I Funding a routing authority. 



'Increasing connections for post-secondary educa- 

 tion and related organizations. 



ASTA activities will include; 



-"Additional Grand Challenge Application Groups 

 awards. 



-"Research on computational techniques for dis- 

 tributed and heterogeneous computing environ- 

 ments. 



3 Continued metacenter development and the adop- 

 tion of common standards for hardware, software, 

 and networking technologies. 



-"Deployment of prototype scalable systems in 

 Grand Challenge research settings. 



-J Collaborative activities on software systems, archi- 

 tectural modifications, new programming language 

 standards, and user environment components. 



-"Projects demonstrating the usability of High 

 Performance Fortran and other high level lan- 

 guages for solving large scale scientific and engi- 

 neering problems on massively parallel distributed 

 memory systems. 



IITA activities will focus on: 



-"Application of HPCC technologies to such National 

 Challenge areas as health care, lifelong learning, 

 digital and electronic libraries, and manufacturing. 



3 Software research relevant to scientific databases, 

 digital libraries, collaboration technologies, com- 

 puter graphics, and scientific visualization. 



3 Exploring new applications of virtual reality sys- 

 tems. 



-"Improvements in accessibility and ease of use of 

 Internet-based data and computing. 



-J Research on intelligent knowledge capture, repre- 

 sentation, extraction, and dissemination. 



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