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{"id":12763,"date":"2017-09-25T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2024-12-11T16:53:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T21:53:27","slug":"high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/","title":{"rendered":"High Performance Computing and Communications: Archived at NLM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sally Howe ~<br \/>\nPeople today might use their smart phones without even thinking about how they work, let alone about the infrastructure that enables us to communicate and compute at a global (<a href=\"https:\/\/nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/07\/18\/there-is-an-internet-in-space\/\">actually interplanetary<\/a>) scale, but today\u2019s reality is built on yesterday\u2019s imagination. Trailblazers had to envision something like today\u2019s information infrastructure and to communicate their foresight in such a way that stakeholders and users would willingly work together over decades to realize it. Much of that envisioning took place in the 1980s and early 1990s and led to the creation of the Federal High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program.<\/p>\n<p>Begun in 1992, the HPCC Program and its National Coordination Office (NCO) coordinated Federal research and development in high-performance computing, high-capacity and high-speed networking, and information technology by Federal science and technology agencies. HPCC initially included four large agencies\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/\">ARPA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/\">DOE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\">NSF<\/a>\u2014and four smaller ones\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/\">EPA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/\">NIST<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\">NLM<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/\">NOAA<\/a>. There are now 14 agencies in the successor Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nitrd.gov\/\">NITRD<\/a>). NLM participates under the NIH umbrella.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/25\\\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12763 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/cover_1992\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cover_1992.jpg?fit=195%2C300&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Front cover containing a 3x3 image grid.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12766\" data-attachment-id=\"12766\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/cover_1992\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cover_1992.jpg?fit=780%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"780,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Cover of 1992 Blue Book\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>HPCC Grand Challenges are illustrated by the images on the covers of the first two HPCC \u201cBlue Books\u201d. The FY 1992 Blue Book is cited in the HPC Act of 1991.<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cover_1992.jpg?fit=195%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cover_1992.jpg?fit=666%2C1024&ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12766'>\n\t\t\t\tHPCC Grand Challenges are illustrated by the images on the covers of the first two HPCC \u201cBlue Books\u201d. The FY 1992 Blue Book is cited in the HPC Act of 1991.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/cropped_cover_1993\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_cover_1993.jpg?fit=198%2C300&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Front cover of 3x3 image grid.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12767\" data-attachment-id=\"12767\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/cropped_cover_1993\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_cover_1993.jpg?fit=792%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"792,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Cover of 1993 Blue Book\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>HPCC Grand Challenges are illustrated by the images on the covers of the first two HPCC \u201cBlue Books\u201d. <\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_cover_1993.jpg?fit=198%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_cover_1993.jpg?fit=676%2C1024&ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12767'>\n\t\t\t\tHPCC Grand Challenges are illustrated by the images on the covers of the first two HPCC \u201cBlue Books\u201d. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>With the formal release of the extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.nlm.nih.gov\/repositories\/4\/resources\/925\">National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications Archives<\/a>, at the National Library of Medicine, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the September 1992 establishment of the NCO\/HPCC. The Federal HPCC Program and the NCO\/HPCC and their successors implement the requirements in the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 and its amendments. The archive is the culmination of work I\u2019ve undertaken for some time with the helpful guidance of HMD archivists. The NCO was located at NLM from September 1992 until 1995 when it moved to NSF space. I worked at the NCO\/HPCC from September 1992 until 2007, including as NCO Associate Director from 1998 to 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The HPCC story is like an elephant, with each participant knowing only part of it. The HPCC archival collection focuses on policy and coordination. What follows are some of my views of the animal.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, seemingly insatiable user communities at Federal science and technology agencies and at U.S. colleges and universities had largely the same goals, namely high-capacity and high-speed network access to each other, unique data sets, and ever-faster supercomputers (for example, to do more realistic scientific modeling and simulation). Supercomputer manufacturers were willing to satisfy this need with hardware that was then expensive to buy and maintain. The U.S. Congress convened these and other stakeholders (the library community was an early advocate, the telecommunications industry a late-comer) to develop a shared vision and embody it in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/STATUTE-105\/pdf\/STATUTE-105-Pg1594.pdf\">High-Performance Computing Act of 1991<\/a> (Public Law 102-194).