What is this site?
John Reekie, 31 Aug 1999
Last updated: 10 Jul 2009

This site is the on-line home of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center. For information on the GSRC as a whole, see the About page.

This web site has two goals. First, to present information about the GSRC and its research goals and accomplishments to the larger research and industrial communities. Second, the site provides a means for establishing a community and network of researchers who share the common vision of the GSRC.

The section of the site you are looking at is focused on this latter goal. The GSRC counts amongst its investigators many of the leading researchers in the country. This team is geographically distributed, and the web-site provides a means of overcoming this barrier to effective collaboration.

The unit of collaboration on this web-site is called a "work-group", which is simplye a fairly loose term for a group of people that are working together on some shared problem. The website provides mechanisms for providing people with accounts, and membership in various work-groups.

Each workgroup also has real-estate on the site, as you can see by browsing some of the links on the workspaces page. The site provides a collection of off-the-shelf features that can be added to each workspace -- according to the type of interaction and collaboration taking place within that group. One of the people in each group is given full adminstrative privileges over that group, thus allowing effective units of collaboration and interaction to form without (as much as possible) the intervention of some centralized "webmaster."