Overview of the Alliance
The Alliance Emerges From the NSF Supercomputing Center
NSFNET 56 Kb/s Backbone (1986-8)
Infrastructure Leaves its Mark -- a Century Later
The Alliance is Prototyping the National Technology Grid
The Alliance National Technology Grid - Prototyping the 21st Century Infrastructure
NCSA Industrial Partners
Frontier Problems in Computational Science and Engineering
How Application Teams Drive the Grid
Alliance Enabling Technologies Teams - Faculty Leads
NSF vBNS and PACI - Mutually Interdependent
EPSCoR --Increasing the Participation in Supercomputing, vBNS, and CAVE Technologies
The Illinois Century Network: Illinois Board of Higher Ed. Technology Task Force
MREN - America’s First Operational Gigapop - Midwest Sites
International Connections Through STAR TAP
Exponential Cascade: From Leading Edge to Consumer Electronics
TOP500 Systems by Vendor
NCSA Combines Shared Memory Programming with Massive Parallelism
NCSA Quadruples its HP SPP-2000 April 9, 1997
World’s Largest Unclassified SGI / CRAY Origin 2000 - October 3, 1997
Putting a Window in the Supercomputer Oven- Coupling the vBNS to Scalable Computing
Computing on the University of Wisconsin Condor Pool
The PC Revolution and Supercomputing
Alliance NT Cluster Approaches
Emergence of Large Scale Structure Using Traditional MPP Supercomputer
Use of Shared Memory Adaptive Grids -Alliance Cosmology Team
Alliance National Technology Grid Workshop and Training Facilities
Same CAVE Software Libraries - Different Physical Implementations
Collaborative Virtual Environment - Environmental Modeling
Using CAVE5D with NCSA’s Virtual Director to Analyze Chesapeake Bay Simulations
Caterpillar’s Distributed Virtual Reality
ChickScope - Networked Scientific Instruments Enables K-12
Crossing Streets: A K-12 Virtual Reality Application
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