<\/p>\n<p>So what was the vision? To quote from the HPC Act:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cAdvances in computer science and technology are vital to the Nation’s prosperity, national and economic security, industrial production, engineering, and scientific advancement.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFurther research and development, expanded educational programs, improved computer research networks, and more effective technology transfer from government to industry are necessary for the United States to reap fully the benefits of high-performance computing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA high-capacity and high-speed national research and education computer network would provide researchers and educators with access to computer and information resources and act as a test bed for further research and development of high-capacity and high-speed computer networks.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A \u201cmultiagency high-performance computing program \u2026 would provide American researchers and educators with the computer and information resources they need, and demonstrate how advanced computers, high-capacity and high-speed networks, and electronic data bases can improve the national information infrastructure for use by all Americans.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-carousel-extra='{"blog_id":1,"permalink":"https:\\\/\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/25\\\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\\\/","likes_blog_id":"52242398"}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 840px; height: 492px;\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-original-height=\"492\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 431px; height: 492px;\" data-original-width=\"431\" data-original-height=\"492\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/cropped_nren_application_pg19\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"427\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"488\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"12769\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_nren_application_pg19.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1052,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Network Applications\" data-image-description=\"<p>NREN supported activities will promote enhancements in networking infrastructure both for the connectivity to many geographically distributed science facilities, information resources, and research reams and also for the technologies and tools to perform the distributed computing, data access, and multi -media processes as illustrated above.<\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_nren_application_pg19.jpg?fit=263%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_nren_application_pg19.jpg?fit=840%2C958&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_nren_application_pg19.jpg?w=427&h=488&ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"488\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"427\" data-original-height=\"488\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Network Applications\" alt=\"Map of U.S. pinpointing locations of importance to networking applications.\" style=\"width: 427px; height: 488px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> The National Research and Education Network (NREN) called for in the HPC Act of 1991 connected geographically distributed research teams, supercomputer centers, and information resources. Image from FY 1992 Blue Book. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 409px; height: 492px;\" data-original-width=\"409\" data-original-height=\"492\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/cropped_nren_map_pg21\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"405\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"488\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"12770\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_nren_map_pg21.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"996,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Network Connectivity\" data-image-description=\"<p>The image represents the interconnected “backbone” networks of NSF, NASA, and DOE, together with selected client regional and campus-area networks. Nodes of the backboes are represented as connected spheres on a plane above the outline of the United States; the client networks are represented as dendritic lines from the backbone nodes to the geographic locations where the client networks attach.<\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_nren_map_pg21.jpg?fit=249%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_nren_map_pg21.jpg?fit=840%2C1012&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_nren_map_pg21.jpg?w=405&h=488&ssl=1\" width=\"405\" height=\"488\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"405\" data-original-height=\"488\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Network Connectivity\" alt=\"Map of U.S. with multiple connections spread nationwide.\" style=\"width: 405px; height: 488px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> The interconnected NSF, NASA, and DOE \u201cbackbone\u201d networks and selected regional and campus-area networks. Image from FY 1992 HPCC Blue Book. