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Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s 50th Anniversary Retrospective: Look to the Future, Build on the Past
Andrew Johnson, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Daria Tsoupikova, G. Elisabeta Marai, Jason Leigh, Jonas Talandis, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Michael E. Papka, Thomas A. DeFanti August 1, 2024 September 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). EVL’s… Read more |
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Moving from Composable to Programmable
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Zhongyi Chen April 15, 2022 In today’s Big Data era, data scientists require modern workflows to quickly analyze large-scale datasets using complex codes to maintain the… Read more |
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Composable Infrastructures for an Academic Research Environment: Lessons Learned
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Timothy Bargo April 15, 2022 Composable infrastructure holds the promise of accelerating the pace of academic research and discovery by enabling researchers to tailor the… Read more |
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COMPaaS DLV: Composable Infrastructure for Deep Learning in an Academic Research Environment
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Timothy Bargo October 7, 2019 In today’s Big Data era, data scientists require new computational instruments in order to quickly analyze large-scale datasets using complex… Read more |
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Developing a Scalable SNMP Monitor
G. Elisabeta Marai, Joshua Rodriguez, Krishna Bharadwaj, Lance Long May 23, 2016 - May 27, 2016 We present the design of a scalable visual tool for the analysis of high-throughput network traffic, power consumption and cluster-based system… Read more |
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Using Game Mechanics to Facilitate Networked Musical Collaboration
Angus Forbes, Anil Camci May 7, 2016 - May 12, 2016 In this paper, we investigate methods for improving networked musical collaboration by introducing game mechanics to musical performance. We present… Read more |
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Multipath Load Balancing for M x N Communication Patterns on the Blue Gene⁄Q Supercomputer Interconnection Network
Andrew Johnson, Huy A. Bui September 8, 2015 - September 11, 2015 Achievable networking performance of applications in a supercomputer depends on the exact combination of the communication patterns of the… Read more |
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SAGE2: A New Approach for Data Intensive Collaboration Using Scalable Resolution Shared Displays
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Jason Leigh, Jillian Aurisano, Krishna Bharadwaj, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Thomas Marrinan, Victor Mateevitsi October 22, 2014 - October 25, 2014 Current web-based collaboration systems, such as Google Hangouts, WebEx, and Skype, primarily enable single users to work with remote collaborators… Read more |
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Networked On-Line Audio Dilation
Jason Leigh, John Novak III, Robert V. Kenyon September 13, 2014 - September 17, 2014 Audio Dilation is a technique that slows down the tempo of audio signals without changing the pitch or otherwise distorting the sounds. Networked… Read more |
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Improving Data Movement Performance for Sparse Data Patterns on the Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer
Huy A. Bui, Jason Leigh, Michael E. Papka, Venkatram Vishwanath September 12, 2014 In-situ analysis has been proposed as a promising solution to glean faster insight and to reduce the amount of data written out to storage. A… Read more |
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On-Line Audio Dilation for Human Interaction
Eric He, Jason Leigh, John Novak III, Robert V. Kenyon August 25, 2013 - August 29, 2013 On-line audio dilation is a technique that time stretches, or slows down the tempo of audio signals as they are generated. This paper presents an… Read more |
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Multi-User Centered Resource Scheduling for Large Scale Display Wall Environments
Sungwon Nam May 1, 2013 The popularity of large-scale, high-resolution display walls, as visualization endpoints in eScience infrastructure, is rapidly growing. These… Read more |
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Evaluating Communication Performance of BlueGene/Q and Cray XE6 Supercomputers
Huy A. Bui, Jason Leigh, Michael E. Papka, Venkatram Vishwanath November 14, 2012 Communication performance is of paramount importance to high performance computing (HPC) applications. MPI is widely used in HPC due to its… Read more |
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Global Media Curation Platform Using iRODS
Dana M. Plepys March 1, 2012 - March 2, 2012 In the CineGrid Exchange project, we use iRODS to curate and preserve super-high-definition media content such as 4K movies. Our media curation… Read more |
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CineGrid Exchange: A workflow-based peta-scale distributed storage platform on a high-speed network
Dana M. Plepys January 1, 2011 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) report “The Digital Dilemma” describes the issues caused by the rapid increase of… Read more |
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Enabling multi-user interaction in large high-resolution distributed environments
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Ratko Jagodic, Sungwon Nam November 21, 2010 As the amount and the resolution of collected scientific data increase, scientists are realizing the potential benefits that large high-resolution… Read more |
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Distributed Volume Rendering for Scalable High-Resolution Display Arrays
Jason Leigh, Nicholas Schwarz May 17, 2010 - May 21, 2010 GRAPP 2010 Website This work presents a distributed image-order volume rendering approach for scalable high-resolution displays. This approach… Read more |
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Ultrascale Collaborative Visualization Using a Display-Rich Global Cyberinfrastructure
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Ratko Jagodic, Sungwon Nam May 1, 2010 - June 1, 2010 The Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) is high-performance graphics middleware that enables ultrascale collaborative visualization using a… Read more |
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Multiapplication Intertile Synchronization on Ultra-High-Resolution Display Walls
Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Venkatram Vishwanath February 22, 2010 - February 23, 2010 Ultra-high-resolution tiled-display walls are typically driven by a cluster of computers. Each computer may drive one or more displays… Read more |
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StarLight: Next-Generation Communication Services, Exchanges, and Global Facilities (chapter)
Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 2010 Communication services, architecture, and technologies are rapidly evolving in response to application demand and research innovation. These changes… Read more |
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Visualization Wall for OR of the Future
Jason Leigh, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown October 9, 2009 - October 10, 2009 The field of Surgery has seen two major paradigm shifts - from Open to Laparoscopic and then from Laparoscopic to Robotic. During this transition… Read more |
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Achieving Large Bandwidth by Leveraging Parallelism in End-Hosts and Networks
Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Venkatram Vishwanath July 20, 2009 - July 22, 2009 This paper describes the first experiment on Multi-Rail and MultiLane technologies using global networks. These technologies leverage end-host and… Read more |
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Visualizing Science: The OptIPuter Project
Alan Verlo, Byungil Jeong, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Robert Kooima, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Venkatram Vishwanath April 1, 2009 For many areas of science and engineering, visualization has become more than a convenient tool: it has become a necessity for interpreting the… Read more |
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Visualcasting: Scalable Real-time Image Distribution in Ultra-High Resolution Display Environments
Byungil Jeong March 19, 2009 Visualization has proven its value in scientific advances by helping scientists gain insight from their data and verify scientific computations. The… Read more |
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LambdaRAM: A High-Performance, Multi-Dimensional, Distributed Cache Over Ultra-High Speed Networks
Venkatram Vishwanath December 15, 2008 Interactive, real-time exploration and correlation of multi-terabyte and petabyte datasets from multiple sources are critical to advancing scientific… Read more |
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The Rails Toolkit (RTK) - Enabling End-System Topology-Aware High End Computing
Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Venkatram Vishwanath December 7, 2008 - December 12, 2008 We present a novel rails approach so that future E-Science applications can effectively exploit future system architectures, including multi-core and… Read more |
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Scalable Adaptive Graphics middleware for visualization streaming and collaboration in ultra resolution display environments
Andrew Johnson, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Jung-Min Lee, Luc Renambot, Ratko Jagodic, Sangyoon Lee, Sungwon Nam November 16, 2008 This paper describes the motivation and capabilities of SAGE - the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment - a middleware and software client for… Read more |
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The OptIPortal, a scalable visualization, storage, and computing interface device for the OptiPuter
Alan Verlo, Byungil Jeong, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Rajvikram Singh, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Venkatram Vishwanath September 26, 2008 The OptIPortal is a tiled display that is the visual interface to the OptIPuter, a global-scale computing system tied together by tens of gigabits of… Read more |
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Accelerating tropical cyclone analysis using LambdaRAM, a distributed data cache over wide-area ultra-fast networks
Jason Leigh, Venkatram Vishwanath September 15, 2008 - November 24, 2008 Data-intensive scientific applications require rapid access to local and geographically distributed data, however, there are significant I/O latency… Read more |
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Enabling High Resolution Collaborative Visualization in Display Rich Virtual Organizations
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam July 24, 2008 We predict that high-resolution displays will penetrate scientific laboratories first, and will become pervasive at the office, in the cubicle, and… Read more |
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Verification of Data Intensive High Performance Computing Middleware
Venkatram Vishwanath July 7, 2008 - July 8, 2008 In this paper, we present our experiences with using verification techniques in Data Intensive High Performance Computing. We discuss the… Read more |
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Global Cyber-Commons: Collaborative, Instructional Environments
for the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering Andrew Johnson, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Steve Jones, Sungwon Nam, Tom Moher June 28, 2008 The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and several of its collaborators are already putting in place a… Read more |
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Specification and Verification of LambdaRAM - A Wide-Area Distributed Cache for High Performance Computing
Jason Leigh, Venkatram Vishwanath June 5, 2008 - June 7, 2008 LambdaRAM is a high-performance, multi-dimensional, wide-area, distributed cache that takes advantage of massively available memory from multiple… Read more |
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OptiStore: An On-Demand Data Processing Middleware for Very Large Scale Interactive Visualization
Charles Zhang May 1, 2008 OptiStore is an on-demand data processing middleware for extremely large scale interactive visualization applications. It aims to develop a data… Read more |
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Cyber-Commons: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds
Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown January 1, 2008 - January 31, 2008 Cyber-mashups of very large data sets let users explore, analyze, and comprehend the science behind the information being streamed. As longtime… Read more |
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Towards Terabit/s Systems: Performance Evaluation of Multi-Rail Systems
Jason Leigh, Venkatram Vishwanath November 10, 2007 - November 16, 2007 In this paper, we present a multi-rail design as a promising approach towards achieving Terabit/s performance for advanced E-Science applications. We… Read more |
