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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Kickoff Meeting at NPAC on October 17,1995. Foils prepared October 17,1995
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Develop Technologies and demonstrate a set of four applications enhanced by use of innovative Collaborative Interaction and Visualization.
Point the way to Paradigm shifts in
  • Approach to DoD software development built on open reuseable interfaces and standards as opposed to large reuseable codes
  • HPCC supported collaboration exhibited in medical and command and control
i.e. Paradigm shift in both applications and software development for the applications
  • New Software Engineering Methodology linking programming and Web-based Information Systems and Productivity Tools
Demonstrate Applications and Approach in JWID and/or similar activities

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1 Collaborative Interaction and Visualization
NPAC- Vanguard
Sponsored by Rome Laboratory
PR No. C-5-2293/4
Contract F30602-95-C-0273
October 17, 1995
2 Overall Goals for 18 month Project
3 Vanguard Research, Inc.
4 The Four Applications
5 Role of The Four Applications
6 The Ten Technology Areas
7 How do we tie all this together?
8 http://king.syr.edu:2006/IWT/Vision/Crisis2005/CyberThriller.html
9 Some Features of Crisis 2005
10 Some CrypticTopics in Crisis 2005
11 Televirtual Collaborative Environment in Crisis 2005
12 Special Computer Resources
13 Infrastructure from
Parallel Computers to
ATM Network and
SGI Visualization Engine
14 NPAC Parallel Computing Facility (as of 1/3/95)
15 NPAC Networking Infrastructure (as of 1/3/95)
16 Special Computer Resources
17 Rome Laboratory - NPAC ATM Infrastructure
18 The Four Applications
Weather
Command and Control
Electromagnetic Simulations
Telemedicine
19 A1: Real-Time Interactive Distributed Weather Information System
20 A1: Proposed Implementation of Weather Application
21 Visit of Hillary Clinton to Syracuse University April 5,1994 -- Tornado Simulation
22 Key C3I Requirements to be Addressed
23 C3I Program Objectives
24 Joint/Coalition C2 System Status
25 C3 Concept Development Goals
26 A3: NPAC/Syracuse Research Corporation Computational Electromagnetics Project
27 Electromagnetic Scattering Simulation System
28 A4: Medical Collaboration and Visualization System
29 A4: Medical Collaboration -- Current Focus:
30 NII
Technology Background
31 Basic Structure of World Wide Web
32 Architecture of Web Software
33 HPCC needs a large enough market to sustain technology (systems and software)
34 Figure 2: WebWork -- System Overview with Three Layers
35 Java Character Recognition Demo -- The Letter W
36 Figure 9: Example of use of VRML -- Black Hole Collision Diagram (NCSA)
37 Collage of Hello World Demonstrations
38 Some Relevant NII Services-I
39 Some Relevant NII Services-II
40 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications -- HealthCare and Telemedicine
41 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications -- Education
42 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications -- Society
43 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications
-- Business (Enterprise Systems)
44 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications
-- Defence and Crisis Management
45 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications -- Collaboratory
46 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications
-- Manufacturing of Complex Systems
47 NII Enhances ASOP in a Multi-Organization Activity
48 ASOP Introduces Aerospace Paradigm Shifts
49 5.0 and 6.0 NII Infrastructure
50 2.1-2.5 ASOP Object Backplane Leverages NII
51 Technical Objectives
52 Technology Flow to Develop C3I Architecture
53 Comparison with Classical C3I System Development
54 Technology Candidates CORBA I
55 Technology Candidates CORBA II
56 The Proposal Specific Component Technologies
57 Some Comments on the Technologies -- I
58 Some Comments on the Technologies -- II
59 T0: Enabling Technologies (ET) Project
60 The Hyperworld of New Interactive Media
61 WebFoil on LabSpace Televirtual Environment
62 Dave Warner Neat Virtual Reality Thing in WebFoil
63 T2: Compression -- Motivation/Overview
64 T2: Compression -- Implementation (2)
65 T2: Compression -- Implementation Contd.(3)
66 Objectives of NYNET Communication Systems
67 NYNET Communication System
68 NCS Process Communication architecture
69 T3: Collaboration -- NPACBoard Overview
70 T3: Collaboration -- NPACBoard Features
71 T4: 2D Terrain Rendering for Geographical Information Systems
72 Illustrative Screendump for WebTools (Spring '95):E-Mail Functionality, Implementation
73 NPAC Web based Bulletin Board System
74 T4: 2D Terrain Rendering for Geographical Information Systems
75 2D Terrain Rendering for New York State Interactive Journey
76 The Weather Report accessed through the Interactive Journey
77 T4: Applications of 3D Terrain Rendering for Geographical Information Systems
78 3D Terrain Rendering for New York State Interactive Journey
79 T4: Object-oriented Database Support for VRML -- Goal
80 T4: Object-oriented Database Support for VRML -- Main Concepts
81 T4: Object-oriented Database Support for VRML -- System architecture
82 VRML for Geographical Information system -- Western Long Island View-1 using WebView
83 VRML for Geographical Information system -- Western Long Island View-1 using WebSpace
84 T5: Video on Demand technology status -- Implementation highlights
85 T5: Video on Demand technology status - Ongoing research projects
86 Living SchoolBook Access to Digital Discovery Channel Archive
87 T5:Integration of Web and RDBMS Technologies
88 T5: Integration of Web and RDBMS Technologies - Future Plans
89 NPAC Oracle 7 Web Interface -- Home Page
90 Popular Query by Subject for NPAC Oracle 7 Web Interface
91 Web to Oracle Interface Screen 10: Query by Subject --2
92 Web to Oracle Interface Screen 14: Query Result -- Browse Mail Body --1
93 WebFlow Paradigm
94 Figure 7: Java demo (NPAC) -- WebFlow Editor prototype
95 Software Project Manager -- Example of Agent Middleware
96 Figure 8: Java demo (NPAC) -- WebFlow application prototype: Project Manager
97 Figure 3: WebTools CASE tools sample manual page Including hyper-source code
98 WebWork -- NPAC, Boston University, Cooperating Systems Collaboration
99 Demonstrations
100 Role of Demonstrations
101 Planning Approach
102 Demonstration Planning Activities

