Alliance '98 Research Demonstrations Technical Specifications March 24, 1998 f Alliance '98 Network and Demo Support Committee Name and Demo Assignments Bill Nickless nickless@mcs.anl.gov 1,18,35 Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu 2,10,13,17,22,23,24,25,41,42 Mark Gates mgates@ncsa.uiuc.edu 3,15,30,37 John Shalf jshalf@ncsa.uiuc.edu 4 Alan Verlo alan@eecs.uic.edu 5,16,20 Rachael Brady rbrady@ncsa.uiuc.edu 6,21,26,27, Jim Long jlong@ncsa.uiuc.edu 7,8,12,34,39 Yasmin Khan ykhan@ncsa.uiuc.edu 9,11,14,29,33,38 Mitch Kutzko mitch@ncsa.uiuc.edu 28,31,36 Jeff Terstriep jefft@ncsa.uiuc.edu 40 Bill Sherman wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu 19,32 Alliance '98 Research Demonstrations Maxine D. Brown University of Illinois at Chicago maxine@uic.edu Alliance '98, to be held at the University of Illinois Assembly Hall in Champaign, IL, April 27-30, 1998, marks the first consolidated gathering of all institutions and organizations served by or partnering with the National Center for Supercomputer Applications. For more details, see: http://alliance.ncsa.uiuc.edu/alliance98 Table of Contents A. Submissions 1 A.1. Argonne National Laboratory and Rice University 1 A.2. Caterpillar, NCSA, University of Houston, and University of Utah 2 A.3. Indiana University 3 A.4. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik and NCSA and Argonne National Laboratory 4 A.5. NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Illinois at Chicago 6 A.6. NCSA and ASCI Initiative 7 A.7. NCSA 8 A.8. NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and National Cancer Institute 10 A.9. NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Shodor Foundation, Maryland Virtual High School, and the Alabama Supercomputing Program to Inspire computation Research in Education (ASPIRE) 11 A.10. NCSA and Wright-Patterson AFB 12 A.11. NCSA 13 A.12. NCSA and National Radio Astronomy Observatory 14 A.13. NCSA 16 A.14. NCSA 17 A.15. NCSA and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 18 A.16. Old Dominion University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison 19 A.17. Old Dominion University, NCSA, and University of Wisconsin-Madison 20 A.18. Purdue University 21 A.19. University of Houston and NCSA 22 A.20. University of Illinois at Chicago, General Motors R&D Center, Electronic Data Systems, and Argonne National Laboratory 23 A.21. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (NCSA, Beckman, Computer Science), Argonne National Laboratory, University of California-San Francisco, University of Chicago 24 A.22. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NCSA 25 A.23. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 26 A.24. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 27 A.25. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 28 A.26. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (NCSA, Beckman, Mathematics, Education, Veterinary Medicine), University of Arizona, and CIC 29 A.27. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA, University of California- Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory 30 A.28. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 31 A.29. University of Kansas, NCSA, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 32 A.30. University of Minnesota 33 A.31. University of New Mexico 34 A.32. University of Utah and NCSA 36 A.33. University of Wisconsin-Madison, NCSA, and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration 37 A.34. Syracuse University 39 A.35. Syracuse University, Argonne National Laboratory, and NCSA 40 A.36. Argonne National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and NCSA 41 A.37. NCSA (Digital Libraries Group, Information Technologies Group, Molecular Biology Applications Group), University of Arizona, and University of Illinois at Chicago 42 A.38. NCSA, Integrated Technology Education Group, and North Central Regional Education Laboratory 43 A.39. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Beckman Institute and Computer Science) 44 A.40. NCSA and Sears Roebuck 45 A.41. Indiana University (Advanced Information Technology Laboratory and Molecular Structures Center) 46 A.42. Boston University 47 A.43. University of Michigan and NCSA 48 B. Technical Questions 49 B. A. Submissions A.1. Argonne National Laboratory and Rice University Title RADtool: A Tool for Remote Automatic Differentiation Contact person Paul Hovland Technical contact Bill Nickless nickless@mcs.anl.gov VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.2. Caterpillar, NCSA, University of Houston, and University of Utah Title Caterpillar's Distributed Virtual Reality System: Remote Collaboration in Vehicle Design Contact person Volodymyr V. Kindratenko kindr@ncsa.uiuc.edu Technical contact Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? Yes. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes Yes, one network connection will be sufficient. None. The application does not need point-to-point communication. The IP multicasting connectivity is required to: * Virtual Environment Technology Laboratory (VELT) * University of Houston VR lab * University of Utah Center for Parallel Computers (PDC) * Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Don't know, never tried. 12-16 fps. Don't know, never tried. Don't know, never tried. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Need an Indy/O2 SGI with video/audio board. IRIX 5.3-6.2 - doesn't matter.(vangogh) An HP. (vps.ncsa.uiuc.edu is exactly what we need, it has all the software installed on it) CAT simulator 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No 6. Number of telephone lines Yes. One. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Yes, we will need Sense8's WTK library and license codes for the IDesk machine. There are some difficulties involved in obtaining license codes. We are currently working on resolving it. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? No 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? Yes. We will need an ADD board. We will take it from one of NCSA's workstations (picasso). 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? Yes. No. The soundserver should be run on the IDesk's workstation. Yes. Our application needs amplification. That Indy SGI mentioned in #3, among other things will be used to run audio/video communication software. 11. Tracker daemon Yes, it uses the standard trackers. Scheduling constraints A.3. Indiana University Title The Linear System Analyzer: A Demonstration of a Grid-Based, Object Component Architecture Contact person Dennis Gannon Technical contact Mark Gates mgates@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. Yes. NCSA's Origin2000 or PowerChallenge and Indiana U (via vBNS or Internet). N/A. 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) N/A. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses No. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? Yes. NCSA Origin2000 or PowerChallenge. Indiana University Origin2000 or PowerChallenge (can use just the Indiana machines if need to.) Not for NCSA machines. