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ICWU will join 6 or more universities together in fall 98 to use distance education across the world to teach Internetics at Graduate (6 courses) and High School ( 2 courses)

Includes Peking, Chang Sha and Syracuse Universities
courses will add value to and not compete with existing curricula as typically novel material not yet available

Internetics is the study of technologies, services and applications enabling and enabled by the world wide Internet

such as Java, networking, security, multimedia, CORBA, electronic commerce,

Will prototype and test education technologies, infrastructure and demonstrate the feasibility of new approaches to education using International Collaboration

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Foil 4 Goals of Distance Education

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Reduce cost and increase quality of curriculum and its delivery by

Allowing Students access to expertise not available in their own educational institution
Use and deliver material to more students than in a typical class so can justify greater effort in preparation

Most important in near term for remote students and new rapidly changing fields which are typically not available

In long term can impact nature of educational enterprise

Important Questions:

What is needed network infrastructure in terms of bandwidth and quality of service?
What is appropriate way of preparing material and how should it best be delivered

Answers to questions probably depends on field and student body

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Foil 5 Traditional Model of Instruction

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Professors

Students

Common Shared Books and Such Resources

Done separately for each class at each university

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Foil 6 ICWU Model of Instruction

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Professor

Outside

Students

Common Shared Books Lecture Material

and Such Resources

Each University teaches a given class to all Students Universities divide classes up among themselves

Local Students

INTERNET

Class I is

given by

University 1)

to students

at 1,2,3)

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Foil 7 ICWU Model of Instruction

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Outside

Students

Common Shared Books Lecture Material

and Such Resources

Each University teaches a given class to all Students Universities divide classes up among themselves

Local Students

INTERNET

Outside

Students

INTERNET

Class II is

given by

University 2)

to students

at 1,2,3)

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Foil 8 HPcc High Performance Computing based on Commodity Technologies January 12,98 NIMA HQ

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Geoffrey Fox

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100

3154432163

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Foil 9 Abstract of Commodity Technologies in HPCC

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We discuss role of commodity (Web) technologies in future high performance computing environments

We describe how a network of Web/CORBA/COM servers architecture can naturally support both parallel and distributed computing while

We describe applications to both metacomputing, and parallel computing

We suggest critical importance of CORBA and component based software in HPCC -- Javabeans seem very important

We describe role of collaboration technology in linking computers with people

We describe use of Java as a general coding language for scientific and engineering computation

This approach unifies distributed event driven simulations with classic massively parallel time stepped computations

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Foil 10 People and Infrastructure in NPAC

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15 Ph.D. level Researchers and 5 at masters level

About 20 funded students, others "volunteers"

Local and International Collaborators

Major DoD activities with Modernization Program (PET) -- ASC ARL CEWES
Member of leading NSF (NCSA) and Darpa activities
Work with collaborators in Europe and China

State of the Art Practical Computational facilities focused on high quality information subsystems and networks

Large enough computers for rapid prototyping
PC and workstation clusters

Theme is leading edge computer science and its applications of relevance to real world for academia, business and community

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Foil 11 Nature of NPAC Programs

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Basic Information Technology -- Databases, Corba, Web, Collaboration, Networking

Healthcare/Human Computer Interfaces -- "Center for Really Neat Research" -- work with disabled users

Education Technology -- TANGO, Video Servers WebWisdom etc.

High Performance Computing and Communication Research -- Programming Environments and Applications and links of HPCC to Web and distributed object (CORBA)Technology

InfoMall Technology Transfer

4 spin offs from NPAC in last year plus existing CNY companies

InfoMall MidHudson supports technology in MidHudson (exIBMers)

about 10 very active companies

Education Delivery

NPAC teaches about 4 full courses each semester and so uses its own technology!

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Foil 12 HPcc High Performance Computing based on Commodity Technologies January 22,98 NIST http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/nisthpccjan98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/HPcc/HPcc.html

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Geoffrey Fox

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100

3154432163

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Foil 13 Abstract of Commodity Technologies in HPCC for NIST

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We discuss role of commodity (Web) technologies in future high performance computing environments

We describe how a network of Web/CORBA/COM servers architecture can naturally support both parallel and distributed computing while

We describe applications to both metacomputing, and parallel computing and suggest this approach can provide attractive user environments leveraging the huge commodity investment

We suggest critical importance of CORBA and component based software in HPCC -- Javabeans seem very important

We describe role of collaboration technology in linking computers with people

We describe use of Java as a general coding language for scientific and engineering computation

This approach unifies distributed event driven simulations with classic massively parallel time stepped computations

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Foil 14 The HPCC Dilemma and its Solution

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HPCC has developed good research ideas but cannot implement them as solving computing's hardest problem with 1 percent of the funding

HPCC applications are very complex and use essentially all computer capabilities and also have synchronization and performance constraints from HPCC

We have learnt to use commodity hardware either

partially as in Origin 2000/SP2 with consumer CPU's but custom network or
fully as in PC cluster with fast ethernet/ATM

Let us do the same with software and design systems with maximum possible commodity software basis

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Foil 15 What is Commodity Software

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The world is building a wonderful distributed computing (information processing) environment using Web (dissemination) and distributed object (CORBA COM) technologies

This includes Java, Web-linked databases and the essential standards such as HTML(documents), VRML(3D objects), JDBC (Java database connectivity).

