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Established in 1985 with a National Science Foundation grant, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) opened to the national research community in January 1986. NCSA is a high-performance computing and communications facility designed to server U.S. computational science and engineering communitites. Located on the campus of the University Of illlinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), NCSA is funded by the National Science Foundation, the State of Illinois, the University of Illinois, other Federal Agencies and industrial partners.
NCSA was recently chartered as the leading-edge site for the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance). In this capacity, NCSA anchors all Alliance teams and oversees the administration of all Alliance programs. NCSA leads the Alliance in its mission to maintain American preeminence in science and technology.
Scientific Collaboration Systems
The Scientific Collaboration Systems Group (SCS) is dedicated to development of tools that will improve communication and data visualization for the Alliance community. SCS is primarily focused on developing JavaTM applications which provide this cross-platform capability. A couple of these projects include NCSA Habanero and NCSA Java3D.
NCSA Habanero is a collaborative framework and set of applications. Using Habanero you can create and work in shared applications from remote locations over the Internet. The Habanero framework also enables developers of groupware applications to build powerful collaborative software in a reduced amount of time. Since Habanero is written in Java, it will run under any operating system that supports JDK 1.1.X. The Habanero framework, or API, provides the necessary libraries that developers can call upon to create or convert existing applications into collaborative applications. The Habanero applications consist of a client, a server and a variety of tools.
We believe collaborative technologies represent the next major break-through in communication for the Internet community and will cause a fundamental restructuring in the nature of distributed work by improving the efficiency and productivity of remote teams. The NCSA Habanero project hopes to provide the catalyst to this change by providing an initial set of useful tools and a framework so other developers can easily port existing tools and create additional collaborative applications.
Copyright 1995-1998, Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, All Rights Reserved
NCSA Habanero software, binary, Java-bytecode, and source (hereafter, Software) is copyrighted by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (UI), and ownership remains with the UI.
The UI grants you (hereafter, Licensee) a license to use the Software for academic, research and internal business purposes only, without a fee. Licensee may distribute the binary and source code (if released) to third parties provided that the copyright notice and this statement appears on all copies and that no charge is associated with such copies.
Licensee may make derivative works. However, if Licensee distributes any derivative work based on or derived from the Software, then Licensee will (1) notify NCSA regarding its distributing of the derivative work, and (2) clearly notify users that such derivative work is a modified version and not the original NCSA Habanero distributed by the UI.
Any Licensee wishing to make commercial use of the Software should contact the UI, c/o NCSA, to negotiate an appropriate license for such commercial use. Commercial use included (1) integration of all or part of the Software into a product for sale or license by or on behalf of Licensee to third parties, or (2) distribution of the Software to third parties that need it to utilize a commercial product sold or licensed by or on behalf of Licensee.
UI MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. THE UI SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY THE USERS OF THIS SOFTWARE.
By using or copying this Software, Licensee agrees to abide by the copyright law and all other applicable laws of the U.S. including, but not limited to, export control laws, and the terms of this license. UI shall have the right to terminate this license immediately by written notice upon Licensee's breach of, or non-compliance with, any of its terms. Licensee may be held legally responsible for any copyright infringement that is caused or encouraged by Licensee's failure to abide by the terms of this license.
U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS
The Software and/or user documentation are provided with RESTRICTED AND LIMITED RIGHTS. Use, duplication or disclosure by or to the United States government shall be subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS) Section 252.227-7013 for Department of Defense contracts and as set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Section 52.227-19 for civilian agency contracts or any successor regulations. Contractor/Manufacturer is The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.
Habanero® is a registered trademark owned by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Copyright 1996-1998. All rights reserved. Java(TM) is a proprietary trademark owned by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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