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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Argonne on Dec 8-9, 97. Foils prepared 14 Dec 97
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This was presented at a meeting in Chicago of the NCSA Alliance ET Team B
It lists relevant technologies from NPAC in web-based computing area
It discusses current AT team interaction and the futures we anticipate

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1 Team B Activities of NPAC Dec 8-9,97 Argonne http://www.npac.syr.edu/Projects/WebSimulation/ http://www.npac.syr.edu/Projects/Java/ http://osprey7.npac.syr.edu:1998/iwt98/projects/webhla/ http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/HPcc/HPcc.html
2 Abstract of NPAC Team B Meeting
3 What does NPAC Bring to the Table?
4 One Specific Project with AT Team
5 Some General Activities
6 Other Opportunities

Outside Index Summary of Material

HTML version of Basic Foils prepared 14 Dec 97

Foil 1 Team B Activities of NPAC Dec 8-9,97 Argonne http://www.npac.syr.edu/Projects/WebSimulation/ http://www.npac.syr.edu/Projects/Java/ http://osprey7.npac.syr.edu:1998/iwt98/projects/webhla/ http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/HPcc/HPcc.html

From NPAC Presentation at NCSA ET Team B Meeting Argonne -- Dec 8-9, 97. *
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Geoffrey Fox
Syracuse University
NPAC
111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100
3154432163
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Foil 2 Abstract of NPAC Team B Meeting

From NPAC Presentation at NCSA ET Team B Meeting Argonne -- Dec 8-9, 97. *
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This was presented at a meeting in Chicago of the NCSA Alliance ET Team B
It lists relevant technologies from NPAC in web-based computing area
It discusses current AT team interaction and the futures we anticipate
HTML version of Basic Foils prepared 14 Dec 97

Foil 3 What does NPAC Bring to the Table?

From NPAC Presentation at NCSA ET Team B Meeting Argonne -- Dec 8-9, 97. *
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Several years of study of use of commodity (Web/CORBA) technologies for high performance computing
Tango: collaboration system supporting general client applications in any language
WebFlow: AVS like Software Integration System using Java Servers and Java Applet frontend
SciVis: Java visualization system being used extensively in Black Hole Grand Challenge
HPJava: SPMD version of data parallel Java with high level distributed arrays (really Team A)
HPFfe: Interpreted front end to HPF integrated with WebFlow
VPL: Virtual Programming Laboratory -- JavaScript/Java web interface to general computing environments (useful for EOT)
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Foil 4 One Specific Project with AT Team

From NPAC Presentation at NCSA ET Team B Meeting Argonne -- Dec 8-9, 97. *
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Working with AT Nanomaterials team (Lubos Mitas) on using NPAC's WebFlow (Web-based AVS-like software Integration system) to develop a "problem solving environment for them"
  • Integrate web-based tools such as collaboration, Java visualization, interpreted front-end
Still at an early stage with planning and installation of WebFlow at Illinois.
  • We will meet at NCSA dec 18 for next planning session
  • Contact person: Tom Haupt haupt@npac.syr.edu
Note that with DoD PET funding, WebFlow being extended to WebHLA by replacing the Java Server (from JavaSoft) with an integrated Web and CORBA object broker that understands IIOP and HTTP
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Foil 5 Some General Activities

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Java for Computational Science and Engineering Forum
  • http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/javaforcse/
  • 3 workshops: Syracuse Dec 96, Las Vegas June 97, San Jose Feb-Mar 98
  • First two workshop proceedings published
  • SC97 Birds of a Feather keynoted by James Gosling
  • Expect to start HPF/MPI like Forum to establish a "Java framework for scientific and engineering computation" (could become a similar CORBA facility)
Seamless Computing activity (universal front ends) related to above (http://ra.ecmwf.int/html/seamless/)
Alliance Object Strategy bridging computation and education
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Foil 6 Other Opportunities

From NPAC Presentation at NCSA ET Team B Meeting Argonne -- Dec 8-9, 97. *
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WebHLA: The DoD modeling and simulation community has developed an object architecture (called HLA) and a runtime RTI which can naively be thought of as "Globus plus an event driven simulator"
  • NPAC is developing a Java/CORBA based RTI which could be combined with Globus
In general WebFlow can be thought of as a component of a high level (problem solving) toolkit which can be built on top of services provided by Globus
Collaborative Visualization which is sort of a low level tele-immersion, is very promising
  • Link collaborative environments such as Tango, with visualization from desktop to CAVE
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