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Foil 7 Some Further remarks on base Infrastructure

From Technologies and Issues for Virtual University HPDC95/SC95 Tutorials -- August 1/Dec 4 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

The basic multi-use principle says that we will exploit not only the hardware infrastructure but also the software and other technology produced by suite of NII applications including business, health care, entertainment etc.
Note that (1.5 megabit/second) Digital Video supports:
  • Collaboration with real-time video of participants
  • Simulation where you are transmitting video animation produced either in batch mode or in real-time by computer
  • Geographical Information System where you transmit rendered 3 dimensional terrain -- here and above can reduce transmission by transmitting VRML based vector representation of video -- not pixels
  • As well as text-indexed video clips selected from expected 100,000 hour (about 70 terabyte) digital archive


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