The standard interfaces are essential in that they allow modular (component based) software

We will "just" add high performance to this commodity distributed infrastructure

Respecting architecture of the object web, should allow us to naturally use improved software as it produced

The alternative strategy starts with HPCC technologies (such as MPI,HPF) and adds links to commodity world. This approach does not easily track evolution of commodity systems and so has large maintenance costs

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Foil 16 Exploiting Multi-Tier Commodity Software Model

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Essential idea is consider a three tier model

Top tier is the client (in "Network Computer" based 4 tier architectures this becomes 2 tiers)
Second tier are servers coordinated by commodity technologies such as the Web and CORBA and communicating via HTTP(Web), IIOP(CORBA), RMI or custom Java sockets.
Use middle tier component/container model -- Enterprise Javabeans
Third tier are services such as databases, MPP's

Preserve the first two tiers as a high functionality commodity information processing system and confine HPCC to the third (lowest) tier.

MPI becomes the high performance "machine code" for message passing which you use if HTTP, IIOP or RMI have insufficient performance

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Foil 17 Today's Confusing Multi-Technology Real World Second Tier Server Layer

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W is Web Server

PD Parallel Database

DC Distributed Computer

PC Parallel Computer

O Object Broker

N Network Server e.g. Netsolve

T Collaboratory Server

Clients

Middle Layer (Server Tier)

Third Backend Tier

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Foil 18 WebFlow Flip Module

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Original Image

Output Image

Some of

Available Image Filters

Visual DataFlow

Interface

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Foil 19 WebFlow WaveFilter Module

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Original Image

Output Image

Some of

Available Image Filters

Visual DataFlow

Interface

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Foil 20 Architecture of Interpreted Front End

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Client

Middle Tier

Backend Tier

e.g. Java

e.g. HPF

SciVis Java

Scientific

Visualization

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Foil 21 Parallel Computing v. Metacomputing

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HPcc can be applied to either parallel or high-performance distributed computing (aka metacomputing)

In metacomputing, HPcc fills a void as few if any high level tools

In parallel computing, HPcc provides uniform and perhaps more attractive sustainable user environment

Can view a parallel computer either as a single tier 2 object

or as a collection of tier 2 objects -- one per node

Both are interesting

As a single object provides a CORBA like facility of invoking as a distributed object
As one object per node, can use HPcc to provide node level programming environment

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Foil 22 Can HPcc Give High Performance if applied to each node of a parallel computer?

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YES! If one uses the same separation between control and data transfer explained for metacomputing case

Build a "bridge" that accepts MPI HTTP or CORBA invocation but invokes either the powerful slow CORBA mechanism or the nifty optimized MPI

Why address nodes as CORBA? -- so you can build applications uniformly so they can access nodes and servers around the world in same message passing style

Why address nodes with MPI? -- so you can get code that executes very fast!

Why address nodes with HTTP? -- so you can get advantages of CORBA today as Web Servers dominate!

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Foil 23 What are JavaBeans I

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They are Java's implementation of "component-based" visual programming

This modern software engineering technique produces a new approach to libraries which become a "software component infrastructure(SCI)"

There is a visual interface to discovery of and setting of values of and information about parameters used in a particular software component

JavaBeans uses the event model of JDK1.1 to communicate between components

This is exactly the ideas we used to get high performance separating control and data transfer

One expects Javabeans to become the CORBA component interface

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Foil 24 What are JavaBeans II

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The visual interface allows inspection of and implementation of both individual beans and their linkage . This visual construction of linkage allows one to form nontrivial programs with multiple communicating components

We will see this as next step for WebFlow

Apart from the event mechanism which is a communication/linkage mechanism, ComponentWare (and JavaBeans in particular) "just" give a set of universal rules (needed for interoperability) for rather uncontroversial (albeit good) object-oriented and visual programming practices

Hiding of properties which can only be accessed by methods (which must have special names)
Display of these properties (as given by methods)

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Foil 25 Next Steps for HPcc using JavaBeans

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Currently WebFlow uses a Java Server and manipulates Java applications which can be frontends with native methods to Fortran C or C++ routines

Change Java Server to JWORB -- server integrating HTTP and IIOP (Web and CORBA)

