Projects

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1. Netbed
Netbed, an outgrowth of Emulab, provides integrated access to three disparate experimental environments: simulated, emulated, and wide-area network testbeds. Netbed strives to preserve the control and ease of use of simulation, without sacrificing the realism of emulation and live network experimentation.

Utah site for Netbed:
emulab.net - Home
tutorial

We will be completing the tutorial and then running experiments on this system

2. Beowulf
Scientists have found a cheaper way to solve tremendously difficult computational problems: connect ordinary PCs so that they can work together
The Beowulf Project
Stone Soup
Do-it yourself supercomputer

3. Microsoft .NET

Microsoft's platform for XML Web services.
Microsoft .NET

It's "a next-generation programming model that lets people take advantage of the wonders of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and provides the next-generation user experience," says Microsoft president Steve Ballmer. "It involves the user interface [now dubbed the user experience], new back-end services, and gives the user control over a variety of Web sites. What are the bits? Its set of middleware and end-user interfaces that go into devices, servers and the Internet cloud."

”Dot NET behind the scenes
We might break down Microsoft Dot NET into the following components:

• Next generation user experience - A new user interface for Windows and the company's other products that will facilitate easier interaction with Web-based services. Consider the Windows 95 "Explorer", an object-based user interface that was based on Microsoft's "Cairo" technology. Explorer was designed to make it easier for people to work in a document-centric world so that the previous focus--on applications--would be pushed to the back. In Dot NET, users will work more seamlessly with the Internet so that the boundaries between the local system and the "Internet cloud" are even less defined. The Dot NET user experience is a logical extension of Explorer, and it is based on the XML Web technology, enabling easier customization and integration with the Internet.

The first generation user experience is already available: MSN 6, the company's new Internet client, features an early version of the Dot NET user experience if you want to get used to the new interface now.

• Basic Dot NET components - Email, calendaring, instant messaging, Web site publishing, document authoring, and similar capabilities will be built into the basic Dot NET platform, which will initially run on Windows.NET 1.0 (code-named "Whistler"), the next version of Windows 2000. In the future, other devices such as cell phones and PDAs will be able to use Dot NET components as well.
• Dot NET subscription services - Basic services, such as personal information management will be offered for free.
• Dot NET premium subscription services - Microsoft will start offering its software as services over the Internet and users will subscribe to these services in the same way that we now subscribe to cable TV and magazines. For example, you could subscribe to Office.NET (the version of Office that will follow Office 10, due later this year) and get the full range of productivity services that Office.NET supplies.”
  
  By Paul Thurrott Microsoft .NET in plain English