1. National Computational Science Alliance Tele-Immersion - The Killer Application for High Performance Networks Panel Talk at a Vanguard Meeting in San Francisco, CA July 27, 1998

2. National Computational Science Alliance The Emerging Concept of a National Scale Information Power Grid http://science.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Tools/IPG

3. National Computational Science Alliance The Grid Links People with Distributed Resources on a National Scale http://science.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Tools/IPG

4. National Computational Science Alliance NCSA is the Leading Edge Site for the National Computational Science Alliance www.ncsa.uiuc.edu Alliance National Technology Grid

5. National Computational Science Alliance NSF vBNS and PACI - Mutually Interdependent NPACI NCSA Alliance Both NCSA Alliance and NPACI Other High Performance Connection sites Current vBNS “Backbone” sites

6. National Computational Science Alliance FY99 Qwest Nationwide Network - Backbone for Internet2 Abilene - More Links Source: Randy Butler, NCSA http://www.qwest.net/network/Mainmaps.html Qwest Partnering with Cisco and Nortel

7. National Computational Science Alliance Alliance National Technology Grid Workshop and Training Facilities Being Deployed Across the Alliance Jason Leigh and Tom DeFanti, EVL; Rick Stevens, ANL

8. National Computational Science Alliance 7000 square feet in the Wash D.C. metropolitan area - Construction completed Sept ‘98  Remote and local access to Alliance technologies, leaders, researchers, and partners  Collaborative Demonstrations, Training, Digital Video Teleconferencing, and Visitors  ImmersaDesk, Power Wall, projected advanced high bandwidth applications Part of the network of Alliance Distributed Computational Centers throughout the Nation New Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science, and Software (ACCESS) Alliance map by Robert Patterson, NCSA

9. National Computational Science Alliance The Killer Application for the Grid - Collaborative Tele-Immersion CAVE ImmersaDesk Image courtesy: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIUC Different Physical Implementations of the Alliance CAVE Software Libraries

10. National Computational Science Alliance Using Intranet Technologies to Form Alliance Electronic Communities www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/cavernus/ CAVE and ImmersaDesk Systems Hypernews Forums User Lists Application Galleries Shared Programs

11. National Computational Science Alliance Global Collaboration and Tele-Immersion Enabled by EVL CAVERNsoft Supercomputing ’97 NICE Persistent Simulation Avatars Doing Hokey Pokey 17 sites Source: Jason Leigh, Andy Johnson, EVL, Tom Coffin, NCSA

12. National Computational Science Alliance Collaborative Virtual Environment - Chesapeake Bay Modeling as Testbed ImmersaDesks vBNS DREN SGI Onyx (NCSA) Integrated M-Bone Videoteleconferencing John Shalf,Polly Baker NCSA; Mike Stephens and Carl Cerco, CEWES SGI Onyx (Old Dominion) SGI Onyx (U. Wisc) Coupling Chesapeake Bay Simulations and Databases 1996-7 SGI Onyx (CEWES) Vicksburg, MS

13. National Computational Science Alliance Using NCSA’s Virtual Director in CAVE5D to Create a Digital Video Output Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team

14. National Computational Science Alliance Avatars Show Head & Hand Pointing in Shared Virtual Space Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team

15. National Computational Science Alliance Goal-Create Shared Virtual Environment CVD -- Collaborative Virtual Director ImmersaDesk CAVEPower WallDesktop Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team Glenn Wheless, Old Dominion Univ.

16. National Computational Science Alliance Java 3D API HPC Application: VisAD Environ. Hydrology Team, (Bill Hibbard, Wisconsin) Steve Pietrowicz, NCSA Java Team Standalone or CAVE-to-Laptop-Collaborative Goal-Linking the CAVE to the Desktop: Collaborative Java3D NASA IPG is Adding Funding To Collaborative Java3D

17. National Computational Science Alliance A Working Model-Caterpillar’s Collaborative Virtual Prototyping Environment Data courtesy of Valerie Lehner, NCSA Real Time Linked VR and Audio-Video Between NCSA and Germany Using SGI Indy/Onyx and HP Workstations

18. National Computational Science Alliance Goal - Creating a Shared Virtual Global Enterprise Customer Manufacturing Facility Supplier Designer ATM/IP Network