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iGRID Features International Networking Demos at INET 2000 Conference

released June 13, 2000

iGRID 2000, a series of special demonstrations planned for this summer's INET 2000 conference, will highlight how scientific collaborators are finding collaborative solutions to complex problems by accessing distributed computers, remote storage, and visualization/virtual-reality display devices through international networks. iGrid 2000 will include 23 application demonstrations requiring high-speed networks and will emphasize distributed computing, tele-immersion, large datasets, remote instrumentation, collaboration, cultural heritage, digital video, streaming media, and high-definition television.

The demonstrations will take place in the iGrid booth, which is jointly sponsored by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology at Indiana University, University of Tokyo, and Keio University. Global connectivity will be provided to collaborators from Canada, Germany, Greece, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the United States, and CERN in Switzerland. Networks that will be used include the Japanese Gigabit Network, the APAN network and the APAN/TransPAC link to the Science, Technology and Research Access Point (STAR TAP). STAR TAP is the National Science Foundation-sponsored international interconnection point managed by EVL and operated by Ameritech Advanced Data Services in Chicago.

INET 2000 will be held July 18-21 in Yokohama, Japan. For more information see http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/.

 

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