ERDC Core
1) Handheld Workshop
   We postponed this from original time in July 2000 until some time later -- We are
   discussing both September 00 and February 01 type time frames
   We are suggesting broadening the scope to include both the latest
   wireless and handheld technology and their impact on HPCC

2) Tracking Technology
   The recent ERDC reports forwarded as part of the year 4 updates were
   finished in May and these covered Training, Hand-held and Collaborative
   computing technology. This included tracking and analysis during first 6 weeks of
   year 5.

3) We transferred operations to FSU with the majority of students now in place and working
   These are reviewing several important technologies including (but not limited to!)
   Java Server Pages
   Ninja from UCB Berkeley
   e-Speak from Hewlett Packard
   Enterprise Javabeans
   SOAP -- "Web distributed object model"
   VNC (Virtual Network Computer) for Handheld and desktop devives
   WebDAV

4) FSU just placed an order for a 0.25 (peak) Teraflop IBM SP system for the
   Computational Science School in which our work is situated. This system will
   be upgraded to 2.5 Teraflop peak in 2002. Fox is director of the laboratory
   in which this system is in place and will benefit ERDC in two ways
   a) We will be able to run large scale simulations in-house
   b) More importantly given our role, we can use this machine to deploy and test
      our portal technology as part of a plan to develop "Terascale Access Portals"
      consisting of visdualization and wireless hardware supported by a computing
      portal. This will be designed as a package that can be replicated for different user groups
      around campus. 
      We think that such a concept could have features of interest to ERDC.
      

Hand Held Devices HPC Gateway
	We adapting the work last year linking Tango to Handheld/Desktop environments
	to the newer architecture involving a personal server. We expect to have a good
	demonstration of this by the end of the summer. This work is currently using the
	WAP standard.
	We have need to adress the server side but are first concentrating on an end to end
	system prototype. Then we will add in the special HPCC functionality

Training
1) We have identified need for tutorials on both hand-held and wireless (Bluetooth)
   technologies. We will either develop or "contract" for these during the year --
   probably as part of the Handheld/Wireless Supercomputing workshop
2) We are working on a short tutorial on the new IMS and ADL SCORM educational standards

Computational Science and Information Technology Curriculum
We have finished the specification of the curriculum. 
We are working on some Intellectual Property issues with Syracuse University
re course material developed there
We are working with Nancy McCracken on getting this older material in a clean
form so we can re-use in FSU.
We are offering "Information technology I" fall 00 and "Information technology II"
spring 01.

Collaborative Portals
This is where most of our effort is going.
The three major areas are
1) Reworking Gateway system to support computing and education portals
2) The new federated event service. Here we have developed a complete
3) The Personal server environment.
We are on track for component demonstrations by September 00 and initial
system by December 00

Modular Collaborative Environment
Here we need to evaluate new technology from the Argonne/NCSA Alliance
developers of the Access Grid. As they now have a smaller unit, our current
strategy is to install two units at FSU (One high-end and one low-end) as
the CSIT school is split between first and fourth floors. We also intend to
include this capability as part of our "Terascale Access Portal" which are
designing for modular deployment to (FSU) user groups. This enhancement
will not require more ERDC funds and will make it a lot easier for us to
test the use of the system.