What does NPAC Bring to the Table?
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)