DOCUMENT RESUME ED 328 244 IR 014 868 TITLE National High Performance Computer Technology Act of 1989. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session (June 21, July 26, and September 15, 1989). INSTITUTION Congress of the U.S., Washington, D.C. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, anr* Transportation. REPORT NO Senate-Hrg-101-638 PUB DATE 89 NOTE 416p. AVAILKBLE FROMSuperintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. PUB TYPE Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials (090) -- Viewpoints (120) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC17 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Computer Networks; *Federal Government; Government School Relationship; Hearings; *Higher Education; *Information Networks; Interprofessional Relationship; National Programs; *Research and Development Centers; Technological Advancement; Telecommunications IDENTIFIERS *Computer Industry; Congress 101st; *National Research and Education Network ABSTRACT This collection of statements focuses on Title 2 of S. 1067, which calls for the National Science Foundation to establish a National Research and Education Network (NREN) by 1996. This is one of several titles in a bill to provide for a coordinated federal research program to ensure continued U.S. leadership in high performance computing. The network proposed in Title 2 will link government, industry, and higher education; be developed in close cooperation with the computer and telecommunications industry; and be designed and developed with the advice of potential users in government, industry, and higher education. A total of 24 representatives of these three groups presented testimony and prepared statements at the bearings:(1) James H. Billington; (2) John Seely Brown; (3) James H. Clark; (4) A. Gray Collins, Jr.; (5) Craig Fields; (6) John N. Fischer;(7) 0. Gene Gabbard; (8) Sheryl L. Handler; (9) Robert E. Kahn; (10) Richard T. Liebhaber; (11) Robert W. Lucky; (12) Daniel S. Masys; (13) Dav4l Nagel; (14) Ted Nelson; (15) J. William Poduska, Sr.; (16) Ray Reddy; (17) John A. Rollwagen; (18) Roger Schwantes; (19) Jacob T. Schwartz; (20) Karl-Heinz A. Winkler; (21) Irving Wladawaky; (22) Richard T. Wood; (23) William Wulf; and (24) Joe Wyatt. This report includes opening statements by Senators Gore and Pressler, the text of S. 1067, a transcript of questions addressed to the witnesses together with their responses, the prepared statements from the witnesses, and additional statements from the Association of American Publishers and Robert Kerry, U.S. Senator from Nebraska. (DB) S.HRG. 101-638 NATIONAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ACT OF 1989 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SPACE OF THE COMMITFEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 1067 TO PROVILE FOR A COORDINATED FEDERAL RESEARCHPROGRAM TO ENSURECONTINUED UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP IN HIGH- PERFORMANCE COMPUTING JUNE 21. JULY 26. AND SEI/IMBER 15. 1989 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce. Science, and Transportauon S GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 27-517 0 WASHINGTON 1939 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents. Congressional Sales Office U S Crweinment Printing Office, Washington. DC 20402 3 COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE. AND TRANSPORTATION ERNEST F. HOLLINGS.South Carolina,Chassman DANIEL K. INOUYE. Hawaii JOHN C. DANFORTH. Missouri WENDELL H. FORD, Kentucky BOB PACKWOOD. Oregon J. JAMES EXON, Nebraska LARRY PRESSLER. South Dakota ALBERT GORE, JR- Tennessee TED STEVENS. Alaska JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV. West Virginia ROBERT W. KASTEN. JR, Wisconsin LLOYD BENTSEN. Texas JOHN MCCAIN. Arizona JOHN F. KERRY, Mazachusetts CONRAD BURNS. Montana JOHN & BREAUX. Louisiana SLADE GORTON. Washington RICHARD It BRYAN. Nevada TRENT LOTT.Mississippi CHARLES S. ROBB. Virginia RALPH B.EVERETT.Chief Cowssel and Ste &rector WALTER B. MCCORMICK. JR..Minoruv Chief Cowuel ced Ste Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE. TECHNOLOGY. AND SPACE ALBERT GORE, JR.. Tennessee.Chatrman JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West Virginia I ARRY PRESSLER. South Dakota LLOYD BENTSEN. Texas TED STEVENS. Mash JOHN F. KERRY. Massachusetts ROBERT W.KASTEN. JR.. Wisconsin RICHARD H. BRYAN. Nevada TRENT LOTT. Mississippi CHARLES S. ROBB. Virginia (n) 4.: C ONTENTS Par 1 Opening statement by Senator Gore.. Text of S 1067 3 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WEI NESSFS JUNE21.1989 Collins. A. Gray. Jr, senior vice president. external affairs.Bell Atlantic Corp 103 Fields. Dr Craig. director. Defense Advanced ResearchProjects Agency 57 63 Prepa:ed statement . .. ... Gabbard, 0. Gene, chairman and CEO. Telecom*USA 104 Prepared statement .... .. .. 