Change Java Applications to JavaBeans and non-Java apps to CORBA objects

Change linkage in WebFlow to respect JavaBean event mechanism

Then we get HPComponentware

And using our multi-tier model high performance CORBA

WebFlow is HPCC version of a

Typical Visual Interface for JavaBeans

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Foil 26 Wrapping Existing Applications

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Java (with visual interfaces i.e. JavaBeans) is natural tier 2 language

JavaBeans can be used at tier 1(client) or 2(server)

Linking this to tier 3 "classic applications" gives rise to JavaBean wrappers for existing applications

These can be used in HPcc and commodity environments

Naturally become CORBA distributed objects and so can be remotely executed and documented (via CORBA trader or yellow pages service)

Classic Application

Fortran C C++

JavaBean Wrapper

Tier 2

Tier 1

Tier 3

IIOP HTTP RMI

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Foil 27 HPCORBA Layer with SIO Analogy

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Tier 1

Tier 2 IIOP

Tier 3 Globus

High Performance Messaging

High Functionality Messaging

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Foil 28 Role of Standards in HPcc

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HPCC can learn from success of standards in Web arena

Simple non optimal quickly adopted AND implemented standards have driven Web revolution

MPI is a successful standard of this type but

HPF took too long -- especially to implement -- as standard too complex.

We should have been less ambitious and broken HPF into separate manageable parts
at least a high level compiler and well defined low level SPMD model that supports distributed data structures (like DAGH)

CORBA suggests we set up HPcc as a HPCC facility

Java suggests we set up some HPCC frameworks to define client/server interfaces; Java scientific libraries etc.

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Foil 29 CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age Application Summary http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/cps616appls98

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Instructor: Geoffrey Fox

teamed with Wojtek Furmanski, Meryem Ispirli, Nancy McCracken, Shrideep Pallickara, Tom Scavo

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place

Syracuse NY 13244 4100

Phone: 3154432163

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Foil 30 Abstract of CPS616-98 Overview of Applications

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This Foilset contains remarks on applications for CPS616 course for spring 1998

We cut back normal discussion of WebWindows as this is superceded by object web and multi-tier discussion in introduction and glossary

See use usual division between generic services and applications

Education and MetaComputing are described separately

See http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/nisthpccjan98

See http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/chinawisdomdec97

See http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/cps616appl97 for fuller discussion last year with plenty of references

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Foil 31 WebWindows Model

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This is implied by multi-tier model as it says in particular that client software is not hosted by native operating system but by the web browser running on client

This is seen dramatically in Internet Explorer integrated with Windows95 but this was not how it was meant to be

Rather Web browser should BE operating system as far as user is concerned and so both Microsoft and Netscape should be able to provide it ....

3 Tier Computing Model says that Object Web Technologies are used at both client and middle server tier and so this implies WebWindows

WebWindows surely says Java is an important language as natural implementation -- especially client side -- with applets

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Foil 32 PET NPAC Web Training Projects

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CEWES: Tango "production" education sysem linking PC's and SGI and used for Jackson State

ASC: Multimedia recording, digitization and linkage to presentation material

ARL: General collaboration and link of Tango with Webacon or Lotus Notus

NPAC Internal:

1) Understand linkage of Asynchronous and Synchronous Collaboration (Database/Lotus Notes to Tango)
2)Replace UNIX file system framework of WebWisdom foilset system by a database with JDBC or LiveWire
3) Integrate administrative functions (database)

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Foil 33 What is Technology Situation?

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Most things sort of work

Some things like Tango have correct architecture and implementation but need more robust implementation

Some things like WebWisdom need more modern architecture

Link of Asynchronous and Synchronous capabilities is next major capability to be added

There are some simple issues such as administrative functions which need to be added

Authoring is still a pretty unknown area

Need Practice and Experience

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Foil 34 Application Experiments

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Education (Credit, Basic Principles, Long) versus training (focussed, short, non-credit)

Jackson State: add value in areas where recipient educational institution is not able to deliver particular material

NPAC K-12 and International Experiments: Similar to Jackson State in different communities

Link Instructors and pupils from multiple institutions

PET Training: Do the pupils want Synchronous or Asynchronous delivery? Do they want credit?

Will Universities allow one to give credit for activities delivered in non traditional ways by non traditional people ?

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Foil 35 Java, The Web and Computer Science Why are you here? Kick-off Talk for NPAC-ECS Java Academy http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/javaforkidsfeb98

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Academy Instructor: Tom Scavo

Lecturer: Geoffrey Fox

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place

Syracuse NY 13244 4100

Phone: 3154432163

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Foil 36 Abstract of Introduction to Java Academy Presentation

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We first describe the Internet and its growth

Then the Software model showing where Java fits in

Then we describe a computer and where web Technology and Java fit in

Although designed for the web, Java (and other Web technologies) is a totally general programming language which can be used to program a computer to do anything!

