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simone sala <ousmanneh@yahoo.it>
Pietro Nocita <pietro.nocita@xteque.com>
Prof. Saverio Salerno <salerno@unisa.it>
Stefano A. Cerri <cerri@lirmm.fr>
Prof. Alain Krief <alain.krief@fundp.ac.be>
Hans Rudolf Herren, Ph.D. <hh@millennium-institute.org>
Marc A. Levy <mlevy@ciesin.columbia.edu>
Dear Simone:
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) in response to my following list
distribution;
(04/24/08)
(1) UN University seminar and (2) Respectfully requesting support to African
Information Superhighway
http://tinyurl.com/57u8bj
(2) Your following write-up is excellent;
"The
importance of grid network for environmental studies"
<http://tinyurl.com/4s9g92>
I am also happy to know that you now recognize the system dynamic methodology
as a valuable tool for your environmental studies.
(3) I am also very delighted to be introduced to Mr. Pietro Nocita.
Dear Mr. Nocita:
(4) I visited
your web and read through the following with great interest;
"POWUA:
The Super Internet Computer" <http://tinyurl.com/3fl5k4>
I am very much impressed with your business scheme to provide super computing
power readily to ordinary people, e.g., scientists, academicians, students,
etc., etc. I am specially glad to know your philanthropic intention of
providing them with 20% of your capacity at free of charge for educational,
healthcare and humanitarian purposes.
(5) I am very delighted to know that the development stage of the Beowulf mini
supercomputer (a cluster of PCs — like your POWUA) has now come to this
stage.
(a)
Sterling, T., (2001), How to Build a Hyper Computer, Scientific American, July, Pages
38-45
http://tinyurl.com/3g4ehe
(b) Hargrove, W. W., et al, The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer, Scientific American, August 2001
http://tinyurl.com/453b2b
What is the next task to us is to spread/promote its use, especially among
youngsters in developing countries.
As far as I know, its first commercial version was the Heterogeneous Element
Processor (HEP) of Denelco in Denver, CO, which was made in early 1970s, and
which was designed by Max Gilliland, one of my acquaintances (*).
(*)
About a ten years before around the mid 1960s, he was at Beckman Instrument in
California, and designed a hybrid computer (two analog computers with 500 amplifiers
for each with Xeroxs Sigma real time computer with 32 K words memory (**).
I used it as if for my exclusive use for almost a half year to simulate
the chemical reaction to extract oil from shale rocks, which reserve in Rocky
mountain is almost same as the one of Saudi Arabia. This was a major
project of Mobil Oil at that time — alas, this project was not
materialized because it was very difficult compared with the tar sand project
in Canada.
(**) This machine was priced at US$ 1.5 million for NASA,
but NASA did not have such money at that time so that it was sitting at
Beckmans research lab in Richmond, California. It was later moved to the
Lincoln Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used to simulate
the EAGLE lunar landing by Armstrong.
David Miller, President of Denelco, was the general chairman and I was the
program chairman of the Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC) in Denver
in 1970. I then was the general chairman of the SCSC in Boston in 1971.
In the spring of 1973, there was a simulation conference in Tokyo, and
David and I discussed about the future of computer.
He chose to stuck up 50 CPUs of DEC/PDP-11 in a metal box as hiring Max
Gilliland for its design, and I advocated to connect such CPUs scattered around
the world with telecom networks, which are analogous to amplifiers of analog
computer — this is now termed as GRID networking;
(6) The
reason of my advocacy for globally collaborative distributed gaming/simulation
was to follow the basic rule of computer simulation;
This is for the following project;
Takeshi
Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG)"
http://tinyurl.com/k2c7a
This is in the following book;
Global Peace Through The Global University System
Tapio Varis -
Takeshi Utsumi - William Klemm (Eds.)
University of Tampere, Finland 2003
ISBN 951-44-5695-5
The entire contents of this book can be retrieved at;
http://tinyurl.com/kofpf
In the bottom line of this page, you can find the
following;
Interview with Takeshi Utsumi by Parker Rossman
http://tinyurl.com/fnxxt
This tells our very large gaming/simulation on the US/Japan trade issues, which
was held in the summer of 1986.
You may recall the motto of the Greyhound Bus Company, "Leave the Driving
to Us" in ATTACHMENT II of the following list distribution;
(05/29/08)
Proposed Global Network of Center for Conflict Management and Resolution
(GNCCMR)
<http://tinyurl.com/6hcf4e>
Namely, when we build a global simulation model (e.g., the Limit to the Growth
model, etc.), it would better have simulation experts of each country, and have
them construct their countrys models — thus, the need of distributed
simulation system.