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No. None. 11. Tracker daemon No. Scheduling constraints A.4. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik and NCSA and Argonne National Laboratory Title Black-Hole Interactions and Gravitational Waves Contact person Ed Seidel Technical contact John Shalf jshalf@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? Yes. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. We are using 100Mbits/sec from NCSA-to-STARTAP-to-CANAIREnet-to-Germany. Point-to-Point: NCSA-to-Garching Germany. No multicasting required. 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) The application does not stress the rendering system very much (it clamps itself at 15fps and gets that rendering rate just about everywhere). However, it does run its networking using a separate process, so there are: * 1 application process to do application processing * 1 drawing process for the idesk. * 1 network communications process When there is a lot of network communications happening, the networking process will interfere with the other two, so at least 4 CPUs are desired. I would prefer Irix 6.4 because it has more complete TCP socket options than 6.2. However, either will do. Re Octane, 10fps-However, it will choke when new data is coming in off the network (comm proccess takes up most of a CPU at high data rates). Re Onyx/R4400- 15fps. However, networking is much smoother. Re Onyx/R10K-15fps. Re Onyx2-Would prefer this. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Nope. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk Nope. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB Requires only 100Meg. 6. Number of telephone lines Need at least one telephone with international access. The simulation is running in Germany so we might need to coordinate with the system administrators for that machine via telephone. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Please stick with Performer 2.1 for now. No additional software needed. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? We have made arrangements to have a 700 node T3E in Garching Germany in dedicated mode for our demo. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? Nope. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? Nope. No audio. 11. Tracker daemon Standard? We do not use the tracker daemon. Trackd is EVIL! We use standard CAVElib tracking (where the CAVE app binds directly to the serial port to talk to the tracker). Will fail if trackd is present. Scheduling constraints A.5. NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Illinois at Chicago Title partnerBall a.k.a. Partner-Ball Contact person George Francis Technical contact Alan Verlo alan@eecs.uic.edu VR Application? Yes. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. Yes. N/A N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Best-currently being used as the DuoDesk development platform. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk N/A 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Either C/C++ (7.1 or 7.2). SGI GLUT library. no license is needed. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? No. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? Yes. DuoDesk devices, can provide. Lots of glue and paper clips. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? Yes. We'll use our own custom version of vss 3.0. No need to install it. No. No. N/A None. 11. Tracker daemon Uses standard tracker on SGI, but custom program on ImmersaDesks's PC which we'll provide. Scheduling constraints A.6. NCSA and ASCI Initiative Title Path-Integral Simulations of Atomic and Molecular Hydrogen Contact person Burkhard Militzer Technical contact Rachael Brady rbrady@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.7. NCSA Title Collaborative Technologies Testbed Contact person Larry Jackson jackson@ncsa.uiuc.edu Technical contact Jim Long jlong@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? No special requirements. No multicasting. 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) If an SGI drives demo-Low-end IR or RE2 is sufficient. If the JDK software from Sun does not get delivered, then the SGI portion of their demo will be dropped. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI They will need a Sun Ultra and up to two Intel NT systems with Open GL graphics. They will be able to provide the Sun Ultra system. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk They would also like the capability of displaying Power Point slides off of an NT server. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 500 MB is enough. 6. Number of telephone lines One is sufficient. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses They will provide special JDK software from Sun if possible. They will also provide software specific to their demo (Habanero . . .) 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? They will be connecting to an ImmersaDesk in Wisconsin over the network. They will make these arrangements. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? At this time it is not known whether or not a Sun Ultra can output to the ImmersaDesk display. We need to send someone over to take a look at the back of the Ultra. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? Not applicable. 11. Tracker daemon Not applicable. Miscellaneous This demo is non-VR and in fact they will not know if they will be able to demo on SGI equipment until early next month. They are waiting for a new Java Development Kit revision from Sun. (Same requirements as A.12.) NCSA's Habanero real-time Java object communication framework facilitates the construction of all-platform collaborative computational science tools for distributed teams. A number of Alliance groups are constructing testbeds and tools for their communities, including (1) Astronomy's collaborative VRML viewer (using Java-3D), (2) Hydrology's VisAD dataset visualizer/editor (Java-3D), (3) the Chemical Engineer's Workbench & Kansas Engineering and Science Interface, (4) the HDF dataset viewer, (5) Astronomy's ADIL dataset viewer, (6) Atmospheric Sciences' Weather Visualizer, and (6) developments by the Habanero staff, including the DARPA/ISAAC capture & replay facilities, a GSM Internet telephone, a collaborative web browser and collaborative Telnet, and an integration project with ET-C's VIRTUE. Their efforts will be presented in hands-on trial settings, using a variety of computer hardware. Developers will be on hand to discuss tool implementations and testbed trials of real-time collaboration technologies. Scheduling constraints Do not schedule concurrently with A.12. A.8. NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and National Cancer Institute Title Emerge Query Translator Gateway Contact person Joe Futrelle Technical contact Jim Long jlong@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? No special networking requirements are involved. 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Either a Windows 95 or Windows NT box with X client capability (Exceed) and/or JDK 1.1.5 and Swing 1.0.1. If an NT platform is used, a dual processor system would work better. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines None. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Either a Windows 95 or Windows NT box with X client capability (Exceed) and/or JDK 1.1.5 and Swing 1.0.1. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.9. NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Shodor Foundation, Maryland Virtual High School, and the Alabama Supercomputing Program to Inspire computation Research in Education (ASPIRE) Title ChemViz: Quantum Chemistry Visualization Tools Contact person Lisa Bievenue (217) 244-1993 Technical contact Yasmin Khan ykhan@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. Yes. N/A N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) No VR; display only. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI SGI (any kind) and/or they will provide their own PC laptop 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Netscape with Chime plugin (www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/) 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? Yes. PCA. LOKI is their server. All they need is Internet connectivity to it. They do not need dedicated processors. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No audio. 11. Tracker daemon N/A Scheduling constraints A.10. NCSA and Wright-Patterson AFB Title Multimodal Molecular Docking Contact person Polly Baker baker@ncsa.uiuc.edu Technical contact Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? Yes. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes Yes WrightPatterson ASC 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Not too good for the larger molecules. Okay. Good. - 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Yes. PC running Windows NT (and with a PHANToM communications card. We'll supply the PC and PHANToM card. <> 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses No other system or support software. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? Yes. A remote HPC machine, probably at Wright Patterson. All is arranged. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? Yes. We'll use the PHANToM, which we'll supply. Connects to a PC which connects to the ImmersaDesk over TCP/IP. We'll also use a speech interface, running on the same PC. We'll need a microphone. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No. No. No. None. 11. Tracker daemon Yes. Miscellaneous ImmersaDesk and Onyx PC for speech (95 or NT) PHANToM force-feedback device PC for PHANToM (Windows NT) We'll supply the PHANToM and PC's. We'll need some kind of table of cart that we can use for the PHANToM. Scheduling constraints A.11. NCSA Title Alliance Intranet Contact person Patricia J. Wenzel Technical contact Yasmin Khan ykhan@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? No VR; display only. Yes. Yes. N/A N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) N/A 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Yes. They will supply their own PC laptop. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Use Netscape Communicator only. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? No. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No audio. 11. Tracker daemon N/A Scheduling constraints A.12. NCSA and National Radio Astronomy Observatory Title Converging Horizons: Collaborative 2/3D Visualization Tools for Astronomy Contact person Raymond Plante Technical contact Jim Long jlong@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? No special requirements. No multicasting. 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) If an SGI drives demo-Low-end IR or RE2 is sufficient. If the JDK software from Sun does not get delivered, then the SGI portion of their demo will be dropped. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI They will need a Sun Ultra and up to two Intel NT systems with Open GL graphics. They will be able to provide the Sun Ultra system. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk They would also like the capability of displaying Power Point slides off of an NT server. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 500 MB is enough. 6. Number of telephone lines One is sufficient. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses They will provide special JDK software from Sun if possible. They will also provide software specific to their demo (Habanero . . .) 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? They will be connecting to an ImmersaDesk in Wisconsin over the network. They will make these arrangements. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? At this time it is not known whether or not a Sun Ultra can output to the ImmersaDesk display. We need to send someone over to take a look at the back of the Ultra. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? Not applicable. 11. Tracker daemon Not applicable. Miscellaneous This demo is non-VR and in fact they will not know if they will be able to demo on SGI equipment until early next month. They are waiting for a new Java Development Kit revision from Sun. (Same requirements as A.7.) NCSA's Habanero real-time Java object communication framework facilitates the construction of all-platform collaborative computational science tools for distributed teams. A number of Alliance groups are constructing testbeds and tools for their communities, including (1) Astronomy's collaborative VRML viewer (using Java-3D), (2) Hydrology's VisAD dataset visualizer/editor (Java-3D), (3) the Chemical Engineer's Workbench & Kansas Engineering and Science Interface, (4) the HDF dataset viewer, (5) Astronomy's ADIL dataset viewer, (6) Atmospheric Sciences' Weather Visualizer, and (6) developments by the Habanero staff, including the DARPA/ISAAC capture & replay facilities, a GSM Internet telephone, a collaborative web browser and collaborative Telnet, and an integration project with ET-C's VIRTUE. Their efforts will be presented in hands-on trial settings, using a variety of computer hardware. Developers will be on hand to discuss tool implementations and testbed trials of real-time collaboration technologies. Scheduling constraints Do not schedule concurrently with A.7. A.13. NCSA Title Prototype Distributed Learning Environment: Emerging Technologies for Science, Education, and Business Contact person Alaina Kanfer alaina@ncsa.uiuc.edu Technical contact Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. We do not need an ImmersaDesk. One is sufficient. Not needed I don't think so. <> 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) N/A - - - - 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No. We need just a PC running Netscape with the real audio, and cosmo player. Good speakers would be good, and if there is a way to project the monitor, that would be good too. Not sure if we can supply a machine. Will have to check around. 75% sure we can. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk - 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses No. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? No. