NPAC Technical Report SCCS-665
The Electronic InfoMall - HPCN Enabling Industry and Commerce
Geoffrey Fox, Kenneth Hawick, Marek Podgorny, Kim Mills
Submitted November 30 1994
Abstract
We describe our InfoMall technology transfer program --- a partnership
of over sixty commercial, academic and federal organisations working
together on HPCN technology development as well as HPCN-enabled
business activities. We discuss a selection of some of the project
activities being undertaken by InfoMall members and focus on an
``Electronic InfoMall'' activity in collaboration with the US Air
Force to exploit high performance computing (HPC) systems and software
shared between collaborating members of a virtual organisation. This
system is built around the World Wide Web - a protocol developed in
Europe for the exchange of multimedia hypertext. We have demonstrated
how HPC systems can be linked together using this mechanism, to
provide networked services such as Video on Demand and Simulation on
Demand. More information on InfoMall is
available on the World Wide Web at http://www.infomall.org/.