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

Anna Lynn SPITZER ASPITZER at uci.edu
Thu Feb 24 11:52:17 PST 2005


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

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

Date:               Thursday, March 3, 2005 

Time:               2 p.m. 

Location:         McDonnell Douglas Auditorium, 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.

 

 

 

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