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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at RCI Annual Members Executive Conference on October 31,95. Foils prepared October 30,95
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We describe the implications of the Web for Industry and Education
WebWindows is the basic Web Operating Environment
Java, PERL, VRML, HTML are critical technologies but we can also make better uses of current well established technologies such as relational databases
We use WebFoil as an example to illustrate the Web approach to (WebTop) Productivity software with open modular design
WebWork is HPCC (Parallel Computing) built using Web Technologies -- a viable supportable base
The opportunities include both the delivery of education from K-12 to Continuing education as well as teaching of these new exciting technologies

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1 Personal View of HPCCI for the Real World -- Industry and Education
2 Abstract of HPCCI for the Real World Presentation
3 World Wide Web (WWW) is key to HPCC Implementation
4 WebWindows is Open Portable Environment
5 Illustration of WebWindows Concept for Presentation Software
6 Lessons of WebFoil for WebWindows Software Development Scenario
7 An anecdote contrasting MPP and NII value in Manufacturing
8 Why is VRML Another Important Concept?
9 Implications of Brave New Web World for Education
10 Some Other Important Issues -- Databases and Computing
11 Some remarks on WebWork -- HPCC with the Web

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Foil 1 Personal View of HPCCI for the Real World -- Industry and Education

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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RCI Executive Conference
October 30 - November 1,1995
Geoffrey Fox
NPAC at Syracuse University
111 College Place
Syracuse NY 13244-4100
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Foil 2 Abstract of HPCCI for the Real World Presentation

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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We describe the implications of the Web for Industry and Education
WebWindows is the basic Web Operating Environment
Java, PERL, VRML, HTML are critical technologies but we can also make better uses of current well established technologies such as relational databases
We use WebFoil as an example to illustrate the Web approach to (WebTop) Productivity software with open modular design
WebWork is HPCC (Parallel Computing) built using Web Technologies -- a viable supportable base
The opportunities include both the delivery of education from K-12 to Continuing education as well as teaching of these new exciting technologies
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Foil 3 World Wide Web (WWW) is key to HPCC Implementation

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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It provides a pervasive and highly innovative technology base
  • It includes parallel computing as a special case when we impose tight synchronization constraints
  • Correspondingly parallel computing brings key algorithm, language and methodology to WWW distributed computing environment
  • Interesting to compare community of Web Hackers to IBM or Microsoft as software organizations
Note Intel Teraflop computer will have 9000 P6's but WWW will have at least one thousand times as many possible nodes varying (eventually) from supercomputers to settop boxes
WWW is important as it allows rich (world wide linkage of simulation and information capabilities) open and portable environment
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Foil 4 WebWindows is Open Portable Environment

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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In future one will NOT write software for either
  • Windows95 if you are say, a game or word processor vendor
  • Current class of (primitive) OS for MPP's
Rather one will write software for WebWindows defined as the operating environment for World Wide Web
WebWindows builds on top of Web Servers and Web Client open interfaces as in
  • CGI interface for Servers
  • Java or equivalent applet technology for clients
Applications written for WebWindows will be portable to all computers running Web Servers or Clients
  • As an example NPAC's WebTools implements UNIX shell/PC file manager capabilities in terms CGI scripts -- allows universal access to these capabilities including powerful Web based mh mail
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Foil 5 Illustration of WebWindows Concept for Presentation Software

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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Persuasion and Powerpoint are rather similar monolithic packages which can for instance only be clumsily ported to UNIX as cannot access internal data-structures defining foils
WebFoil (NPAC prototype WebWindows presentation package) has
Extended open HTML source manipulated by powerful PERL5 scripts allowing global changes and linkages of foils from many sources
  • This plays role of outline which is a somewhat crippled open version of Persuasion/Powerpoint foils defining text alone
WebFoil Uses Hotjava to display HTML with full Web Power including applets to enable Multimedia and dynamic presentations
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Foil 6 Lessons of WebFoil for WebWindows Software Development Scenario

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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The WebTop Productivity environment will be built in a more modular fashion than current PC Windows or Macintosh arena
  • e.g. future WebWindows presentation packages will be built from many different modules coming from different commercial or public domain sources
Java is key to understanding how WebWindows application/service software will look as it allows balanced client server applications to be built
Note require an open display software so can produce appropriate customized interfaces for browsing, presenting, word processing etc.
Java may or may not be accepted by Web Community and Sun/Netscape may or may not allow it to used openly
However the concept is essential and roughly right -- one or more such open technologies will become available and used on the Web
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Foil 7 An anecdote contrasting MPP and NII value in Manufacturing

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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For instance as part of my New York State Industrial HPCC outreach program InfoMall, I found that a major manufacturer of large consumer machines had no interest in MPP's for simulating them to improve design
However very interested in
  • Storing product information in a Web Interfaced databases
  • Using applets to allow their distributors to download programs to client PC's and simulate installation and use in home/business
Here Perl manipulates text from database to HTML
Java enables down-loaded simulations
VRML enables universal definition of 3D objects -- products and buildings
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Foil 8 Why is VRML Another Important Concept?

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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VRML illustrates how one can store real world objects in a universal fashion
Game vendors can build modules that interact and enable development of amazing profitable virtual worlds!
Manufacturers can use VRML as basis of universal product definitions enabling collaborations between several vendors needed for Multidisciplinary analysis and design cf: PDES/STEP standards
The Web "levels" the playing field for all software products
  • As in WebFoil, must reimplement Word processors, spreadsheets, graphics packages, workflow systems etc.
For instance VRML allows new powerful versions of Geographical Information Systems
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Foil 9 Implications of Brave New Web World for Education

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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We can use Web technologies to develop new very important tools for education enabling
  • The virtual university -- curricula from faculty around the world taught to students around the world
  • K-12 Education -- See Kim Mills talk November 1 on the Living Schoolbook
We can teach these new technologies as world hungry for people understanding these technologies
  • See NPAC's tutorial at Supercomputing 95
  • Syracuse University proposes new multimedia master's degree
  • We are also now offering two tracks in computational science degree -- simulation and information
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Foil 10 Some Other Important Issues -- Databases and Computing

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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Web allows one to harness standard relational databases for powerful search of structured information -- Usenet databases, Electronic Mail, Manufacturing Data etc.
Parallel Computing is quite well understood but we can NOT implement capabilities we researched as field too small to support viable systems software industry
  • MPP software clearly harder than for PC's as architecture more complex but field is about 1% of that of PC industry
The Web allows one to implement HPCC in terms of a sustainable industry base
  • distributed memory parallel machines such as T3D SP2 Paragon should be set up with a web server on each node!
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Foil 11 Some remarks on WebWork -- HPCC with the Web

From Master Foilset for RCI Presentation on HPCC and NII for Industry and Educatio RCI Annual Members Executive Conference -- October 31,95. * See also color IMAGE
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One of the neatest ideas is WebFlow which is the Web implementation of dataflow which is seen in
  • AVS or Khoros for computing
  • Workflow Systems for project management
With Web we can integrate computing and information processing giving a wonderful software engineering environment with for instance
  • Hyperlinked debugging and help systems -- see HyPerl
In the longer term, we can see parallel concepts of
  • VRML -- distributed 3D objects
  • Fortran/C++ to support shared memory environment on metacomputers
  • Note Java is a simplification of C++ and could be important here!
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