This table of Contents Abstract

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Foil 1 Collaborative Interaction and Visualization
NPAC- Vanguard
Sponsored by Rome Laboratory
PR No. C-5-2293/4
Contract F30602-95-C-0273
October 17, 1995

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Geoffrey Fox
NPAC
Syracuse University
111 College Place
Syracuse NY 13244-4100
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Foil 2 Overall Goals for 18 month Project

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Overview Kickoff Meeting at NPAC -- October 17,1995. * See also color IMAGE
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Develop Technologies and demonstrate a set of four applications enhanced by use of innovative Collaborative Interaction and Visualization.
Point the way to Paradigm shifts in
  • Approach to DoD software development built on open reuseable interfaces and standards as opposed to large reuseable codes
  • HPCC supported collaboration exhibited in medical and command and control
i.e. Paradigm shift in both applications and software development for the applications
  • New Software Engineering Methodology linking programming and Web-based Information Systems and Productivity Tools
Demonstrate Applications and Approach in JWID and/or similar activities
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Foil 3 Vanguard Research, Inc.

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Principal Technical SETA to NMD BMC3 program at BMDO (OSD).
  • BMC3 Technology
  • BMC3 Software Architecture/Development Approach
  • Demonstrations
    • (JWID, CORONA, etc.)
  • War Gaming
SETA to National Test Facility (just won recompete)
  • DSI Node
  • JWID participant
  • AF C4I Technology
  • AF SWC
  • CMC TSS
USMC Comm/Nav/Intel HQ Support
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Foil 4 The Four Applications

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Electromagnetic Simulation
  • Two Candidates _ SRC or Rome Laboratory
Weather Information System
  • Two Candidates -- NASA or Oklahoma CAPS
Command and Control Information System
  • Use Rome Laboratory, Vanguard and NPAC experience
  • Fox part of major NRC Workshop series contrasting Crisis Management, Health Care and Manufacturing use of HPCC and NII
Telemedicine enhanced with Digital Informatics and collaboration as shown to be required by early experiments
  • Dave Warner Nason Fellow NPAC , Bob Corona(SUNY HSC) and Veteran's Administration (HOST project)
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Foil 5 Role of The Four Applications

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Develop basic Infrastructure and test 3D Interactive Displays of Physical Phenomena using Electromagnetic Simulation
Apply this to a Weather Simulation of local or national interest which is enhanced by overlays on 3D Geographic Information Systems
Design a Collaborative Environment with multiple interactive simulations, databases, multimedia information streams using Medical and Command and Control Applications for requirements
Integrate Weather as one "Applet" in this Interactive Collaborative Environment
Evaluate and Refine technologies
Demonstrate Prototype Systems
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Foil 6 The Ten Technology Areas

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Virtual Reality and Display Technology connected to high speed networks and computers
Compression of audio images and video
Network Management
Collaboration
Geographical Information Systems
Multimedia Databases
Parallel and Distributed Computing
The World Wide Web, CORBA and other Industry and Community standards
  • Enabling Technologies -- Gather together electronic resource -- the world's building blocks -- the basic interfaces standards and modules
  • Technology Development, Enhancement and Integration
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Foil 7 How do we tie all this together?

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Crisis 2005 -- refined from National Research Council Scenario -- describes civilian crisis and how collaboration services would support
Starting hyperlink of Crisis 2005 to technologies
Bottom Up -- Expand Electromagnetics --> Weather System --> Full Information System
Link with other bottom up projects such as Teachers and Kids Collaborating in Living Textbook
Top Down -- Command and Control/Telemedicine rquirements link to and integrate with technology/bottom-up subprojects
Use analysis of multiple application areas (also manufacturing(NASA/NRC), Health Care(NSF/NRC) digital libraries(NRC) education(SU/Livingtextbook)) to ensure properly build layered multi-use services on NII/HPCC
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Foil 8 http://king.syr.edu:2006/IWT/Vision/Crisis2005/CyberThriller.html

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The trip to the opera was the high point for the thousands of international visitors to the conference.
They were streaming out of the new center which had been built in a decaying downtown area. Here old warehouses were still mixed with the proud new buildings of the economic redevelopment zone.
Luke CyberCzar was in charge of the crisis center when the first 911 video dial tones showed the horrifying sight. A gigantic set of explosions rocked a set of old chemical warehouses and fires and fumes of unknown composition ringed the new opera complex. The frightened audience panicked and scattered this way and that into the surrounding alleys. Of course the digital video crews covering the opera immediately switched their cameras to this catastrophe. Just a few seconds after those 911 calls, all the MPEG decoders on the GII were presenting the chaos, damage and injuries live to a world whose cybereyes were trained on Luke.
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Foil 9 Some Features of Crisis 2005

