INET 2000, July 18-21, 2000, Yokohama, Japan, www.isoc.org/inet2000

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• INET 2000, July 18-21, 2000, Yokohama, Japan,
  www.isoc.org/inet2000

Maxine Brown Electronic Visualization
Laboratory University of Illinois at
Chicago September 29, 2000 maxine_at_startap.net
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iGrid The International Grid

• Goal To showcase the evolution and
• importance of global research community
• networking

Scenes from iGrid 2000 http//www.startap.net/igr
id2000
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What is the International Grid?Characteristics
of Tele-Immersive Grid Applications
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STAR TAPScience Technology And Research Transit
Access Point
Canada
Japan Korea Taiwan Singapore Australia China
Chile
US Networks vBNS, vBNS, Abilene, ESnet, DREN,
NREN/NISN
Source http//www.startap.net/topology.html
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iGrid The International Grid

• iGrid highlights achievements in grid
  architecture development and the advancements
  enabled in science, engineering, cultural
  heritage, distance education, media
  communications, and art and architecture
• 24 demonstrations featuring technical innovations
  and application advancements requiring
  tele-immersion, large datasets, distributed
  computing, remote instrumentation, collaboration,
  human/computer interfaces, streaming media,
  digital video and high-definition television
• 14 countries Canada, CERN, Germany, Greece,
  Japan, Korea, Mexico, The Netherlands, Singapore,
  Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA

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iGrid 2000CERN and the USA

• Distributed Particle
• Physics Research
• California Institute of Technology, USA, USA
• CERN

This application demonstrates remote viewing and
analysis of particle physics events. The
application is the front end to an engineered
object-oriented global system that incorporates
grid middleware
for authentication and resource discovery, a
distributed object database containing several
terabytes of simulated events, and a component
that enables queries issued by the front-end
application to be matched to available computing
resources in the system (matchmaking service).
http//pcbunn.cacr.caltech.edu http//iguana.web.c
ern.ch/iguana/ http//vrvs.cern.ch http//cmsdoc
.cern.ch/orca
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iGrid 2000Germany and Singapore

• MediaZine?A Combination of Television, WWW,
• Telecommunications and 3D Computer Graphics
• Fraunhofer Institute Graphische Datenverarbeitung
  (IGD), Germany
• Centre for Advanced Media Technology (CAM Tech),
  Singapore

An interactive multimedia magazine, including
text, images, live-audio, live-video, animations,
3D computer graphics and embedded electronic
commerce and communication functions.
www.igd.fhg.de/igd-a9/research/cve/
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iGrid 2000Germany and the USA
VR

• Online Monitoring and Steering of
• Remote Black Hole Simulations
• Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik,
  Germany
• Konrad-Zuse- Zentrum für Informationstechnik
  Germany
• Argonne National Labs, USA
• Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, USA,
• NCSA, USA

A demonstration of several remote monitoring,
steering, and visualization tools for Remote
Black Hole Simulations and Remote Visualization
of Large-Scale Datasets.
www.zib.de/visual/igrid/ www.cactuscode.org http/
/amira.zib.de
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iGrid 2000Germany, USA, Japan and UK
VR
Tele- Immersive

• Distributed Simulation Analysis
• Sandia National Laboratories, USA
• High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
• (HLRS), Germany
• Thanks to the Computer Services for Academic
  Research Centre (Manchester, UK), the Centre of
  Virtual Environments at University of Salford
  (UK), Tsukuba Advanced Computing Center (Japan)
  and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (USA) for
  additional supercomputing resources.

This application emphasizes distributed parallel
supercomputing and a collaborative
virtual-reality computation steering environment
applied to Grand Challenge problems.
www.cs.sandia.gov/ilab www.cs.sandia.gov/ilab/news
/SuperComp98/iGrid/index.htm www.hlrs.de www.hlrs
.de/news/events/2000/iGrid/
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iGrid 2000Greece and the USA
VR
Tele- Immersive

• Shared Miletus
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University
  of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Foundation for the Hellenic World, Greece
• Thanks to UIC for providing computing and
  networking resources.

