Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 8 Jan 98
| Use of Commodity hardware: PC's offer best performance per dollar (Gigaflop for $30,000) |
| Use of Commodity software: Windows NT, COM, CORBA, web, Java, VRML .... |
| Use of Web to produce Seamless (universal) computer interfaces |
| Java replacing C++ and Fortran for Numerical Computation |
| Use of databases and collaboration technology to link people, databases and simulation |
| Integration of parallel and distributed computing |
| Use of distributed objects (CORBA) to encapsulated remote services |