We learnt from the Keynote talks that:
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Parallel Computing (use of multiple CPU's to address a single problem) is inevitable
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Year 2005, 100's of Java CPU's per chip to support immersive environments
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Simulations of physical world (weathe, aircraft, oil resevoir, cosmology) underlie virtual worlds
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Today's supercomputer is a window to capabilities of tomorrow's desktop
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We will see by 2005, One Million connected workstation's, ?100? million connected consumer devices
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How can they be integrated?
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Complexity prevents scaling of large systems
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Software and hardware
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Jini provides new model of fault tolerant dynamic system integration
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