From Education

The 3DInternet, or metaverse project has been ultimately inspired by "SnowCrash" by Neal Stephenson. Just as there are hundreds of every more complex and interesting examples of metaverses on the Net, so has this project gone through many shifts and phases.

Contents 1 Outstanding Issues and Action Items 1.1 Goals for SC09 in Portland 1.2 Second LIfe "Supercomputing Portal" Island 1.3 ScienceSim 2 Meeting Notes 2.1 General 2.2 SciSim 2.3 Technical 3 Second Life Buildout 4 Articles describing our activities 5 Other Metaverse activities

Outstanding Issues and Action Items

Goals for SC09 in Portland

Second LIfe "Supercomputing Portal" Island

ScienceSim

• Senate meetings
  • every Friday at 8am Pacific inworld at at Galileo (181, 181, 32).
  • Minutes from past meetings are at http://sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php/scisimsenate
• ScienceSim access
  • Use instructions from http://sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php/gettingstarted
• Metaverse U Presentation

Meeting Notes

General

• Initial Notes and Thoughts about Metaverses and SC Education
• Jan 2008
• Aug 28, 2008
• Jan 15, 2009

SciSim

Technical

• Aug 2-8, 2008 (Portland Hack-a-thon)
• Proposal for IDF 2009 Poster Session

Second Life Buildout

We now have an island "SuperComputing Portal" just below Sploland. The SciLands justification and other configuration details for the island was presented October 16, 2008 by Murph Shepherd (Tom Murphy) and Gottfried Bohm (Wilf Pinfold) at the SciLands Senate meeting on SEcond Earth in Second LIfe. We were accepted as a member of the SciLands community.

Current ideas for SuperComputing Portal attractor model

• Kiosk with information about SciSim including a notecard with access info
• Notecard with science education exemplars:
  • Science Island
  • NOAA
  • NASA
  • EOT support
  • Math Garden
• LSL observations and resources
• Puzzle Hunt attractor activities
• SC Education sandbox on Intel island -> Intel Software Network (238, 49, 703)
  Clicking the link will launch SL and display a TP at ground level on Intel Island. Click it to get to the sandbox.

  Please view the sandbox like the wiki, alter things as you see fit, but there is no revision history, so save the things you want to go back to. We may want to alter this policy and have something like individual named worktables that no-one messes with.

• Bringing scientific visualizations in-world (static, then steerable) Charlie's notes

Articles describing our activities

An article was submitted, but not accepted for the July/Aug CiSE special issue on HPC Education. It needs to be updated with current info and resubmitted so it can be referenced at SC09.

Other Metaverse activities

• Qwaq and the Open Croquet Consortium looked promising, since they could handle documents well. It faltered on being unable to externalize an arbirarty desktop, and by requiring all participants to be running the exact same version of one of many possible version of the browser.
  • Using the Qwaq Forums
  • Qwaq Effort