In FY 1993, the NCO held some 50 meetings with representatives from the Federal and other governments, industry, and academia. The HPCC Program actively seeks input and advice from all interested parties.
The NCO has provided electronic, print, and video materials to hundreds of media representatives in the U.S. and abroad, and responded to thousands of information requests from Congressional offices, industry, academia, and the public. The NCO distributed over 20,000 copies of its FY 1994 Annual Report entitled "High Performance Computing and Communications: Toward a National Information Infrastructure." That 186-page book details Program goals, activities, accomplishments, and plans, and complements this shorter document. Some 300 copies of the six-minute minute video of the same name have been distributed. The video has been used in a number of television reports.
"Home Page" for the Mosaic interface to the HPCC WWW (World-Wide Web) server. Established in October 1993, this server was accessed by 900 users in February 1994. Its URL (uniform resource locator) is: http://www.hpcc.gov/
Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA), an NSF Supercomputer Center. Mosaic may be the first "killer ap," that is, an extremely successful application in the National Information Infrastructure. Thousands of servers around the world can be accessed using Mosaic, which is available for Unix, DOS Windows, and Macintoshes.
In FY 1994, the NCO established World Wide Web and Gopher servers as well as anonymous FTP (file transfer protocol) capabilities for electronic dissemination of information about the HPCC Program over the Internet. The servers allow users to view and download information about the HPCC Program including the FY 1994 Annual Report, this FY 1995 Annual Report, information about sources of funding for HPCC R&D, and related materials. These servers also provide links to other servers, including those managed by HPCC agencies and the Information Infrastructure Task Force. At Supercomputing '93, held in November in Portland, OR, the NCO demonstrated these technologies and distributed materials to thousands of visitors.