On the other hand, climatologist claims with 90% confidence that the global
warming is certainly caused by human activities;
Yet, climatologists and sociologists/economists are not in close dialogue
— see;
(09/11/07)
(1) Need of dialogue between climatologists and sociologists, (2) Possible
complementarity of GSEEED to One Geology Project
<http://tinyurl.com/5rqvlm>
We will then firstly construct Globally Distributed
Socio-Economic-Environmental Simulation System, which will connect simulation
models of each country through broadband Internet, thus forming a global scale
super computer so that the integrated model will act as if a single simulation
model.
This will then be connected with the Globally Distributed Climate Simulation
System, which may be constructed by climatologists.
Therefore, our approach is a bit different from the definition of GRID which
usually try to utilize spare computing power of other PCs, which are controlled
by a central PC, e.g., SETI project, etc..
(7) About the use of LINUX, Horoshima University in Japan has 500 Fujitsu PCs,
each of which is used by individual students with WINDOW operating system in
day time, but in night time, they are changed to LINUX, and connected together
to become a Beowulf mini super computer for their researchers use. The
Japanese Ministry of Education also announced their plan to do the same with
the PCs in K-12 schools in local towns so that local researchers can use it in
the week end days.
(8) You may be interested in the following paper;
Colin
Allison, Stefano A. Cerri, Matteo Gaeta, Pierluigi Ritrovato, and Saverio
Salerno, University of St. Andrews, Universit Montpellier II et CNRS, and
University of Salerno, Italy
"Human Learning as a Global Challenge: European Learning Grid
Infrastructure"
http://tinyurl.com/3ybttv
You may contact Prof. Saverio Salerno (see his contact address at the end of
this paper) — he conducted European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI)
project with a fund from the European Commission <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/ELeGI>.
As you see in this paper, he hoped to have our GCEPG project as a
powerful demonstration of their project. He then kindly made me one of
its science advisors and invited me and my wife to their conference in the
spring of 2005 in Naples — on its way back, I visited Simone in your
Milan and had a wonderful time.
You may also contact Profs. Cerri and Krief, -- the former is a ELeGI member
and latter may be interested in your service — see the following list distribution;
(02/09/08)
Collaborative work for constructing the encyclopedia of organic chemistry
(EnCOrE), which will lead to global peace
<http://tinyurl.com/ywx2wo>
(9) Lastly, upon Simones suggestion, I admitted you into our list so that you
will be kept updated with our daily progress. Pls enjoy reading it.
Keep in touch, since we may have a synergy project.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From: simone sala <ousmanneh@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: simone sala <ousmanneh@yahoo.it>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:29:52 +0200
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: <pietro.nocita@xteque.com>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (04/24/08) (1) UN University seminar and (2)
Respectfully requesting support to African Information Superhighway
Dear Takeshi,
thanks for your last inspiring message {[gu-new] (04/24/08)}.
I just came back from an ICT for Development workshop held at UNESCO, in
Paris. On this side, I want to tell you again that your project for the
African information superhighway is really significant, and as little as my
support can be you can surely count on it. I just read a paper published by
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, titled "E-Government in Africa:
prospects, challenges and practices - ICT potential remains largely
unexploited in Africa". I'm attaching it here for you.
At the beginning of April I was in Uppsala, Sweden, for a workshop on ICT
for Environment which is my current topic of research. ICT and environmental
issues seems to be more and more strictly inter-related, and within the
Climate Change framework I see them as a whole dynamic system. I hope you'd
be happy to know that your works on system dynamics are really a valuable
resource for my research.
Some time ago I wrote a short note about grid networks for environmental
issues: maybe it could be helpful even for your work, so closely related to
grid networks. I wrote this note for Mr. Pietro Nocita, and I'm taking the
chance to introduce him to you (hoping that you could add him in your
diistribution list). Pietro is a young talented Italian manager who
developed through his company a very interesting application, which in my
opinion fits well with your idea of providing technologies to people (no
matter if they are in Developed or Developing Countries) for improving lifes
and building peace. I'm attaching the presentation of his company, and you
can find a short introduction to his application in his email below.
Thanks.
As always, bring my best regards to Hisae.