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Injury and Damage implying major field operations with international scope
Telemedicine accessing world wide records
MPP and distributed cluster Simulations of Chemical fires and Wind blown transport of fumes
Remote Command and Control supported by Televirtual Environment
Digital Multimedia streams of data from on the spot video
Universal common WebTop envirtonment from WebNewton to Supercomputer
Adaptive network management including ISDN exploiting advanced compression
Cellullar Connections and Electromagnetic simulations to optimize antenna placement for emergency communications
Disparate distributed databases searched in real time using metadata
3D Geographical Information Systems with real-time overlays for tactical decisions
Training and Education from Maxwell(Electronic Intuition) to Computer Science and Testbeds such as FEMA and JWID
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Foil 10 Some CrypticTopics in Crisis 2005

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Foil 11 Televirtual Collaborative Environment in Crisis 2005

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Luke benefits from the natural convenient interface maximizing the effectiveness of the tired harried judgment maker. This build on advanced MOO and VR ideas and tailors the computer interface to the problem at hand.
Luke sees a three dimensional GIS (Geographical Information System) when viewing the spatial confusion of the catastrophe; a virtual podium when he briefs cyberworld; a boardroom when defending his actions to angry foreign politicians; a summer wildflower meadow in moments of thought.
He shares this virtual environment with Jane who is in charge of tactical operations for the crisis and by his electronic side at all times.
They share this televirtual environment with other judgment makers and those facing the crisis in the field.
Whether supported by supercomputer or hand held personal assistant, all access the same WebTop environment with a full range of collaboration and productivity tools whose capability adjusts to the available compute and communication resource.
In this way the GII enables the best adaptive linking of "come-as-you-are" computational, communication and personnel resources.
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Foil 12 Special Computer Resources

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SGI Onyx SMP
  • 4 R4400 CPUs, 1MB secondary cache/CPU, 256 MB RAM
  • Reality Engine with two texture processors
  • 140 Mbit/s ATM interface, 20 GB+ disk space
ATM cluster
  • Two ASX-200 switches
  • 9 workstations ATM LAN
  • integrated with FDDI via LAX-20 (pending release of LAN Emulation software)
  • connection to RL and LSB operational
ISDN connectivity
  • Four dial-up lines connected via DigiBoard LAN bridges; operational
  • 8 lines ISDN dial up with CISCO router in procurement
VR displays
  • none at present; considered solution: ToshibaÕs Video Wall
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Foil 13 Infrastructure from
Parallel Computers to
ATM Network and
SGI Visualization Engine

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Foil 14 NPAC Parallel Computing Facility (as of 1/3/95)

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Foil 15 NPAC Networking Infrastructure (as of 1/3/95)

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Foil 16 Special Computer Resources

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SGI Onyx SMP
  • 4 R4400 CPUs, 1MB secondary cache/CPU, 256 MB RAM
  • Reality Engine with two texture processors
  • 140 Mbit/s ATM interface, 20 GB+ disk space
ATM cluster
  • Two ASX-200 switches
  • 9 workstations ATM LAN
  • integrated with FDDI via LAX-20 (pending release of LAN Emulation software)
  • connection to RL and LSB operational
ISDN connectivity
  • Four dial-up lines connected via DigiBoard LAN bridges; operational
  • 8 lines ISDN dial up with CISCO router in procurement
VR displays
  • none at present; considered solution: ToshibaÕs Video Wall
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Foil 17 Rome Laboratory - NPAC ATM Infrastructure

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Foil 18 The Four Applications
Weather
Command and Control
Electromagnetic Simulations
Telemedicine

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Foil 19 A1: Real-Time Interactive Distributed Weather Information System

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Simulation on Demand for Tactical Decision Support
  • Area Visibility (cloud cover)
  • Wind Velocities
  • Transport of Chemical Agents
Project to Demonstrate:
  • Real-Time Weather Simulations
  • Distributed Computation (eg, HPF, MPI)
  • Navigation through 3D Terrain and Airspace
  • Integration with Geographical Information System (GIS)
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Foil 20 A1: Proposed Implementation of Weather Application

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Identify Suitable Weather Simulation Code
  • Oklahoma Tornado Simulation Code
    • Parallelised Code exists from Developers
    • Explore Modifying Physics for Lake Effect Snow
  • NASA Advection Code for Global Chemistry Transport in Atmosphere
    • Existing NPAC Parallelised Simulation on Demand Demonstration
    • Explore Modification for Shorter Scale Phenomena [O(1 km)]
  • Investigate Other Possible Weather Codes
Use of NPAC/Rome-Lab GIS Project
  • Integration with Weather Simulation
Interfaces to Visualisation Module
  • Use of NPAC/Rome-Lab Project: eg, AVS, SGI-Inventor, or VRML
  • Tools for Data Exchange between Simulation & Visualisation Module
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Foil 21 Visit of Hillary Clinton to Syracuse University April 5,1994 -- Tornado Simulation

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A Simulation on Demand InfoVision application using CM5 for simulation and AVS for coarse grain software decomposition support

There is a larger Better Quality Image available
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Foil 22 Key C3I Requirements to be Addressed

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C3I Systems are evolving from command flowdown to collaboration and visualization technologies
Multi-Use COTS Technology (Hardware and Software) increasingly critical to cost effective and responsive systems
Exploitation of synergy with other fields, such as medicine and collaboratory research critical to evolution of C3I capability.
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Foil 23 C3I Program Objectives

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Develop/Apply technologies for collaborative, MPP supported C3I environment.
Demonstrate alternative approach to reuse in C3I development:
  • Not based on source code reuse
  • Reuse is at application / browser level
  • Maximize leveraging of non-domain specific COTS applications
Develop technical architecture that allows for:
  • Interoperability of classical C3I applications with evolving structures
  • Integrates MPP Servers within this architecture
  • Extensible as standards and applications evolve
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Foil 24 Joint/Coalition C2 System Status

