SC ’97 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. NSF Application engr.startap.net/apps/cat-gmd/nsf-form.txt Application Type Distributed Computing Collaborating Institutions 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 Application Experiment Site NCSA Main Feature of Application Distributed virtual reality Wide-Area Networks vBNS, CA*net II Network Protocol IP multicasting Minimum / Maximum Bandwidth Estimate 2 Mbps Project Duration June 1997 - February 1998 Technical Contacts 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 Administrative Contacts and Lead Investigators 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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