E.g. we will use in our next project to teach computer to model behavior of stock market -- this will be written in Java
Learning Java is best preparation there is for a career in computing -- in University or Business

We list some good features of Java

We give some examples

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Foil 37 Why is Java a Good Language I

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It is excellent built in Graphics and Multimedia so you can use it to write applets tat make your Web Pages better .....

It is similar to well known older languages like C and C++ so you can learn these later.

It has wonderful and growing libraries (existing software you can re-use) that allow you to use databases, "object brokers" and all the resources you could want

It has lots of good books and a growing number of fancy environments to help you program

It supports the web and networking (linking of computers)

There are more formal reasons on the next foil

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Foil 38 Why is Java a Good Language II

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Java is "object-oriented" (unlike say Perl4 or Basic) which makes it is easier to build large software systems without them looking like your bedroom

Java is independent of platform -- runs on all computers

Java has "threads" built in allowing more than one thing to be done at the same time

Java supports "exceptions" (nice way of coping with errors which are often inevitable)

Java has an EXCELLENT security model -- it is by far the safest of any of the common languages

Java is simpler than C++

There are other important technical issues (pointers, garbage collection, good inheritance model)

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Foil 39 Distance Computing and Collaboration for DSWA Workshop on Very Large Scale High Performance Computing Requirements February 20 TASC Rosslyn VA http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/nisthpccjan98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/dswahpccfeb98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/HPcc/HPcc.html

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Geoffrey Fox

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100

3154432163

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Foil 40 Abstract of Distance Computing and Collaboration for DSWA

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We discuss role of commodity (Web) technologies in future high performance computing environments

We describe how a network of Web/CORBA/COM servers architecture can naturally support both parallel and distributed computing while

We describe applications to both metacomputing, and parallel computing and suggest this approach can provide attractive user environments leveraging the huge commodity investment

We suggest critical importance of CORBA and component based software in HPCC -- Javabeans seem very important

This approach unifies distributed event driven simulations with classic massively parallel time stepped computations and so combines DMSO HLA/RTI with classic HPCC

We describe role of collaboration technology in linking computers with people

We finish with remarks on University requirements and issues in HPCC connected to research in HPCC, use of HPCC systems and education

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Foil 41 Basic HPcc Strategy

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Encapsulate services (from databases to instruments to MPP's) as tier 2 distributed objects using an approach that will evolve to COM/CORBA in future but is deployable today

JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) links to databases
(Java) web server interfaces to compute modules using Javabean visual interfaces

This already gives you an approach to seamless access and a framework for composing complex metaproblems by linking programs together or programs to databases

Habanero or Tango allow you to share objects to give

Collaborative Program Development
Collaborative Visualization
Collaborative Computational Steering and/or Planning

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Foil 42 Synergy of Parallel Computing and Web Internetics as Unifying Principle

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The two forms of Large Scale Computing Scale Computer for Scale Users in Proportion Power User to number of computers

Parallel Commodity Distributed Computers Information Systems Technology <--------------- Internetics Technologies --------------->

Parallel Computer Distributed Computer

HPF MPI HPJava HTML VRML

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Foil 43 Synergistic Teaching of Parallel Computing and Web Academic Field of Internetics

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The two forms of Large Scale Computing Scale Computer for Scale Users in Proportion Power User to number of computers

Computational Commodity Technology Science Web, Networking, Databases ...

<--------------- Internetics --------------->

Parallel Computer Distributed Computer

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Foil 44 Communication Protocol Integration

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Need Flexibility of HTTP/RMI/COM/CORBA with performance of systems like MPI

Can use compiler or runtime libraries to map in application (tier 3) which gives greatest performance

More flexible is to map at server (tier 2) when you can access functionality of all mapped protocols

NPAC has built JWORB which is a Java server which supports both the Web and CORBA(distributed object) protocols

JWORB supports RTI and so allow one to build Web Tools for FMS/IMT DoD (DMSO) communities (RTI is event driven simulation equivalent of MPI)
WebFlow will become an HLA Programming Environment
JWORB could support MPI and so link HPCC and DMSO

Commercial systems can bridge COM and CORBA

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Foil 45 Object Web Software is the Best

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By definition, Object Web software is and will even more so, be the "best" software ever built because it has the largest market and greatest leverage of investment dollars

Further most creative business model - harness the world's best minds together with open interfaces
Note previously PC software and IBM business OS were high quality software but not so open and not a complete model

As on next foil, we take technology produced for broad-based object web and customize in three ways

Use if necessary on a special Intranet (e.g. high speed network)
Apply to a particular application area such as HPCC
Enhance as necessary e.g. add security

This allows you to both deliver your application to the general public (when required) and leverage best software

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Foil 46 Computational Grid and the Object Web

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Larry Smarr and NCSA Collaboration have stressed analogy of deployment of computer/communication technology with impact that electrical and transportation grids had

I.e. they enabled revolutions in society
What is relative role of High-end and Commodity-end in Grid?

