Distributing the Stuttgart Tetrahedron

Author

Christ, Paul

Author_Institution

Comput. Center, Stuttgart Univ., Germany

fYear

1991

fDate

14-17 Oct 1991

Firstpage

185

Lastpage

194

Abstract

The paper describes the `Stuttgart Tetrahedron´ and how it is distributed under the `ideal´ campus situation. The need for knowledge sharing and cooperation between researchers in strategic fields is shown to be the main driving force for distributing such tetrahedrons over Germany and necessarily over Europe. The Stuttgart VBN projects and the MAN field trial are described within this context. The European and USA situation are contrasted. It is concluded that under European conditions distributed supercomputing combined with multimedia applications in a Pan-European ATM-infrastructure will be the most appropriate strategy to distribute the Stuttgart Tetrahedron to an European scale

Keywords

computer facilities; computer networks; mainframes; parallel machines; Europe; Germany; MAN; Pan-European ATM-infrastructure; Stuttgart Tetrahedron; Stuttgart VBN projects; campus; distributed supercomputing; knowledge sharing; multimedia applications; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Data visualization; Distributed computing; Europe; File servers; File systems; Humans; Large-scale systems; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1991. Proceedings., 16th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2370-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1991.208064

Filename

208064