The nanoManipulator is an interface to scanning probe microscopes (SPM) allowing users to see, feel, and manipulate samples ranging in size from DNA to single atoms. The nanoManipulator allows the user to control the SPM, view interactive 3D visualizations of the data, and feel the shape of the sample through a forcefeedback device. A nanoManipulator can be used collaboratively by scientists in a "virtual laboratory" environment that allows remote access to a shared microscope and previously collected data. During collaboration, the nanoManipulator transfers video and system control data—all having different bandwidth, loss, and latency (delay) requirements. In contrast to some applications that have "bursty" bandwidth demands, the typical scientific experiment using the nanoManipulator lasts for many hours, creating a long-lived high demand on the network.

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