GVU Lab News - April 2000

Announcements

• GVU/CCB lab renovation plans online: we're set to move forward on the renovation. Take a look at the new layout.
• Lab downtime: because of the upcoming renovation the GVU/CCB lab will be down for approximately 4-6 weeks beginning around April 24th. The Systems folks have very graciously allowed us to move temporarily into room 201 during the renovation. The video and usability labs will also be down for some unknown time period as well - details to come as they are hashed out.
• Upgrade of the GVU/CCB conference room: I'd like to solicit some opinions on plans for the conference room. Ideally we'd have a ceiling-mounted projector, the video/keyboard/mouse switcher, a VCR, and speakers for audio. You could hook either a laptop or any of the lab machines to the projector. Any other ideas/needs? I really need input and a push from you to make this happen!

New hardware in the lab:

• Speedy, the SciVis Octane, is now a dual 300 MHz R12K box - formerly it was a single 250 MHz R10K. Remember! Speedy belongs to SciVis, so their users and users engaged in high-end graphics and visualization work have priority.

New software in the lab:

• We have licenses of 3D Studio Viz, an architectural visualization product. If you're interested in using it (runs on NT) please let the me know.
• New games! We now have Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear and Homeworld.
• Much thanks to Microsoft for donating documentation to their Visual C++ 6.0 package, InterDev 6.0, and Visual J++ 6.0. Swing by room 210 CCB if you'd like to check out a copy.