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Reviewed JWID-95 and C4I for the Warrior; also JWID-96 plans and Smart Push/Warrior Pull working group report
Reviewed Fort Franklin III
Now need to identify specific C3I missions and functions for RL support
Presently investigating DMA databases and formats
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Foil 25 C3 Concept Development Goals

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Identify key C3 concepts and objectives
Ensure consistency with other tasks
Incorporate existing service requirements or technology needs analysis
Provide concept and application demonstrations
Support involvement in exercises i.e., Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration
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Foil 26 A3: NPAC/Syracuse Research Corporation Computational Electromagnetics Project

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NPAC and SRC, ARPA and EMCC Funded, Computational Electromagnetics on MPPs
SRC ParaMoM - Large-scale Industrial Application, MoM-based CEM package for modeling Radar Cross Section of Full-Scale Aerospace Vehicles
NPAC/CRPC - State-of-the-art Parallel Algorithms, Linear Algebra Software (ScaLAPACK), and Architectures
Portable Parallel Implementation on Multiple MPPs and Cluster Architectures - IBM SP2, Intel Paragon, CM5 and PVM Workstation Clusters
Good Speedup,Scalability,Portability Achieved
A simple AVS-based visualization prototype system developed
More Information - http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcheng/CEM/home.html
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Foil 27 Electromagnetic Scattering Simulation System

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Goal: Development of electromagnetic simulation for C3I missions and functions
Have reviewed GEMACS (D. Leskiw of Ultra - note: GEMACS is RL software, but restricted access)
Now need to define electromagnetic simulation demonstration and integration requirements for C3I
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Foil 28 A4: Medical Collaboration and Visualization System

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Cooperation with SUNY Health Science Center (Dr. Robert Corona, neuropathologist, Director of Telemedicine and Medical Informatics)
RL "Collaboratory and Telecommunication Experiments" project, progress in medical area:
  • multimedia patient record database (WWW form-based front-end to Oracle relational database on IBM Power Station)
  • evaluating various strategies for compression of pathology images (including JPEG and wavelet technologies)
  • evaluating several videoconferencing software products (e.g. Communique, InPerson, ProShare)
  • comparing several 2D / 3D image visualization and processing software (e.g. AVS, Khoros, 3Dviewnix)
  • prototype of distributed "pathology workstation" (RL, SUNY HSC, NPAC)
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Foil 29 A4: Medical Collaboration -- Current Focus:

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Videoconferencing (Communique with Digital Video Everywhere environment)
Application of volume visualization methods integrated with medical collaboratory system (David Warner, Nason Fellow in "Interventional Informatics")
Virtual reality and its integration with WWW (VRML, WebSpace,...); real-time communication between people in the VR; visualizing people and their behavior
Patient Record Database
  • full version of the preliminary short version patient record
  • adding confidentiality and security
  • adding a large number of multimedia records and testing with help of physicians
  • improving remote-access storage and retrieval
Image Visualization, Image Processing, 3D reconstruction
  • application of implemented marching cube algorithm fore 3D reconstruction of serial sections (existing sections from Visible Human project)
  • implementation and development VR-based fly-throughs of reconstructed images
  • estimation of cell densities, cell shape and types (pattern recognition)
Utilization of ongoing medicine activities on NYNET
  • ATM and ISDN available in NPAC, RL and SUNY HSC
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Foil 30 NII
Technology Background

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Foil 31 Basic Structure of World Wide Web

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Browsers have SAME interface on ALL Computers
CGI Programs are typically written in PERL but can be essentially ANY UNIX Process and so do simulation, database access, advanced document processing etc.
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Foil 32 Architecture of Web Software

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Application Specific NII Specific Services for
  • Education
  • HealthCare
  • Commerce
  • Manufacturing etc.
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Foil 33 HPCC needs a large enough market to sustain technology (systems and software)

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This implies that we look at both Grand Challenges and National Challenges but we suggest this is not enough:
WebWork Builds HPCC technologies on a broad not niche base starting at bottom (Web,PC's)
not top (MPP's, Supercomputers) of computing pyramid
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Foil 34 Figure 2: WebWork -- System Overview with Three Layers

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Illustrates 3 base layers of WebWork architecture and all main system components.
A 4--node compute-web is represented
  • by WebFlow icons in Layer 3,
  • by Java threads in Layer 2, and
  • by WWVM modules in Layer 1.
Java/HotJava model is used for WebFlow front-end implementation

The paper describing this project is available at SCCS715 in NPAC technical report series
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Foil 35 Java Character Recognition Demo -- The Letter W

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Foil 36 Figure 9: Example of use of VRML -- Black Hole Collision Diagram (NCSA)

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A sample VRML page produced by Black Hole Simulation group at NCSA and displayed by SGI WebSpace, cooperating with Netscape Navigator.
A set of 3D spaces related to gravity research is represented as Netscape icons and linked to the corresponding VRML worlds.
WebSpace window displays one of these spaces -- a space-time diagram for two black hole collision ('Pair of Pants' diagram)
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Foil 37 Collage of Hello World Demonstrations

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Foil 38 Some Relevant NII Services-I

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Desktop Publishing and Productivity Tools in WebWindows (WebTop Productivity/Publishing)
  • Webmail, WebWord, WebLOTUS123, WebPersuasion etc.
InfoVision: Delivery on Demand of Information from:
  • Digital archives of latest CNN, Reuters and network video
  • 100,000 hours of archives of video from last few years requiring some 100 terabyte of storage
  • Simulations of expected lake effect snow storm in Syracuse
  • This is storage, search and dissemination of multimedia Digital libraries
Commerce -- digital Cash and signatures with appropriate authentication and security. Enables both Web Commerce (shopping) and use of Web for proprietary information
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Foil 39 Some Relevant NII Services-II

