Here are some notes based on conversations during my last trip

Space
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1) I thought the space in area where ARTI and Networking effort is located
   is excellent. There is perhaps some discussion as to need for some
   "fully (to ceiling) partitioned" areas
2) At IUPUI I see a value in an IPCRES Grid activity (see later). This would be
   best if colocated with CS or EECE activity there. I note there appears to
   be "no space" even for existing CS activities (such as a new project by Raje at CS in IUPUI)
   It could be useful to solve these problems "together" creating colocated CS/IPCRES space
   (Here we are talikng about time period before new IUPUI IPCRES building 
   constructed)

Activities
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My obviously incomplete and unscientific survey of opportunities turned up
the following three classes for day one initiatives. They suggest certain capabilities
need to be available on IPCRES Grid (see later)
a) Informatics in several areas
   1) Physics  -- Gardner and Dzierba in physics both need to develop over next few years
   systems that need to be able to analyze tens of petabytes per year with production
   starting in 2006 or so. Now they need research into new approaches
   I see this as particularly attractive as I did such experiments in the past
   (when one only had 10 to 100 gigabytes) and this links my three proposed
   departments.
   2) Health/Medical -- I touched on this peripherially at IUPUI and I would like
      to follow up at a further trip. I gather current visualization effort at IU/IUPUI
      (I-desk at IUPUI)  has a strong medical component
   3) New Media -- This is interesting as synergistic with distance education
      I started thinking about this at Syracuse
   4) Bio and Chem- Informatics. I did not learn enough about these but some
   aspects would be like the Physics problem (As discussed by Gardner and myself)
   5) Geoscience -- I work here with earthquake forecasting community. Again such
      a field is a special case of "Science Informatics" and 1) 4) 5) would be synergistic
      Computational Science portals would be used in all these areas as interfaces
      What Los Alamos calls Decision applications (Global Infrastructure Informatics such
      as planning electrical grids, simulating earthquake systems, spread of disease etc.)
      is also a generalization of this. I will try to establish link with Los Alamos
      in this area
      

b) Distance Education. I did not see a major effort at Indiana yet in this area but the network infrastructure
   and multiple campuses suggest this will be valuable to Indiana and it is an area where
   I have a lot of interest and experience. I will look further at Oncourse system. I did this
   quickly (Garland Elmore kindly gave me account) and I see we can naturally add synchronous
   collaboration capability to this system.
   
c) Distributed Computing
   This is computer science research and technologies to support application grids.
   (I see a) and b) as applications of grids)
   Here IUPUI work of Raje (CS) and Eberhard (EECE) would fit well
   Also datamining/intelligent systems work at IUPUI
   IU CS work by Dennis's (and my group) group provides general technology to Informatics and other
   grids

Resources Needed
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As discussed, Access Grids at IUPUI, IU Campus, IU IPCRES site would be very helpful

Other than this need distributed capability in areas:
	x) Computer clusters 
	y) Database
	z) Storage -- exists at IU I think
	w) Visualization -- exists at IU IUPUI

I think you would need "experimental" modest size capabilities in areas x) y) at
distributed locations