became the primary data manager
   for the
   <a class="ulink" href="http://meteora.ucsd.edu/s2k/s2k_home.html" target="_top">
   Sequoia 2000 scientific computing project</a>.
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   The size of the external user community nearly doubled during 1993.
   It became increasingly obvious that maintenance of the prototype
   code and support was taking up large amounts of time that should
   have been devoted to database research.  In an effort to reduce
   this support burden, the Berkeley
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