# Presentation: 487034

## SC GlobalNovember 2001

- Terry Disz
- disz@mcs.anl.gov
- www.scglobal.org

## SCGlobal Concept

- Use Access Grid advanced collaboration technology  to link SC’2001 conference with a diverse set of constellation sites, and develop a program that exploits this distributed infrastructure to both disseminate SC’2001 content and to increase the range of ideas presented and discussed at the conference

## Access Grid Project Goals 

- Enable Group-to-Group Interaction and Collaboration
- Connecting  People and Teams via the Grid
- Improve the User Experience: Go  Beyond Teleconferencing, Escape the Desktop
- Provide a Sense of Presence
- Support Natural Interaction Modalities
- Use Quality but Affordable Digital IP Based Audio/video
- Leverage IP Open Source Tools
- Enable Complex Multisite Visual and Collaborative Experiences
- Integrate With High-end Visualization Environments
- ActiveMural, Powerwall, CAVE Family, Workbenches
- Build on Integrated Grid Services Architecture
- Develop New Tools Specifically Support Group Collaboration

## 	Access Grid Basics

- Ambient mic
- (tabletop)

- Presenter
- mic

- Presenter
- camera

- Audience camera

- 	Access Grid Basics

- Designed spaces for group interactions
- Hands free audio
- Multiple Video and Audio streams
- Wide field of view

## Collaborative  Data Visualization and Exploration

- Mars Exploration

- Meteorite

- Heart Simulation

- Fluid Flow

## AG Deployment Today

- Argonne National Laboratory Boston University Brazil Caltech Clark Atlanta University ERDC Florida International University Florida State University Georgia Tech Insors Integrated Communications, Inc. Internet 2 Jackson State University Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College LANL LBNL Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC)  Montana State University Motorola NCAR NCSA North Dakota State University Ohio Supercomputing Center Princeton University San Diego Supercomputing Center Sandia National Laboratory Sheridan College TITECH University of Alaska, Fairbanks University of Arkansas at Little Rock  University of Chicago University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Heidelburg University of Illinois University of Illinois at Chicago University of Kansas University of Kentucky University of Manchester University of Michigan University of Montana University of New Mexico University of South Carolina University of Utah University of Washington West Virginia University Beijing Aeronautical Institute Korean Gaming Society Arctic Region Supercomputer Center Australia Amsterdam Italy

- EPSCOR Grant – Closing the digital divide
- Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina, West Virginia

## SC Global Participation(Not Showing US Sites)

## Constellation Sites

- Australia
- Canada
- China
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Italy
- Japan

- United States (Montana, Boeing, U of FL, Kentucky, North Dakota, Boston, UNM, SDSC, LBNL, NCAR, Johnson & Johnson)

## Denver Configurationand Equipment 

- SC Global Showcase Node on showfloor
- 2 SC Global rooms (one with Tech Program, one with Education & BOFs)
- 1 technical program rooms
- + NOC
- + SC Global Ops Center
- All require Access Grid installation
- All gear obtained thanks to Internet-2, NCSA, Kansas, Kentucky, Florida, ANL, BU!!
- Integration with webcasting planned

## SC Global Showcase

- Large-format display on show floor
- Giveaways at the booth
- Working to generate the program
- Follow the yellow brick road to SC Global!

## SC Global Showcase Program

- Goal is to run continuously during showfloor hours, with a dynamic program featuring mix of applications
- Remote content - distributed dance, art, teleradiology, visualization, closed-captioning of some sessions
- Snapshots of technical programs
- Robot

## Technical Content

- BOFs with distributed participants
- Panels with distributed speakers
- “Tech talks”: remote content displayed at Denver
- In addition, remote sites may of course want to receive Denver content

## *Provisional* Program

## Timetable

- August: Speaker Training Workshop
- August: Continuation of test cruises
- September: SC Global Committee Retreat
- September: Continuation of test cruises
- September: Production Training Institute
- Early October: SC Global *freeze - *Megacruises begin, only minor troubleshooting, Showcase content solidified
- November: one-day bootcamp with volunteers

## Contributors

- The Futures Lab at Argonne National Laboratory is:
- Justin Binns, Tom Brown, Lisa Childers, Terry Disz, Mary Fritsch, Mark Hereld, Randy Hudson, Ivan Judson, Bob Olson, Mike Papka, Joe Paris,  and Rick Stevens
- Ian Foster and Julie Wulf are in the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne
- Thanks to Argonne, UChicago, DOE and NSF for $$ and support!!