Global Visualcasting - Collaborative Remote Visualization Over High Speed Networks
Participants: Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, SHARP Laboratories of America, OptIPlanet Collaboratory partners
URL: http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/bandc103 Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX SC08 Bandwidth Challenge Session Unleashing the Power of the Network Tuesday, 01:45PM - 02:00PM Room 17A/17B Abstract Advanced networks are giving rise to a new kind of collaborative laboratory, or collaboratory, comprised of scientists in far-flung locations working together and sharing information as if in the same room, in real time, and aided by high-resolution imagery and high-definition (HD) video conferencing. From 2002-2008, a global team of researchers and networking engineers has been building the OptIPuter, a NSF-funded initiative to dynamically configure a distributed computational facility, where the optical network becomes the ‘backplane’ connecting high-end computing, storage and visualization resources. The OptIPlanet Collaboratory is now being built through the deployment of OptIPuter-developed tools to global user communities. Currently, 33 sites around the world are part of this collaboratory. For the Bandwidth Challenge, we intend to demonstrate global visualcasting - a technique for leveraging high performance networking and computing to enable distributed collaborative visualization at extremely high resolution on OptIPortals. Email: spiff@uic.edu Date: November 18, 2008 |