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 Chapel Acknowledgements
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-This project is currently hosted by GitHub and we are grateful to them
-for their ongoing support.  Its mailing lists are supported by
-SourceForge, which also serves as an alternative download site, and we
-appreciate their support for this and for years of source hosting
-prior to our move to GitHub.
-
-This material is based upon work that was supported by the Defense
-Advanced Research Projects Agency under its Agreement
-No. HR0011-07-9-0001 and its Contract No. NBCH3039003.  Any opinions,
-findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material
-are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of
-the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
-
-This work was also supported by the Center for Adaptive Supercomputing
-Software for Multithreaded Architectures program (CASS-MT) at the
-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, as well as the Laboratory for
-Telecommunications Sciences at the University of Maryland.
-
-This research has used resources of the National Center for
-Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is
-supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy
-under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.
-
-Thanks very much to Argonne National Laboratory (www.anl.gov),
-Barcelona Supercomputer Center (www.bsc.es), HPCx (www.hpcx.ac.uk),
-Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (www.lbl.gov), Lawrence
-Livermore National Laboratory (www.llnl.gov), Pacific Northwest
-National Laboratory (www.pnl.gov), SARA (www.sara.nl), and the
-University of Vienna (www.univie.ac.at) for grants of machine time
-used for testing the portability of our code over the course of the
-project.
-
-During its early years, this project was supported by a grant from
+The Chapel project's source repository and releases are currently
+hosted by [GitHub].  Our mailing lists are hosted by [SourceForge], as
+is a mirror of the release.  We are grateful to both organizations for
+their ongoing support.
+
+The Chapel project was originally funded by the [Defense Advanced
+Research Projects Agency] under its Agreement No. HR0011-07-9-0001,
+Contract No. HR0011-10-9-0008, and Contract No. NBCH3039003.  Any
+opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in
+this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
+reflect the views of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
+
+This work was also supported by the [Center for Adaptive
+Supercomputing Software for Multithreaded Architectures (CASS-MT)]
+program at [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory], as well as the
+[Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences] at the [University of
+Maryland].
+
+Our research has made use of computing resources from the [National
+Center for Computational Sciences] at [Oak Ridge National Laboratory],
+which is supported by the [Office of Science] of the [U.S. Department
+of Energy] under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.
+
+Thanks very much to [Argonne National Laboratory], [Barcelona
+Supercomputer Center], [HPCx], [Lawrence Berkeley National
+Laboratory], [Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory], [Pacific
+Northwest National Laboratory], [SARA], and the [University of Vienna]
+for grants of machine time for testing the portability of our code
+over the course of the project.
+
+In its early years, this project was supported by a grant from
 Washington Technology Center, and it was hosted for several years by
-the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering
-Department -- thanks to both groups for their support.
+the [Department of Computer Science and Engineering] at the
+[University of Washington] -- thanks to both groups for their support.
 
-Thanks very much to Intel for donating compiler licenses during the
+Thanks very much to [Intel] for donating compiler licenses during the
 initial years of the project for the purpose of portability testing.
+
+---
+
+[Argonne National Laboratory]: http://www.anl.gov/
+[Barcelona Supercomputer Center]: http://www.bsc.es/
+[Center for Adaptive Supercomputing Software for Multithreaded Architectures (CASS-MT)]: http://cass-mt.pnnl.gov/
+[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]: http://www.darpa.mil/
+[Department of Computer Science and Engineering]: http://cs.washington.edu
+[GitHub]: https://github.com/
+[HPCx]: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/
+[Intel]: http://www.intel.com/
+[Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences]: https://www.ltsnet.net/
+[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]: http://www.lbl.gov/
+[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]: http://www.llnl.gov/
+[National Center for Computational Sciences]: http://www.nccs.gov/
+[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]: http://www.ornl.gov/
+[Office of Science]: http://science.energy.gov/
+[Pacific Northwest National Laboratory]: http://www.pnl.gov/
+[SARA]: http://www.sara.nl/
+[SourceForge]: https://sourceforge.net/
+[University of Maryland]: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/
+[University of Vienna]: http://www.univie.ac.at/
+[University of Washington]: http://www.washington.edu
+[U.S. Department of Energy]: http://energy.gov/