|
Indiana is home to three major research universities: Indiana University,
Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame. Research@Indiana 2000
showcases high performance computing and communications applications
developed at these universities in science, engineering, medicine, the
arts, and informatics. Research@Indiana also highlights some of the
economic and educational benefits that have accrued from Indiana's growing
stature as a force in information technology innovation.
The State of Indiana, known as the crossroads of America, is now becoming
the crossroads of the world in high performance networking. The Abilene
Network Operations Center (NOC) and Global Research NOC are located and
managed in Indiana. Indiana is also home to several large and important
academic supercomputers typically with multiple entries on the Top500
supercomputer list (http://www.top500.org/). Researchers at Indianas
universities are creating the high performance computing technology that
will be the foundation of tomorrows most powerful computers, just as
researchers in this state have been key contributors to the development of
todays computational grids. Indiana is also a center for cutting-edge
research programs in the areas of massive data storage and virtual
reality.
Research@Indiana features demonstrations in the areas of problem solving
environments; HPC systems research; applications of high performance
computing, communications, and massive data storage; virtual reality and
advanced visualization; and e-commerce and interface design. Some
demonstrations include interactive classes taught from the booth with
digital video as teachers in Dallas interact with their students in
Indiana. In addition, the Research@Indiana virtual poster session
describes dozens of innovative information technology services, systems,
and applications.
|
|
