Fwd: Access Grids, etc

[Rick Stevens]

Mary,

We should point her at papers from the I-WAY and related things including
the Active Space paper.. do you have these ?

At 09:28 AM 12/2/2002 -0600, Mary Fritsch wrote:
>Request from Ernie Herrera below....
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>"We know one aspect of
>collaborative services as Access Grid. So, I'm trying to find a
>reference for the notion that Access Grid is part of high performance
>computing. Do you recall anything along those lines? The reason I'm
>trying to find a document or report is that there are some folks
>here--not at the center--who consider high performance computing as just
>computing and nothing else (yeah, pretty narrow-minded people)."
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>>From: "Barbara A. Kucera" <bkucera at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
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>>Hi Jennifer, Karen and Mary,
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>>I just received the note below from Ernie Herrera and I wonder if any of 
>>you have any more details about this subject.  I, too, seem to recall 
>>seeing something recently in this regard, but don't have a clue as to 
>>where it was.
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>>If anyone know the answer, I'm sure it's one of the three of you!
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>Barbara
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>>>Barbara,
>>>
>>>I was wondering if you could help me with something. Somewhere I read
>>>that HPC consists of the following elements: computing, networks,
>>>storage, visualization and collaborative services. )The last has just
>>>recently been included in what is considered HPC, I think.)  I may be
>>>dreaming or something, but it strikes that there was a recent, within
>>>the last year, report that stated this. We know one aspect of
>>>collaborative services as Access Grid. So, I'm trying to find a
>>>reference for the notion that Access Grid is part of high performance
>>>computing. Do you recall anything along those lines? The reason I'm
>>>trying to find a document or report is that there are some folks
>>>here--not at the center--who consider high performance computing as just
>>>computing and nothing else (yeah, pretty narrow-minded people).
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Ernie
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>>Ernest D. Herrera
>>>Associate Director
>>>High Performance Computing Education and Research Center
>>>University of New Mexico
>>>505.277.8330
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>>Barbara A. Kucera
>>Alliance/NSF EPSCoR Liaison
>>National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
>>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>(217) 244-0131 * Fax (217) 244-2909
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>>Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about
>>telescopes. - Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer science professor
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