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Interactive and "batch" Collaboration
  • Desktop Video conferencing to 3 dimensional graphic MOOs -- these lead to full televirtual interactions
  • White boards etc.
  • Collaboratories -- Geographically distributed Laboratories
  • Workflow and configuration controlled databases
  • This leads to Software Engineering on the Web
Metacomputing -- the collection of world wide computers as a coordinated (in subgroups of computers) computational engine (for simulation or information processing)
  • Includes control of remote medical and scientific instruments
  • Searching the world for Information
  • Running a coarse grain decomposed simulation between ASOP sites around world
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Foil 40 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications -- HealthCare and Telemedicine

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This is distributed databases for supporting cost effective healthcare with less fraud, better use of existing information for establishing care-plans etc
This is collaboration, remote instrument control for telemedicine
Could be full televirtuality for virtual-reality controlled remote surgery in battlefield or accident scenarios
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Foil 41 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications -- Education

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This is basis of Virtual University and NII can be expected to be much more succesful than videosystems because interactive, collaborative, explorative and full multimedia information at student and teachers fingertips
Base of Distance Education is InfoVision for full interactive curricula
  • Note hyperlinking is as important as multimedia as allows student controlled exploration in richer fashion than old fashioned sequential books
  • Geographic Information Systems allows the general virtual field trip
Rich Collaboration environments including televirtual MOO's for student-student and student-teacher interactions
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Foil 42 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications -- Society

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InfoVision is "successor" to TV with any multimedia information delivered on demand( choice from infinite number of channels)
Community Networks will define local societies and will have significant impact on local government
Shopping on the Web will include multimedia digital yellow pages , Commerce, online catalogs (which is InfoVision again) as well as perhaps powerful VR interfaces where you can try out new clothes and cars
Collaboration (gossip as in computer forums) could be an important and dominant use but perhaps not initial major one
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Foil 43 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications
-- Business (Enterprise Systems)

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OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) such as approving and recording credit card transactions. This is a type of InfoVision and Commerce which is operational today
  • Has major security and reliability demands but undemanding on computer and network
Decision Support varies from fraud detection, inventory planning and market segmentation for optimizing shopping by mail
Decision support can vary from search of a single giant relational database to galaxy-wide search of heterogeneous distributed database
Workflow Support as in LOTUS Notes integrates Collaboration, Project Management and Distributed Databases. This supports ongoing distributed enterprise -- this is also essential in collaboratory
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Foil 44 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications
-- Defence and Crisis Management

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Critical feature is realtime, "come as you are" adaptive linked computers and people
Judgement support extends decision support into an "exploratorium" scenario as crises tend to be unexpected
Major need to search community and government databases for immediate information on resource location and availability etc. Metadata(summaries) essential
Collaboration between commander in field , specialized anchor desks (domain experts) and those in field.
User Interface essential as user will be tired and searching unfamiliar data
Geographical Information Systems and browsing multiple video sources (InfoVision again) will be critical as judgements will depend critically on spatial data.
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Foil 45 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications -- Collaboratory

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This is future model for (inter)national distributed research
Rich Collaboration environment essential as collaborative research requires nontrivial person to person interactions
Searching distributed databases basis of much scholarly work (infoVision and Digital Library)
Metacomputing for multidisciplinary, multi-institutional simulations and for control and data storage and analysis from remote instruments whether satellites, telescopes, accelerators etc.
Distributed (people) Software Engineering support for production of distributed computing software
Needs workflow support as distributed enterprise
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Foil 46 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications
-- Manufacturing of Complex Systems

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Critical feature is closely integrated collaboration of very many people and computers requiring
Metacomputing Simulation and distributed database support as in Collaboratory
Workflow support including configuration management and central CAD databases
Rich collaboration environment to support distributed design decisions
Standards and Security to allow interlinking of people and software from different organizations
Key special requirement is distributed coordination
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Foil 47 NII Enhances ASOP in a Multi-Organization Activity

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Foil 48 ASOP Introduces Aerospace Paradigm Shifts

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Foil 49 5.0 and 6.0 NII Infrastructure

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Foil 50 2.1-2.5 ASOP Object Backplane Leverages NII

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Collaboration Services - support distributed, virtual collocation of aeronautics development teams
Configuration Control Services - provide configuration management for complex product data relationships
Metacomputing Services - facilitate effective use of powerful, distributed computing services
Security and Access Services - safeguard information and ensure validity of access to ASOP capabilities
Object and Data Service - implement for data transformations and resource integration
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Foil 51 Technical Objectives

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Demonstrate ability to produce a C3I functional framework without development of classic interface, integration and message handling software
  • Evolving collaborative C3I processes will further stress existing C3I construction methods
Provide inherent evolution through incorporation of open, supported standards, rather than development of application code
Key challenges: Integration standards that are appropriate for both internal system construction and for interface to web components, such as CORBA Extend the integration mechanism to support massively parallel domain processes (closely and loosely coupled) to support collaboration and visualization.
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Foil 52 Technology Flow to Develop C3I Architecture

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Foil 53 Comparison with Classical C3I System Development

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Foil 54 Technology Candidates CORBA I

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Key requirement is development of an open standard to link standalone C3I applications to open services
  • Bridge legacy and domain specific applications to open clients and services.
  • Provide deployable performance
  • Support MPP and other asynchronous mechanisms for simulation services
Object Broker interfaces offer practical mechanism for:
  • A common, open commercial network application interface
  • A robust technical architecture
  • Integration of new and legacy C4I applications through encapsulation
  • Integration of C4I Applications with networked processes
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Foil 55 Technology Candidates CORBA II

