The MMC project makes it possible for these users to access our facilities and our expertise from their home locations without having to physically travel to the facilities themselves. We are developing or incorporating tools for remote collaboration, experimentation, production, software development, modeling, measurement, video conferencing, shared data-viewing, and collaborative analysis. Also, we are controlling large expensive experimental equipment so low latency and high reliability connections are important.
Security is also important since some work involves industrial proprietary data.
Privacy is desirable for almost all video conferencing. DOE is eager to join with other agencies participating in NGI to complement its own efforts. NGI activities is to leverage core programs in network and application research to enhance the Department's ability to satisfy mission requirements through advanced technologies such as distributed computing, national collaboratories, remote access to facilities, and remote access to petabyte-scale datasets with complex internal structure. Sufficient to run above computers with accessories. We need space for 3 computers and their operators.