I am looking forward to getting OpenDX users to attend, as well as users from the AVS community, VTK community, IDL community and the Explorer community. I myself use most of the products that we are trying to have in this workshop and would like to see a fair competition between the products.
We are planning on having 3 computer platforms (a PC running NT with 2 processors and Wildcat graphics), a Sun Ultra 60 with 2 processors and Elite3Dm6 graphics, and a SGI (TBD) to run the showdown on. We are still trying to determine the data sets for the showdown. We are also trying to let as many people know about this workshop as possible, and hope that we get a large turnout! I hope to see lots of the OpenDX community in Princeton for VDE2000, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scott approached me about this at Viz'99 and I agreed (happily) to sit in > as the "vendor representative" of OpenDX, so I'll be there. Do we know > who the three users he mentioned are? I bet one will be from NCSC - I > helped them with a project for Supercomputing '99 that looked pretty good. > Who else will be able to attend? It was originally intended to take place > in RTP, North Carolina, so I figured that I'd at least get to meet Suhaib > (as well as visit my old haunts in Chapel Hill and get some decent > barbeque), but I don't know whether any of the list members are reasonably > local or can travel. I guess I'm reasonably local; I'm in Westchester > County NY, 90min to 2 hours from Princeton. I'll try to get some of the > other IBM DXers to attend as well. > > I'm not sure what platforms Scott plans to make available. I have a > 233MHz Thinkpad running Linux that I can take; and a 133MHz Thinkpad > running Windows. Maybe I can get my hands on a faster Windows machine. > Since one of OpenDX's advantages over the competition is that it takes > advantage of SMP parallel systems, I hope there'll be one there I can use. > > I'm also intending to show off some new stuff -certainly the ActiveDX > component stuff, maybe I'll have DDX at a presentable level by then. > > Greg