This Cultural Heritage demonstration takes
visitors on a shared virtual voyage through the
ancient Greek city of Miletus as it existed 2000
years ago.
www.evl.uic.edu/pape/projects/iGrid-Miletus/ www.f
hw.gr http//fhw.aec.at
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iGrid 2000Japan

• Digital Cinema 2000
• Super High Definition
• Digital Movie
• Communication System
• NTT, Japan

NTTs digital movie system using SHD images
transmits extra-high-quality, digital, full-color
movies of 2048x2048 pixel resolution at 24 or 60
Hz using 155/622 Mbps ATM transmission systems.
www.onlab.ntt.co.jp/en/mn/shd
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iGrid 2000Japan
VR
Tele- Immersive

• Haptic Collaboration in
• a Networked Virtual
• Environment
• Gifu MVL Research Center, Telecommunications
  Advancement Organization (TAO), Japan
• University of Tokyo, Japan

A demonstration of wearable haptic gear (touch
and force) communication, as well as visual
communication, between the CAVE at iGrid 2000 and
CABIN at the University of Tokyo.
www.cyber.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/mvl2/
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iGrid 2000Japan
VR

• Plate Window Manager (PWM) 2D Window
• Manipulation System in a Virtual 3D World
• Gifu MVL Research Center, Telecommunications
  Advancement Organization of Japan , Japan
• University of Tokyo, Japan

PWM accesses traditional 2D window systems and
applications, such as web browsers, in a 3D
virtual world with a virtual mouse.
www.gifumvl.tao.go.jp/pwm/
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iGrid 2000Japan
VR
Tele- Immersive

• Video Avatar Communication
• in a Networked Virtual
• Environment
• MVL Research Center, Telecommunications
  Advancement Organization (TAO), Japan
• University of Tokyo, Japan
• Gifu Technoplaza

Video avatars communicate among the CAVE at iGrid
2000, CABIN at the University of Tokyo and COSMOS
at the Gifu Technoplaza.
http//green.iml.u-tokyo.ac.jp/mvl/avatar/
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iGrid 2000Japan and the USA
VR
Tele- Immersive

• Cultural Heritage in
• Virtual Reality
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University
  of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA
• Advanced Technology Center, University of
  Missouri, USA
• University of Tokyo, Japan
• Telecommunications Advancement Organization
  (TAO), Japan
• NTT, Japan
• Nippon Hosou Kyokai (NHK), Japan
• English Department, UIC, USA

Using Cultural Heritage as an application driver,
the goal of the Networked Virtual Environments
Collaborative Trans-Oceanic Research (NVECTOR)
project is to link EVLs CAVE and Tokyos CABIN
in order to better understand the requirements of
multiple media flows among sophisticated
virtual-reality displays over great distances.
www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/lara
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iGrid 2000Japan and the USA

• Data and Information Access
• Link (DIAL)
• NASA ESDIS/RITSS, USA
• NASA GSFC, USA
• NASDA, Japan
• National Space Development Agency (NASDA)/RESTEC,
  Japan
• Jeff Smith, NASA EOS, USA

DIAL is a web-based distributed system to
search, access and visualize satellite remote
sensing data for Global Change research. In
collaboration with NASDA and other institutions,
NASA has DIAL servers set up to distribute
satellite remote sensing data. NASA and NASDA
also collaborate on the Tropical Rainfall
Measurement Mission (TRMM) 3D data is
transferred from NASA to NASDA using
TransPAC/APAN, processed and visualized for the
web.
http//dial.gsfc.nasa.gov http//dial.eoc.nasda.go
.jp
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iGrid 2000Japan and USA

• High Speed Networking with Subaru
• Telescope in Hawaii
• University of Tokyo, Japan
• National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
• University of Hawaii
• APAN/KDD Laboratories
• ATT

The Subaru Telescope in Hawaii is connected via a
high-speed link to the INET 2000/ iGrid 2000
conference site in Yokohama, and high-definition
astronomical images are quickly retrieved and
downloaded. Real-time interactive classes and
discussions with researchers also take place
between Hawaii and Yokohama using high-quality
multimedia communication tools.
www.naoj.org
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iGrid 2000Japan and the USA

• Advanced Networking
• for Telemicroscopy
• National Center for Microscopy and Imaging
  Research , UCSD, USA
• SDSC, USA
• Research Center for Ultra-High Voltage Electron
  Microscopy, Osaka Univ., Japan
• NLANR, USA
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Two online telemicroscopy systems, one at NCMIR
and one at Osaka, use international research
networks to provide interactive, remote control
of high power microscopes.
www.npaci.edu/online/v3.10/telemicroscopy.html www
-ncmir.ucsd.edu/ www.uhvem.osaka-u.ac.jp/
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iGrid 2000The Netherlands and USA
VR
Tele- Immersive

• ALIVE Architectural
• Linked Immersive
• Environment
• Academic Computing Services Amsterdam (SARA), The
  Netherlands
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University
  of Illinois at Chicago, USA

