Alliance Visualization Development and Deployment Partners

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Alliance Visualization Development and
Deployment Partners
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One Killer Application for the Grid
-Collaborative Tele-Immersion
Different Physical Implementations of the
Alliance CAVE Software Libraries
Images courtesy EVL, UIUC and SGI
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Visual Immersive Environments - The University
of Illinois_at_Chicago CAVE
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Prototype Design for a 18 Projector Super
Console for Computational Science

• Each Screen 2x HDTV
• Lower Screens for Collaboration

ANL
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The InTENsity WallLaboratory for Computational
Science Engineering
LCSE, Univ. of Minnesota
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Linking Specialists in a Shared Data-Driven
Virtual Environment
Coupling Chesapeake Bay Simulations and Databases
Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy,
NCSAVirtual Director Team Glenn Wheless, Old
Dominion Univ.
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Coupling Distributed Teams with Computing,
Datasets, Remote Instruments
Cave Devices Linked by CAVERNsoft
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What is a Science Portal? A New Generation of
Alliance Workbenches

• Built on an evolving Alliance Common Portal
  Architecture
• Defined by Alliance Teams Using
• Emerging Web
• Distributed Object, Component Technologies
• Information Repositories Standards
• Collaborative Web Access to
• Remote Computational Resources
• Data Discovery and Analysis Tools
• Visualization and Virtual Environments
• Drawing on Emerging Commercial Technologies
• Personalization
• Integration of Services
• Security

Alliance Vision
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The Commercial Web is Creating Science Portals
Now
Example www.scicentral.com The Academia will
Add Computing, Visualization, Collaboration,
Data Tools
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User Portal
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Business Complexity - Data Mining, Risk
Management, and Decision Support
Allstate Identifying Health Insurance Cost Drivers