The Future of Information Technology

12/31/98


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The Future of Information Technology

The Emerging Concept of a National Scale Information Power Grid

The Grid - “Dependable, Consistent, Pervasive Access to [High-end] Resources”

The NSF Alliance -Prototyping a National Scale Grid for the 21st Century

Assembling the Links in the Grid with NSF’s vBNS Connections Program

Qwest Nationwide Network - Backbone for Internet2 Abilene - More Links

Grid Enabled Workshop and Training Facilities

Distance Education - Using JAVA Plug-ins to Web Browsers

The Continuing Exponential Agent of Change

Harnessing the Unused Cycles of Networks of Workstations

NT Workstation Shipments Rapidly Surpassing UNIX

NCSA / Allstate NT Cluster Data Refinery

NCSA Scalable Data Mining Projects: Combining Large Data and HPC for Competitive Advantage

Creating Scalable NT/Intel Servers

Clustered Shared Memory Computers are Today’s High End

The Supercomputers of the Next Five Years Perform Trillions of Multiplications / Second!

Alliance Middleware for the Grid - Creates National-Scale Supercomputers

Development of Computational Methods in Chemistry Awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Storm and Mesoscale Ensemble Experiment 1998 - Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms

Predicting Spring Storms in 1999 and Beyond -- A Grid Based Computational Science Experiment

Alliance Environmental Hydrology Goal -Linking Hydrologic Interactions

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

Collaborative Shared Virtual Spaces - Environmental Modeling FY97

Goal-Use the Grid to Link Discipline Experts in Shared Virtual Environment

Environmental Hydrology Collaboration: From CAVE to Desktop

Alliance RiverWeb Education and Outreach Project

RiverWebTM Toolsuite

Digital Watershed Hydrology Lab Plans

RiverWeb Proposed Deliverables: 3-D Immersive Exhibits

The Mississippi RiverWeb Museum Consortium

A Working Model-Caterpillar’s Collaborative Virtual Prototyping Environment

Bringing the Grid to the Virtual Battlefield

Author: Larry Smarr

Email: lsmarr@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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

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