[UCI-CalIT2] Upcoming Guest Lecture: Challenges in Ultra-High-Resolution Visualization and Collaboration

Anna L. SPITZER ASPITZER at uci.edu
Wed Nov 24 10:01:21 PST 2004


Title:                Challenges in Ultra-High-Resolution Visualization and Collaboration

 

Speaker:          Jason Leigh, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Date:               Monday, Nov. 29, 2004

 

Time:               3:30 p.m.

 

Location:         Engineering Tower 201, UC Irvine

 

Abstract:          The OptIPuter is a project used to examine a new model of computing in which ultra high-speed networks form the backplane of a planetary-scale computer. OptIPuter research focuses on developing technology to enable the real-time collaboration and visualization of very large time-varying data sets for the earth sciences and the biosciences. This presentation describes the synergistic network, middleware, visualization and collaboration research that is currently underway at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory. Topics include: tiled display development; LambdaRAM, a networked memory middleware system for caching remotely stored data sets; LambdaStream, a high-speed transport protocol for streaming graphics; JuxtaView and Vol-a-Tile, visualization tools that take advantage of the LambdaRAM and LambdaStream middleware subsystems; and SAGE, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment for supporting "infinitely" tiled display systems.  

 

Bio:                 Jason Leigh is an associate professor of computer science and co-director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His current areas of interest include developing techniques for interactive, remote visualization of massive data sets over high-speed photonic networks and for supporting long-term collaborative work in amplified collaboration environments.

 

Leigh is co-chair of the Global Grid Forum's (http://www.gridforum.org) Advanced Collaborative Environments research group and a co-founder of the GeoWall Consortium (http://www.geowall.org).He now leads EVL's research on the OptIPuter (http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/optiputer) - a cluster of distributed computers interconnected by photonic networks.

 

Leigh has led EVL's Tele-Immersion research agenda since 1995, after developing the first networked CAVE application in 1992. The outcome of his work has been actively used by General Motors, Hughes Research Labs, Searle/Monsanto, members of the NSF-funded PACI Alliance, the Next Generation Internet and Internet2, and collaborators around the world including: the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys) in Australia, Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore, Intelligent Modeling Laboratory at Tokyo University, the National Center for High-Performance Computing in Taiwan; and many others.

 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

 

Anna Lynn Spitzer

Senior Communications Specialist 

Cal-(IT)²

University of California, Irvine

416 Engineering Tower

Irvine, CA 92697-2800

Office: (949) 824-3317

 

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