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Providing leading edge computer science and its applications of relevance to the real world for academia, business
and community
The Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) is a research and development center focusing on modern computer
science for both large-scale information and simulation applications. Established at Syracuse University in 1987,
the center is directed by Geoffrey C. Fox, a pioneer in the development and application of parallel computers, who
assumed NPAC leadership in 1990. NPAC is part of Syracuse University but mixes synergistically faculty, students and
professional staff. Thus NPAC can perform leading edge research and also develop significant software systems that
can be used by industry.
NPAC's technology approach is based on the assumption (assertion) that Web technology (software, interfaces,
protocols, standards, and systems) represents the most powerful software base that has ever been developed.
As it implements a general distributed computing model, this Web technology can be used for parallel computing
and for both computing (simulation) and information related applications. This approach is combined with expertise
in High Performance Computing and Networking allowing us to design and build systems with scalable quality of
service.
NPAC's activities can be divided into broad categories:
- Base Web Technology research and development with particular application to collaboration and multimedia systems
- Applications of Web Technology to High Performance computing, Healthcare and Education Classic Parallel Computing technology and applications
- Education and Training in practical computer science (aka computational science) in both web and high performance computing arenas
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