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CORBA - HTML/WEB Linkage Offers:
  • Access to User Authoring tools
  • Interoperability with the largest deployed application
  • Application extension via "virtual" operating system
  • Extension of existing Internet framework into more complex networking architectures
Technology Challenges
  • Operation at both low level (object to object) and high level (application to service levels)
  • Support MPP and non-sequential services
  • Functional integration with Web services
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Foil 56 The Proposal Specific Component Technologies

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Foil 57 Some Comments on the Technologies -- I

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Virtual Reality -- Build on Rome Laboratory and Dave Warner locally as well Argonne/UIC(DeFanti EVL) nationally
Compression critical for delivering quality digital video and audio which are essential in both "talking heads" and multimedia information systems (text-indexed video databases)
Network Management uses Rome Laboratory and NYNEX sponsored work -- ensures adaptive reliable networks with high Quality of Service
Collaboration -- currently digital video (InSoft, Proshare, SGI InPerson) is outside Web. It must as in Argonne Webspace/Labspace project be integrated with Web as this has other critical services
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Foil 58 Some Comments on the Technologies -- II

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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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Foil 59 T0: Enabling Technologies (ET) Project

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Focussed effort at providing robust, usable, supported and well documented software to meet all NPAC's needs.
Practical Integration Within NPAC:
  • - Common path on all NPAC systems to the ET software resources
  • - NPAC Helper resources set up. These are WWW based and contain:
    • Information about the sofware installation
    • User documentation
    • Pointers to NPAC personnel who can provide further help
    • Links to external sites where there is further information
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Foil 60 The Hyperworld of New Interactive Media

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Three Dimensions of Multimedia Extensions for Interactive Services
  • HPCC with high speed Fiber Optical connections and Superservers
  • Immersion with Spatial Navigation Metaphor
  • Multi-User Shared Distributed (Virtual) Worlds of Information and Simulation
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Foil 61 WebFoil on LabSpace Televirtual Environment

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Rome Laboratory Collaborative and Interactive Visualization
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Foil 62 Dave Warner Neat Virtual Reality Thing in WebFoil

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Rome Laboratory Collaborative and Interactive Visualization
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Foil 63 T2: Compression -- Motivation/Overview

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Supports the transport of large images and animation (video) with high resolution
Eliminates redundant or less critical information
  • Spatial redundancy: values of neighboring pixels are strongly correlated
  • Spectral redundancy: the spectral values for the same pixel location are correlated
  • Temporal redundancy: frames show very little change in the sequence
Decreases the time and cost of transmission and storage requirements
Investigation of several image compression technologies
  • JPEG - leading standard, JBIG, Fractal, Wavelet - most promising
Power of wavelet-based methods - high quality, fast encoding / decoding, solid mathematical background
Wavelet compression is represented by the weighted sum of basis functions together with quantization and coding
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Foil 64 T2: Compression -- Implementation (2)

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Software available
  • Commercial - AccuPress, AWARE Inc.
  • Portable version of the EFP University still image wavelet algorithm
    • color capability
    • larger scale of intensities (the previous version restricted to 256)
Implementation of 2D still image wavelet compressor
  • Goal: high quality, fast encoding / decoding, high ratio
  • High resolution, full color images, large scale of intensities
  • Varied ratio (more than 100:1)
  • Implementation of Pearlman algorithm
  • Biorthogonal transform, zero-tree, arithmetic/Huffman coder
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Foil 65 T2: Compression -- Implementation Contd.(3)

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Investigation of various video compression technologies
  • mJPEG, MPEG, H.261, MVC1, Fractal, Wavelet
Wavelet-based implementation of hierarchical motion compensation and 3D subband coding already reported in the literature
Wavelet video compressor
  • removal of temporal redundancy by compression difference between neighboring frames
  • implementing of 3D subband coding require many frames in memory and better investigation of motion estimation techniques
  • Real time, low- and high-resolution requirements - the most difficult aspect of video compression
Focus: transport over low bandwidth ISDN network (BRI 2B + D = 144 Kbps)
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Foil 66 Objectives of NYNET Communication Systems

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Foil 67 NYNET Communication System

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Foil 68 NCS Process Communication architecture

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Foil 69 T3: Collaboration -- NPACBoard Overview

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NPACBoard is a WWW based forum/bulletin board developed, written and support by NPAC.
Based on CGI Perl scripts that create HTML pages and forms for processing the received Email messages.
Key Features:
  • - Dynamic creation of on-line discussion forums
  • - Enhances on-site interactivity
  • - Provides dynamic database of forum information
  • - Easily maintained via WWW-based administrative interface
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Foil 70 T3: Collaboration -- NPACBoard Features

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- Simple user interface and navigation
- Email text automatically formatted into HTML pages
- Support for WWW hypertext links, images and forms
- Complete on-line help
- Ability to age and remove old messages
- Password protection of individual discussion groups
- Automated installation procedure
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Foil 71 T4: 2D Terrain Rendering for Geographical Information Systems

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We use Landsat Satellite 30 meter horizontal resolution data for 2D images of New York State
Digital Line Graphs are overlaid on map to show:
  • Highways
  • Waterways
  • Railways
  • State and County boundaris
LULC (Land Use Land Cover) codes are overlaid on map
Weather Extensions
  • Hot (Web) buttons linking to weather pages for location
  • Isobar and Isotemperature lines
  • Real time weather updates on map
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Foil 72 Illustrative Screendump for WebTools (Spring '95):E-Mail Functionality, Implementation

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Postscript also Available
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Foil 73 NPAC Web based Bulletin Board System