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? N/A 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No. Yes. It would be helpful to have amplification. Not sure. <> 11. Tracker daemon No. Scheduling constraints A.14. NCSA Title NCSA Remote Job Monitor Interface Contact person Sudhakar Pamidighantam and Balaji Veeraraghavan Technical contact Yasmin Khan ykhan@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. Yes. N/A N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) N/A 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Java Development environment (SGI's JDK) is sufficient. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? Yes. PCA. Do not need dedicated processors. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? N/A 11. Tracker daemon N/A Scheduling constraints A.15. NCSA and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title The Biology Education Workbench Contact person Umesh Thakkar Technical contact Mark Gates mgates@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes Yes bioweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) N/A 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses No. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? bioweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu Yes. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? None. (Might change, but will contact if changes) 11. Tracker daemon No. Scheduling constraints A.16. Old Dominion University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title Cave5D-A Tool for Collaborative Immersive Visualization of Environmental Data: A CAVERNsoft Application Contact person Glen Wheless Technical contact Alan Verlo alan@eecs.uic.edu VR Application? Yes. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes Yes Point-to-Point: To a second desk on Assembly Hall show floor and to Old Dominion University for a three-way demo. This application does not require multicast. All connections will happen through multiple IP unicast sessions with no multicast router enabling necessary. 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Good-OK for one ImmersaDesk on show floor. Good Better Better-OK for second ImmersaDesk on show floor. Note: need Irix 6.4 machines for CAVERN. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk N/A 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No 6. Number of telephone lines Yes. *Two* phone lines will be needed at *each* ImmersaDesk on show floor. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Either C/C++ (7.1 or 7.2). No additional software. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? No 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No. No Yes-a three-way phone link. N/A None. 11. Tracker daemon Yes. Scheduling constraints They want to demo between *two* desks on the show floor and to a third site, Old Dominion Univ, for a three-way demo. A.17. Old Dominion University, NCSA, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Title Cave5D and Virtual Director: Collaborative Visualization and Management of Large Multi-Variate Environmental Datasets Contact person Glen Wheless wheless@ccpo.odu.edu Technical contact Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? Yes. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes Yes ODU This application does not require multicast. All connections will happen through multiple IP unicast sessions with no multicast router enabling necessary. 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Good Good Better Better 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk N/A 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No 6. Number of telephone lines Yes. One. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses N/A 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? No 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? Not yet No Yes N/A 11. Tracker daemon Yes Scheduling constraints A.18. Purdue University Title Applications of the Bond Metacomputing Environment for Crystallographic Data Processing Contact person Dan Cristian Marinescu K.C. Van Zandt kvz@cs.purdue.edu Technical contact Bill Nickless nickless@mcs.anl.gov VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.19. University of Houston and NCSA Title Science Education with ScienceSpace Contact person Bowen Loftin Technical contact Bill Sherman wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.20. University of Illinois at Chicago, General Motors R&D Center, Electronic Data Systems, and Argonne National Laboratory Title Tele-Immersive Design Review with General Motors: A CAVERNsoft application Contact person Jason Leigh Technical contact Alan Verlo alan@eecs.uic.edu VR Application? Yes. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. Yes. Point-to-Point: To a second desk on Assembly Hall show floor and to General Motors (over Internet) for a three-way demo. Multicast: N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Octane-OK for one ImmersaDesk on show floor. Onyx2-OK for second ImmersaDesk on show floor. Note: need Irix 6.4 machines for CAVERN. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk N/A 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines Yes. *Two* phone lines will be needed at *each* ImmersaDesk on show floor. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Either C/C++ (7.1 or 7.2). No additional software. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? No 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No. No Yes-a three-way phone link. N/A None. 11. Tracker daemon Yes. Scheduling constraints They want to demo between *two* desks on the show floor and to a third site, General Motors, for a three-way demo. A.21. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (NCSA, Beckman, Computer Science), Argonne National Laboratory, University of California-San Francisco, University of Chicago Title The Catalase Project: Quality of Service Management Techniques in a Distributed Computing Environment for Automated Electron Microscopy Contact person Clint Potter Technical contact Rachael Brady rbrady@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.22. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NCSA Title Speech and Gesture Based Interface to Virtual Environments Contact person Thomas S. Huang huang@ifp.uiuc.edu Polly Baker baker@ncsa.uiuc.edu Technical contact Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? Yes. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. Yes. No. N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Octane would limit us to low-resolution terrain. Onyx-okay. Onyx-good. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI We need 2 O2's with video boards (that we can supply) to do the image processing. Also a PC running Windows NT and IBM ViaVoice. We can supply this. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses No other system or support software. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? We'll need 2 video cameras, connected to the ImmersaDesk with 2 coax cables (~15-20ft). And we'll use a speech interface, running on a PC, for which we'll need a microphone. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No. No. No. None. 11. Tracker daemon Yes. Miscellaneous ImmersaDesk and Onyx Camera mounted on ImmersaDesk Light mounted on ImmersaDesk (maybe) O2 with video boards PC for speech We'll supply the camera, light, O2 and video board, and PC. Scheduling constraints A.23. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title Parallel Application Performance Analysis and Optimization Contact person Daniel A. Reed Eric Shaffer shaffer1@cs.uiuc.edu Technical contact Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? One connection should be sufficient 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Not a VR application. Sufficient. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Nothing additional needed 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk Nothing additional 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB Possibly will require more disk space as we have large trace files. It depends on what the demo "slots" will be. If we use our own system we will take care of the disk requirement. 6. Number of telephone lines No phone required. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses HPF compiler if we do this in real-time. Else, we can pre-run the apps and just show the results of the run. We have HPF on our Octane, which we can supply. It is also on Origin where apps are typically run 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? We may want to run on the Origin at NCSA while doing the demo. We have not discussed this in detail and I won't know for sure until week after next. We have not made these arrangements and if the system is not available we should be able to demo w/o it. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No. 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.24. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title Collaborative Virtual Environments Contact person Daniel A. Reed Eric Shaffer shaffer1@cs.uiuc.edu Technical contact Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? Yes. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? We will need more than one connection-one for the Octane, and one for 3 PCs participating in the collaborative environment. This does use multicast, although we could run with all of these on an isolated net for this demo-they don't have to be on the main net. << Eric and Dan - I'm thinking Octane, PC for tracker, PC for Orbit, PC for Habanero, PC for voice server-does that seem reasonable? >> 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) This is an ImmersaDesk application but I don't know the frame rate. Our Octane with 2 CPUs will be sufficient. <> 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Need PC for tracker, PC for voice server and also 2 PCs for collaborative environment. We can supply these. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk None. Uses ImmersaDesk capability 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB Possibly will require more disk space as we have large trace files. It depends on what the demo "slots" will be. If we use our own system we will take care of the disk requirement. 6. Number of telephone lines No phone required. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses We will supply what s/w we need here. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? No. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? We need a PC acting as a voice server and the other systems listed earlier. We can bring those and the microphone, etc. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? We have all the audio things we need on our hardware. 11. Tracker daemon Yes. <> Scheduling constraints A.25. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title I/O Characterization and Optimization Contact person Daniel A. Reed Eric Shaffer shaffer1@cs.uiuc.edu Technical contact Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? One connection should be sufficient. << Luiz and Ying-We need to verify that svPablo interface works well on the SGI platform >> 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Not a VR application. Sufficient. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Nothing additional needed 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No. May use ImmersaDesk capability. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB Possibly will require more disk space as we have large trace files. It depends on what the demo "slots" will be. If we use our own system we will take care of the disk requirement. 6. Number of telephone lines No phone required. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses HDF with Pablo extensions if we do this in real-time. More likely we will run the apps ahead of time and only show perf results here. We can supply this. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? We may want to run on the Origin at NCSA while doing the demo. We have not discussed this in detail and I won't know for sure until week after next. We have not made these arrangments and if the system is not available we should be able to demo w/o it. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Yes. <> Scheduling constraints A.26. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (NCSA, Beckman, Mathematics, Education, Veterinary Medicine), University of Arizona, and CIC Title Chickscope and IPT: Remote Scientific Instrumentation and Image Processing for the K-12 Classroom Contact person Clint Potter Technical contact Rachael Brady rbrady@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.27. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA, University of California- Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory Title Demonstration of Tele-Immersion Applications for Biological Imaging Contact person Clint Potter Technical contact Rachael Brady rbrady@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints 3:30-6:30 on Tuesday 4/28. Have classrooms committed to participate. A.28. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title High Performance Virtual Machines: Supercomputing on Windows NT Clusters Contact person Andrew Chien Qian Liu Technical contact Mitch Kutzko mitch@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Intel-based PC (Windows NT required, "Server" OS preferred) Cannot supply. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines Yes, for diagnostic communication with the lab at DCL in the event of difficulties. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses IE4.0 for (or?) Netscape 4.04 with Java 1.1.5 patch installed. PowerPoint PCAnywhere Microsoft C++ or Visual C++ 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.29. University of Kansas, NCSA, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title Distributed Collaboration for Engineering and Scientific Applications Implemented in Habanero, a Java-Based Environment Contact person Ken Bishop Technical contact Yasmin Khan ykhan@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. Requesting 3. "A passive split of the 100baseT drop would work." (I take this to mean that they aren't going to need the bandwidth of three 100baseT connections; they can just split off one.) Point-to-Point: To University of Kansas. Multicast: N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) N/A 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Yes. PC running NT. Can supply if needed. