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The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is rapidly increasing its role as a major scientific facility. However, unlike many facilities that support a single scientific discipline, the station resources must accommodate a variety of disciplines from astrophysics to seismology. This report attempts to address specific growing scientific demands on the computing and communications infrastructure, discussing justifications and recommendations. The three main topics of this report - Communications, Networks, and Computers - all integrate together to form a necessary tool for the science effort. We may have to draw boundaries to help determine how to spend valuable resources on them, but these boundaries increasingly blur and disappear as the dependence of scientific research upon long distance networking grows. Since the previous report from this working group two years ago both improvements and losses in capability have occurred. Many of the recommendations from the previous report (see attachment) have neither been implemented nor discussed. A summary scorecard for computing and communications is as follows: Improvements in capability: Losses in capability:
Important recommendations of previous report that were not implemented:
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