World wide web based technology transfer testbed

We present here a distributed computational environment based on the world wide web designed to effect technology transfer between university and industry. The prototype is based on the integration of computational modules, scientific visualization tools, and a friendly WWW based user-interface. This prototype allows users with simple personal computer based web browsers (e.g. Mosaic browser) to gain access to research information and computational modules located on high-end computational platforms. This WWW based integration scheme opens new horizons for cooperation among researchers, engineers, scientists, students, and businesses.