CAVEviewer

Participants will use CAVEviewer, a tool that simulates CAVE applications on SGI workstations, via NCSA Mosaic for development work at their home institutions. "Final adaptation to the actual CAVE environment will be conducted 'on-location' at the various CAVE sites," says Dana Plepys, EVL documentation project manager. The CAVEviewer will also be used as a presentation tool at VROOM. "Further exploration of VR projects will be made possible through multimedia presentations [that] incorporate the CAVEviewer for real-time interaction with CAVE applications at the desktop," Plepys says. VROOM documentation will be available following SIGGRAPH 94 via the Internet using NCSA Mosaic.

Part of Supercomputing '95 in San Diego, SuperVROOM will move to the next level, employing several gigabit network testbeds for interactive steering of simulations on near-teraflop machines.

"I would like to get as close to a peak teraflop as we can, the equivalent of 100,000 normal workstations," DeFanti says. "The basic idea is to extend VROOM... to groups across the country working on the same problem."

This building of collaborative teams will be the major contribution of these public displays, he stresses. Such teams are "necessary to integrate virtual environments into the computational science discovery process and to discover--literally--usable paradigms for virtual environments in the NII."

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