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines One phone line with teleconferencing capability. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Habanero 2.0, Most current JDK (1.1.X) 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? Yes. NCSA Web servers and supercomputers. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No. No. No. Yes-Amplification. PC audio, so speakers are necessary. 11. Tracker daemon N/A Scheduling constraints A.30. University of Minnesota Title Distributed PPM hydrodynamics calculation and visualization on The Grid Contact person Steve Anderson Technical contact Mark Gates mgates@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 100 Mbps is sufficient. NOTE: For moving data from the Origin2000 to Minn over the vBNS, Steve found that setting up a static route over the HIPPI interface doubled (from 5 to 10 Mbytes/sec) his transfer rates over the default fast ethernet route. He is planning on using the Origin at NCSA to do computations, then transfer each frame's data to Minnesota for rendering, then move frames back to the demo floor. Each frame's data takes 3-4 minutes to move to Minnesota, and 3-10 seconds to render on an IR. Would it be better to move data to a local machine and render on an IR here? One network connection is sufficient. Point-to-point connectivity among: NCSA (Origin2000), U. Minnesota (for rendering); might have stuff at Los Alamos, but unknown Multicast: N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Octane would be pushing it Onyx would be better Rendering elsewhere, just need to display graphics (see #1 for explanation). 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 10-20 gigabytes for caching images. Could supply own disk array if necessary. 6. Number of telephone lines No 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Their own development libraries of Nexus/Globus. Yes. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? NCSA Origin2000 (256 CPUs) Origin2000 (256 CPUs) from "The Grid" Have not made arrangements. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? None. 11. Tracker daemon No Scheduling constraints A.31. University of New Mexico Title Computational Mechanics Toolkit (CoMeT): A Framework for Computational Mechanics Analysis Management Contact person Malcolm J. Panthaki panthaki@cometsolutions.com, panthaki@arc.unm.edu (505-277-8331) Raikanta Sahu rsahu@unm.edu Technical contact Mitch Kutzko mitch@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. Yes. Not applicable. Not applicable. 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Not applicable. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No other OS required. We need to run our application on an R10000 SGI running IRIX 6.4. A dual (or higher) CPU machine is preferred. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk Not applicable. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 500 MB will be adequate. 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses RCS Available in the public domain; you will need to provide it. CVS Available in the public domain; we will install it. GNU Tools Available in the public domain; we will install the ones we need (GNU ar and GNU make). tcsh Shell Available in the public domain; it would be best if you provided this. nedit (Editor) Usually comes with IRIX 6.4. xvile (Editor) We will install this. ACIS We will need to install it there; we have a license; we will need a CD-ROM drive for the installation. OpenInventor From Template Graphics Software. We need the hostid of the machine we will be installing it on so we can get a license for it. Type in "hostid" and the returned number is what I need. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? None required. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? None required. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? Not applicable. 11. Tracker daemon Not applicable. General notes 1. Probably unlike all the other demos, ours is *NOT* going to be VR or graphics rich. Yes, this makes me nervous, but what we're peddling is a software framework for computational mechanics. At present, the software is not feature-rich. 2. We have a development environment that is a vital part of the framework-we believe that a framework without a development environment is like a snazzy car without an engine :-) Hence, we need a compile/link set of tools. It might be useful for us to demonstrate the development environment as well as the software itself. 3. We need access to the Internet to show our online documentation environment. 4. Usually, IRIX 6.4 comes with the editor, nedit. Please make sure this is available on the machine we're assigned to. We will install the other editor that we require, xvile. 5. We need to run under the tcsh Shell which is critical for our environment. 6. We'd like to be able to access the demo machine online during the week before the meeting. We will not need to be onsite to test it out as we can install and test everything remotely. I hope this does not pose a problem. 7. Given the nature of the software, it is important that we be able to give a "presentation" before the actual software demo. This will be in the form of "overhead slides" that we have HTML versions of. I presume that we can run Netscape on the SGI and display the image on the ImmersaDesk. Am I presuming correctly that this is a huge stereoscopic display? 8. We would much prefer 2 1.5 hour slots to a single 3-hour slot. Please convey this to Maxine. Her last message indicated that this had not been decided yet. 9. How "close" (physical proximity-wise) is the Poster Session to the demo rooms? Again, given what we're trying to demonstrate, having a Poster close by would be very useful to us. Is there any chance that we would be allowed to move our "portable" poster close to the SGI during our demonstration time? We will also be handing out literature, but having the poster near by will be very useful for us. Miscellaneous Since Malcolm needs to install a fair amount of special software, both he and Jeff think it's in everyone's best interests for Malcolm to get on the machine as soon as possible, so that he has time to get things set up properly. Jeff is thinking along the same lines as Malcolm in suggesting that a week early is probably about right, but more would be better if it's possible. Scheduling constraints Malcolm wants two 1-1/2 hour sessions instead of a single 3-hour session. A.32. University of Utah and NCSA Title Scientific Computing and Visualization with SCIRun Contact person Chris Johnson Technical contact Bill Sherman wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.33. University of Wisconsin-Madison, NCSA, and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Title Collaborative Visual Experiments with GOES Satellite Sounding Algorithms Using VisAD and Habanero Contact person Bill Hibbard whibbard@macc.wisc.edu Stephen Pietrowicz srp@ncsa.uiuc.edu Technical contact Yasmin Khan ykhan@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? Possible, yet to be determined 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. Yes. The IDesk at Wisconsin's Computer Aided Engineering Lab. Does not require multicast. 