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NCSA / Caterpillar Inc. - GMD Distributed Virtual Reality
This project between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, its industrial partner - Caterpillar Inc. - and the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD) is establishing an interactive, real-time network connection between two virtual reality visualization systems across the North Atlantic, and evaluating the capabilities, practicality, performance, and cost of distributed virtual reality technology for generating collaborative product or process design review on industrial show case applications.
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NSF Application
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engr.startap.net/apps/cat-gmd/nsf-form.txt
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Application Type
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Distributed Computing
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Collaborating Institutions
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National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
USA
Caterpillar Inc.
Peoria, IL
USA
German National Research Center for Information Technology
Sankt Augustin
Germany
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Application Experiment Site
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NCSA
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Main Feature of Application
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Distributed virtual reality
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Wide-Area Networks
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vBNS, CA*net II
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Network Protocol
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IP multicasting
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Minimum / Maximum Bandwidth Estimate
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2 Mbps
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Project Duration
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June 1997 - February 1998
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Technical Contacts
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Wolfgang Ziegler
German National Research Center for Information Technology Sankt Augustin
Germany
Wolfgang.Ziegler@gmd.de
Paul Zawada
NCSA
Argonne National Laboratory
Building 221
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439, USA
ph: +1.630.686.7825
zawada@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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Administrative Contacts
and Lead Investigators
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Berthold Kirsch
German National Research Center for Information Technology Sankt Augustin
Germany
kirsch@gmd.de
Volodymyr Kindratenko
NCSA
605 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign IL 61820, USA
ph: +1.217.265.0209
fax: +1.217.244.1987
kindr@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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