NPAC is investigating the use of Web Technology for computing in several areas. These areas that NPAC's primary focus is on are:

User Interfaces -

• NPAC has developed a sophisticated Java Visualization package which is available for development purposes. SciVis is a Scientific Visualization package written entirely in Java..
• The Visual Programming Laboratory (VPL) is a general interoperable Web interface having the operat ing specific details.

• The HPF interpreter allows interactive insertion of visualization and interpreted computation into running parallel code

Middleware -

• Webflow uses a network of Java Servers, Corba and an applet frontend to support visual component based programming.
• Our HPcc (High Performance Commodity Computing) architecture is built around a network of such Servers . These utilize Web based frontends and many specialized backend services. A particularly interesting possibility is visual component based programming for high performance systems
• Tango Collaboration System was developed as a command and control and education application. It can naturally be applied to collaborative computing and computational steering.

Backend -

• The Parallel Compiler Runtime Consortium has developed an SPMD parallel library to support distributed arrays with a Fortran, C++ and Java interface.

Integrating Together -

• We participate in a national initiative to integrate Java into Scientific and Engineering Compuation.
• This link list a series of workshops that discuss the role of Java in this community

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