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The Frontiers of Virtual reality Applied to High Performance Computing and Communications
Pages 32-36

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... EVE, NCSA, and ANL have, for several years, created national testbeds notably at the SIGGRAPH 92, SIGGRAPH 94, and Supercomputing 95 conferences to showcase distributed scalable computing and visualization and virtual environment applications from academia, national supercomputer laboratories, and industry. The partnership designed these testbeds as experiments to help ferret out 32
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... Grand Challenges are fundamental problems in science and engineering (e.g., environmental science, computational chemistry, and computation astrophysics) that have broad economic and scientific impact; National Challenges are fundamental applications that have broad and direct impact on the nation's competitiveness and the well-being of its citizens (e.g., manufacturing, health care, education, and access to information)
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... More specifically, the I-WAY was an effort to provide a wide-area ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) network to support various experimental activities at Supercomputing 95 notably, interactive video, distributed applications, and remote computations for interactive virtual environments and scientific visualization.
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... Our goal is to integrate heterogeneous distributed computing environments that is, supercomputers, remote instrumentation, networks, mass storage devices, and advanced real-time three-dimensional immersive interfacesinto computational science workspaces so that scientists will depend on these systems to discover, communicate, and transmit results. BIBLIOGRAPHY DeFanti, T
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... Computer graphics annual conference series. New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
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