SuperComputing 97 - San Jose, California

Observations
People Shots
CAVERNUS Birds of a Feather
Multi Way Collab

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Observations:

The Pdesk was fully functional. Some people opted out of their demo on wed's opening and they asked me to show GRID which was nice. There were 1 pdesk and 8 idesks on the floor
    pdesks:
      1 ncsa

    idesks:
      2 anl
      1 dod
      1 indiana
      1 uiuc
      1 uic
      1 sgi - did not use tracking or wand or CaveLib
	      don't know what they were doing with it
      1 nec - really interesting collab stuff COVICE
	      with Stuttgart
              http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/RUSuser/
              vis/Covise/covise.html

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People Shots:



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CAVERNUS Birds of a Feather:

The CAVERNUS Bof was a success with 30+ people showing even though the PACI and SGI parties conflicted. Great presentations by Jason Leigh, Volodymyr Kindratenko and Glen Wheless concerning the software stuff. Ted Jordan spoke about CAVE's and Kurt Hoffmeister spoke about SSVR Systems. Suprisingly, the SSVR systems are 100K cheaper and implement the "seamless corner" technique used on the EVL BAT CAVE. They also plan to be competing against the Idesk with the Baron. MechDyne also hosts a variety of software solutions for the the virtual environments.

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Multi Way Collab:

The multi way collaborative was successful there were 17 people on the server at one point and 10 active participants with audio.
	ODU
	ARL
	SARA
	UIC - scalable computing lab
	Boston U
	EVL 3x
	ANL
	Indiana U
	NCSA - pdesk


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Tom Coffin                            tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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