Distributing the Stuttgart Tetrahedron

Abstract

The paper describes the 'Stuttgart Tetrahedron' and how it is distributed under the 'ideal' campus situation. The need for knowledge sharing and cooperation between researchers in strategic fields is shown to be the main driving force for distributing such tetrahedrons over Germany and necessarily over Europe. The Stuttgart VBN projects and the MAN field trial are described within this context. The European and USA situation are contrasted. It is concluded that under European conditions distributed supercomputing combined with multimedia applications in a Pan-European ATM-infrastructure will be the most appropriate strategy to distribute the Stuttgart Tetrahedron to an European scale.<>