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Lambda Sharing Demonstration via Traffic-Driven Lambda-on-Demand
Akira Hirano, Alan Verlo, Byungil Jeong, Fang Wang, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Muxuan Wang, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Xi Wang September 16, 2007 - September 20, 2007 This paper proposes GMPLS-capable Lambda-on-Demand to adjust the number of load-balanced end-to-end lambdas according to the traffic volume while… Read more |
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The First Optically-Virtual-Concatenated Lambdas over Multiple Domains in Chicago Metro Area Network Achieved Through Interworking of Network Resource Managers
Akira Hirano, Alan Verlo, Byungil Jeong, Fang Wang, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Muxuan Wang, Ratko Jagodic, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Xi Wang July 1, 2007 Optically virtual concatenated parallel lambdas over multiple-domains that are provided using reservation-messaging between network resource managers… Read more |
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Emerging from the CAVE: Collaboration in Ultra High Resolution Environments
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Cole Krumbholz, Dmitri Svistula, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Ratko Jagodic, Robert Kooima, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka June 14, 2007 - June 15, 2007 Low-cost computing, displays and networking is making it possible to create collaboration environments that are truly able to bridge distance. This… Read more |
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Real-Time Compression For High-Resolution Content
Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam May 14, 2007 - May 16, 2007 Higher resolution content is collected or generated everyday by domain scientists, such as remote sensing imagery, large scale simulations and… Read more |
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Towards Terabit/s Systems: Performance Evaluation of Multi-Rail Systems
Jason Leigh, Venkatram Vishwanath May 8, 2007 - May 11, 2007 In this paper, we present a multi-rail design as a promising approach towards achieving Terabit/s performance for advanced E-Science applications. We… Read more |
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A Point-Based Remote Visualization Pipeline For Large-Scale Virtual Reality
Jinghua Ge May 1, 2007 Jinghua Ge’s PH.D. Dissertation - Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer… Read more |
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Collaborative Visualization Architecture in Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment
Byungil Jeong April 26, 2007 - April 27, 2007 As scalable high-resolution displays have become increasingly prevalent and networking is diminishing in cost at a rate exceeding that of computing… Read more |
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The Effects of Scene Complexity, Stereovision, and Motion Parallax on Size Constancy in a Virtual Environment
Daniel J. Sandin, Robert V. Kenyon, Thomas A. DeFanti, Xun Luo March 10, 2007 - March 14, 2007 In this paper, the effects of three visual factors: scene complexity, stereovision and motion parallax on correct perception of a virtual… Read more |
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A Single-Authoring and Bridging Framework for Virtual and Augmented Reality Interfaces
Alex Hill March 10, 2007 - March 11, 2007 Although Image-Plane techniques have been associated with user fatigue and selection ambiguity problems, they can act as a bridging strategy between… Read more |
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Design and Implementation of SAGE Display Controller
Javid Alimohideen February 1, 2007 SAGE Display Controller, a web-based application designed and developed to access and control the SAGE environment. The application allows a novice… Read more |
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CytoViz: an Artistic Mapping of Network Measurements as Living Organisms in a VR Application
Brenda Lopez Silva, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam January 28, 2007 - February 1, 2007 CytoViz is an artistic, real-time information visualization driven by statistical information gathered during gigabit network transfers to the… Read more |
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AR-PIN / PDC: Flexible Advance Reservation of Intradomain and Interdomain Lightpaths
Eric He, Fang Wang, Jason Leigh, Muxuan Wang, Venkatram Vishwanath, Xi Wang November 27, 2006 - December 1, 2006 A collection of Grid computing resources interconnected by an application-configurable network of lightpaths is called a LambdaGrid. It provides… Read more |
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High-Performance Dynamic Graphics Streaming for Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Julieta Aguilera, Luc Renambot, Rajvikram Singh, Ratko Jagodic, Sungwon Nam November 11, 2006 - November 17, 2006 The Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) is specialized middleware for enabling data, high-definition video and extremely high-resolution… Read more |
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Special issue on the International Grid (iGrid) 2005 Workshop
Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti October 1, 2006 - October 31, 2006 Larry Smarr, Maxine Brown, Tom DeFanti and Cees de Laat (guest editors), Special issue on the International Grid (iGrid) 2005 Workshop. For more… Read more |
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A Flexible Advance Reservation Model for Multi-Domain WDM Optical Networks
Eric He, Fang Wang, Jason Leigh, Muxuan Wang, Xi Wang October 1, 2006 - October 2, 2006 Advance reservation is a mechanism to guarantee the availability of resources when they are needed. In the context of LambdaGrid, this mechanism is… Read more |
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LambdaBridge: A Scalable Architecture for Future Generation Terabit Applications
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Eric He, Fang Wang, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Muxuan Wang, Ratko Jagodic, Sungwon Nam, Venkatram Vishwanath, Xi Wang October 1, 2006 - October 5, 2006 LambdaGrid applications as typified by data-intensive collaborative visualization are likely to be the first users of terabit-level networking. This… Read more |
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The Global Lambda Visualization Facility: An International Ultra-High-Definition Wide-Area Visualization Collaboratory