Cheers,
Simone
-----Original Message-----
From: pietro nocita [mailto:pietro.nocita@xteque.com]
Sent: 30 April 2008 11:54
To: Sala, Simone (NRRR)
Subject: Powua computational power on-demand
Dear Simone,
Thank you for your interest in my project, Powua.
As I told you we are an Italian start–up, financed by a business angel.
www.powua.com consists on an attempt to create a new tool, a supercomputer
for free scientific research, 3d rendering and architecture design, that
can be reached by all those researchers or professionals who are in the need
for powerful resources for calculating their applications.
With Powua the power of the calculation is used on real time, in exclusive
and on demand: the user subscribes to the service, books as many cpus he/she
requires (32,64,128 ), for how long and when. On the time that as been
scheduled by the user, our servers configure in a cluster depending on the
number of processors chosen by the user, who access through a SCP, SFTP
client, or trough a Remote Desktop.
This service has been launched the 14 July 2007, and we are actually in Beta
Phase, which means that at the moment we are still free and looking for
finances.
In the next weeks we will not be free, but receive payment through credit
card and Paypal, but considering our ethics, we will still keep the 20% of
the cpu/hour free forever, to help as much as possible all those persons
with great ideas, but with no resources to experiment them.
Saluti
Pietro
--
Pietro Nocita
www.powua.com
President & CEO
Xteque s.r.l.
Via Podgora 13
20122 Milan
Italy
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simone sala
student of Digital Communication
Computer Science and Communication Departments
University of Milan
333-237-2196
ousmanneh@yahoo.it
Simone.Sala@fao.org
Pietro Nocita
President & CEO
POWUA
Xteque s.r.l.
Via Podgora 13
20122 Milan
Italy
pietro.nocita@xteque.com
www.powua.com
Prof. Saverio Salerno
Direttore
Coordinatore Centro d Eccellenza Learning & Knowledge
Componente C.T.S. Ricerca Industriale - MIUR
Dipartimento d'Ingegneria dell Informazione e Matematica Applicata (D.I.I.M.A)
Universit di Salerno ‑ Via Ponte Don Melillo 84084 Fisciano (SA)
Tel. ++39.089.964189
Fax ++39.089.964191
Cell. 3483309642
E-mail: salerno@unisa.it
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw59/ritrovato.html
Stefano A. Cerri
Professeur, Deputy Director
LIRMM: Universite Montpellier II et CNRS
161, Rue Ada; 34392 Montpellier
Cedex 5, France
TEL: +33 467 41 86 62
cerri@lirmm.fr
http://www.lirmm.fr
Prof. Alain Krief
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Synthse
Dpartement de Chimie
Facult N.-D de la Paix
University Notre-Dame de la Paix
61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000, Namur, Belgium
Email: alain.krief@fundp.ac.be
Location: Chemistry Building
2 rue Joseph Graf, B-5000, Namur
3rd floor, door 331a
Phone: +32 81 724539
Fax: +32 81 724536
alain.krief@fundp.ac.be
Visit our Website at :
http://www.fundp.ac.be/facultes/sciences/departements/chimie/recherche/centres/cos/
Visit our Website for the EnCOrE Project:
http://www.fundp.ac.be/facultes/sciences/departements/chimie/recherche/centres/cos/encore/presentation.html
Hans Rudolf Herren, Ph.D.
President
Millennium Institute
2200 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 650
Arlington, VA 22201-3357 USA
Tel: (+1-703) 841-0048
Fax: (+1-703) 841-0050
Cell: (+1-530) 867-4569
hh@millennium-institute.org
hansrherren@mac.com
http://www.millennium-institute.org
http://www.millenniuminstitute.net/
www.threshold21.com
http://www.biovision.ch
http://www.eduvision.or.ke
Marc A. Levy
Deputy Director
Center for International Earth Science Information (CIESIN)
Columbia University
61 Route 9W
P. O. Box 1000
Palisades, NY 10964 USA
tel: (+1) (845) 365‑8964
fax: (+1) (845) 365‑8922
mlevy@ciesin.columbia.edu
http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
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* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.)
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* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
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* Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of
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* Global University System (GUS)
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* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-5913, U.S.A.
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* Tel: 718-939-0928; Email: utsumi@columbia.edu
*
* http://www.itu.int/wsis/goldenbook/search/display.asp?Quest=8032562&lang=en
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* http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/
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* U.S. Federal Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 <http://tinyurl.com/534gxc>
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* New York State Tax Exempt ID: 217837 <http://tinyurl.com/47wqbo>
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