108 / Handler. Sheryl L.. president, Thinking Machines Corp .. 39 Liebhaber. Richard T. executive vice president, MCICommunications Corp 95 . 97 Prepared statement . Lucky. Robert W.. executive director, research, communicationssciences. AT&T 82 Bell Laboratories.. .. .. .. Prepared statement.......... .......... 84 Rollwagen, John A. chairman and CEO. Cray Research. Inc 24 30 Prepared statement . .. ... Schwantes, Roger. vice president for product and technolopplanning. Northern . .. 120 Telecom, Inc ...... .... Wulf, Dr. William, Assistant Director. Computer andInformation Science and 65 Engineering, NSF . - ..... 69 Prepared statement . JULY26.1989 Opening statement by Senator Gore 127 130 Opening statement by the Chairman .. Opening statement by Senator Pressler ... 160 Clark, Dr. James H. chairman and founder, SiliconGraphics 185 190 Prepared statement . .. Nagel, Dr David, manager of user technologies, advancedtechnology group, . 205 Apple Computer, Inc ... .. .. epared statement . 209 Poduska, Dr.J.William. Sr. .chairman and CEO. Stellar Computer. Inc : accompanied by Norm Siegel, systems engineer . 196 199 Prepared stateme t . ........ .. Reddy, Dr. Ray, dir,...tor. robotics institute. Carnegie-MellonUniversity 223 . 228 Prepared statement. .. ..... .. .. .. Schwartz, Dr. Jacob T .director. information science and technology office, 141 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ..... Prepared statement. 145 Winkler,Dr.Karl.Heinz A .deputy directorforsciencetechnololgy. and education,nationalcenterfor supercompuung applications.Universityof Illinois . 168 175 PreNred statement . ...... Wulf, Dr. William, Assistant Director, Computer andInformation Science and Engineering. NSF .. .. 131 .. .. .. ..... 134 Prepared statement . ... ...... ... mu IV SEPTEMBER 15, 1989 Opening statement by Senator Gore .... ... 243 Opening statement by Senator Pressler__ .. .. ..... .. 300 Billington, Hon. James H ,Librarian. Library of Coress: accompanied by Hennette Avram, Assistant Librarian for Processing Services ... ...... 259 . 264 Prepared statement . .... ...... ........ .. Questions of Senator Gore and the answers . .. ..... 270 Brown. John Seely, vice president, advanced research. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ... ... ... .. .. 347 Prepared statement .. 351 Fischer. Dr. John N., Acting Associate Director, USGS: accompanied byDavid A. Nystrom. Chief, Office of Geographic and CartographicReasearch: and Lawrence Batten ........ ................... .... ........ ...... .......... 308 311 Questions of Senator dore and the answers ........... .... .... 317 Kahn, Robert E., president. Corporation for National Research Initiatives 277 Prepared statement. 282 Masys, Dr. Daniel S.,director.Lister Hill National Center For Biomedical Communications. National Library of Medicine. ..... ....... ..... 330 Prepared statement 334 Questions of Senator Gore and the answers. ..... .. .. 341 Nelson. Ted, Autodesk, Inc 398 Prepared statement 401 Wladawaky. Dr. Irving, DSD vice president, IBM Corp .. 362 Prepared statement 365 Questions of Senator Gore and the answers .... ...... .. .... 373 Wood,Richard T., senior vice president for busines development.s University Microfilms, Inc 387 Prepared statement. 389 393 Questions of Senator Gore and the answers ... Wyatt, Joe, chancellor, Vanderbilt University ... 25.4 ADDITIONAL ART1C',ES, LETTERS, AND STATEMENTS 414 Association of Amencan Publishers, statement. Kerry, Hon. Robert, US. Senator from Nebraska. statement 409 NATIONAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ACT OF 1989 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1989 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION, SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SPACE, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2 p.m., in room SR-253, Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. Albert Gore, Jr. (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Staff members assigned to these hearings: Mike Nelson, profes- sional staff member and Fiona Branton, minority staff counsel. OPENING STATEMENT BY SENATOR GORE Senator GORE. The Subcommittee will come to order. I want to apologize to our witnesses, our guests and my colleagues for being a few minutes late. I was held up unavoidably at the Capitol and I do apologize. But I have really been looking forward to this hearing and to other discussions later today and this evening. I am excited about the possibilities we will be discussing here and I look forward to the testimony 'very much. We are going to examine today the enormous benefits supercom- puting and computer networking can provide to American re- searchers, to American students, to American business, to the whole country. We will hear about how these new technologies can also greatly improve the U.S. competitiveness and about the Feder-