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Our scenes do not include very many polygons and vectors (a few thousand), so frame rates should be good. Because we use Java 3D our only experience is with Sun Creator3D graphics hardware. FRAME RATE UNKNOWN. THEY HAVE NOT PORTED THEIR APPLICATION TO SGI. IF THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS BY A98, THEY WILL DO A COLLABORATIVE, IMMERSIVE DEMO WITH THE UNIV. OF WISC. IF IT DOESN'T PORT TO SGI, THEY WILL DO A COLLABORATIVE, NON-IMMERSIVE DEMO WITH UNIV OF WISC, USING THEY I-DESK TO DISPLAY ONLY. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI With or without a Java 3D port to the ImmersaDesk, we can run our collaboration to Sun Ultra and Windows NT workstations (with the proper 3D graphics hardware). SGI (yet to be determined); Sun Ultra (they will provide); NT box (they will provide). If you are able to come up with some NT workstations, the proper 3D graphics hardware is a card that is fully OpenGL compliant. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk Sun Ultra and possible Windows NT workstation. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines Yes (to coordinate with the ImmersaDesk at Wisconsin). 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses jdk1.2beta3 and java3d1.2alpha01, plus whatever changes Steve makes porting them to the ImmersaDesk. Will supply all software. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? The ImmersaDesk in Wisconsin, and we are arranging it. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No audio. 11. Tracker daemon If we get the port done in time, it uses it's own internal tracking daemon. Miscellaneous NOTE: We are a bit of a special case, since our demo uses Java 3D for graphics, and Java 3D is not yet ported to the ImmersaDesk or CAVE. Stephen Pietrowicz of NCSA is one of our collaborators and will do the port, but he is waiting for Sun before he can get started. Time is getting very tight. If we do not have a port of Java 3D to the ImmersaDesk in time, we will have to either give our demos on ordinary workstations or not give them at all. Notes from conversation between Yaz and Bill Hibbard: Depending on software from Sun and feasibility, here are our demo options: 1. Java 3D working with IDesk, with NCSA and UW IDesks talking. 2. Java 3D working with IDesk, NCSA IDesk collaborating with software running on ordinary workstation (Sun). 3. Java 3D not working with IDesk, two workstations collaborating (Sun or NT), one using IDesk as a big screen display (assuming Sun video can drive IDesk projector). 4. Java 3D not working with IDesk, two workstations collaborating. Even option 4 is worth demo'ing to show off collaboration. Yasmin will ask technical people if Sun video can drive IDesk projector. Scheduling constraints A.34. Syracuse University Title Use of Tango in Education Contact person Geoffrey Fox Technical contact Jim Long jlong@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI PC based. They will also be giving a tutorial and would like to use the same equipment for both the tutorial and the demo. No other special requirements. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints Also giving tutorial. A.35. Syracuse University, Argonne National Laboratory, and NCSA Title Quantum Simulations using WebFlow-a High Level Visual Interface for Globus Contact person Tomasz Haupt Technical contact Bill Nickless nickless@mcs.anl.gov VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.36. Argonne National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and NCSA Title UNKNOWN Contact person Ian Foster Technical contact Mitch Kutzko mitch@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.37. NCSA (Digital Libraries Group, Information Technologies Group, Molecular Biology Applications Group), University of Arizona, and University of Illinois at Chicago Title Building a Medical Interspace Testbed (MEDSPACE): Automatic Semantic Indexing for an Entire Discipline Contact person Bruce Schatz Technical contact Mark Gates mgates@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes No, they have multiple machines which will each need a network hookup: SGI O200, Sun UltraSparc, WinNT PC, ImmersaDesk display. Point-to-point: N/A Multicast: N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) The demo runs on an O200, so any of these are fine 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Yes. Will supply their own instances of these machines: WindowsNT PC Sun UltraSparc SGI O200 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses No. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? Could use the Origin2000 for dynamic semantic indexing. They have access and will make necesary arrangements if needed. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No. None. 11. Tracker daemon No. Scheduling constraints A.38. NCSA, Integrated Technology Education Group, and North Central Regional Education Laboratory Title A Systems Approach to Building the 21st Century School Contact person Raul Zaritsky 217 244 0597 Technical contact Yasmin Khan ykhan@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? Yes. Yes. N/A N/A 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) N/A 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI Need a PC (any OS). 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk No. 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB No. 6. Number of telephone lines No. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses Netscape Communicator. Microsoft Excel on the PC. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? No. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? No audio. 11. Tracker daemon N/A Scheduling constraints A.39. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Beckman Institute and Computer Science) Title Biological Collaborative Research Environment: A New Tool for Structural Biology Contact person Klaus Schulten Technical contact Jim Long jlong@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? No. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI <> They need access to an Origin 2000 system. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.40. NCSA and Sears Roebuck Title Sears Point of Sales Fraud and Training (POSFAT) Project: Status, Results, and Highlights Contact person Steve Quinn Technical contact Jeff Terstriep jefft@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.41. Indiana University (Advanced Information Technology Laboratory and Molecular Structures Center) Title The Reciprocal Net: Collaborative Crystallography Database and Scalable Visualization Tools Contact person Rick McMullen mcmullen@indiana.edu Technical contact Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints A.42. Boston University Title ArtWorld: Alliance Outreach to the Art Community Contact person Glenn Bresnahan glenn@bu.edu Technical contact Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu VR Application? Yes. 