Science is an inherently collaborative process.
Through this integration of supercomputing, high-speed networking and visualization technologies, scientists are able to see and interact with each other and their results, without physical distances imposing a barrier. The center receives major funding from the National Science Foundation, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA, corporate partners, the state of Illinois and the University of Illinois. EVL, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, represents the oldest formal collaboration between engineering and art in the country offering graduate degrees in visualization. EVL is a joint effort of the Chicago campus's College of Engineering and its School of Art and Design. Silicon Graphics, based in Mountain View, Calif., is the leading manufacturer of high-performance visual computing systems.