Kyoung S. Park
Andrew E. Johnson
ABSTRACT
This paper describes the design and implementation of CAVERNsoft G2, a toolkit for building collaborative virtual reality applications. G2's special emphasis is on providing the tools to support high-performance computing and data intensive systems that are coupled to collaborative, immersive environments.This paper describes G2's broad range of services, and demonstrates how they are currently being used in a collaborative volume visualization application.
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