It was held while a delegation of NSF officials and scientists were here for the annual review of the Bilateral Cooperative Program. Four subject areas, with two each held concurrently, were broadly represented in this workshop. The Committee also elicited the services of two prominent scientists from National Taiwan University. Presenters in most sessions are partners who paired up to report on the status of their transnational collabor- ations. Some are mature projects whereas others are new associations.
Many academic institutions are also very excited about building their own PC clusters.
The group also received invaluable input from Dr. G. P. Yeh, who is in charge of a scalable, sizable PC Farm at Fermi Lab. Tele-immersion Visualization and Virtual Environment are two other areas that attracted much attention and the NCHC has the facility to support cooperative research. With the installation of the vBNS, an added dimension for international cooperation becomes possible. Dr. Chung-Ming Wang of National Chung Hsing University then presented an infrastructure, InCov, for supporting cooperative visualization on the World Wide Web. The team of astrophysicists involved in the TAOS collaboration presented the promising, inexpensive project at searching the outer space for small comets.