A Proposed Half day Tutorial from NPAC
Geoffrey Fox (Lecturer)
Wojtek Furmanski, Nancy McCracken
NPAC Syracuse University
gcf@npac.syr.edu
http://www.npac.syr.edu
We discuss the role of HPCC and Web technologies in several applications including health care, finance, education and the delivery of computing services. We assume a knowledge of base Web concepts and summarize key features of Java, VRML, and JavaScript but do not give a tutorial on these base technologies. We will illustrate the possibilities of HPCC Web integration in these real world applications and the role of base technologies and services.
Level: 100% Intermediate ( this is advanced or rather new material but covered at a high level without complex detail)
This tutorial will describe how four applications or services can be implemented using the integration of Web and HPCC technologies. The work will draw extensively on experience with NPAC's industrial outreach program InfoMall. We assume a model where "applications" are built on top of "services" which are themselves built on top of base "technologies". The tutorial will not aim to present details of technologies such as Java or VRML or services such as collaboration or digital video. Rather it will provide an overview of such enabling infrastructure and describe their requirements and features in the context of selected applications. The material will be delivered electronically and will include links to more detailed pedagogical material collected for a set of courses on "Web Technology" (http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/cpsedu/)
The proposed material will be updated from three long lectures prepared for a recent course with links given below under sample material.
The four application/service areas covered in some detail are education,
finance, health care and computing services. Manufacturing, entertainment
and government policy decision support will be covered in the initial overview.
In health care, three subjects will be discussed.
Education will focus on the Living Schoolbook with ATM links between K-12 schools
and HPCC servers. We discuss VRML for Geographical Information systems and
the delivery of scientific visualization. Distance education possibilities
at graduate and continuing education level will also be covered.
We describe how the Web is evolving to support distributed computing with both administrative resource management and synchronization capabilities.
Finally we cover the financial industry with both simple distributed Java simulations on demand as well as sophisticated Web linked HPCC systems supporting the latest Monte Carlo algorithms for pricing financial instruments.
We will assume a basic knowledge of the Web. Much of the material is new and advanced but will not be covered very deeply. rather the goal is to illustrate to technology developers the needs of applications, and to users, the exciting possibilities opened up by these new approachs.
Samples of Visual Materials
We expect to greatly improve graphical presentation and clarity of material (using JavaScript based system already prototyped). However we give below links to existing base foilsets which are typical of level and style of presentation and taken from recent full semester course CPS616.
Curriculum Vita of Geffrey Fox
gcf@nova.npac.syr.edu , http://www.npac.syr.edu,
Phone: (315) 443-2163, Fax: (315) 443-4741
Fox is an internationally recognized expert in the use of parallel architectures and the development of concurrent algorithms. He leads a major project to develop prototype high performance Fortran (Fortran90D) compilers. He is also a leading proponent for the development of computational science as an academic discipline and a scientific method. His research on parallel computing has focused on development and use of this technology to solve large scale computational problems. Fox directs InfoMall, which is focused on accelerating the introduction of high speed communications and parallel computing into New York State industry and developing the corresponding software and systems industry. Much of this activity is centered on NYNET with ISDN and ATM connectivity throughout the state including schools where Fox is leading developments of new K-12 applications that exploit modern technology.