.04.28
• SunSITE Central Europe, operated by RWTH Aachen, Germany
  • Sun SITE Central Europe Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) Free Open-Access
• SunSITE Poland, operated by ICM, University of Warsaw

Some former SunSITEs:

• SunSITE Chile
• SunSITE Denmark, now running as dotsrc.org Open Source Hosting
• SunSITE Mexico = Blank Page - 2022.04.28
• SunSITE North Carolina, operated by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,^[2] now running as Ibiblio
• SunSITE Singapore, operated by National University of Singapore = Blank Page - 2022.04.28
• SunSITE Switzerland, operated by SWITCH Information Technology Services, now running as SWITCHmirror
• University of Alberta SunSITE, now running as the University of Alberta Digital Object Repository (UADORe)

No longer in operation:

• • SunSITE Austria, operated by University of Vienna SunSITE Argentina, operated by Universidad de Buenos Aires.
• Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, University of California, Berkeley Libraries
• SunSITE Czech Republic, operated by School of Computer Science, Charles University, Prague = Server Not Found - 2022.04.28
• SunSITE Hungary, run by Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen
• SunSITE Indonesia, operated by Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia, Jakarta
• SunSITE Japan
• SunSITE RedIris (Spain), operated by Spanish National Research Network = Server Not Found - 2022.04.28
• SunSITE South Africa, operated by University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
• SunSITE Tennessee operated by University of Tennessee, Knoxville = Server Not Found - 2022.04.28
• SunSITE Thailand operated by Assumption University, Bangkok = Server Not Found - 2022.04.28
• SunSITE UK, operated by Imperial College Department of Computing.

Notes and References

1. Web site: SunSITE WorldWide home page . 2024-02-08 . www.ibiblio.org.
2. Web site: The History of SunSITE . 2024-02-08 . www.ibiblio.org.