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>Then-Senator (and later Vice President) Albert Gore Jr. (D-TN) initiated and led the Congressional effort that resulted in the passage of the HPC Act, which took four Congresses and six years of painstaking work. A National Software Corporation and artificial intelligence, both of which appeared in early draft legislation, were left on the cutting-room floor. The work was difficult but collegial. One observer at the time opined that no one spoke against the legislation in perhaps thousands of pages of testimony. The last issue holding up passage was leadership for the effort, which was resolved by assigning neither the National Science Foundation nor the Department of Energy as the lead HPCC agency, but rather deciding that \u201cthe President [of the United States] shall implement a National High-Performance Computing Program\u201d. The bill passed with strong bipartisan support. I\u2019m told that everyone working in HPCC was ecstatic when that Act was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. Al Gore was neither present nor acknowledged at the signing ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The research and development, education, networking, and technology transfer accomplishments of the HPCC Program have profoundly changed\u2014and continue to change\u2014our lives. The list of accomplishments is long, but the most obvious may be the development of technologies found in today\u2019s Internet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-carousel-extra='{"blog_id":1,"permalink":"https:\\\/\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/25\\\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\\\/","likes_blog_id":"52242398"}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 840px; height: 242px;\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-original-height=\"242\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 159px; height: 242px;\" data-original-width=\"159\" data-original-height=\"242\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/cropped_rational_drug_design_pg45\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"155\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"238\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"12771\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_rational_drug_design_pg45.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"783,1198\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Rational Drug Design, Page 45\" data-image-description=\"<p>The most widely used anti-cancer drug, cyclophosphamide (inset) acts by binding (cross-linking) two (guanine) bases of the DNA of a cancerous cell. Two chlorine atoms from the drug (green in the inset) are stripped off in the body and replaced by two nitrogen atoms (shown by arrows) of the DNA. This forms the bonding that prevents DNA replication, thus killing the cancerous cell. When broken down by the body, the side chain shown on the lower left of the inset is released, causing toxic side effects. Though this research required massive amounts of computation, calculations thousands of times more complex are needed to fully understand the activity of this drug.<br \/> ***<br \/> Atomic structure of a rationally-designed inhibitor bound to the active site of HIV protease (“ribbon” structure). The structure of the complex was determined by x-ray crystallographic analysis using a supercomputer networked to a high seed graphics workstation.<\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_rational_drug_design_pg45.jpg?fit=196%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_rational_drug_design_pg45.jpg?fit=669%2C1024&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_rational_drug_design_pg45.jpg?w=155&h=238&ssl=1\" width=\"155\" height=\"238\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"155\" data-original-height=\"238\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Rational Drug Design, Page 45\" alt=\"Two images of 3D structures of anti-cancer drugs and inhibitors.\" style=\"width: 155px; height: 238px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> HPCC Grand Challenges described in the FY 1993 HPCC Blue Book <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 224px; height: 242px;\" data-original-width=\"224\" data-original-height=\"242\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/cancer_genes_pg41\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"220\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"238\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"12765\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cancer_genes_pg41.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1111,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Cancer Genes, an HPCC Grand Challenge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cancer_genes_pg41.jpg?fit=278%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cancer_genes_pg41.jpg?fit=840%2C907&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cancer_genes_pg41.jpg?w=220&h=238&ssl=1\" width=\"220\" height=\"238\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"220\" data-original-height=\"238\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Cancer Genes, an HPCC Grand Challenge\" alt=\"Two molecular structures side by side.\" style=\"width: 220px; height: 238px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> HPCC Grand Challenges described in the FY 1993 HPCC Blue Book <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 192px; height: 242px;\" data-original-width=\"192\" data-original-height=\"242\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/cropped_digital_anatomy_pg57\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"188\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"238\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"12768\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_digital_anatomy_pg57.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"947,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Digital Anatomy, Page 57\" data-image-description=\"<p>The volumetric rendering of the human head is capable of depicting deep as well as surface structures. This three-dimensional view was reconstructed from two-dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging data acquired from a living person. Conventional computers require several seconds to several hours to compute a single three-dimensional view; advanced architecture machines developed under HPCC will allow such images to be rotated, “dissected,” and viewed from any angle under real-tie control.