Community Grids Lab atPervasive Technology Labs

Geoffrey Fox gcf@indiana.edu

Fickle Interdisciplinary Background

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Theory, phenomenology, experimental Physics, computational science, Internetics, computer science ….

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Caltech Hypercube

NASA JPL Mark II 1985Chuck Seitz 1983

One of the firstsuccessfulparallelcomputers(initially 64-128simultaneous CPU’s)

Sundry Roles• Caltech 1970-1990: Professor of Physics, Department chair;

Co-founder CNS Computation and Neural Systems Program; Dean for Educational Computing, Associate Provost for Computing

• Syracuse 1990-2000: Directed InfoMall economic development program 1992-2000; Professor Physics & Computer Science; developed Internetics curriculum

• FSU 2000-2001: Chief Technologist Distance & Distributed Learning Program; Professor of Computer Science

• Co-founder WebWisdom.com and Anabas corporations• Indiana July 2001-:Director Community Grids Laboratory;

Professor Informatics, Computer Science, Physics

InfoMall and Partners 1995

virtual corporation

April 1994Telemedicine

2/22/2001 JSUFall97Master http://www.npac.syr.edu

gcf@npac.syr.edu1

Programming for the WebProgramming for the WebGeneral IntroductionGeneral Introduction

Course at Jackson State University Spring98 Course at Jackson State University Spring98 and Fall 97and Fall 97

http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/jsufall97introNancy McCracken

Geoffrey Fox, Tom Scavo

Syracuse University NPAC

111 College PlaceSyracuse NY 13244 4100

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Syracuse

Teaching Jackson State Fall 97 to Fall 2001

Fall 2001 Technology

Desktop A/V

Community A/VThe Access Grid

Startup first round VC funding September 2000

Teaching X-Informatics• This semester, teaching “Opennet Technologies” –

XML and Java for defining and manipulating data• Next semester will offer X-Informatics locally and

probably at a distance (current course to 27 students in Jackson & Vicksburg Miss.)

• X-Informatics is an overview of information-based applications and their associated technologies– Internet Infrastructure, Data-mining, Search, XML,

Semantic Web, (Peer-to-Peer) Collaboration, Security, Portals, Information Visualization, Grids ..

– Bio/Geo Informatics, New Media, Experimental physics, Distance education, Health including Telemedicine

Community Grids Research• 27 Students, 4 Postdocs (~50% new)• PDA Interface and other new approaches to Collaborative

Environments• Online Knowledge Center – Interactive XML based

resource for web pages, reports etc. (modern library built with .opennet technologies)

• Computing and Information Environment to support Earthquake Science– Real time discussion of quake data

• Science Research and/or Education as a Web Service– Interoperable modules

• Indian Nation Community Grid – cultural customization and collaboratory to allow preservation of tribal lands

• Information System for new Physics Experiment

Some Issues/Futures• Other expertise:

– Parallel and high performance algorithms– Multi-media infrastructure– Neural Networks– Complex Systems

• Expect to start other IU collaborations– Gannon(CS), Dzierba(Physics)

• Issues– Security– Conflict of Interest