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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at NASA/MADIC Workshop on NII Requirements for ASOP on May 22-23 1995 Arlington TX. Foils prepared May 25,1995
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| This overview was part of a NASA sponsored workshop involving MADIC (Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Industrial Consortium) Team 2, NASA, Georgia Tech, Rice and NPAC. |
| This started a MADIC activity to identify and demonstrate the use of NII technology in ASOP (Affordable Systems Optimization Process) -- a novel approach to Multidisciplinary Optimization for aircraft and other complex system design. |
| ASOP intrinsically involves world wide collaboration between several large aerospace corporations and tens of thousands of suppliers and so the NII can have major value both for supporting collaboration between people and for supporting the thousands of linked optimizations -- each involving several different programs. |
| We stress the rapid evolution of the Web and the ability of Web Technology to be applied to Enterprise Inforemation Systems such as that required to manage ASOP. |
| MADIC companies involved include Rockwell, General Motors, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop-Grumman-Vought, Lockheed-Martin and General Electric. |
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| May 22-23 Arlington Texas |
| Geoffrey C. Fox |
| NPAC |
| Syracuse University |
| 111 College Place |
| Syracuse |
| NY 13244-4100 |
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| This overview was part of a NASA sponsored workshop involving MADIC (Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Industrial Consortium) Team 2, NASA, Georgia Tech, Rice and NPAC. |
| This started a MADIC activity to identify and demonstrate the use of NII technology in ASOP (Affordable Systems Optimization Process) -- a novel approach to Multidisciplinary Optimization for aircraft and other complex system design. |
| ASOP intrinsically involves world wide collaboration between several large aerospace corporations and tens of thousands of suppliers and so the NII can have major value both for supporting collaboration between people and for supporting the thousands of linked optimizations -- each involving several different programs. |
| We stress the rapid evolution of the Web and the ability of Web Technology to be applied to Enterprise Inforemation Systems such as that required to manage ASOP. |
| MADIC companies involved include Rockwell, General Motors, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop-Grumman-Vought, Lockheed-Martin and General Electric. |
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| High Performance (Parallel) Computers on High Speed (ATM) Networks linked to clients at a network performance that supporting realtime Video at a resolution between VHS,HDTV . |
MPP's as Internet/Web/NII/GII Servers
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Dual-Use Philosophy must be extended to Multi-Use
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Standards must be used
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| One must provide real time video to some 100 million NII off ramps and there are many choices such as: |
Optical Fibre Trunk System (ATM)
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| Satellites for Trunk System |
Local Cable Delivery (Optical --> Cable Switch) - several megabits/sec
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| ISDN (0.1 megabits/sec) down twisted pair |
| ADLS (several megabits/sec) down twisted pair |
| Full Optical Fibre Link |
| Mobile Computing |
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"Every" Business Office, Every doctor's Office, "Every" school desk, "Every" home(potential patient) (approximately any home on cable) will have a two-way high speed link to the NII
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What does this factor of 1000 increase in performance do for the home?
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These consumer developments will drive MPP use
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InfoVision is ultimate "client-server" application
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Democracy on the NII (Gore)
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| Each of three components (network connections, clients, servers) has capital value of order $10 to $100 Billion |
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| Information Video Imagery and Simulation on Demand |
| The different application areas such as business, defence, government, education and healthcare can leverage off the infrastructure and services motivated by home use. |
| Clearly each areas needs somewhat different functionality and trade-offs in services |
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| Web Servers use "Web Technology" to service World Wide Web and other forms of networked multimedia information |
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| Browsers have SAME interface on ALL Computers |
| CGI Programs are typically written in PERL but can be essentially ANY UNIX Process and so do simulation, database access, advanced document processing etc. |
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Application Specific NII Specific Services for
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| WebMagic -- HTML editor which essentially integrates server and Netscape client on a single computer for fast client stand-alone editing. |
| VRML which is a 3D data structure which could be used in display of ASOP physical artifacts. It is based on open subset of SGI Inventor database technology. VRML viewers are just coming out |
| JAVA has just been released by a group in Sun and in some ways competes with VRML (viewers). It is a Client technology which includes a C++ subset interpreter allowing clients to spawn processes called Applets. This makes clients "intelligent" and largely indistinguishable in functionality with servers. |
| Note future Web Architecture will be Server-Server. Not Client-Server. |
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| A Set of Application domains and each with its own natural (interpreted) language manipulating domain-specific data structures. WebScript links the domains together |
Examples are:
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