SAGE - Pushing the Envelope, like usual!

The SAGE BOF was interesting. EVL and the SAGE group pushing the boundaries like usual! Nice work Jason, Luc, Maxine, Sungwon, and Ratko (and the rest of the SAGE community).

Some very impressive streaming results from SARA and some interesting work with CalIT2, CINEGrid, and Disney. Nice integration with ParaView and SAGE to stream parallel ParaView session to SAGE wall. Also, nice discussion of user interface issues in designing for wall based use cases.

Factors:

• Thin bezels important to usability.
  
• Reachable for interaction.
• Visiblity for large audiences.
• Mobility
  
• Touch screens - good for detail, localized interaction, tiring for longer work.
• Gyromouse - standing but no need to walk back and forth
• Comfort - use of laptops, sitting around, interacting with desktops
• Video conferencing
• Mapping content between remote sites
  
• Touch screen interface over very large tiled display - VERY nice!
• Argonne and nVidia booth on demo
  

Definitely worth going to the booths for Kaust (Booth 2247), SARA, Argonne (Booth 2513) and others to see the SAGE demos.

Whats Next? SAGENext - Single node SAGE portals makes it usable to MANY users! Enabling cloud applications such as Google Services (like anything cloud, I am not quite sure what this means 8-)... Coming to you for SC 2011!