Alan Verlo, Andrew Johnson, Brenda Lopez Silva, Byungil Jeong, Daniel J. Sandin, Dmitri Svistula, Fang Wang, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Julieta Aguilera, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Muxuan Wang, Nicholas Schwarz, Rajvikram Singh, Ratko Jagodic, Robert Kooima, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka, Venkatram Vishwanath, Xi Wang October 1, 2006 - October 31, 2006 The research outlined in this paper marks an initial global cooperative effort between visualization and collaboration researchers to build a… Read more |
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The First Functional Demonstration of Optical Virtual Concatenation as a Technique for Achieving Terabit Networking
Akira Hirano, Alan Verlo, Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Julieta Aguilera, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Nicholas Schwarz, Rajvikram Singh, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Venkatram Vishwanath October 1, 2006 - October 31, 2006 The optical virtual concatenation (OVC) function of The Terabit LAN was demonstrated for the first time at the iGrid 2005 workshop in San Diego… Read more |
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A Flexible Advance Reservation Model for Multi-Domain WDM Optical Networks (PhD Thesis)
Eric He September 23, 2006 Grid is a computing architecture that consists of distributed clusters of computers interconnected by a network. Grid computing is used in a variety… Read more |
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Visualcasting - Scalable Real-Time Image Distribution in Ultra-High Resolution Display Environments
Byungil Jeong July 15, 2006 - May 15, 2007 The Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) is a specialized middleware that enables real-time streaming of extremely high-resolution graphics… Read more |
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Wide-Area experiments with LambdaStream over dedicated high-bandwidth networks
Alan Verlo, Eric He, Fang Wang, Jason Leigh, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Muxuan Wang, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Venkatram Vishwanath, Xi Wang April 24, 2006 - April 26, 2006 LambdaGrid applications can generate hundreds to thousands of parallel flows. These flows emanate from network interfaces in the end-systems (i.e… Read more |
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PAVIS - Pervasive Adaptive Visualization and Interaction Service
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Javid Alimohideen, Luc Renambot, Robert L. Grossman April 22, 2006 - April 27, 2006 Prior research efforts have focused on the development of techniques for rule-based automated generation of either visualizations or user-interfaces… Read more |
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The First Application-Driven Lambda-on-Demand Field Trial over a US Nationwide Network
Akira Hirano, Alan Verlo, Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti March 5, 2006 - March 10, 2006 A photonic network comprised of Photonic Cross Connects (PXC) with Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) capability is a promising… Read more |
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A Case for UDP Offload Engines in LambdaGrids
Jason Leigh, Venkatram Vishwanath February 2, 2006 - February 3, 2006 Though TCP / IP is considered the de facto standard for Internet related wide area computing, its failure for LambdaGrids is well documented. On the… Read more |
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TSC-I2: A Lightweight Implementation for Precision-Augmented Timekeeping
Xun Luo October 1, 2005 The quality of timekeeping is critical for many network protocols and measurement tools. Software packages, such as UDT (UDP-based Data Transfer)… Read more |
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TransLight, a Major US Component of the GLIF
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High-Performance Scalable Graphics Architecture for High-Resolution Displays
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Rajvikram Singh, Sungwon Nam May 1, 2005 We present the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE), a graphics streaming architecture for supporting collaborative scientific visualization… Read more |
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LambdaStream - a Data Transport Protocol for Streaming Network-intensive Applications over Photonic Networks
Chaoyue Xiong, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti, Venkatram Vishwanath February 2, 2005 - February 3, 2005 LambdaStream LambdaStream is a transport protocol designed specifically to support gigabit-level streaming, which is required by streaming… Read more |
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Real-time 3D Head Position Tracker System with Stereo Cameras Using a Face Recognition Neural Network
Javier Girado October 29, 2004 Creating credible virtual reality (VR) computer-generated worlds requires constant updating of the images in all displays to have the correct… Read more |
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TeraVision: a Distributed, Scalable, High Resolution Graphics Streaming System
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Rajvikram Singh, Sungwon Nam September 20, 2004 - September 23, 2004 In electronically mediated distance collaborations involving scientific data, there is often the need to stream the graphical output of individual… Read more |
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Energy-Efficient Method to Improve TCP Performance for MANETs
Chaoyue Xiong, Jason Leigh August 14, 2004 - August 17, 2004 The current implementation of TCP for the Internet is not efficient when used for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). This is because TCP assumes that… Read more |
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Transitive: Immersive Visualization of Real Time Network Transfers
Brenda Lopez Silva April 30, 2004 - August 30, 2004 Processing data for print and other static media may employ numerous design, digital and analog steps along the way; but the final product is dated… Read more |
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Volume Rendering of Large Data for Scalable Displays Using Photonic Switching
Shalini Venkataraman April 1, 2004 - May 1, 2004 In this report, we introduce a flexible and scalable volume visualization system for visual browsing of spatially and temporally large datasets in… Read more |
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StorySpace: Technology Supporting Reflection, Expression and Discourse in Classroom Narrative
Eric He, Heejoo Kim, Janet Kim, Margaret Watson, Tae Jin Kim, Tom Moher March 1, 2004 - April 1, 2004 The StorySpace project studies the role new interface technologies might play in high school education. Unfortunately, technology often seizes center… Read more |
