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Foil 28 Collaboration Support of Mobile Units

From Master Set of Foils for 1996 Session of CPS615 PET Training Session DoD HPC Modernization UGC -- June 2 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


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 implementers in field together and to central decision support
The 1997 wearable computer technology is shown in foil but perhaps most intriguing are devices like the JavaRing where 14,000 distributed at 97 JavaOne conference
  • around 1 million transistors running JavaVM



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