<\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_digital_anatomy_pg57.jpg?fit=237%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_digital_anatomy_pg57.jpg?fit=808%2C1024&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_digital_anatomy_pg57.jpg?w=188&h=238&ssl=1\" width=\"188\" height=\"238\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"188\" data-original-height=\"238\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Digital Anatomy, Page 57\" alt=\"Side view of a skull depicting brain and frontal skeletal structure.\" style=\"width: 188px; height: 238px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> HPCC Grand Challenges described in the FY 1993 HPCC Blue Book <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 265px; height: 242px;\" data-original-width=\"265\" data-original-height=\"242\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/cropped_technology_links_pg65\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"261\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"238\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"12772\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_technology_links_pg65.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1315,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Technology Links Research to Education, Page 65\" data-image-description=\"<p>Students using an advanced workstation linked to a massively parallel supercomputer. Shown is a real-time molecular dynamics simulation of 216 water molecules. The blue lines represent a view of the spanning network of hydrogen bonds in liquid water. The simulation provides a “hands on” experience enabling the student to discover for herself the principles involved in hydrogen bond network formation in liquid water.<\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_technology_links_pg65.jpg?fit=300%2C274&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_technology_links_pg65.jpg?fit=840%2C767&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped_technology_links_pg65.jpg?w=261&h=238&ssl=1\" width=\"261\" height=\"238\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"261\" data-original-height=\"238\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Technology Links Research to Education, Page 65\" alt=\"Woman sitting a computer and a man standing to her left.\" style=\"width: 261px; height: 238px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> HPCC Grand Challenges described in the FY 1993 HPCC Blue Book <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>The Act and those accomplishments are the first reason I built this archival collection\u2014what was done was influential and it is worthwhile to document how it happened. It was therefore worth saving and organizing original HPCC materials, and developing a finding aid that makes information about the archival collection publicly available. I appreciate that NLM leadership and people in other Federal organizations, U.S. universities, and U.S. industry shared that view.<\/p>\n<p>Many linear feet of original HPCC materials already resided at NLM, and often only there. From September 1992 to March 1995 NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg MD served concurrently as the founding director of the NCO. An NLM librarian built a proper NCO Library and NLM, being a library, had of course saved all of it. When HPCC colleagues at other agencies cleaned out offices, they would usually call me to ask if I wanted their HPCC materials, and I always said yes, so they are part of the archival collection too. (Early plans were that these HPCC materials would become part of Lindberg\u2019s archive, and in any case were always to be housed at NLM.) The archival collection also includes two donations that document other parts of the HPCC elephant. The donation from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) documents that large science agency\u2019s research and development in HPCC technologies, including development of supercomputers built from inexpensive commodity-off-the-shelf PCs. The CASC (originally the Coalition for Academic Supercomputing Centers) donation includes its own publications and those from (a) the university research community first in support of what became the HPC Act and then documenting HPCC research results and (b) public policy organizations analyzing HPCC efforts.<\/p>\n<p>With the completion and public announcement of this archival collection, the history of the activities of the HPCC Program and the NCO to realize this vision is now preserved and made available to those interested in its history and others who may be asked to craft future coordinated Federal programs.<\/p>\n<p><em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.nlm.nih.gov\/repositories\/4\/resources\/925\">National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications Archives 1936-2017<\/a><\/em> <em>document the little-known\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.nlm.nih.gov\/repositories\/4\/resources\/925\">HPCC Program<\/a> that quietly helped make today\u2019s information age possible through decades of research and development (R&D) in computing, networking, and information technology, and interoperable Federal research and education networks that are a testbed for networking R&D. This is the first of three posts about the HPCC Program, the NCO\/HPCC (especially when it was at NLM), and this archival collection.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The archival collection documents the history of the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, activities of the eight (now 14) Federal science and technology agencies in the HPCC Program, the National Coordination Office for HPCC that was initially housed at NLM, the successors to the HPCC Program and the NCO\/HPCC, the President\u2019s Information Technology Advisory Committee authorized by the Act, and interactions with U.S. universities and industry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov\/personnel\/sally-howe\">Sally Howe, PhD<\/a> came from NIST to NLM in 1992 to work at the newly-created National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications (NCO\/HPCC). She served for two and a half years under the NCO\u2019s founding director and now-retired NLM Director Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, and for 10 years as NCO Associate Director. 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