TRECC West Chicago Facility
DuPage County Airport
2700 International Dr., Suite 305
West Chicago, IL 60185
(630)578-4200
TRECC's West Chicago facility is a valuable resource for many different communities. For the academic and commercial sectors, TRECC provides a high-technology center for researching, developing, testing, and showcasing emerging technologies. The TRECC facility is used by commercial R&D staff to meet with university researchers and to demonstrate their technology innovations.
As a training facility, TRECC has been used to present training courses both locally and to remote locations. The TRECC facility provides the K-12 community with an ideal venue for teaching and demonstrating mathematics and science to students. The TRECC facility also has been used to present training courses for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
TRECC has also hosted professional associations, such as the Illinois Business and Investor Forum; local government agencies, including the West Chicago Police Department; non-profit groups; and cultural institutions.
TRECC's computing resources include:
A 26-processor high performance computing cluster with 4.5 terabytes of mass storage to accommodate data-intensive research.
A 22-processor high performance graphics cluster with a 20-panel tiled Lambda Vision display wall, producing a computer-controlled display larger and considerably more detailed than standard projection technologies allow.
Laptop computers for use with training classes.
TRECC's resources for enhanced communication and collaboration include:
10 gigabit broadband connectivity. TRECC's dedicated fiber connection provides wide access to global research networks, enabling wide collaboratory efforts and facilitating the ability to demonstrate on a national scale conceptual and prototype technologies for moving extremely large amounts of data quickly.
The Access Grid. Access Grid™ nodes for high-end videoconferencing. The Access Grid Nodes in TRECC gives users the chance to build large "virtual meeting rooms" with other Access Grid sites. There are in excess of two hundred sites in corporate, government, and academic centers throughout the country and around the globe (see www.accessgrid.org).
Technology Demonstration Area. The demonstration area, suitable for lectures and similar presentations and complete with audiovisual presentation system and rear-projection screen, seats forty.
Geo-Wall Passive Stereo Display Station. TRECC also includes a prototypical two-projector passive stereo display, allowing computer-based visualization to be viewed in three dimensions.
A high-definition stereo visualization theatre with a dual HD 1920x1080 projector passive stereo display system, for running interactive applications in HD stereo.
A 6-tile Varrier high-definition autostereo display consisting of 6 panel LCD tile display, each with a resolution of 4800 x 2400 pixels, allowing viewers to see visualizations in three dimensions.
Two 15’ x 18’ display walls optimized for high resolution (2560 x 2048; 3840 x 1024 pixel resolution, respectively).
Training Area. The training area offers seating and workspace for twenty people, along with a full audiovisual presentation system and rear-projection screen.
Conference room. The enclosed conference room seats up to twenty and is equipped with Access Grid and Polycom videoconferencing equipment
Multiple POLYCOM® video-conferencing system and wireless connectivity throughout the facility.
Studio offices. Single-occupant studio workstation offices are available for reservation. Five of the offices are identical in size; the larger sixth office is designated as a technology demonstration room for smaller demonstrations.
TRECC's West Chicago facility is open to the public for tours and technology demonstrations. Come visit our facility to see what communication, computing, and visualization possibilities we offer your business or organization.
Call (630)578-4200 or Toll Free (877)578-4200 for more information.
