May 30, 2000

FOR RELEASE: Immediate
Contact: Laura Wolf
laura@evl.uic.edu
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
University of Illinois at Chicago
(312) 996-3002

CHICAGO, IL -- The International Grid (iGrid) special event at this summer's INET 2000 Conference in Yokohama, Japan, July 18-21, will showcase the latest in technological innovations and application advancements supporting global community networking (http://www.isoc.org/inet2000).

iGRID 2000 will highlight how scientific collaborators are now taking advantage of global connectivity to empower collaborative solutions to complex problems. Through advanced networking techniques, researchers can access distributed computing, remote storage and visualization/virtual-reality display devices more efficiently than ever.

The iGrid booth, jointly sponsored by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology at Indiana University (IU), University of Tokyo and Keio University, will provide global connectivity to collaborators from Canada, Germany, Greece, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, USA and the CERN institute.

iGrid 2000 is composed of 23 application demonstrations requiring high-speed networks, with emphasis on distributed computing, tele-immersion, large datasets, remote instrumentation, collaboration, cultural heritage, digital video, streaming media and high-definition television. They are listed below.

The iGrid 2000 booth will have Silicon Graphics (SGI) Unix workstations and Windows/NT/Linux PCs. A centerpiece of the booth will be the CAVE(R) virtual-reality theater. Two ImmersaDesks(R) and plasma displays will also be used to showcase applications in virtual-reality (stereoscopic) or large-screen (monoscopic) mode. Another highlight of the booth will be NTT Network Innovation Laboratory's digital movie system, in which super-high-definition movies will be transmitted over the network to the Convention Center. The booth will be connected to the Japanese Gigabit Network (JGN), the APAN network (http://www.apan.net) and the APAN/TransPAC (100Mbps) link (http://www.transpac.org) to STAR TAP (http://www.startap.net). The Science, Technology and Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAP) is the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored international, interconnection point managed by EVL and operated by Ameritech Advanced Data Services in Chicago, Illinois.

EVL and IU, members of NCSA's National Computational Science Alliance partnership, are working to advance the development of the International Technology Grid. The Grid is a prototype 21st century computational and information infrastructure, integrating high-performance computers, visualization environments, remote instruments, and massive databases via high-speed networks to support advanced applications.

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iGrid 2000 APPLICATIONS

GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES
Online Monitoring and Steering of Remote Black Hole Simulations
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institute, Potsdam/Golm, Germany

GERMANY AND SINGAPORE
MediaZine: A Combination of Television, WWW, Telecommunications and 3D Computer Graphics
Fraunhofer Institute Graphische Datenverarbeitung (IGD), Darmstadt, Germany

JAPAN
Video Avatar Communication in Networked Virtual Environment
Telecommunications Advancement Organization (TAO), Japan

Haptic Collaboration in a Networked Immersive Environment
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan

Plate Window Manager (PWM): 2D Window Manipulation System in a Virtual 3D World
TAO, Japan

Digital Cinema 2000: Super High Definition Digital Movie Communication System
Network Innovation Laboratory, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan

JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES
High Speed Networking with SUBARU Telescope in Hawaii
Information Technology Center, University of Tokyo, Japan

NETHERLANDS AND THE UNITED STATES
ALIVE: Architectural Linked Immersive Environment
SARA Academic Computing Services Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SINGAPORE AND THE UNITED STATES
CyberCAD: Internet Distributed Interactive Collaborative Design
Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore

SINGAPORE
Human Anatomy Lecture-on-Demand at the National University of Singapore
Centre for Development of Teaching & Learning, National University of Singapore, Singapore

SWEDEN AND THE UNITED STATES
Steering and Visualization of a Finite-Difference Code on a Computational Grid
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; University of Houston, USA

TAIWAN AND GERMANY
A Virtual GIS-Based 3D Hydrodynamic Model of Tamshui River
National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan

UNITED STATES AND GERMANY
Distributed Simulation Analysis between Scientists Located in Germany, US, and Japan
Sandia National Laboratories, USA

UNITED STATES AND GREECE
Shared Miletus
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

UNITED STATES, CANADA, JAPAN, SINGAPORE, THE NETHERLANDS, SWEDEN, CERN, SPAIN, KOREA AND MEXICO
GiDVN: Global Internet Digital Video Network
International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University, USA

UNITED STATES AND JAPAN
Advanced Networking for Telemicroscopy
National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA

UNITED STATES AND CERN
Distributed Particle Physics Research
California Institute of Technology, USA

UNITED STATES
TIDE: The Tele-Immersive Data Explorer
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Transoceanic Exploration of Cultural Heritage in Virtual Reality
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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

Using the Access Grid for Wide Area Group Collaborative Visualization
Argonne National Laboratory, USA

The Anti-CAVE: Pulling Reality into a Virtual Environment
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Blue Pane Window
Indiana University, USA

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