OptIPuter Application-Centered Tools and Techniques

1. OptIPuterApplication-Centered Tools and Techniques Jason Leigh (EVL/UIC) Luc Renambot (EVL/UIC) Paul Wielinga (SARA) Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST) Xingfu Wu (Texas A&M) Jysoo Lee (KISTI)

2. What is the OptIPuter? • NSF large ITR project that began 3 years ago. • Moore’s law equivalent for bandwidth is steeper than the curves for computing and storage. • Meaning for the first time the bottleneck is in the end points of the system. • This means we have a problem and an opportunity. • The problem is that we need to learn to redesign the end systems to handle this capacity- disks, cpus, OS, etc. • The opportunity is that we can think of new models for computing- such as the network as a system bus. • The project Involves a team of computer scientists, geoscientists, and bioscientists from: CALIT2, UCSD, NCMIR, SIO, UIC, NW, TAMU, UvA, NASA, USGS, SARA, KISTI, AIST. www.optiputer.net

3. Goal of this panel • Introduce you to an international group of optIPuter partners old and new who are developing tools in support of end-users on the optIPuter • From their experience and point of view, explain how the optIPuter concept could be beneficial to their community of users • Challenges / problems that need to be solved to achieve goal of global “optIPuterization” www.optiputer.net