Virtual reality allows for intuitive, real time interactions with data.
Collaboration technologies negate the impacts of distance.
Working together brings leverage. Work on the Chesapeake Bay project begin in August. John Shalf, programmer at NCSA, worked with Baker and Stephens to build the user interface and implement the application. Data for the simulation had been tested in previous models and verified against data from the Environmental Protection Agency collected as part of its Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program. For instance, they showed how the color of the water moderated from orange to blue in response to differences in the salinity closer to the mouth of the bay.