ALIVE is used to evaluate the usability of
collaborative virtual reality for architectural
design. The ALIVE project started February 1999
at SARA in cooperation with EVL and OMA (Office
for Metropolitan Architecture). In February 1998,
Rem Koolhaas won the Richard H. Driehaus
Foundation International Design Competition for
the new Campus Center at Illinois Institute of
Technologys historic Mies van der Rohe campus
www.sara.nl www.archfonds.nl www.iit.edu/departmen
ts/pr/masterplan/mccortribucamcen.html
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iGrid 2000Singapore

• Human Anatomy
• Lecture-on-Demand
• National University of Singapore

The NUS Integrated Virtual Learning Environment
enables staff and students to communicate,
exchange information, discuss and access
custom learning materials and course-related web
sites. Lecture-on-Demand (LoD) delivery makes
students assume more responsibility, and provides
greater flexibility, in learning. A prototype
anatomy LoD, The Abdominal Wall and Inguinal
Canal, is demonstrated.
www.cit.nus.edu.sg/proj.htm http//ivle.nus.edu.sg

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iGrid 2000Singapore and the USA

• CyberCAD Internet Distributed
• Interactive Collaborative Design
• Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore
• National University of Singapore
• Indiana University, USA

CyberCAD software has a controller- observer
architecture to support reliable point-to-point
synchronous portable Collaborative Computer
Aided Design (COCAD). It allows geographically
dispersed designers to work and communicate
together synchro-nously on 3D design models,
regardless of platform.
http//gdm.tp.edu.sg http//ils.tp.edu.sg/apan/
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iGrid 2000Sweden and USA
VR

• Steering and Visualization
• of a Finite-Difference Code
• on a Computational Grid
• Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• University of Houston, USA

This application enables computational steering
of electromagnetic simulations across distributed
resources using interactive visualization in a
virtual-reality environment.
www.nada.kth.se/erike/progress
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iGrid 2000Taiwan and Germany
VR
Tele- Immersive

• A Virtual GIS-Based
• 3D Hydrodynamic Model
• of Tamshui River
• National Center for High-Performance Computing,
  Taiwan
• Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus,
  Germany
• Due to the dense population and rapid economic
• development of the Tamshui River, the largest
• estuarine system of the island, Taiwan is

studying the rivers hydrodynamic and water
quality. Dirty water, air, soil and mudslides
pose a threat to public health, causing deaths
and property losses during the seasons of typhoon
and heavy rain. Tele-immersion tools enable
researchers to visualize and analyze the computed
results.
http//140.110.59.157/Tamshui/ www.nchc.gov.tw/RES
EARCH/taiger/taiger/Welcome.html www.bauinf.tu-cot
tbus.de/taiger
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iGrid 2000USA

• Access Grid
• Argonne National Laboratory, USA

The Access Grid is the ensemble of resources
used to support group-to-group human interaction
across the grid. It consists of large-format
multimedia projective displays, presentation and
interactive software environments, interfaces
to grid middleware, and interfaces to remote
visualization environments. The Access Grid is
designed to support large-scale distributed
meetings, collaborative teamwork sessions,
seminars, lectures, tutorials and training.
www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid
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iGrid 2000USA
VR

• Argus Controlling Real-
• Time Imaging Sensors from
• a Virtual Environment
• Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at
  Urbana-Champaign, USA
• ECE, UIUC, USA
• Computer Science, UIUC, USA

This project streams 2D and 3D images from Argus,
a room surrounded with cameras, into the CAVE
using Crumbs volumetric rendering software. The
project explores tradeoffs between sending 3D
data volumes versus low-bandwidth, low-latency
stereo pairs. This demonstration showcases how
parallel video acquisition lends itself to
viewing 3D scenes in different time zones.
Argus consists of 64 optical cameras imaging a
14-foot diameter, 8-foot tall cylindrical volume.
A 32-node Beowulf Linux cluster controls the
camera array and performs image-processing
algorithms. Argus delivers two kinds of data
full 3D data volumes (128 points per side 2-8
volumes per second) and stereo image pairs for
any viewpoint in the cylindrical volume.
www.phs.uiuc.edu/Projects/Argus/ http//mayflower.
isl.uiuc.edu/big.projects.crumbs.html
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iGrid 2000USA
VR
Tele- Immersive

