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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at CEWES(ERDC) Mid Year Review on Sept 15-16 1999. Foils prepared October 3 1999
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| Collaboration and Communication Core Effort |
| Training Core Effort |
| Collaborative Computing environments Effort |
| Web Interfaces for Computational Modules |
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C/C Core Support
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Tango Deployment
Tango Deployment (2)
Tango Interactive Status
Tango Interactive Status (2)
Meetings and Conferences
Meetings and Conferences (2)
Relevance to DoD Mission
Training Core Support
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Accomplishments (1)
Accomplishments (2)
Relevance to DoD Mission
New Directions in Distance Education and Training
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Accomplishments (1)
Accomplishments (2)
Relevance to DoD Mission
Collaborative Computing Environments
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More General Shared Server Side Objects
Sharing Server Side Objects (2)
Related Ideas
Relevance to DoD Mission
Obstacles and Changes
Web Interfaces for Computational Modules
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Plan (2)
Accomplishments
Relevance to DoD Mission
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| NPAC at Syracuse University |
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| Long-range guidance on current technologies for collaboration & communication |
Support and enhancement of Tango
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Support for other (web/database) communications tools
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| C/C presentation at JSU Summer Institute; combined local & remote instruction via Tango |
| Domain-specific search engine for CWO started |
| WSMS demo September 17 |
| Tango support and deployment efforts |
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| Tango deployment for education & training well understood and practiced |
| Tango deployment for meetings, casual collaboration somewhat harder (audio configuration very important) |
| Working with John Eberle to promote Tango for meetings (incl. MSRC Directors) |
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| Eberle can train & assist users in setup/use of Tango for meetings including audio setup |
| Beginning users may be more comfortable with phone for voice, Tango for video, documents, etc. |
| Roll-out of Tango 2 planned now through January (1.4 & 2.0 must co-exist most of this time) |
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| Capability TI 1.4 TI 2.0 TI 2.1 |
| Core tools (BV, SB, WBD, Chat, etc.) + + + |
| Shared dynamic HTML support + + + |
| Shared Document Object Model + + + |
| Shared Java applets + + + |
| Shared Java in pages - + + |
| Shared JavaBeans - + + |
| SWING-based interface - + + |
| User authentication - + + |
| Personal Identity Module - + ++ |
| Server Licensing - + + |
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| Capability TI 1.4 TI 2.0 TI 2.1 |
| File repositories - + ++ |
| Integrated e-mail support - + ++ |
| "Awareness" service (like AIM) - + + |
| Site-customizable interface - + + |
| Internet Explorer support - - + |
| "Out-of-browser" implementation - - + |
| Shared visualization - + + |
| Shared compute engine + + + |
| Shared web-linked database + + + |
| Firewall support - + ++ |
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| Relevant to both Training & C/C |
| ACCESS Open House demo |
| DoD Networking group at Minnowbrook talk |
| CILT (education researchers) talk/demo |
| JPL/NASA discussion |
| Kodak talk/demo/workshop |
| Gateway Meeting at ARL talk |
| Univ. Houston talk |
| Purdue Univ. (John Rice Memorial Meeting) talk |
| SIAM Meeting, Atlanta talk |
| ADMI (minority/tribal CS dept. heads) tutorial |
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| DoD Users Group Conference tutorials |
| Java Grande tutorial |
| JavaOne exhibit |
| EDMEDIA tutorial |
| GEM Earthquake Simulation Group demo (interest in crisis management demo) |
| ASC Distance Education Workshop talk/training |
| XML Developers Meeting, Montreal demo/talk |
| Florida State Univ. talk |
| So. California Earthquake Center Ann. Mtg. demo |
| Southern Universities Res. Assoc. talk/demo/training |
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Facilitate and encourage PET and users to take advantage of modern technologies to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness of communications
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| Resource for PET |
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| NPAC at Syracuse University |
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| Long-range leadership on issues of technologies, tools and techniques for PET Training & Education needs |
| Support and enhancement of Tango Interactive and related tools for use in Training (expect 7+ events) |
| Workshop on Distance Training for PET/MSRC staff & partners |
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| Fox delivered seminar to all four MSRCs via Tango from Syracuse |
| Tangocast of T3E class delivered to ARFL (Kirtland AFB) following visit by John Eberle to setup |
Tango tutorials at DoD HPC UGC
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| Bernholdt held informal meeting of Training/Collaboration support staff at DoD HPC UGC, to be followed up with email list & web site |
| Tangocast of Parallel Libraries class offered (ARL picked up?) |
| Distance Training Workshop 16-17 Sep. |
| See also meeting/conference list in C/C |
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| Training is central to PET mission |
| New technologies offer the opportunity to reach more people more easily |
| Increasingly possible to eliminate travel & associated headaches and costs |
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| NPAC at Syracuse University |
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| Continue dist. edu. collaboration with JSU & expand |
| Deliver courses Fall and Spring |
Develop more "sophisticated" core HPC courseware and delivery tools
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| Dist. Edu. Workshop at JSU |
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| Distance Education Workshop at JSU |
Fall course: CPS640 "Topics in Networking and Multimedia Applications"
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| Glossary support almost completed |
| Interactive quizzes almost completed |
| Progress on courseware development |
Working on cleaning up CD-ROM materials for next semester
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| DoD needs pipeline of workers with knowledge and experience in HPC |
| HBCU/MI graduates in particular are under-represented in pipeline |
| Complements training for professionals |
| Distance education allows universities to share leading-edge courses, otherwise unavailable to many sites |
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| Demonstrate "collaboratization" of HPC applications to facilitate joint work by geographically separated groups |
| Use Tango Interactive as collaborative framework |
| Module on interfacing to HPC applications as part of planned Tango tutorial |
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| Significantly better understanding of application sharing issues |
| Completed prototype |
| Simple shared scientific visualization coming as part of integration of SciVis2 with Tango2 (also illustrates shared files) |
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| Web Page Sharing is a special case of sharing server side objects -- CGI Scripts, Databases, Object Repositories etc. |
| This can be done by sharing the Web specification of these objects which can be done client side without ANY change to basic object |
| This is sharing of client side interface (proxy) to server side object |
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We have used the shared proxy notion to implement
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| Server does not need to know about detail of |
| collaboration. |
| It is more efficient if it |
| caches information for |
| re-use. |
| Thus use custom data-base |
| caching or general |
| proxy server |
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For program development
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For all aspects of collaboration
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| Extend ability of distant researchers to interact over the Internet to include important application software |
| Reduce travel & costs associated with distributed group projects, enhance productivity |
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| Initial DoD-relevant demonstration application will be delayed due to problems staffing this project (emphasis on completing core Tango 2 functionality) |
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| NPAC at Syracuse University |
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| Begun August 1999 as follow-on to Yr3 project |
| Focus on EQM applications and also Army Risk Assessment Modeling System (ARAMS) |
| Provide customizable decision support interface |
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| Unified look-and-feel for the family of the EQM applications: LMS, GMS, SMS and WMS |
| Remote data access -- increase sophistication/flexibility |
| Remote execution -- more models, more complex interactions |
| NPAC work on middleware, others doing front-end, back-end |
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| Technical meeting of LMS group at ERDC 27-28 July |
| Necessary tasks defined and assigned |
| Working on installing CORBA-based infrastructure on appropriate machines (to be completed by Sept. 03) |
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| LMS intended to address questions of environmental damage and recovery as a result of DoD training exercises or actual battles. Environmental restoration important, and potentially costly factor. |
| More generally, and example of using CORBA, Java, etc. to build coupled HPC applications w/ user-friendly interfaces |