High Performance Computing & Communications:
Toward a National Information Infrastructure

Table of Contents

Dedication
Roster
Cover Page (image)
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Index

I. Executive Summary

  1. Executive Summary

II. The HPCC Program

  1. Program Overview
  2. Program Management
  3. Interdependencies Among Components
  4. Coordination Among Agencies
  5. Membership on the HPCCIT Subcommittee
  6. Technology Collaboration with Industry and Academia
  7. Agency-by-Component Budgets
  8. Agency-by-Component Responsibilities

III. HPCC Program Components

  1. High Performance Computing Systems
  2. National Research and Education Network
  3. Advanced Software Technology and Algorithms
  4. Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications
  5. Basic Research and Human Resources

IV. Individual Agency Programs

  1. Advanced Research Projects Agency
  2. National Science Foundation
  3. Department of Energy
  4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  5. National Institutes of Health
  6. National Security Agency
  7. National Institute of Standards and Technology
  8. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  9. Environmental Protection Agency
  10. Department of Education

V. Case Studies

Introduction
  1. Climate Modeling
  2. Sharing Remote Instruments
  3. Design and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicles
  4. High Performance Life Science: From Molecules to MRI
  5. Non-Renewable Energy Resource Recovery
  6. Groundwater Remediation
  7. Improving Environmental Decision Making
  8. Galaxy Formation
  9. Chaos Research and Applications
  10. . Virtual Reality Technology
  11. . HPCC and Education
  12. . GAMS: An Example of HPCC Community Resources
  13. . Process Simulation and Modeling
  14. . Semiconductor Manufacturing for the 21st Century
  15. . Advances Based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  16. . High Performance Fortran and its Environment
Contributing Writers

VI. Glossary

VII. Contacts


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