Computer Systems facilities in OH
2 facilities
Advanced Computational Concepts Laboratory (ACCL)
Cleveland, OH
Most activities are collaborations between teams in the Computer Services Division and various research groups throughout the center. Current research examines parallel and distributed processing, interprocessor communication via advanced networks and switches, and the development of workstation clusters as low-cost alternatives to conventional supercomputing. The ACCL also supports the NASA Glenn testbeds for the National Research an Education Network and the Computing, Information, Communications Technologies/the Numerical Propulsion System Simulator, and the CICT Space Communications Program.
GRUVE Laboratory
Cleveland, OH
The GRUVE (Glenn Reconfigurable User-interface and Virtual reality Exploration) Lab is a reconfigurable, large screen display facility at Nasa Glenn Research Center. It has been designed to allow researchers and engineers to explore their data and interact with one another in a computer generated environment. The display screens can be moved into different configurations from a single 8ftx24ft display wall to an 8ftx8ft, fully immersive virtual reality room, similar to a virtual reality 'CAVE', with images almost totally surrounding the users. Screens can be reconfigured for different display modes from a large, flat wall to a wrap-around stereoscopic theater, to a fully-immersive, virtual reality 'CAVE' . A CAVE(tm) (which stands for CAVE Automated Virtual Environment) typically refers to fully-immersive environment consisting of projections on at least three walls and floor with appropriate stereoscopic and position-tracking capability. The RAVE can also emulate an InfinityWall or other display systems.