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 100Mb/s sufficient. We will need at least two network connections and possibly three. In addition to the machine driving the ImmersaDesk, we need one machine as a sound server and possibly another for telephony. We will need to connect to BU and NCSA. All connections are point-to-point. <> 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Since we don't have most of the machines listed, it is hard to say. We are barely getting acceptable frame rates (10-15 fps) on our 2 processor, R8000-based Onyx with an RE-2. We can effectively use 4-6 processors, so our machine of choice from the list avove is the 4 R10K processor Onyx/IR. 256MB of memory is awfully slim for us. We would certainly prefer 1GB. 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI No. 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk As mentioned above we need 1 or 2 additional workstations, an Indy to run the sound-server and possibly one other SGI workstation (either an O2 or Indy). 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB Our current estimate is 1GB. 6. Number of telephone lines One telephone line would be exceedingly useful. 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses We would like the option of running the back-compatible tracker (track_bc). We are currently running pfCAVE Libs v2.5.6. We are hoping to move to 2.6 before the demonstration. 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? We will be using O2000 servers at BU and/or NCSA. I have an account at NCSA which I have been using for testing and can use for the demos, assuming the standard NCSA machines (Modi4, in particular) will be available to us during the demos. 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? No. 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? Need dedicated Indy. We will do this either on the Indy sound server or on a separate workstation in the room. The audio out needs to feed into our audio gear. We need some specialized sound equipment which we will supply. This will include 4-8 speakers on stands, MIDI synthesizer, MIDI mixer, etc. We will need some time to get this all set-up. We need the audio and MIDI outputs on the Indy to connect to our audio gear. 11. Tracker daemon We would like the option of using track_bc. Scheduling constraints A.43. University of Michigan and NCSA Title The Upper Atmosphere Research Collaboratory: A Globally Distributed Real-Time Data Campaign in a Collaborative Environment Contact person Joseph Hardin Technical contact VR Application? 1. Networking requirements Is 100 Mb/s sufficient? 1 network connection sufficient? Point-to-point? Where? Multicast? Where? 2. VR ImmersaDesk SGI machine and frame rate Octane (6.4, R10K, MXi, 256MB) Onyx (6.2, R4400, 256MB, RE2, RM5) Onyx (6.2, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) Onyx2 (6.4, R10K, 256MB, IR, RM64) 3. Machine/OS requirements other than SGI 4. Display requirements other than ImmersaDesk 5. Local disk space requirements >500MB 6. Number of telephone lines 7. Additional software requirements; can you provide with suitable licenses 8. Auxiliary computing resources required no on show floor What resources? Have you made arrangements? 9. Additional input/output devices What are they? Can you provide? How do they connect to IDesk? 10. Audio requirements Use vss? Use dedicated Indy? Need audio connection for IDesk-to-IDesk? Amplification for non-VR demo? Other audio needs? 11. Tracker daemon Scheduling constraints B. Technical Questions 1. Each ImmersaDesk will have at least 100 Mb/s individually switched IP connectivity to NCSA's core network, and from there to the vBNS and the outside world. Multicast will also be provided to other vBNS sites. * Is this sufficient for your application's networking needs? If not, please explain. * Will one network connection be sufficient? If not, how many will be needed? * If your application will do point-to-point communication, what other sites will you need connectivity to? * If your application requires multicast, what other sites will you need connectivity to? 2. If your application is an ImmersaDesk application, what will the frame rate be on the following hardware: * Octane-Irix 6.4, dual R10K cpus, MXi graphics, 256 MB RAM * Onyx-Irix 6.2, four R4400 CPUs, 256 MB RAM, RE2 graphics (with two RM5s of texture memory) * Onyx-Irix 6.2, four R10K cpus, 256 MB RAM, IR graphics (DG4-2 with two RM64s of texture memory) * Onyx2-Irix 6.4, two R10K cpus, 256 MB RAM, IR graphics (DG4-2 with two RM64s of texture memory) 3. Beyond a standard SGI (as listed above) running an ImmersaDesk, does your application require any other type of machine/OS. such as a SUN, PC, or Macintosh? If so, what machine/OS is needed? Can you supply it if needed? 4. An ImmersaDesk will be available as a large-format, passive display device capable of displaying output from both SGIs and PCs. If applicable, does your application require any other type of display device? If so, please describe. 5. Does your application require more than 500 MB of local disk space? If so, how much local disk space does it need? 6. Does your application require a telephone on the demo show floor? Will it require more than one telephone line? If so, how many? 7. Each ImmersaDesk machine will have the following software installed: C/C++ (7.1 or 7.2) F77/90 (7.1 or 7.2) CAVE, pfCAVE Libs (2.6) CAVERN MPI NEXUS/GLOBUS NCSA vss and sound lib CaseVision CosmoPlayer (1.0.2) CosmoWorlds Java Development environment (SGI's JDK) Inventor Performer (2.1 or 2.2) GNU tools (gmake, gzip, emacs/xemacs) Habanero Multicast tools (sdr, vic, vat) Netscape Communicator * Does your application require any additional software? If so, please list. * Can you provide it along with suitable licenses, if needed? 8. Beyond a standard SGI (as listed above) running an ImmersaDesk, does your application require any auxiliary computing resources *not* on the show floor (eg. remote servers or supercomputers)? * If so, what resources do you need? * Have you made the necessary arrangements for them? 9. Beyond a standard ImmersaDesk configuration, does your application require any additional input/output devices? * If so, what are they? * Can you provide them? * What is needed to connect them to an ImmersaDesk? 10. Does your application use the NCSA 'vss' sound server? * Does your application require the use of a dedicated Indy as a sound server? * Does your application do ImmersaDesk-to-ImmersaDesk communication and require a corresponding audio connection? * If your application is a non-VR presentation, does it need amplification? * What other audio requirements do you have? 11. Does your application use the standard ImmersaDesk VR tracker daemon? If not, which tracker daemon does it use? Alliance '98 Research Demonstrations Technical Specifications-March 24, 1998 Alliance '98 Research Demonstrations Technical Specifications-March 24, 1998 49