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Shown with example of November 3 Presentation to Trustee Spouses
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Foil 74 T4: 2D Terrain Rendering for Geographical Information Systems

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We use Landsat Satellite 30 meter horizontal resolution data for 2D images of New York State
Digital Line Graphs are overlaid on map to show:
  • Highways
  • Waterways
  • Railways
  • State and County boundaris
LULC (Land Use Land Cover) codes are overlaid on map
Weather Extensions
  • Hot (Web) buttons linking to weather pages for location
  • Isobar and Isotemperature lines
  • Real time weather updates on map
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Foil 75 2D Terrain Rendering for New York State Interactive Journey

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From Living Schoolbook Project
Hot buttons linking to weather page in Albany area
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Foil 76 The Weather Report accessed through the Interactive Journey

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From Living Schoolbook Project
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Foil 77 T4: Applications of 3D Terrain Rendering for Geographical Information Systems

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This uses same 30 meter Landsat images combined with Digital Elevation Model (DEM) at 100 meter (horizontal) resolution
This has applications not only to education (Living Schoolbook) but also to business and scientific visualization -- for instance ....... !
Enjoy a high altitude fly-by (virtual field trip for kids) of your city, state, country or Mars (courtesy of JPL)
Analyse your business competition by showing the relation between population density and the location of competing businesses and their profits
Animation of weather formations -- such as thunderstorms and lake effect snow -- on realistic background
Demonstrate the effect of geographical features on weather and ocean current
Analyse the relationship between pollution and population density
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Foil 78 3D Terrain Rendering for New York State Interactive Journey

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Foil 79 T4: Object-oriented Database Support for VRML -- Goal

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Goal: Enable dynamic data, scene contents and object behavior, and dynamic object interaction to support GIS
Current VRML: flat files storage
Disadvantages:
  • (-) static data;
  • (-) no user information;
  • (-) virtual worlds chopped into non-interacting sections;
  • (-) no incremental world description possible;
  • (-) no semantic object description, hence limited query possibilities;
Proposed extension:
Use of an object-oriented database system to store
VRML data
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Foil 80 T4: Object-oriented Database Support for VRML -- Main Concepts

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(*) extended semantics: objects modeled as world objects rather than as a set of polygons; composite objects possible;
(*) objects have generic VRML descriptions;
(*) boundaries of the world perceived by a user are not correlated with the way this world is described in the database;
(*) world descriptions distributable;
(*) objects behavior stored as scripting language;
(*) database model not coupled to current VRML definition
Advantages of Object-Oriented Model
(+) ability to select only the relevant information;
(+) multiple world views;
(+) incremental world delivery to the browser;
(+) world objects dynamic;
(+) ability to introduce users to the world;
(+) ability to support multiversioning
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Foil 81 T4: Object-oriented Database Support for VRML -- System architecture

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No changes to the server side. All functionality provided by the database system
Client side: the browser needs to be able to
  • send user position and orientation to the server to obtain description of the visible objects
  • accept from the server a partial scene description
Communication: not crucial for the proposed model
Proposed implementation:
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Foil 82 VRML for Geographical Information system -- Western Long Island View-1 using WebView

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Using San Diego VRML Viewer Webview
Little Neck Bay in Northern Long Island (altitude exaggerated by factor 7)
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Foil 83 VRML for Geographical Information system -- Western Long Island View-1 using WebSpace

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Using SGI VRML Viewer Webspace
Little Neck Bay in Northern Long Island (altitude exaggerated by factor 7)
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Foil 84 T5: Video on Demand technology status -- Implementation highlights

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Video acquisition infrastructure for digitization and compression of the video material is operational
Video on demand environment has been installed. The environment includes a number of video server platforms and network infrastructure using switched ethernet and ATM delivery trunk.
Living Schoolbook application testbed is operational.
Client-server video on demand architectures have been implemented on a number of platforms. Streaming, real time video delivery has been implemented and integrated with Web front ends.
Video indexing via closed-caption free texts search is ongoing.
Integration with commercial Video for Windows technology is ongoing.
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Foil 85 T5: Video on Demand technology status - Ongoing research projects

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Implementation of the new IP protocol dedicated to video delivery. Applications of the emerging RSVP and RTP protocols.
Variable bit rate to constant bit rate conversion: theoretical framework completed, ongoing implementation.
Simulation framework for realistic video server architectures has been set up and is being used to simulate and study different architectures and to assess their impact on the video server performance and functionality
Use of the wavelet compression technology for video delivery.
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Foil 86 Living SchoolBook Access to Digital Discovery Channel Archive

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Searched on Inventions
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Foil 87 T5:Integration of Web and RDBMS Technologies

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Web as a generic networking interface to access information systems built on RDBMS technology
RDBMS as a powerful backend data engine to manage and manipulate information entities
Web + RDBMS provides maximum information sharing,global user access and multimedia based GUI towards a truly collaborative information environment
Current status
  • Oracle RDBMS for Well Structured Information Systems
    • information Systems on Mail-based Content - USENET Newsgroup Archives, Mailing-list Archives, Personal Mailbox Search Engine
  • Oracle SQL*TextRetrieval for Free-Text based Information Systems - Web Search Systems
    • Text Search Engines for on-line Books in HTML
    • Search Engines for Web Space on Local Web Servers
  • Sequential Oracle7 Database Server on Workstation
More Information - http://kayak.npac.syr.edu:1963
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Foil 88 T5: Integration of Web and RDBMS Technologies - Future Plans

