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Foil 58 Some Comments on the Technologies -- II

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Overview Kickoff Meeting at NPAC -- October 17,1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Geographical Information Systems store and display (in 3D) spatially labelled data -- complementary to Web Browsers and relational databases for non spatial data
Multimedia databases are linked to the Web and delivered indexing of associated text and synchronized audio and video streams delivered to clients
World Wide Web supports general productivity tools(WebTools and WebFoil), Clustered Computing and Software Engineering environment(WebWork) as well as workflow(WebFlow) and databases -- Java and VRML critical developments
High Performance Computers supply simulation, visualization and large database server support. They are linked by ATM networks and we use same software on MPP's as on clustered heterogeneous machines (metacomputing)
CORBA and The World Wide Web are illustrative of pervasive standards to be used in next generation software


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