The Center for Advanced Scientific Computing is envisioned
as a group of computer scientists and natural scientists working
together on projects of mutual interest. The Center's resources
would be primarily comprised of people whose computer
expertise would be widely useful within the science community
at Harvard. CASC would have a core group of full time Ph.D.-level
or equivalent computer-oriented scientists, whose mission would
be to collaborate with faculty and staff on scientific projects
that include major computing challenges. Projects might relate
to: the storage, searching and processing of massive databases;
networking issues; high-speed computing; and data visualization.
In addition, CASC would purchase and maintain high-end computer
hardware and software, to be used in the collaborative projects
discussed above. High-speed connections to the Internet backbone
would also flow "through" CASC.