1.0 INTRODUCTION
The digital science and information revolution is rapidly and irreversibly transforming the ways we learn, teach, communicate, conduct research, disseminate knowledge, solve problems, conduct business and serve the public. The rapid integration of computer, telecommunication, audio, video, multimedia, and digital technologies creates an encompassing, worldwide information environment that can be accessed effortlessly from the classroom, laboratory, office, field, and home. Information technologies can no longer be viewed as discrete, separable resources that serve the same secondary support roles they held less than a decade ago. Employed together, they now augment, enable, and magnify the capabilities of the human mind across all disciplines and are primary agents of scientific and intellectual innovation for the academic and business community. The breadth and strengths of a great public university, The University of Texas as Austin, are brought to bear in this proposal as we seek new means for creating, presenting, and distributing high-quality, content-rich information - all within the Intel/NT environment.
The University has identified a broad set of computationally demanding tasks that are technically compelling and highly visible that will amply demonstrate the capabilities of and possible challenges to Intel Architecture across the full range of available and future Intel systems. The research projects draw domain experts together in cross disciplinary and interdisciplinary applications that complement and leverage national research initiatives such as NPACI and vBNS. As an active collaborator, the University of Texas at Austin commits the necessary resources such as technical expertise, domain expertise, physical plant, software and management to ensure the success of this strategic partnership with the Intel Corporation.