• Blue Window Pane II
• Indiana University, USA
• Special thanks to the Electronic Visualization
  Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Blue Window Pane II is a networked environment
that explores communication building through
whimsical characters, conceptual landscapes and
sound-activated graphics. Using art as a
communication tool for shared connectivity,
participants collaborate in a world of dreams,
dilemmas and reflections.
http//dolinsky.fa.indiana.edu/bwp/
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iGrid 2000USA
VR
Tele- Immersive

• TIDE The Tele-Immersive
• Data Explorer
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University
  of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• National Center for Data Mining, University of
  Illinois at Chicago

TIDE is a CAVERNsoft-based collaborative,
immersive environment for querying and
visualizing data from massive and distributed
datastores.
www.evl.uic.edu/cavern www.ncdm.uic.edu
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iGrid 2000USA
VR
Tele- Immersive

• Tele-immersive Image
• Based Rendering
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University
  of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

The Collaborative Image Based Rendering Viewer
(CIBR View) is a CAVERNsoft-based tool for
viewing animated sequences of image-based
renderings from volume data. CIBR View was
designed to allow DOE scientists to view volume
renderings composed of 2D image slices.
www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/cibr
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iGrid 2000USA, Canada, Japan, Singapore,
Netherlands, Sweden, CERN, Spain, Mexico, Korea

• GiDVN Global Internet
• Digital Video Network
• Digital Video Working Group, Coordinating
  Committee for International Research Networks
• CERN, Switzerland
• APAN, Japan KDD, Japan
• APAN-KR, Korea Seoul National University, Korea
• SURFnet, The Netherlands
• DFSCA-UNAM, Mexico
• SingAREN, Singapore
• Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Intl Center for Advanced Internet Research
  (iCAIR), Northwestern, USA

GiDVN projects are enhancing media capabilities
for the next-generation Internet, enabling new
applications to interoperate throughout the
world.
www.icair.org/inet2000
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iGrid 2000

• Of course, wherever they collaborate
• They connect to Yokohama, Japan, too!

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iGrid Committees

• iGrid Co-Chairs and Organizing Institutions
• Tomonori Aoyama, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Tom DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago,
  USA
• Jun Murai, Keio University/WIDE Project, Japan
• Michael A. McRobbie, Indiana University, USA
• iGrid Executive Management Team
• Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago,
  USA
• Hiroshi Esaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• iGrid 2000 Supporters
• Japan Ministry of Post and Telecommunications
  (MPT)
• Japan Ministry of International Trade and
  Industry (MITI)
• Foundation for MultiMedia Communications (FMMC),
  Japan
• iGrid 2000 Co-Organizing Institutions
• Telecommunications Advancement Organization of
  Japan (TAO)
• Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), Japan

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iGrid Committees, continued

• iGrid 2000 Organizing Committee Affiliations
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University
  of Illinois at Chicago
• Indiana University
• Pacific Interface, Inc.
• Argonne National Laboratory
• APAN, Japan
• ATT Japan/ Concert Japan
• Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
• Concert USA
• Gemini Project, USA
• Internet2, USA
• Keio University/WIDE Project, Japan
• NAIST/WIDE Project, Japan
• Nissho Electronics Corporation, Japan
• NTT, Japan
• Osaka University, Japan
• Telecommunications Advancement Organization of
  Japan (TAO)
• University of Chicago, USA
• University of Hawaii, USA

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iGrid Committees, continued

• iGrid 2000 Contributors
• American Power Conversion Japan Corp.
• APAN/TransPAC
• Asia-Pacific Information Infrastructure (APII)
• ATT
• Cisco Systems K.K.
• Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Concert
• Foundary Networks, Inc. / Mitsui Co., Ltd.
• Gemini Project
• Hitachi, Ltd.
• IBM
• Indiana University
• Keio University
• KDD
• Litton Network Access Systems
• MKOCN (Mauna Kea Observatories Communication
  Network)
• MPT Japan Gigabit Network

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iGrid Committees, continued

• iGrid 2000 Contributors, continued
• National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
  (Subaru Telescope)
• Nissho Electronics Corporation
• NTT Communications Corp.
• Osaka University
• PNJ Communications, Inc.
• Settsu Metal Industrial Co., Ltd.
• SGI Japan
• Singapore Advanced Research Education Network
  (SingAREN)
• Sony Marketing (Japan), Inc.
• STAR TAP
• Sumitomo Corp.
• Time Warner Telecommunications, Hawaii, USA
• Tokyo Telecommunication Network Co., Inc.
• University of Hawaii
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• The University of Tokyo
• University of Washington
• WIDE Project

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