The Emerging National Technology Grid-Coupling Supercomputers, Networks, Virtual Reality to the Researchers Desktops

9/7/98


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The Emerging National Technology Grid-Coupling Supercomputers, Networks, Virtual Reality to the Researchers Desktops

Infrastructure Leaves its Mark -- a Century Later

Why Is There Chicago? - Supernode on the Transportation Grid

The Emerging Concept of a National Scale Information Power Grid

The Grid Links People with Distributed Resources on a National Scale

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

Alliance‘98 Hosts 1000 Attendees With Hundreds On-Line!

Grid Enabled Workshop and Training Facilities

Supercomputers, Networks, and Virtual Reality -- Computational Science Reaches 80 Million People

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

Using a Web Browser to Run Programs and Analyze Data Worldwide

Alliance Chemical Engineering Team Developing the Chemical Engineer’s Workbench

Using the Grid to Optimize Chemical Plant Operations

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

The Killer Application for the Grid - Collaborative Tele-Immersion

Toward Remote Medical Analysis - Human Spine CAT Scan Data in the CAVE

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

A Working Model-Caterpillar’s Collaborative Virtual Prototyping Environment

The Continuing Exponential Agent of Change

Supernodes on the Grid - When You Need 100x the Power of Your PC

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

Harnessing the Unused Cycles of Networks of Workstations

Buying a Supercomputer by the Yard!

Scientific Visualization of a Thunderstorm Simulation 1988

Multiple Tornadoes- The Real Thing

Multiple Tornado Simulation Analysis in the CAVE using Virtual Director

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

Bringing the Grid to K-12

Bringing the Grid to Urban Centers

Bringing the Grid to Rural America

Author: Larry Smarr

Email: lsmarr@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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

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