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Foil 9 The Standard Scenario for HPCC and NII

From NII(Web) Services Overview CPS616 Basic Information Track for Computational Science -- Winter-Spring Semester 96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

High Performance (Parallel) Computers on High Speed (ATM) Networks linked to clients at a network performance that supporting realtime Video at a resolution between VHS,HDTV .
MPP's as Internet/Web/NII/GII Servers
  • NII/GII= National/Global Information Infrastructure
  • Supports Decisions by everybody in society
  • Consumers, Healthcare, Teachers, Schoolchildren, Business, Military,
Dual-Use Philosophy must be extended to Multi-Use
  • Different applications must share services
Standards must be used
  • from HPF/HPC++ in simulation arena to
  • to TCP/IP on ATM in networking
  • to parallel relational databases
  • to "Web" technology for multimedia


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