MetaCenter online information

by Ginny Hudak-David, NCSA Publications Editor, Publications Group

Do you want to know about JNNIE, a joint NSF-NASA project to evaluate scalable parallel computing under real-life scientific conditions? How about the current training schedule for one of the centers participating in the National MetaCenter? Do you just want to know what the MetaCenter is?

That information and more is available in the National MetaCenter document accessible by using NCSA Mosaic [see access, Fall 1993], the software program from NCSA's Software Development Group that is taking the Internet by storm. NCSA Mosaic retrieves information from servers (World Wide Web, Gopher, or anonymous FTP) then formats and displays it on your workstation.

Your choices

Information available on the MetaCenter Home Page falls into one of four categories:

General information--How to obtain an allocation, contacts list, publications, and links to the World Wide Web servers at the participating institutions
Research at the MetaCenter--Science highlights online, technical reports and bibliographies, and research datasets
Education programs in HPC-- Programs/workshops/training/user support information, K-12 and college-level programs, and educational contacts
Collaborative projects--JNNIE project, science highlights online, and conference exhibits

If you do not have NCSA Mosaic

You can obtain NCSA Mosaic from NCSA's anonymous FTP server (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu). See the inside back cover of access for instructions. NCSA Mosaic is available for the X Window System, Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows. The default start- up document (called a home page) is the NCSA Mosaic Home Page.

Accessing MetaCenter information

Once you are up and running, select Open URL . . . from the File menu. In the field provided, enter the URL.The MetaCenter online information is available with the click of a mouse.

access / Summer 1994 / NCSA