How has Sakai been used for research?
- Whiteboard to collaboratively sketch onto a digital canvas
- Shared displays.
- Blogging
- Electronic references
- 3D Texture Display Tools
- Ad hoc groups formed across institutions dynamically
- Provide capabilities without software distribution
- Data modeling
- Project models
- Data monitoring
- Grid systems
- Data repositories
Examples of successful collaboratories
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1) NeESGrid: Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation - collaboration links earthquake researchers across the US with leading-edge computing resources and research equipment and plan, perform, and publish their experiments.
- Shake table; Nevada, Reno
- Reaction wall; Minnesota
- Centrifuge; UC Davis
- Wave basic: Oregon state
- Field Structura; UCLA
- Field geotechnical; Texas
2) Fusion Grid
- Data, codes, analysis routines, visualization codes, and communication tools are all thought of as a network of services available to the scientists.