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Foil 5 Some Relevant NII Services-II

From Web Application and Services Overview as of June96 NASA ICASE Tutorial -- June 10-13 1996. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
Interactive and "batch" Collaboration
  • Desktop Video conferencing to 3 dimensional graphic MOOs -- these lead to full televirtual interactions
  • White boards etc.
  • Collaboratories -- Geographically distributed Laboratories
  • Workflow and configuration controlled databases
  • This leads to Software Engineering on the Web
Metacomputing -- the collection of world wide computers as a coordinated (in subgroups of computers) computational engine (for simulation or information processing)
  • Includes control of remote medical and scientific instruments
  • Searching the world for Information
  • Running a coarse grain decomposed simulation between ASOP sites around world
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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