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Realistic Cross-Platform Haptic Applications Using Freely-Available Libraries
Cristian J. Luciano, Thomas A. DeFanti March 1, 2004 This paper describes the development of a generic framework for implementing realistic cross-platform haptic virtual reality applications. Currently… Read more |
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A Layered Architecture Supporting The Collaborative Design Of Virtual Environments For Science Inquiry
Yongjoo Cho October 1, 2003 YoungJoo Cho’s PH.D. Dissertation - Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer… Read more |
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Experimental Studies Using Photonic Data Services at iGrid 2002
Robert L. Grossman August 1, 2003 We describe an architecture for remote and distributed data intensive applications which integrates optical path services, network protocol services… Read more |
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Real-Time View Morphing of Video Streams
Karl Timm August 1, 2003 This dissertation describes a real-time virtual camera application based on view morphing. This system takes video input from multiple cameras aimed… Read more |
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TeraScope: Distributed Visual Data Mining of Terascale Data Sets over Photonic Networks
Brent Grossman, Charles Zhang, Jason Leigh, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman, Thomas A. DeFanti August 1, 2003 TeraScope is a framework and a suite of tools for interactively browsing and visualizing large terascale data sets. Unique to TeraScope is its… Read more |
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Kites flying in and out of space - distributed physically based art on the grid
Jason Leigh, Shalini Venkataraman, Tom Coffin August 1, 2003 In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a Virtual Reality (VR) art piece - “Kites flying in and out of space” that… Read more |
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Real-Time Video View Morphing
Karl Timm July 28, 2003 - July 31, 2003 This sketch describes a real-time virtual video camera application based on view morphing. This system takes video input from multiple cameras aimed… Read more |
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INSIDE_OUT
Marientina Gotsis June 27, 2003 - June 28, 2003 I grew up as an aspiring ballet dancer who was turned off by the required physical discipline and quickly distracted by the visual arts and… Read more |
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An Experimental OptIPuter Architecture for Data-Intensive Collaborative Visualization
Atul Nayak, Charles Zhang, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Rajvikram Singh, Shalini Venkataraman, Sungwon Nam, Thomas A. DeFanti June 22, 2003 This paper describes the OptIPuter’s networking model and the visualization tools that are being developed to take advantage of the model. The… Read more |
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3rd Biennial International Grid Applications-driven Testbed Event, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 23-26 September 2002
Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti June 1, 2003 iGrid 2002: The International Virtual Laboratory Editorial iGrid 2002, The Third Biennial International Grid Applications-driven Testbed Event held… Read more |
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Quanta: a toolkit for high performance data delivery
Eric He, Jason Leigh, Javid Alimohideen, Joshua Eliason, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 2003 Quanta is a cross-platform adaptive networking toolkit for supporting the data delivery requirements of interactive and bandwidth intensive… Read more |
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iGrid2002 The International Virtual Laboratory
Maxine Brown September 23, 2002 - September 26, 2002 iGrid 2002, the 3rd biennial International Grid applications-driven testbed event, challenges scientists and technologists to utilize multi-gigabit… Read more |
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Griz: Experience with Remote Visualization over an Optical Grid
Jinghua Ge, Luc Renambot, Sungwon Nam September 23, 2002 - September 26, 2002 This paper describes the experiments of remote rendering over an intercontinental optical network during the iGrid2002 conference in Amsterdam from… Read more |
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Reliable Blast UDP : Predictable High Performance Bulk Data Transfer
Eric He, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti September 1, 2002 High speed bulk data transfer is an important part of many data-intensive scientific applications. This paper describes an aggressive bulk data… Read more |
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Object-Oriented Framework for Adaptation in a DFS
Eric He August 1, 2002 With the large diversity of network resources, computing resources and heterogeneous devices, there is a problem when there is a mismatch between… Read more |
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Alive on the Grid
Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape July 14, 2002 - July 18, 2002 Alive on the Grid is a collection of virtual art worlds where local and distant participants alike can interact in shared virtual spaces. Enabled by… Read more |
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Simulation and Comparison of Cost, Priority and FCFS Scheduling Schemes Over an Adaptive Network Model
Eric He, Rakesh Raju June 1, 2002 Scheduling Data Requests is a highly researched topic in the field of Networks. Many optimal Scheduling Algorithms have been developed and… Read more |
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TeraVision: a Platform and Software Independent Solution for Real Time Display Distribution in Advanced Collaborative Environments
Andrew Johnson, HyeYun Park, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Kyoung Shin Park, Rajvikram Singh, Soyon Park, Thomas A. DeFanti March 4, 2002 - March 5, 2002 EVL’s TeraVision is a real-time method to distribute visual imagery from any PC graphics platform over the Access Grid that requires no setup… Read more |
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Tracking the Net
Franz Fischnaller October 25, 2001 - October 27, 2001 Tracking the Net is a collective, interactive installation, which combines motion capture and virtual reality. Several users can interact in real… Read more |
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Liquidon
Joseph Tremonti September 1, 2001 - July 1, 2002 Liquidon is an immersive, realtime, audio-visual composition that consists of a virtual environment and an interactive multi-channel soundscape… Read more |
