Index

This is an index to major sections and selected key words and phrases that appear in this document. It complements the Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Illustrations, and Glossary.

Academia, Technology Collaboration with

Aerospace Vehicles, Design and Simulation of Case Study

ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency)

ASTA (Advanced Software Technology and Applications)

BRHR (Basic Research and Human Resources)

Budgets by HPCC Program Components, Agency

CAMRAQ (Consortium on Advanced Modeling of Regional Air Quality)

Case Studies

Chaos Research and Applications Case Study

Climate Modeling Case Study

Collaboration with Industry and Academia

Components, Overview of the Five HPCC

Computational Aerosciences Consortium

Conferences and Workshops

Contacts (at NCO and at participating agencies)

Coordination Among Agencies

CPMES (Committee on Physical, Mathematical, and Engineering Sciences)

Rosters
Executive Summary

CSCC (Concurrent SuperComputing Consortium)

DCRT (Division of Computer Research and Technology)

DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services)

NIH (National Institutes of Health)

Digital Anatomy

Digital Libraries National Challenge

DOC (Department of Commerce)

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

DOD (Department of Defense)

ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency)
NSA (National Security Agency)

DOE (Department of Energy)

ED (Department of Education)

Environmental Decision Making, Improving Case Study

Education and Lifelong Learning National Challenge

Education, HPCC and Case Study

Energy Resource Recovery, Non-Renewable Case Study

Environmental Assessment Grand Challenges

Environmental Grand Challenges

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

Evaluation Criteria for the HPCC Program

Executive Summary

Fast Packet Services, Procurement of

FCCSET (Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology)

Front Material
Executive Summary

Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Advances Based on Case Study

FNC (Federal Networking Council)

FNCAC (Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee)

Galaxy Formation Case Study

GAMS: An Example of HPCC Community Resources Case Study

Gigabit Research Projects

Gigabit Testbeds

Global Atmosphere and Global Ocean Modeling

Glossary

Grand Challenge(s)

Contrasts Between Grand Challenges and National Challenges
Definition
Grand Challenge Research
HPCC Agency Grand Challenge Research Teams
Some Grand Challenge Problems

Groundwater Remediation Case Study

Health Care National Challenge

HHS (Department of Health and Human Services)

NIH (National Institutes of Health)

High performance computer -- Definition

High performance computing -- Definition

High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (P.L. 102-194)

High Performance Fortran (HPF) and its Environment Case Study

HIV Research

HPCC Agencies

HPCC Contacts (at NCO and at participating agencies)

HPCC Program Components, Overview of the Five

HPCC Program Goals

HPCC Program Management

HPCC Program Strategies

HPCC Research Areas

HPCCIT (High Performance Computing, Communications, and Information Technology) Subcommittee

Evaluation Criteria for the HPCC Program
Membership on the HPCCIT Subcommittee
Roster of Subcommittee Members

HPCS (High Performance Computing Systems)

IITA (Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications)

Industry, Technology Collaboration with

Instruments, Sharing Remote Case Study

Interdependencies Among Components

Internet

Definition
Interagency Internet (Element of NREN Component)
Interagency Internet Connectivity and Usage
InterNIC (Internet Network Information Center)
Major Federal Components of the Interagency Internet

"Knowbots"

Life Science: From Molecules to MRI Case Study

Management, HPCC Program

Manufacturing National Challenge

Medical Connections Program

Medical Informatics Fellowships

Membership on the HPCCIT Subcommittee

Multipollutant Air Quality Management

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

National Challenge(s)

Contrasts Between Grand Challenges and National Challenges
Definition
Digital Libraries
Education and Lifelong Learning
Health Care
Manufacturing
Some National Challenge Application Areas

National Consortium for High Performance Computing

National Storage Laboratory (NSL)

NCI (National Cancer Institute)

NCO (National Coordination Office)

Executive Summary
HPCC Program Management
Glossary

NCRR (National Center for Research Resources)

NIH (National Institutes of Health)

NII (National Information Infrastructure)

Executive Summary
HPCC Program Overview
Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA)
Glossary

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

NLM (National Library of Medicine)

Executive Summary
HPCC Program Management
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

NREN (National Research and Education Network)

NSA (National Security Agency)

NSF (National Science Foundation)

NSFNET, Solicitation of the Next Generation

NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration)

Overview, HPCC Program

Process Simulation and Modeling Case Study

Responsibilities by HPCC Components, Agency

Scalable -- Definition

Semiconductor Manufacturing for the 21st Century Case Study

Software Sharing

Advanced Software Technology and Algorithms
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
High Performance Software Exchange

Software Exchange, High Performance Computing

Supercomputing Centers and Consortia

UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)

Virtual Reality Technology Case Study

"Visible Human" Project

Weather Forecast Modeling