Interconnects
     Leaders: Anton Gunzinger and Art Hale

Suggestion: a strategy for incorporating VIA and ST into
future XANs (SAN/LAN/WAN). At a minimum this group should
produce a list of gaps and preferably some strategies for
filling them.

Distributed computing infrastructure (conferencing, electronic
notebooks, security, scheduling, middleware, fault tolerance,
checkpoint, accounting, monitoring, ...=>resource management)
     Leader: Al Geist

Distributed storage and data management
     Leader: unknown

Suggestion: explore the roles of DFS, NFS, and HDF in detail.
Identify common name space strategies. Backup.

Applications
     Leaders: Grant Heffelfinger, Tim Sheehan

Suggestion: applications requirements group draw up as specific
a possible set of requirements as they can. The requirements
should include at a minimum compilation, job launch (interactive
and batch), debugging, performance monitoring, libraries (math
and system), I/O needs, and checkpointing. In each case the group
should be challenged to think about what is different in serial
vs. MPP vs. distributed systems.

Visualization
     Leader: Unknown

Suggestion: develop a proposal for some standard standard
interfaces between visualization services (rendering, etc.)
and data whether it be meshes, experimental data, or simulation
data. The interface should allow for data to be on tape, disk,
or in memory and allow for efficient pre-fetch and caching over networks.

General questions to be addressed in all groups:

• Where are we?
• What are our targets?
• What is needed to get from a to b?
• Define specific tasks and time tables.