This page summarizes current NPAC activities in the area of Web based High Performance Computing and Communications. Our WebWindows strategy is to (re)build HPCC on top of pervasive Web technology base.

Documents

• Geoffrey Fox and Wojtek Furmanski, Use of the National Information Infrastructure and High Performance Computers in Industry, July 1995.
• Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Marina Chen, Claudio Rebbi and Jim Cowie, WebWork: Integrated Programming Environment Tools for National and Grand Challenges, March 1995.
• Mark Baker, Cluster Computing, November 1995.
• Wojtek Furmanski and Geoffrey Fox, Prototyping a WebVM based WebFlow Environment for Distributed Computing and Visual Programming, IEEE Conference on Dual-Use Technologies, June 1996.
• Wojtek Furmanski, Java for HPCC on the NII - Some Plausible Scenarios, Talk at ICASE Java Workshop, NASA Langley, June 1996.
• Geoffrey Fox and Wojtek Furmanski, Towards Web / Java based High Performance Distributed Computing - an Evolving Virtual Machine, IEEE Conference HPDC-5, August 1996.
• Wojtek Furmanski and Geoffrey Fox, WebFlow - a visual programming paradigm for Web/Java based coarse grain distributed computing, Handout Material at Supercomputing'96, Pittsburgh, Nobember 1996.
• Wojtek Furmanski and Geoffrey Fox, HyperWorld - Design and Prototype Components, Web Tutorial Material at Supercomputing'96, Pittsburgh, November 1996.
• Mailing List on Java for High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing Simulation and Modelling, started by NPAC on December 1996
• Dimple Bhatia, Vanco Burzevski, Maja Camuseva, Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski and Girish Premchandran, WebFlow - a visual programming paradigm for Java based coarse grain distributed computing, February 1997, to be published in Special Issue of Concurrency: Practice and Experience
• Geoffrey Fox and Wojtek Furmanski, Overview of Java for Parallel Computing and as a General Language for Scientific and Engineering Simulation and Modelling , February 1997, to be published in Special Issue of Concurrency: Practice and Experience
• Wojtek Furmanski and Geoffrey Fox, Web based Computing - WebFlow - talk presented at the CEWES meeting at NPAC, March 25, '97

• Yuh-Jye Chang, Visible Human Applet
• Gang Cheng, Web/Oracle Mail, USENET and Chat Services
• Jim Cowie, RSA Factoring-by-Web
• Kivanc Dincer, WebHPF, Java-Pablo interface
• Geoffrey Fox, WebWisdom
• Wojtek Furmanski, WebTools
• W. Furmanski, J. Guo and T. Pulikal, CareWeb
• Jiangang Guo and Tom Pulikal, WebMed Databases
• Tom Haupt, Early experiments with WebFlow interface
• Kemal Ispirli, Parallel Sort and Matrix Multiplication Applets
• Meryem Ispirli, NPAC/ANL Visual MOO
• Gregor von Laszewski, Visual Parallel Programming
• Alvin Leung, Terrain Navigator Applet
• Tomasz Major, Wavelet Compression
• Balaji Velikandanathan, Parallel WebSearch
• Krzysztof Walczak, GIS Terrain in VRML/Illustra

Related NPAC Projects and Pages

• NPAC WebSpace - A WebWindows Based Gateway to ANL LabSpace
• HPCC and Java - A Preliminary Report by PCRC
• RL CIV: Vanguard and NPAC Demonstrations
• NeatTools for Dataflow based Sensory Interface Authoring
• WebFlow Technology Page
• MOVIE based High Performance Fortran Interpreter

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