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The Emerging Concept of a National Scale Information Power Grid
Prototyping America’s 21st Century Information Infrastructure
PITAC Recommended Increasing Federal IT R&D Investment by $1.4 Billion/Year
Long Distance Phone Calls Have Almost Dropped to Zero Cost
The National Bandwidth Divide
Both Cable Modems and DSL Installations are Growing Rapidly
Extending the Grid to Wireless Devices, Embedded Sensors, and Processors
From Metacomputing to the Information Power Grid Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
“The Grid” Integrates Many Technical Projects
Network-Aware Middleware Introduces Measurement and Control to the Grid
The “Virtual Telescope” Vision Next Generation Scientific Instruments
Grid Computing (Condor) For Quantum Monte Carlo Materials Codes
Computer Science of Distributed Computing
The Emergence of Web Based Lifetime Learning and Distance Education
Access Grid Virtual Group Meeting Spaces Making IP Multicast Audiovideo Really Work
The Nanomaterials Devices Grid Focus on Collaborative Working Groups with Distributed Tools
Corporations Use the Grid For Virtual Prototyping
The New Grid Infrastructure Industries
The Grid Industries are Growing Much Faster Than the Component Industries
Akamai - the Largest Global Provider of Internet Content, Audio and Video Delivery Services
Building Portals to Unify Commercial and Research Computing
The Exponential Demand Function of Computational Science and Engineering
NCSA’s Tightly Coupled Origin Cluster
First Teraflops Computer Accepted in PACI for Academic Access
Supercomputer Engineering Design of Optoelectronic Semiconductor Laser Diodes
The Era of Nanolithography BI / NCSA Remote Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Molecular Nanostructure Logic Gates Self-Assembled Monolayer Junction
Nanoelectronics Holds the Promise of Extending Moore’s Law
The Movement Toward Commodity Supercomputing
PC Superclusters Can Run Either Microsoft NT or Linux
ASCI Red May Turn Out to Have Been a Real Glimpse of the Future
Intel is Bringing Supercomputing to Commodity Processors
Intel IA-64 May Lead to Enormous Installed Base
The Emerging HPC Open Source Movement
Can We Harness PCs on the Web to Create Virtual Supercomputer?
Entropia.com’s PrimeNet Grew to a Teraflop in Only Two Years
Building a Megacomputer – One Million PC Processors Infrastructure
Why Will a Million Processor Computer Be Different?
Things Are About to Get Very Interesting…
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