More than a Decade of Fedheads

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• More than a Decade of Fedheads
• and their Friends
• Tom DeFanti and Maxine Brown
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory

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SIGGRAPH 92Showcase Science in the 21st Century
From the atom to the Universeits all
here. ?Larry Smarr, Director, NCSA, UIUC
UCSD NCMIR in San Diego
UCSD NCMIR in Chicago
We have to develop the technology and
techniques?and the sociology?to go along with
group activities. ?Sid Karin, Director, SDSC,
UCSD
www-ncmir.ucsd.edu
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SIGGRAPH 94VROOM Virtual Reality Room
Virtual prototyping of new products, from
small to large. ?Rick Stevens, ANL Next
year?Get rid of the Machine Farm and put gigabit
networks in place to talk to computers at remote
sites?a whole new level of interaction and
communication. ?Maxine Brown, EVL
Post-Euclidean Walkabout George Francis, NCSA,
UIUC www.math.uiuc.edu/gfrancis/
General Motors Research
www.evl.uic.edu/EVL/VROOM/HTML
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Supercomputing 95I-WAY Information Wide Area
Year
I-WAY builders Ian Foster, Larry Smarr, Rick
Stevens, Sid Karin, and Tom DeFanti, believe the
next great wave of evolution on the Internet will
be unleashed by I-WAY.

• I-WAY featured
• Empowered Applications!
• Multiple-carrier OC-3 backbones
• I-Soft programming environment

http//archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Training/SC95
/GII.HPCC.html
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iGrid 1998 at SC98November 7-13, 1998, Orlando,
Florida, USA

• 10 countries Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan,
  Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland,
  Taiwan, USA
• 22 empowered applications

www.startap.net/igrid98
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iGrid 2000 at INET 2000July 18-21, 2000,
Yokohama, Japan

• 14 regions Canada, CERN, Germany, Greece, Japan,
  Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain,
  Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA
• 24 empowered applications
• 100Mb transpacific bandwidth carefully managed

www.startap.net/igrid2000
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iGrid 2002 September 24-26, 2002, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands 2002
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iGrid 2002 September 24-26, 2002, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands

• 28 empowered applications from 16 countries
  Australia, Canada, CERN, France, Finland,
  Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands,
  Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom,
  United States
• Grid technologies empowered the applications
• 25Gb transatlantic bandwidth (100Mb/attendee,
  250x iGrid2000!)

www.startap.net/igrid2002
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Volume 19, Number 6August 2003Special Issue on
iGrid 2002 September 24-26, 2002 Amsterdam,
The Netherlands22 RefereedApplication
Papers!Guest Editors Cees de Laat, Maxine
Brown and Tom DeFanti
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)
http//www.igrid2002.org http//www.elsevier.com/l
ocate/future
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GLIF Global Lambda Integrated Facility

• 3rd Annual Global Lambda Grid Workshop
• Reykjavik, Iceland
• August 27, 2003

www.glif.is (Coming soon!)
GLIF is a collaborative initiative among
worldwide NRNs, consortia, institutions with
lambdas.
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Announcing
i
Grid 2oo5
T H E G L O B A L L A M B D A I N T E G R A T
E D F A C I L I T Y

• September 2005
• University of California, San Diego
• California Institute for Telecommunications and
  Information Technology Cal-(IT)2
• United States

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Application Empowering Insistence on Persistence!

• Bring Linda your lambdas
• Install your equipment in StarLight racks
• Conduct your application
• Demand repeatable, schedulable resources
• See www.startap.net/translight