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I have benefited greatly from the following sources.

DETAILS

INSTITUTES
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0400386.
PEOPLE
Implementation
The database and most of the MAGMA code to compute the data was designed and implemented by William Stein.
Design
Harvard Undergraduate Dimitar Jetchev has been extremely helpful with all phases of the design and implementation of the database.
Feedback
Kevin Buzzard, John Cremona, Helena Verrill
Users
That's you. Thanks!

SOFTWARE
Server Software
The Zee Object Publishing Environment, from Zope Corporation
Database Software
The ZODB: Zope Object Database, from Zope Corporation, along with the ZEO server.
Programming
PYTHON
Table Computations
MAGMA: All computations that I did were done using the MAGMA Computer Algebra System.
On-the-fly Computations
PARI -- many of the on-the-fly computations, e.g., conversion of q-expansions from their internal format to what you see on the screen, is done using the PARI calculator.

SOURCES OF DATA
John Cremona
I intend to included all of the data from Cremona's tables of elliptic curves of conductor up to 20000.
Mark Watkins
I intend to include some of the tables of elliptic curves that Mark Watkins and I computed.

HARDWARE
Web Server
Barry Mazur purchased modular.fas.harvard.edu for me using his NSF grant.
Computation Cluster
The MECCAH cluster; purchased using a Clark-Tozier grant and money from William Randolph Hearst, III
Large Memory Server
Neron, a Sun Fire V480 Server, received from the Sun Academic Education Grant Program