The transportation system was built using lessons from and feed up/down from Sports cars, Cadillacs, Model T's, Ford Escorts etc.

Computational Grid will be shaped by and shape all applications and technologies

Internetics expresses synergy between high-end and commodity approaches

A computational grid is a metacomputer or a "high performance distributed computer system" which must be influenced by and influence the "Object Web" which is here defined as "mass-market"/business IntraNet (low to low) use of Internet/distributed Information Systems

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Foil 47 Todays Complex World will evolve to something like the pure CORBA Architecture for a distributed Information System (There are similar COM and Javabean /RMI Versions)

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Foil 48 An Object Web-based 3-Tier Computing System

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Middle Server Tier

Basic HTTP/CGI Web Server

Java Web Server

Transaction Processing Server

Business Transaction Management

Client and Middle Tier are Customizable

You Write Web Technology Software

at Client and Server

Old and New Useful Backend Software

Object Broker

Back-end Tier

The Services

Client

Front-end Tier

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Foil 49 Visual Programming WebFlow, DARP on GLOBUS

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Client (Tier 1): Java Graph Editor for Webflow or interpreted debugger (DARP) linked to Java Visualizer SciVis

Middle Tier 2: Network of Java Servers linking UNIX and Windows NT systems with "all" services

Back-end Tier 3: Globus where available. In early 98, this is high performance UNIX system links with no databases and no NT

Note this is a good high performance I/O architecture whether file system, CORBA or database based

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Pure Tier 2 system with simple Java Image filters
Mix of Tier 2 Image Filter with Tier 3 high performance parallel Potts Model Simulation
DARP Debugging Interface for HPF with interactive breakpoints Capabilities of SciVis Java Visualization System

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Foil 50 Integration of DIS with Object Web Based Computing

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DoD modeling and simulation (FMS,IMT) community is currently evolving towards the HLA(High level Architecture) framework with the RTI (Run Time Infrastructure) based communication bus.

The goal of HLA/RTI is to enhance interoperability across more diverse simulators than in the DIS realm, ranging from real-time to time-stepped to event-driven paradigms.

HLA defines a set of rules governing how simulators (federates) interact with each others. Federates describe their objects via Object Model Template (OMT) and agree on a common Federation Object Model (FOM).

The overall HLA/RTI model is strongly influenced by the CORBA architecture and in fact the current prototype development is indeed CORBA based.

Building HPCC on the Object Web implies that we can a common framework for both distributed (event driven) simulations and classic time stepped parallel computing

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Foil 51 Collaborative Systems

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We describe Tango which like Habanero is based on a tier-2 Java Server

We first summarize overall design and capabilities

Then one foil illustrating basic capabilities (chat, whiteboard etc.)

Then two foils illustrating with 2D and 3D geographical information systems, the original command and control (crisis management) application

Then a discussion of multidisciplinary applications using Tango and WebFlow

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Foil 52 Minimal Web based Multidisciplinary Application

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This combines TANGO for collaboration with WebFlow to link server side applications

If necessary WebFlowcould support high performance inter-module communication as in structures-CFD Linkage example but it would always implement control at middle tier and this allows TANGO integration with server side computation

This illustrates why we keep control at tier 2 so adding collaboration does not disturb high performance layer

WebFlow communication model is a dynamic dataflow

Of course other server side compute models are possible and in general need (web-linked) data bases, file systems, object brokers etc.,

On client one can share tools such as CAD systems like CATIA or AUTOCAD so Tango interfaces with API to these system and drives "slaves" from state extracted from linkage to master.

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Foil 53 Linkage to Mobile Units

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Wearable computers (with components such as battery, disks, CPU) wore on a belt with a handheld monitor (640 by 480 today) allow us to bring a computational grid to the warfighter

There would be a wireless link using low speed digital cellular connection

There is enough memory and disk to run a browser and Tango client on the remote unit

This links warfighters together or to central intelligence source

The 1997 technology is shown in next two foils

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Foil 54 University HPCC Issues and Requirements

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Universities interact with HPCC in three distinct ways

Research in HPCC: This is reduced in level but healthy
Using HPCC facilities for large scale simulations in areas like biochemistry and astrophysics: NSF new solicitation with 2 major PACI partnerships signals success and reinvigoration
Education of students in field: this is not so satisfactory as in general number of skilled people in computer field is less than demand and students are:
- Leaving both HPCC areas in computer science (Web, databases appear to have better job opportunities)
- Leaving major application areas like physics (enrollment dropping)
We propose a new educational focus on Internetics to attract students in an area that includes both web and HPCC technologies
Also distance education and more enlightened immigration policies can make a major help

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Foil 55 Summary of ICWU International Collaborative Web University and its Internetics Program

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ICWU will join 6 or more universities together in fall 98 to use distance education across the world to teach Internetics at Graduate (6 courses) and High School ( 2 courses)

