NET-BASED VISUALIZATION APPLICATION - The Texas Advanced Computing
Center (TACC) at the U of Texas-Austin deployed a network-based visualization
application at two of its advanced computing centers to facilitate real-time collaborative
visualization between them. Installations at TACC's advanced visualization laboratory
of its main campus and in the main computing facility at its research campus, separated
by approximately eight miles, will enable researchers on both campuses to work
together to analyze the results of computational simulations. For example, researchers
in the UT Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences will be able to
collaboratively analyze data from high performance computing simulations with their
colleagues in the UT Institute for Geophysics at the research campus. The university is
using Wide Area Visualization Solution from TeraBurst Networks Inc. as the collaboration
platform. The company designed the solution to provide real-time connectivity between
geographically separate centers that use high-resolution, 3-D stereoscopic graphics and
video for visualization applications. (Syllabus News, Resources, and Trends, 25 Mar 03)

FSU MED STUDENTS GIVEN CLINICAL SUPPORT TOOL - Florida State
U (FSU) is providing its medical students and clinical faculty with access to a multi-
platform, decision-support tool, which links physicians at the point and time of care
with information on more than 450 medical conditions, 350 chief complaints, and
400 patient information sheets. The system, PDxMD, made by Elsevier, is designed
to be accessible via a desktop or handheld computer and will be used this year by
about 70 medical students and 80 faculty members across the FSU system. PDxMD
also links users with an online clinical information service called MDConsult, a
diagnostic support tool now used by more than 250,000 physicians when more in-
depth information is needed. (Syllabus News, Resources, and Trends, 4 Mar 03)