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A Collaborative Information Environment for USENET Newsgroups and Mailing List
Service-oriented information systems using Web server and Parallel Database Technology
Data Mining in USENET Newsgroups and Mailing List Archives - User Search Pattern, News-on-Demand, Server Utilization Statistics, etc.
Web Search System for Web Space on Remote/Global Web Servers
  • Full-Index Web Search System
  • Web Robots for Gathering Information from Remote Web Sites
  • Parallel Oracle7 RDBMS Server and Oracle 7 Context Server MPP/SMP Server
Full-Index Search System for Video-on-demand Server
Integration of VRML and Object-Oriented Database Systems
Integration of Java and RDBMS
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Foil 89 NPAC Oracle 7 Web Interface -- Home Page

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Oracle 7 Interface to Usenet-Prepared October 27,1995

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Foil 90 Popular Query by Subject for NPAC Oracle 7 Web Interface

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Foil 91 Web to Oracle Interface Screen 10: Query by Subject --2

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Foil 93 WebFlow Paradigm

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Overview Kickoff Meeting at NPAC -- October 17,1995. * See also color IMAGE
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User-level WebWork metaphor is given by WebFlow -- a distributed dataflow model built in terms of WebWork modules and MIME object/document communication channels.
  • Think as Web versions of AVS or Khoros
WebWork users will build and control distributed computing applications (compute-webs) using Web browsers based visual interactive editors and monitors.
We are currently prototyping such WebFlow front-ends at NPAC using Java/HotJava model. WebWork modules are represented by Java threads (Screen 6) and visualized as interactive interconnected icons (Screen 7)
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Foil 94 Figure 7: Java demo (NPAC) -- WebFlow Editor prototype

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Overview Kickoff Meeting at NPAC -- October 17,1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
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Early prototype of AVS or Khoros like visual compute-web editor.
Two interactive modes are supported:
  • a) module placement, and
  • b) module linking.
In mode a), each click in the active editor window places a new module box there.
In mode b), each click on module port generates links with all other modules.
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Foil 95 Software Project Manager -- Example of Agent Middleware

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Overview Kickoff Meeting at NPAC -- October 17,1995. * See also color IMAGE
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One current WebWork/WebFlow application, prototyped at NPAC, is Software Project Manager (Screen 8). Each software developer runs his/her WebTools server and uses HySource CASE tools. These servers are WWVM-connected to agent and manager servers. Agent server receives automatic notifications from developers servers on each software volume update, and uses customizable thresholds to decide when to fire a report to the manager or a deadline reminder to a developer.
Software Project Manager tools contains a simple agent server that mediates between client/consumer ( here manager) and servers/producers (here developers).
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Foil 96 Figure 8: Java demo (NPAC) -- WebFlow application prototype: Project Manager

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Overview Kickoff Meeting at NPAC -- October 17,1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
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A front-end for the software project manager tool.
Three types of modules are supported:
  • a) developers,
  • b) software agent,
  • c) project manager.
Developer modules are linked to the agent module and report automatically all changes in the software volume (handled by WebTools CASE toolkit integrated with WebTools editor).
The agent module integrates the results and uses customizable threshold to decide when to fire a report to the manager or a deadline reminder to a developer.
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Foil 97 Figure 3: WebTools CASE tools sample manual page Including hyper-source code

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Overview Kickoff Meeting at NPAC -- October 17,1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
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HyPerl World page, generated automatically by the WebTools CASE package, and integrating documentation with the source.
More generally, we call by HySource the hypertext documentation with navigable source code included.
Function calls and external variable references are 'blue' and point to the corresponding HySource pages.
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Foil 98 WebWork -- NPAC, Boston University, Cooperating Systems Collaboration

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Overview Kickoff Meeting at NPAC -- October 17,1995. * See also color IMAGE
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Implements the "Viable Base" Enterprise Model of HPCC Software identified in Pasadena2 workshop
  • This will allow good programming tools to be developed and maintained as larger enough base to support software industry
Implements a powerful software engineering framework for parallel computing by integrating parallel programming with the World Wide Web Productivity Tools
WebTools is a prototype developed at NPAC which is a base on which to build the Compute and Software Engineering Capabilities of WebWork
An early development will be WebFlow -- a AVS/Khoros like system built on the Web which can be used for BOTH Computing (modules are executable software) and for management of Software Development task (modules are source code and people)
Later can develop the full WebHPL -- a hybrid compiled/Interpreted environment implenting HPF/HPC++ etc system with Web infrastructure and front end
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Foil 99 Demonstrations

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Overview Kickoff Meeting at NPAC -- October 17,1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
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Foil 100 Role of Demonstrations

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Demonstrations keyed to specific technologies developed on contract.
Provide C4I context to investigate utility/application of these technologies.
Objectives keyed to:
    • Functionality -- How technologies translate in additional capability
    • Technical Characteristics -- Provide more cost effective/interoperable/flexible systems
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Foil 101 Planning Approach

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Overview Kickoff Meeting at NPAC -- October 17,1995. * See also color IMAGE
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Demonstrations keyed to program technologies
Specific demos selected after target technology integration initiated.
  • One based on representative applications (e.g. Medical) (early)
  • One representative C3I system (later)
Objectives established early in technology program.
Anticipate investigating up to 6 candidates
Final selection of 2 demos for development.
  • Joint RL-Syracuse
  • ARPA input desirable
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Foil 102 Demonstration Planning Activities

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First decision
    • Integrate with an ongoing demo (ex. JWID, WARBREAKER, DSI, etc.), or hold program specific event
    • RL will have to sponsor involvement in ongoing demo program
Second Decision
    • Candidate facilities include RL, Syracuse, or User locations such as ACC or NTF.
Candidates programs to be provided in next 90 days
Joint RL-Syracuse working group should be initiated
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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