Includes U.S. Chinese and English Universities
courses will add value to and not compete with existing curricula as typically novel material not yet available

Internetics is the study of technologies, services and applications enabling and enabled by the world wide Internet

such as Java, networking, security, multimedia, CORBA, electronic commerce,

Will prototype and test education technologies, infrastructure and demonstrate the feasibility of new approaches to education using International Collaboration

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Foil 56 Next Steps in CSC499 Experiment

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There are many universities/schools where such "augmentation would be valuable

http://www.webwisdom.org happy to offer such courses

Experience with teaching in China suggests huge demand in foreign universities where faculty less up to date in latest material

Repeating course at JSU spring 98 semester with improved curricula and somewhat improved bandwidth

Hope to produce a distance education version of grade 5-12 version of Web Technologies for kids offered February-April 98 in Syracuse -- http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/k12javaspring98/

Jackson State will use Tango to teach CSC499 like course to other HBCU's next fall

Note base material used in about 20 different courses/tutorials over last 2 years

This approach has obvious economies of scale
material updated continuously (e.g. Java1.0 to 1.1) which requires such economies to be realistic

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Foil 57 Status of JWORB WebFlow HPcc and HLA Applications Integration with Globus http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/jworbmar98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/dswahpccfeb98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/HPcc/HPcc.html

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Geoffrey Fox

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100

3154432163

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Foil 58 Abstract of WebFlow and JWORB Status

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We first describe the architecture of current WebFlow implementation of an NCSA Grand Challenge -- that for Quantum Montecarlo Simulations

This shows multi-tier structure and integration of databases and Globus

Then we describe Status and Design of JWORB which is a Java Server that combines CORBA Web and COM capabilities and so implements concept of the pragmatic object Web

We give performance results compared to RMI and CORBA brokers

We describe a "ping demo" which nicely shows interplay between CORBA and Web capabilities

We describe the RTI application to distributed modeling and simulation

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Foil 59 Technologies for Education and Education about Technologies http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/physicsedmar98

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Physics Colloquium March 19 1998

Geoffrey Fox

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place

Syracuse NY 13244 4100

Phone: 3154432163

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Foil 60 Abstract of Physics and Education

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We first describe some general trends in education and its implications for physics

We discuss the new field of Internetics and where physics fits in

We describe new approaches to distance education and the role of collaboration technology with Tango as the example

We then discuss the WebWisdom system combining Web, Database, Distributed Object and Collaboration capabilities

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Foil 61 Impact of IT worker Shortage

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So depending on the source, one finds a shortage of 100,000 to 300,000 workers in Information Technology today -- this is forecast to grow with 1 million more jobs created by industry by year 2004

So physics could compete with this trend and try to attract good students from this field

My suggested alternative is to note that IT work typically requires the technical and problem solving skills abilities associated with physicists

Thus set up new physics opportunities within the general IT educational arena that we call Internetics

IT minor with a basic physics education
physics/math methods minor within an IT education

Note IT opportunities are in applications -- more than "basic systems"

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Foil 62 Impact of Education/Web Technology on Physics

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There is the same opportunity available to any education area to use new delivery and preparation methods

This opportunity is also a challenge as virtual university opens up teaching at all universities to other providers

Comparing "books" with the Web, we see that Web offers opportunities for "technical people" as well as those with good "communication skills" -- Java applets combined with numerical algorithms may be more effective than streams of beautiful English words

Maybe this would suggest new degrees with a mix of physics, "classical mathematical methods" and Web technology

The new technologies should allow better integration of research into education -- this could help physics communicate its value more effectively

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Foil 63 Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Graduate Electives

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Need to take 2 electives chosen from:

Computer Science Electives

Advanced Technologies e.g. VRML, advanced Java
Advanced Services Multimedia, Collaboration
High Performance and parallelism from Compilers to Web Servers
Distributed Computing Technologies
Distributed Objects and Components

Application Electives:

Education and Information Systems
Commerce
Computation and Visualization I and II e.g. Computational Science, including Datamining, distributed simulation, metacomputing
Computational Physics including advanced mathematical methods
(This could have analogies in Engineering Chemistry etc.)

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Foil 64 Review of Java Grande Forum JavaOne Conference March 24 98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/javaforcse

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Geoffrey Fox

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100

3154432163

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Foil 65 Abstract of Java Grande Presentation at JavaOne

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Definition and Examples of Grande Applications

Discussion of Workshops and typical papers

Summary of James Gosling's presentation

Discussion of Forum and areas of study

Illustration of Frameworks using JDBC as an example

The Computing Services Framework

Summary of First Numerics Working Group Meeting

Details of First Parallel and Distributed Computing Working Group Meeting

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Foil 66 Distributed Systems on the Pragmatic Object Web -- Computing with Java and CORBA

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Geoffrey Fox

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244

Phone:3154432163

ICASE/LaRC/NSF/ARO WORKSHOP ON

COMPUTATIONAL AEROSCIENCES IN THE 21st CENTURY April 23 98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/cas21stapril98 http://www.icase.edu/workshops/CAS21st.html

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Foil 67 Abstract of CAS21st Century Presentation

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We review emerging approaches to HPCC for both tightly coupled parallel hardware and computational grids -- geographically distributed metacomputers.

