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Use and Evaluation of Parallel Relational Databases
  • Oracle DB2 Sybase on IBM SP-2 and Oracle on nCUBE
High Performance Video and Multimedia Servers
  • InfoVision -- Information, Video, Simulation, Imagery on demand
  • Our servers connected to ATM and ISDN access networks
WebWindows -- an informal collaboration of Internet developers
  • (Parallel) Web Servers enhanced with CGI scripts to support a full world-wide distributed operating environment
Integration of these three technologies
  • Web Interfaces to Relational Databases
  • Relational Databases to store Web Information fetched (cached) by internet agents
  • Web Interfaces to Multimedia data with relational databases holding text indices for video

Table of Contents for full HTML of Overview foils for NPAC Database Activity including Web March 1995

1 Integrated Database and Web Technologies at NPAC
Presentation for
Dun and Bradstreet
March 15 ,1995
2 Four Related Information Infrastructure Thrusts at NPAC
3 What is WebWindows ?
4 Current Components of WebWindows
5 Future Components of WebWindows

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Foil 1 Integrated Database and Web Technologies at NPAC
Presentation for
Dun and Bradstreet
March 15 ,1995

From Overview of NPAC Database Acivity Dun and Bradstreet Visit to NPAC -- March 15,1995. * See also color IMAGE
Full HTML Index
Geoffrey Fox
NPAC
Syracuse University
111 College Place
Syracuse
NY 13244-4100
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Foil 2 Four Related Information Infrastructure Thrusts at NPAC

From Overview of NPAC Database Acivity Dun and Bradstreet Visit to NPAC -- March 15,1995. * See also color IMAGE
Full HTML Index
Use and Evaluation of Parallel Relational Databases
  • Oracle DB2 Sybase on IBM SP-2 and Oracle on nCUBE
High Performance Video and Multimedia Servers
  • InfoVision -- Information, Video, Simulation, Imagery on demand
  • Our servers connected to ATM and ISDN access networks
WebWindows -- an informal collaboration of Internet developers
  • (Parallel) Web Servers enhanced with CGI scripts to support a full world-wide distributed operating environment
Integration of these three technologies
  • Web Interfaces to Relational Databases
  • Relational Databases to store Web Information fetched (cached) by internet agents
  • Web Interfaces to Multimedia data with relational databases holding text indices for video
HELP! * GREY=local HTML version of LOCAL Foils prepared March 15,1995

Foil 3 What is WebWindows ?

From Overview of NPAC Database Acivity Dun and Bradstreet Visit to NPAC -- March 15,1995. * See also color IMAGE
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Like UNIX or MS-DOS or Windows 3.1(NT,95), WebWindows is an operating system for a "computer"
The "computer" is a metacomputer consisting of the 20,000 Webservers (currently--eventually hundreds of millions) on Internet for the World Wide Web
WebWindows can also be used for the metacomputer (collection of heterogeneous networked computers) which is a business enterprise system
  • We consider such an application as a collection of Webservers where we use Web technology to manage business information system.
WebWindows is a multi-client multi-server technology
  • Clients are Mosaic or Netscape browsers
  • Servers are NCSA compatible HTTP servers with MUCH additional functionality coming from so-called CGI capability -- written in PERL or C++ typically
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Foil 4 Current Components of WebWindows

From Overview of NPAC Database Acivity Dun and Bradstreet Visit to NPAC -- March 15,1995. * See also color IMAGE
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World wide multimedia File access and dissemination -- current Mosaic Service
Initial agent technology such as World Wide Web Worm, Harvest etc.
WebTools is initial NPAC Project to develop WebWindows
File management (create,delete etc.) -- Implented in WebTools
Hyperspace Navigation -- Preliminary Prototype in WebTools
Ultimate Navigation built around agents, knowledge stored in caches (databases) and powerful search capabilities
HTML editor -- simple version in WebTools (best with client extensions)
Electronic Mail -- Webtools version very high functionality
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Foil 5 Future Components of WebWindows

From Overview of NPAC Database Acivity Dun and Bradstreet Visit to NPAC -- March 15,1995. * See also color IMAGE
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Project Management and Decision Support
  • Calendar, calculator etc.
Personal Digital Assistant -- Merging of Web and Telescript(Magic Cap)
Collaboration -- multiple video streams of participants, whiteboards, forums, MOO etc.
  • Distributed Software development
Computation -- harness the world wide web as a distributed computer -- WebWork project at NPAC, Boston University, Cooperating Systems Corp.
  • Will apply to find prime factors of 512 binary bit integer and so break security of Bank of England.
  • This will take 10,000 Pentiums for 300 hours each or equivalent.
  • Computation can make use of Web clients as well as servers. Servers "publish" their problems. Clients negotiate part of problem -- take away solve and return. Can use new Java technology
  • VRML important technology (open WWW 3D data structures)
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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