"Currently, Salamander is being developed as the underlying transport service for .... UARC  project's Internet Collaboratory"

According to the SPARC website:

Started in 1992 as the Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory (UARC), the Space Physics Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC) has become one of the Internet's premier collaborative research efforts.  This is the setup: Space physics  researchers around the world can sit down to their computers in the comfort of their offices and call up a screen that allows them to control and gather data from more than a dozen instruments located around -- and above -- the globe. Along with this smorgasbord of live data comes direct access to the most advanced supercomputer models of upper atmospheric phenomena and a set of state-of-the-art communication tools, including "chat rooms."  And all of this is recorded for replay, annotation, or asynchronous collaboration.

In short, SPARC allows space physicists to conduct team science on a global scale.  It is the realization of the ''net'' -- real-time access to a world of instruments, models, and colleagues."- goto