We base the discussion on the growing power and capability of commodity computing and communication technologies largely driven by commercial distributed information systems. These systems are built from CORBA, Microsoft's COM, Javabeans, and less sophisticated web server and networked approaches.

One can abstract these to a three-tier model with largely independent clients connected to a distributed network of servers. The latter host various services including object and relational databases and of course parallel and sequential computing.

This network of servers encompassing disparate object and web standards is termed the "Pragmatic Object Web" and we show how to use these concepts even when there is no one universal standard.

We look at the implications for educational curricula in "non computer science technical fields"

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Foil 68 Outline of HPcc High Performance commodity computing I

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We review emerging approaches to HPCC for both tightly coupled parallel hardware and computational grids -- geographically distributed metacomputers.

This network of servers encompassing disparate object and web standards is termed the "Pragmatic Object Web" and we show how to use these concepts even when there is no one universal standard.

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Foil 69 Outline of HPcc High Performance commodity computing II

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In particular, we describe JWORB -- a Java server built at NPAC supporting CORBA and Web protocols simultaneously. High performance can be obtained by combining concurrency at the middle server tier

with optimized parallel back end services. The resultant system combines the needed performance for large-scale HPCC applications with the rich functionality of commodity systems. Further the architecture with distinct interface, server and specialized service implementation layers, naturally allows advances in each area to be easily incorporated.

Adoption of community standards defined as CORBA facilities or Java frameworks for computing will accelerate this process. We suggest that this commodity approach can be applied to both metacomputing and to provide improved parallel programming environments. We describe exploitation issues within a CORBA context and illustrate how high performance can be obtained within a commodity architecture.

Examples are given from collaborative systems, support of multidisciplinary interactions, proposed visual HPCC ComponentWare programming environment, distributed simulation and the use of Java in high performance computing.

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Foil 70 Java Ring - Portable Robust JVM

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What's inside the Java Ring?

Almost One Million Transistors
Processor compatible with JavaCard 2.0 Java Virtual Machine,
6K SRAM and 32K ROM memory
Real-time clock.
1024 bit Public Key Security
Links to PC with Serial/Parallel Port Interface

Controlled at JavaOne Conference by JavaSpace (Sun's Java version of Linda) for 14,000 way parallelism

Prototype of eventual Intermental Network which link people (mind's) together with computers as "just the interfaces"

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Foil 71 Changing Choices in Education

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Students -- correctly -- perceive a growing opportunity in computer science related fields but outside biology, there is a decrease in interest in "technical sciences" such as physics, aerospace engineering etc.

In particular physics departments may disappear in many Universities as the number of majors is dropping at both undergraduate and graduate level.

Classical Computational Science is not the answer but we suggest that a generalization -- Internetics at the interface between applications and "web/commodity" technologies offers interesting attractive academic programs combining computing and the "technical sciences"

It is not enough to justify physics (as studying Latin and Greek was motivated to me) as "training the mind"

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Foil 72 Impact of IT Worker Shortage

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So physics and "physical technology" aspects of engineering (e.g. aerospace engineering) could compete with this trend and try to attract good students from this field

My suggested alternative is to note that IT work typically requires the technical and problem solving skills abilities associated with physics or engineering and often NOT taught in Computer Science

Thus set up new curricula opportunities within the general IT educational arena that we call Internetics

IT minor with a basic physics/engineering education
Engineering/physics/math methods minor within an IT education

Note IT job opportunities are in applications -- perhaps more so than in "basic systems"

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Foil 73 Impact of Education/Web Technology on Engineering and Physics

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There is the same opportunity available to any education area to use new delivery and preparation methods

This opportunity is also a challenge as virtual university opens up teaching at all universities to other providers

Maybe this would suggest new degrees with a mix of engineering, physics, "classical mathematical methods" and Web technology

The new technologies should allow better integration of research into education -- this could help academic fields communicate their value more effectively

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Foil 74 Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Graduate Electives

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Need to take 2 electives chosen from:

Computer Science Electives

Advanced Technologies e.g. VRML, advanced Java
Advanced Services Multimedia, Collaboration
High Performance and parallelism from Compilers to Web Servers
Distributed Computing Technologies
Distributed Objects and Components

Application Electives:

Education and Information Systems
Commerce
Computation and Visualization I and II e.g. Computational Science, including Datamining, distributed simulation, metacomputing
Computational Physics or Aerospace Engineering including advanced mathematical methods
(This has analogies in other Engineering fields, Chemistry etc.)