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Virtual Heritage at iGrid 2000
Dave Pape, Jason Leigh, Josephine Anstey, Maria Roussou, Tim Portlock June 5, 2001 - June 8, 2001 As part of the iGrid Research Demonstration at INET 2000, we created two Virtual Cultural Heritage environments - “Virtual Harlem” and… Read more |
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Shared Miletus: Towards a Networked Virtual History Museum
Dave Pape, Josephine Anstey, Maria Roussou, Thomas A. DeFanti May 30, 2001 - June 1, 2001 Shared Miletus is a networked Virtual Cultural Heritage application first demonstrated at the INET 2000 conference. In this application we sought to… Read more |
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Adaptive Networking for Tele-Immersion
Alan Verlo, Atul Nayak, Eric He, HyeYun Park, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Ray Fang, Soyon Park, Thomas A. DeFanti, Yongjoo Cho May 16, 2001 - May 18, 2001 Tele-Immersive applications possess an unusually broad range of networking requirements. As high-speed and Quality of Service-enabled networks… Read more |
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A Unified and Collaborative Approach for Analyzing Networks
Naveen Krishnaprasad May 1, 2001 Analyzing fast-growing networks involves considerable complexity, with the number of networked applications increasing exponentially. Existing… Read more |
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Tele-Immersive Collaboration in the CAVE® Research Network (chapter)
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh January 1, 2001 In this chapter we will discuss our work to enable effective collaboration between remote participants within immersive virtual reality environments… Read more |
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Differentiated Services Experiments Between the Electronic Visualization Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory
Alan Verlo, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti December 1, 2000 Differentiated Services (DiffServ) is a mechanism for supporting network Quality of Service (or QoS) whereby packets that are transmitted by a client… Read more |
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Fuzzy-Timing Petri Net Modeling and Simulation of a Networked Virtual Environment - NICE
Charles Zhang, Thomas A. DeFanti November 1, 2000 Despite their attractive properties, networked virtual environments (net-VEs) are notoriously difficult to design, implement and test due to the… Read more |
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CAVERNsoft G2: A Toolkit for High Performance Tele-Immersive Collaboration
Andrew Johnson, Chris Scharver, HyeYun Park, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Michael Lewis, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Soyon Park, Yongjoo Cho October 22, 2000 - October 25, 2000 This paper describes the design and implementation of CAVERNsoft G2, a toolkit for building collaborative virtual reality applications. G2’s… Read more |
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Modeling and Performance Analysis Using Extended Fuzzy-Timing Petri Nets for Networked Virtual Environments
Thomas A. DeFanti October 1, 2000 Virtual Reality (VR) systems (such as the CAVE™) generate images in real-time on the basis of the viewer’s view in the virtual world, so… Read more |
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Lessons Learned from Employing Multiple Perspectives In a Collaborative Virtual Environment for Visualizing Scientific Data
Abhinav Kapoor, HyeYun Park, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Soyon Park September 10, 2000 - September 12, 2000 This paper explores the concept of multiple perspectives to enhance collaboration by allowing remote participants to tailor their views… Read more |
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Overcoming Time-Zone Differences and Time Management Problem with Tele-Immersion
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Tomoko Imai, Zhongwei Qui July 18, 2000 - July 21, 2000 N*Vector (Networked Virtual Environment Collaboration Trans-Oceanic Research) is a project to develop innovative networked virtual reality… Read more |
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AccessBot: An Enabling Technology for Telepresence
Alan Cruz, Alan Verlo, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Maggie Rawlings, Muhammad Ali Khan, Ray Fang, Thomas A. DeFanti July 18, 2000 - July 21, 2000 The goal of the AccessBot™ project is to provide a new form of access for the disabled that integrates teleconferencing with life-sized display… Read more |
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iGrid2000 Empowering Global Research Community Networking
Maxine Brown July 18, 2000 - July 21, 2000 iGrid 2000, the International Grid, demonstrates how the power of today’s research networks enables access to remote computing resources… Read more |
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The Tele-Immersive Data Explorer: A Distributed Architecture for Collaborative Interactive Visualization of Large Data-sets
Andrew Johnson, Brent Grossman, Chris Scharver, Jason Leigh, John Hart, Nikita Sawant, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman June 19, 2000 - June 20, 2000 There exists a number of scientific visualization systems designed to provide a two-dimensional interface to the user. However, little consideration… Read more |
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Exploiting Multiple Perspectives in Tele-Immersion
Abhinav Kapoor, Chris Scharver, HyeYun Park, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Soyon Park June 19, 2000 - June 20, 2000 The work in this paper describes a preliminary observational study conducted on users of CAVE6D, a collaborative CAVE-based virtual reality tool for… Read more |
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Creating Tele-Immersion Environments (tutorial)
Andrew Johnson May 21, 2000 - May 24, 2000 A tutorial presentation. Read more |
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The Tele-Immersive Data Explorer (TIDE): A Distributed Architecture for Tele-immersive Scientific Visualization
Nikita Sawant May 1, 2000 Visualization is the key methodology that gives the researcher insight into data that may be generated from various sources such as computational… Read more |
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Better than Being There: Next Millennium Networks
Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 2000 - February 1, 2000 This publication covers the future of Tele-Immersion applications over high speed networks. Read more |
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The Global Technology Grid: Its Role in Virtual Reality
