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1. The OptIPuter Project

   Tom DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Tom Moher, Oliver Yu, Bob Grossman, Luc Renambot Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, UIC Larry Smarr, California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology, UCSD National Science Foundation Award #OCI-0225642 The OptIPuter, so named for its use of optical networking, Internet Protocol (IP), computer storage, and processing and visualization technologies, is an infrastructure research effort that tightly couples computational resources over parallel optical networks using the IP communication mechanism. It is being designed as a virtual parallel computer in which the individual processors are distributed clusters; the memory is large distributed data repositories; peripherals are very-large scientific instruments, visualization displays and/or sensor arrays; and the motherboard uses standard IP delivered over multiple dedicated lambdas that serve as the system bus or backplane. UIC’s 100-Megapixel tiled display is managed by its SAGE software (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment), which organizes the screen’s “real estate” as if it were one continuous canvas, enabling researchers to view large-scale images while conducing high-definition video-teleconferences with remote colleagues. Develop ultra-high-resolution displays and collaboration tools Transmit ultra-high-resolution images over advanced networks Research distributed optical backplane architectures Create and deploy lightpath management methods Implement novel data transport protocols Create outreach mechanisms benefiting scientists and educators Assure interoperability of UIC software with OptIPuter partners. Academic partners: UCSD; UIC; Northwestern U; San Diego State U; University of Southern California; UIUC/NCSA; University of California-Irvine; Texas A&M U. Affiliate partners: NASA; U Michigan; USGS; CANARIE (Canada); U Amsterdam and SARA (The Netherlands); KISTI (Korea); AIST (Japan). Deployed tiled displays and SAGE software to partner sites Procured a 10Gbps private network from UIC to UCSD Connected 1GigE and 10GigE metro, regional, national and international research networks into the OptIPuter project Developing software to interconnect and interoperate heterogeneous network domains, enabling applications to set up on-demand private networks Developing advanced data transport protocols to move large data files quickly Developing Earthquake and Bioscience instructional programs for local elementary schools Developing high-bandwidth distributed applications in geoscience, medical imaging and digital cinema