December 14 NCSA ************************
Alliance User Portal
	Allocations Application
	Job Status
	Online Documentation
	AltaVista Search engine
	Code Performance Tools
Not yet Job submission
Uses XML converted either by Java Servlet (feeding Applet
or GIF Image) or XSL
WebX from Active Touch

Tilt Thompkins -- Industrial Partner Porter
AllState will switch to web based insurance

Larry Jackson using Java at NCSA
Extending ISAAC as Access Grid using Jini
Bluetooth and Jini for Wireless
"Persistent Document Spaces"
Jini for "peoplewatch" "databasewatch"
VNC changed to go from 2 to 3 users limit to 15 users (without multicast)
Jini has many problems working at a distance

Polly Baker Vis bench
CORBA in middle tier
VTK at backend 
Renderman at backend

Alliance Metadata
	Link disciplines
	XML only for little data
	
McMullen
	Distributed Authentication critical
	Portal to Portal authentication

i-Planet History
	no laptops in Sun .....
	not enough office space
	"flexible field office" -- no permanent home
	Enigma cards to authenticate
	tried out on 20,000 employees
	wants to grant iPlanet to educational organizations

PalmPilots are a vision of future -- they are not the future
PC's etc will be only 33% of world in 2003
Can't touch clients -- too hard as too many and out of control


December 13 99 **************************
Parker struggling with adaptive mesh -- Lee from EM
field (similar boundary conditions)
24000 elements
How would CFD meshers do?


December 12 ******************************
NASA Opportunity
	Likes International Agreements -- ACES
	Japan Workshop 3 weeks
	Dan Goldin interested in doing more analysis
	as opposed to just doing infrastructure
	HPCC Possibility

USGS: Bad time as budget cut

NSF will fund SCEC as ongoing activity

XML for lots of different data types
GIS Relation
No data complete and no Navier Stokes -- so replace
	by composition of datasets
Theory gives 20 year solution (scalable in time infrastructure
	must support)
Don't do crisis management
Why different from Weather field -- does GEM have any unique
	features

New models of collaboration
Rich Problem Spectrum -- choose "sample" projects
Data mining associated with Infomatics; 
Washington not keen on theory

ACES Visitor's program to allow Australia <--> Elsewhere
(about 6 visitors)

Two earthquakes can be spawned (enabled) at "same" time
by given global situation. This is different from one
eartquake causing the other (nearby) one.

Andrea combines GPS and Geology -- visualization seems very important

Tullis has better picture than me of multipole for irregular geometry
Greens function more computationally intense than for astrophysics so
save in a table.
Run on an SP at Brown
Salmon needed to get to work -- Salmon/Warren too busy? 

Rundle has Brazilian Postdoc who could be GEM multipole expert

Turcotte universal power laws -- forest fire sizes, Drainage nets

Rundle
Gutenberg-Richter implies vector magnitude fixed (fixing length
	removes a lot of noise)
1800 by 1800 matrix (if 1800 cells) -- find eigenvectors
Look at leading eigenvectors but not necessary!

Klein
Screened exp(-alpha r)/r**3 represented as constant force in a region
1/r**3 is special as falls too slowly
( This type of "long range" force CRITICAL)
Many types of events with different scaling
Arrested nucleation 1/A**2 (corresponds to Magnitude 3 or 4)
Rest 1/A**1.5 Area A
Large events only from some type of precursor
Smaller events are irrelevant -- just noise
Big events -- have correlation

Next meeting March or late April -- maybe in Maui