To make existing resources truly effective, scientists and engineers must be able to interact as if they were physically collocated--sharing data, high-performance computing systems, and instrumentation independent of location. To this end, the DOE2000 Collaboratory Research activity is exploring several new areas.

Collaboratory Research & Development Projects
(Funded by OER/MICS/DOE2000)

• Collaboratory Interoperability Framework
  produce distributed computing software bus required to support development of scientific collaboratories; coordinate tool integration from other R&D projects; develop common communication library including both multicast and unicast -- ANL, LBNL, PNNL, SNL
• Electronic Logbooks
  develop a modular, extensible notebook framework and use it to produce cross-platform interoperating prototype implementations based on modern object-oriented design -- LBNL, PNNL, ORNL
• Collaborative Session Management
  create persistent representations of sessions and people that include audio/video, electronic notebooks, and electonic whiteboards -- ANL, PNNL
• Shared Virtual Spaces
  address existing barriers to deploying shared VR spaces for the output of simulations and rendering of experimental data -- ANL
• Scalable Security Architecture
  define and demonstrate general and modular security architecture that will address the goal of protecting open network applications and provide flexible interfaces to enable cross-platform, cross-component implementation of the architecture and security functions -- LBL
• ESnet Quality of Service
  write a bandwidth broker application that will become part of the administrative hierarchy that manipulates the bandwidth allocation machinery to provide sustained bandwidth to an application -- LBNL
• Floor Control
  integrate mechanisms for floor control into the Mbone tool architecture so that it is possible to have moderated meetings during video conferencing -- LBNL

Other Collaboratory Research within DOE

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