Basic HTML version of Foils prepared July 15 1998

Foil 23 Collaboration Support of Mobile Units

From Tango in Training and Collaborative Simulation and Planning Technical Program: ITEA HPCC Conference Aberdeen Md. -- July 14 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Marek Podgorny


Wearable computers (with components such as battery, disks, CPU) wore on a belt with a handheld monitor (640 by 480 today) allow us to bring a computational grid to the warfighter
There would be a wireless link using low speed digital cellular connection
There is enough memory and disk to run a browser and Tango client on the remote unit
This links implementers in field together and to central decision support
Note the JavaRing with around 1 million transistors running JavaVM and
Kahn (founded Borland)'s new company Starfire is designing "wearable computers" -- run your Web Server in heel of your shoe



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