Information Infrastructure for the Social Sciences in the 21st Century

8/2/98


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Information Infrastructure for the Social Sciences in the 21st Century

Emerging Computational Trends and the Quantitative Social Sciences

Behavioral and Social Sciences in the 21st Century Philip Smith and Barbara Torrey

The Emerging Concept of a National Scale Information Power Grid

The Grid Links People with Distributed Resources on a National Scale

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NCSA is the Leading Edge Site for the National Computational Science Alliance

The Alliance Team Structure to Prototype the 21st Century Information Infrastructure

NSF vBNS and PACI - Mutually Interdependent

FY99 Qwest Nationwide Network - Backbone for Internet2 Abilene - More Links

Alliance National Technology Grid Workshop and Training Facilities

Integrating Digital Video With the Grid

Alliance Emerging Technologies Course on Streaming Video

High Performance Geographic Information Systems

The Killer Application for the Grid - Collaborative Tele-Immersion

Goal-Analyze and Record Complex Data sets Using Interactive Virtual Environments

Avatars Show Head & Hand Pointing in Shared Virtual Space

Goal-Create Shared Virtual Environment CVD -- Collaborative Virtual Director

Goal-Linking the CAVE to the Desktop: Collaborative Java3D

Coupling Data Formats to Visualization - NCSA’s Hierarchical Data Format

Vision of the Java/Collaborative Future

Alliance Distance Education - Using JAVA Plug-ins to Web Browsers

Goal-Create Collaborative Interface to Link Multiple Investigators With the Grid

The Grid Links Remote Sensors With Supercomputers, Controls, & Digital Archives

The Third Wave of Net Evolution

NCSA / UIUC Digital Library Initiative: Towards Scalable Semantic Retrieval

Visualizing Relationships Between Documents- 6500 News Stories from the WWW in 1997

Visualizing Relationships Between Documents - Need Extension to Millions of Web Documents

NCSA Knowledge Management Workspaces

Knowledge Discovery Process

Automated Discovery and Learning - NCSA Techniques

Automated Discovery By Machine Learning

Automated Discovery By Machine Learning

Data Mining - NCSA Industrial Partner Projects

NCSA Information Visualization Laboratory

Information Visualization - Network Traffic

Sears Pioneers Massive Data Mining and Information Visualization at NCSA

Information Visualization - Insurance Process Cost Drivers

The NCSA Information Workbench - An Architecture for Web-Based Computing

The NCSA Biology Workbench - Web Computing with Distributed Datasets

Toward a Social Sciences Workbench

The Continuing Exponential Agent of Change

Growth Rate of the NSF Supercomputer Capacity is 70% Compounded Per Year!

TOP500 Systems by Vendor - A Market Revolution

NCSA is Combining Shared Memory Programming with Massive Parallelism

Proposed NCSA Silicon Graphics Cray Origin Array - 1024 Processors

JP Morgan Hero Calculation

Challenge-How to Increase the Number of Social Scientists Using High Performance Computing?

Computing on the University of Wisconsin Condor Pool

NT Workstation Shipments Rapidly Surpassing UNIX

The University of Illinois NT Supercluster - 256 Intel Pentium II Processors

NCSA Symbio - A Distributed Object Framework Bringing Scalable Computing to NT Desktops

NSF / NCSA Federal Consortium

How to Find Out More About the Alliance

Author: Larry Smarr

Email: lsmarr@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Home Page: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/pls

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