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Foil 75 Visual Programming WebFlow, DARP on GLOBUS

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Client (Tier 1): Java Graph Editor for Webflow or interpreted debugger (DARP) linked to Java Visualizer SciVis

In four tier model, these Java tools would run on Java Web Server with pure HTML client

Middle Tier 2: Network of Java Servers linking UNIX and Windows NT systems with "all" services

Back-end Tier 3: Globus where available. In early 98, this is high performance UNIX system links with no databases and no NT

Note this is a good high performance I/O architecture whether file system, CORBA or database based

After architecture foil, next Foils show

Pure Tier 2 WebFlow system with simple Java Image filters
Customized "database" solution for NCSA Grand Challenge in Quantum Monte Carlo
DARP Debugging Interface for HPF with interactive breakpoints

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Foil 76 Java Grande Forum II Palo Alto May 9-10 98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/javaforcse

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Geoffrey Fox

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100

3154432163

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Foil 77 Format of Java Grande Report

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Three Types of Issues/Action Items

1) Need JavaSoft Response such as faster RMI or operator overloading
State Requirement (e.g. express complex and multi-dimensional arrays) and follow with preferred solution(s). List alternative Solutions
Divide this category into
1a) Essential
1b) Desirable
There is a version of this which response to Gosling's white paper (in Numerics area only)

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Foil 78 Format of Java Grande Report II

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Action Items Continued

2) Require "Grande Community" activities to produce standards (such as agreed interfaces to math libraries)
- These will continue in future meetings
3) Requires Grande Community research or development
- e.g produce benchmarks, standard libraries etc.
- This could become one or more proposals to Federal Government to produce "Grande Infrastructure"

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Foil 79 Near Term Time Scales I

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Collect and put on Web, material presented this meeting

Produce 2 documents: Forum Charter Document and Response to Gosling by end of May

GCF/GT/SH Initial Pages -- Mission, Why and why not use Java for Grande Appls etc.
Boisvert/Pozo -- Numerics Section and Gosling Response
Gannon -- Applications/Concurrency Section

Further Meetings -- Place/Time Issues

August/September -- Attach to HPDC98 or North Carolina Compiler Workshop
SC98

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Foil 80 Near Term Time Scales II

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SC98 Possibilities

Tutorial, Research Exhibit, Birds of a Feather, Friday Morning half day workshop, "space" at Sun and/or NCSA Alliance Booth

Federal Proposals

Support Community Discussions
Support Community Infrastructure
- Libraries
- Benchmarks

July Australia Meeting; September Cardiff Meeting

HPC Asia in September?

Java Grande 99 Conference February-March 99

Need Volunteers and ACM blessing

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Foil 81 What Needs to be Done Now?

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Produce Java Grande Charter Document

Produce Gosling Response

Collect Resources for web pages

List of attendees, mailing lists etc.

Poll people for Time of Next meeting

Cardiff Meeting

HPC Asia98 Meeting

Java Grande 99 -- Talk to ACM and Klaus Schauser

Federal proposal to support Grande Forum Process

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Foil 82 Tango Screendump with Mapper

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Foil 83 NPAC and XII

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Tango was originally developed for command and control but recent work has been in education and healthcare

We built a custom mapper which allows navigation through a set of maps and superimposition of situation data

freehand pictures
text
icons

Can be fed from a database of situation reports

Tango can link to general server side objects using most elegantly XML but any web linkage can be interfaced to

Can link to Lotus Notes (doing this for education), JDBC based "University Server", EIS etc.

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Foil 84 Servers and the Pragmatic Object Web Javabeans, CORBA, HLA, COM, RMI, XLM, MPI

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Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski

Syracuse University

NPAC

111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244

Phone:3154432163

June 23 Madison Wisconsin

1998 Workshop on Internet Server Performance

in conjunction with SIGMETRICS 98

http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/wisconsinjune98 http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/wiscpaper/wisc98.html

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Foil 85 Abstract of Wisconsin Internet Server Performance Presentation

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We describe the implications of a modern multi-tier Enterprise system where a server does not just get web pages but is a general host of services which are linked together to solve complex problems

These servers can respect any of the 4 distributed object models CORBA, Java/RMI, COM or W3C's XLM WOM/DOM

We illustrate these ideas with an analysis of a multi-protocol server JWORB -- written in Java but serving all protocols

We point out how a multi-tier architecture allows you to build backend systems to increase performance when necessary

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Foil 86 Java Grande Forum Benchmarks

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The Forum identified several types of benchmarks to probe issues not covered by the many commercial sets. In particular

RMI benchmarks to cover the particular use (transient communication and not persistent storage) in large scale distributed computing
Java VM for scaling and latency
Grande Applications from scientific and HPCC arenas such as Monte Carlo simulation, discrete event simulation and CFD

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