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Foil 49 Ultimate Vision and Implementation of NII and InfoVision

From Challenges and Opportunities for Information Technology in ECS ECS Faculty Retreat -- 15 October 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

InfoVision is ultimate "client-server" application
  • 108 clients -- each of which could be (small) servers -- in fact Web Technology will migrate to democratic "server-server" architecture
  • 104 large (~$10M) parallel servers -- each of which could have 1000 to 10000 nodes
Democracy on the NII (Gore)
  • Everybody can access information on the NII
  • Everybody has equal opportunity to put information on the NII


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