This is release 1.3 of the Parallel Data Laboratory NASD software prototype. The release includes the NASD drive prototype, the NASD-NFS filemanager, simple client APIs, a regression-testing suite, sample programs, a snapshot of Cheops (which is one implementation of aggregation over multiple NASDs), and some basic documentation. This release includes ports to run on user-level Linux, user-level Digital Unix, and in the Digital Unix kernel. A more complete enumeration of the contents of the release may be found in the ReleaseHistory file at the root of the distribution.