Thomas A. DeFanti December 6, 1999 - December 17, 1999 A discussion of the “Grid” networking infrastructure and its support of Tele-immersion applications. Read more |
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Visualization in Teleimmersive Environments
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti December 1, 1999 In teleimmersion, collaborators at remote sites share the details of a virtual world that can autonomously control computation, query databases, and… Read more |
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A Methodology for Supporting Collaborative Exploratory Analysis of Massive Data Sets in Tele-Immersive Environments
Andrew Johnson, Brent Grossman, Jason Leigh, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman, Thomas A. DeFanti August 3, 1999 - August 6, 1999 This paper proposes a methodology for employing collaborative, immersive virtual environments as a high-end visualization interface for massive… Read more |
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The International Grid (iGrid): Empowering Global Research Community Networking Using High Performance International Internet Services
Alan Verlo, Andrew Johnson, Andrew Schmidt, Ben Goldstein, Dana M. Plepys, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti June 22, 1999 - June 25, 1999 The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Indiana University collaborated on a major research… Read more |
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A Tele-Immersive Environment for Collaborative Exploratory Analysis of Massive Data Sets
Andrew Johnson, Brent Grossman, Jason Leigh, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman, Thomas A. DeFanti June 15, 1999 - June 17, 1999 This is a white paper outlining a methodology for employing collaborative, immersive virutal environments as a high-end visualization interface for… Read more |
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Technologies for Virtual Reality / Tele-Immersion Applications: Issues of Research in Image Display and Global Networking
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Greg Dawe, Josephine Anstey, Maxine Brown, Michael Bogucki, Milana Huang, Thomas A. DeFanti June 1, 1999 - June 4, 1999 EVL has developed an aggressive program over the past decade to partner with scores of computational scientists and engineers all over the world. The… Read more |
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TeleImmersive Virtual Environments for Collaborative Knowledge Discovery
Andrew Johnson, Eric He, Jason Leigh April 11, 1999 - April 15, 1999 This paper describes the design and implementation of two tele-immersive applications, CVD and CAVE6D, both designed to support collaborative… Read more |
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The Use of Collaborative Virtual Environments in the Mine Countermeasures Mission
Abhinav Kapoor, Andrew Johnson, Eric He, Jason Leigh April 5, 1999 - April 9, 1999 We describe our work on the development and use of collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) in support of very shallow water mine remediation… Read more |
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A Review of Tele-Immersive Applications in the CAVE® Research Network
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti March 13, 1999 - March 17, 1999 This paper presents an overview of the Tele-Immersion applications that have been built by collaborators around the world using the CAVERNsoft… Read more |
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Effects of Network Characteristics on Human Performance in a Collaborative Virtual Environment
HyeYun Park, Kyoung Shin Park, Robert V. Kenyon, Soyon Park March 13, 1999 - March 17, 1999 We assessed the effects of network latency and jitter on a cooperative tele-operation task in a collaborative virtual environment. Two remote… Read more |
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The Virtual Mail System
Andrew Johnson, Dave Pape, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tomoko Imai March 13, 1999 - March 17, 1999 “The Virtual Mail Systems” was included in the Poster session of the IEEE VR ’99 Conference. Read more |
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Multi-disciplinary Experiences with CAVERNsoft Tele-Immersive Applications
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti November 18, 1998 - November 20, 1998 CAVERNsoft is an architecture for creating Tele-Immersive applications, with the goal of making synchronous and asynchronous trans-oceanic… Read more |
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LIMBO / VTK: A Tool for Rapid Tele-Immersive Visualization
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti October 18, 1998 - October 23, 1998 This “Late Breaking Hot Topic Paper” describes the LIMBO / VTK a tool that allows developers to quickly build collaborative visualization… Read more |
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Preliminary STAR TAP℠ Tele-Immersion Experiments between Chicago and Singapore
Andrew Johnson, HyeYun Park, Jason Leigh, Kyoung Shin Park, Robert V. Kenyon, Soyon Park, Thomas A. DeFanti September 22, 1998 Preliminary STAR TAP℠ Tele-Immersion Experiments between Chicago and Singapore. Read more |
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Application Experiences with the Globus Toolkit
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh July 28, 1998 - July 31, 1998 Application Experiences with the Globus Toolkit. Read more |
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Multiway Tele-Immersion at Supercomputing ’97, or Why We Used $6,000,000 Worth of VR Equipment to do the Hokey Pokey
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jim Costigan July 1, 1998 - August 1, 1998 Tele-Immersion, the union of networked virtual reality and video to support collaboration among scientists, engineers, and educators, is an important… Read more |
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CAVERN and a Unified Approach to Support Realtime Networking and Persistence in Tele-immersion
Jason Leigh May 1, 1998 Teleimmersion is currently one of the most challenging areas of VR research. Networking adds a new dimension. For example, human-factors research in… Read more |
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CAVERN: The CAVE® Research Network
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti March 25, 1998 CAVERN, the CAVE® Research Network, is an alliance of industrial and research institutions equipped with CAVEs, ImmersaDesks, and high… Read more |
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Global Tele-Immersion: Better than Being There
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti December 3, 1997 - December 5, 1997 The term Tele-Immersion was first used in October 1996 as the title of a workshop the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of… Read more |
