Office of Science and Technology Policy

Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology

Committee on Physical, Mathematical, and Engineering Sciences

Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Interior
Environmental Protection Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Science Foundation
Office of Management and Budget
Office of Science and Technology Policy


FCCSET Directorate

Charles H. Dickens, Executive Secretary
Elizabeth Rodriguez, Senior Policy Analyst



High Performance Computing and Communications and Information Technology Subcommittee

						    HPCCIT		HPCCIT Executive
Name			Agency or Department	    Subcommittee	Committee  (see p. iii)


Donald A.B. Lindberg  	National Coordination	    Chair		Chair
	Office

James Burrows		National Institute	    Representative	Representative
			of Standards and
			Technology

John S. Cavallini	Department of Energy	    Alternate		Alternate

Melvyn Ciment		National Science	    Alternate		Alternate
			Foundation

George Cotter		National Security	    Representative
			Agency

Robin L. Dennis		Environmental Protection    Alternate
			Agency

Norman Glick		National Security	    Alternate
			Agency

A. Nico Habermann	National Science	    Representative	Representative
(Deceased)		Foundation

Lee Holcomb		National Aeronautics	    Representative	Representative
			and Space
			Administration

Paul E. Hunter		National Aeronautics	    Alternate		Alternate
			and Space
			Administration

Steven Isakowitz	Office of Management	    Representative
			and Budget

Charles R. Kalina	National Coordination	    Executive
			Office			    Secretary

Norman H. Kreisman	Department of Energy	    Alternate		Alternate

R.J. (Jerry) Linn	National Institute	    Alternate		Alternate
			of Standards and
			Technology

Daniel R. Masys		National Institutes	    Representative
			of Health

Bruce McConnell		Office of Management	    Alternate
	and Budget

William L. McCoy	Federal Aviation	    Observer
			Administration

James A. Mitchell	Department of		    Representative
			Education

David Nelson		Department of Energy	    Representative	Representative

Michael R. Nelson	Office of Science	    Representative
			and Technology
			Policy

Joan H. Novak		Environmental		    Representative
			Protection Agency


Merrell Patrick		National Science	    Alternate		Alternate
			Foundation

Alex Poliakoff		Department of		    Alternate
			Education

Thomas N. Pyke		National Oceanic	    Representative  	Representative
			and Atmospheric
			Administration

John Silva		Advanced Research	    Alternate		Alternate
			Projects Agency

Paul H. Smith		National Aeronautics	    Alternate		Alternate
			and Space
			Administration

Stephen L. Squires	Advanced Research	    Alternate		Alternate
			Projects Agency

John C. Toole		Advanced Research	    Representative	Representative
			Projects Agency

Judith L. Vaitukaitis	National Institutes	    Alternate
			of Health


Note:  The Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science 
Foundation, the Department and Energy, and the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration hold permanent positions on 
the HPCCIT Executive Committee; the other two positions rotate 
among the other agencies.

Editorial Group for High Performance Computing and Communications

1994

Editor
Sally E. Howe
  Assistant Director for Technical Programs, National Coordination Office


Program Component and Section Editors

Melvyn Ciment, NSF, Past Co-Editor	HPCC Program and Program Components
Stephen Griffin, NSF			Case Studies
Daniel R. Masys, NIH			Video
Merrell Patrick, NSF	 		BRHR
Calvin T. Ramos, NASA  			ASTA
Stephen L. Squires, ARPA	 	HPCC Program, HPCS, IITA
Roger Taylor, NSF	 		NREN

Agency Editors

Norman Glick				National Security Agency
Stephen Griffin				National Science Foundation
Frederick C. Johnson			National Institute of Standards and Technology
Thomas Kitchens				Department of Energy
Daniel R. Masys				National Institutes of Health
James A. Mitchell			Department of Education
Joan H. Novak	 			Environmental Protection Agency
Thomas N. Pyke				National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Calvin T. Ramos				National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Stephen L. Squires			Advanced Research Projects Agency


Copy Editor

Patricia N. Williams			National Coordination Office






Acknowledgments


In addition to the FCCSET, CPMES, HPCCIT Subcommittee, and 
Editorial Group, many other people contributed to this book, and we 
thank them for their efforts.  We explicitly thank the following 
contributors to the Component and Agency Sections:

Robert Aiken, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, DOE
Robin Dennis, EPA
Darleen Fisher, NSF
Michael St. Johns, USAF, ARPA
Anthony Villasenor, NASA


Contributors to the Case Studies are acknowledged at the end of the Case Studies section.

We thank Joe Fitzgerald and Troy Hill of the Audiovisual Program 
Development Branch at the National Library of Medicine for their 
artistic contributions and for the preparation of the book in its final 
form, and we thank Patricia Carson and Shannon Uncangco of the 
National Coordination Office for their contributions throughout the 
preparation of this book.