The areas of emphasis are hardware integration and development, system software, investigation of different modes of interaction/navigation, and outreach. For a more complete list of such efforts, see CAVE research.
"It is now very much like the early days of visualization, where everything was custom," DeFanti says. "EVENT is unique in that it has application focus to both HPCC and NII. The awesome level of resources that we are throwing at it--BLANCA [the gigabit network testbed], high-speed supercomputers, and high-end Silicon Graphics workstations--also make EVENT unique."
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