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CAVERN: A Distributed Architecture for Supporting Scalable Persistence and Interoperaility in Collaborative Virtual Environments
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti December 1, 1997 CAVERN, the CAVE Research Network, is an alliance of industrial and research institutions equipped with CAVEs, ImmersaDesks, and high-performance… Read more |
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Issues in the Design of a Flexible Distributed Architecture for Supporting Persistence and Interoperablility in Collaborative Virtual Environments
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti November 15, 1997 - November 21, 1997 CAVERN, the CAVE Research Network, is an alliance of industrial and research institutions equipped with CAVE-based virtual reality hardware and… Read more |
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Virtual Reality Over High Speed Networks
Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti July 1, 1996 This special issue, “VR and the Net,” focuses on supercomputing-to-VR and VR-to-VR communications over high-speed networks, enabling… Read more |
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Supporting Transcontinental Collaborative Work in Persistent Virtual Environments
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh July 1, 1996 One of the current long term goals at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) is to create a persistent virtual environment enabling multiple… Read more |
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CALVIN: an Immersimedia Design Environment Utilizing Heterogeneous Perspectives
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti June 17, 1996 - June 21, 1996 In this paper we describe CALVIN, an immersive multimedia approach to applying virtual reality in architectural design and collaborative… Read more |
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Multi-Perspective Collaborative Design in Persistent Networked Virtual Environments
Andrew Johnson, Christina Vasilakis, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti March 20, 1996 - April 3, 1996 In this paper we present an approach to applying virtual reality in architectural design and collaborative visualization which emphasizes the use of… Read more |
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High-Resolution and High-Bandwidth Immersive Interactivity
Daniel J. Sandin, Gary Lindahl, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti February 1, 1996 The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) specializes in virtual reality (VR) and scientific… Read more |
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Overview of the I-WAY: Wide Area Visual Supercomputing
Michael E. Papka, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 1996 This paper discusses the I-WAY project and provides an overview of the papers in this issue of IJSA. The I-WAY is an experimental environment for… Read more |
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Virtual Environments and Distributed Computing at SC’95
Maxine Brown December 1, 1995 The annual Supercomputing conference provides computational scientists and engineers with a global forum for showcasing their research. Scientists… Read more |
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SANDBOX: Scientists Accessing Necessary Data Based On eXperimentation
Andrew Johnson July 1, 1995 The SANDBOX (Scientists Accessing Necessary Data Based On eXperimentation) is a virtual reality tool allowing an investigator to visualize the… Read more |
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Using the CAVE Virtual-Reality Environment as an Aid to 3-D Electronmagnet Field Computation
Michael E. Papka, Milana Huang July 1, 1995 One of the major problems in three-dimensional field computation is visualizing the resulting 3-D field distributions. A virtual reality environment… Read more |
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Integrating Virtual Reality and High Performance Computing and Communications for Real-Time Molecular Modeling
Alan Cruz, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Thomas A. DeFanti April 1, 1995 This paper describes using virtual reality technologies for the development and exploration of High Performance Computing and Communications… Read more |
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The Cosmic Worm in the CAVE®: Steering a High Performance Computing Application from a Virtual Environment
Alan Cruz, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Trina Roy April 1, 1995 Developing graphical interfaces to steer high performance scientific computations has been a research subject in recent years. Now, computational… Read more |
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Interactive Visualization in a High Performance Computing Virtual Environment
Thomas A. DeFanti, Trina Roy January 1, 1995 An intuitive means of controlling numerical simulations can be achieved by integrating virtual environments with High Performance Computing (HPC)… Read more |
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Cosmic Worm
Gideon Goldman, Jon Goldman, Trina Roy July 1, 1994 Sometimes scientists would like to stick their heads into interesting parts of their data sets and look around, but they are hampered by the… Read more |
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Virtual Reality in Computational Neuroscience
Brent Grossman, Christina Vasilakis, Jason Leigh, Paul Rossman, Robert L. Grossman, Thomas A. DeFanti June 1, 1994 This paper discusses the development, visualization and exploration of computational neuroscience virtual reality applications in the CAVE Virtual… Read more |
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Scientists in Wonderland: A Report on Visualization Applications in the CAVE™ Virtual Reality Environment
Alan Cruz, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Christina Vasilakis, Craig Barnes, Daniel J. Sandin, Eric He, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Lewis Siegel, Michael E. Papka, Randy Hudson (1951-2020), Roger Engelman, Steven Cohen, Sumit Das, Thomas A. DeFanti October 1, 1993 Traditional computer graphics has typically required that scientists look through a restricted window (the computer screen), to view images that… Read more |
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Realistic Modeling of Brain Structures with Remote Interaction Between Simulations of an Inferior Olivary Neuron and a Cerebellar Purkinje Cell
Jason Leigh, Jung-Min Lee, Sangyoon Lee, Thomas A. DeFanti March 1, 1993 This publication documents the collaborative work between the Computational Neuroscience Lab at CALTECH and the Electronic Visualization Lab at the… Read more |
