The OptIPuter is a large-scale National Science Foundation Information, Technology and Research project. We’re building a planetary-scale computer using dedicated networks. The OtpIPuter really is the World Wide Web on steroids. The web is set-up to manipulate interactively megabyte size objects – whether it is images or ordinary postage stamp video streams, but the thing scientists have to deal with are gigabytes, 10s of gigabytes, and these objects cannot be interacted with over the normal shared internet. So what we’re trying to do with the OptIPuter is scale up all the components, whether it is in the optical network, the end points from PCs to clusters, the middleware that goes from Grid to LambdaGrid, or the visualization displays, which go from the fossilized megapixel displays of 20 years ago to 100 million or higher scaled walls. That way the scientists have a scientific web in which they can interact with remote data, instruments or colleagues globally. producer/director: Maxine Brown
evl contributors: Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Jason Leigh
credits: Principal Investigator: Larry Smarr, Calit2, University of California San Diego (UCSD)
Co-PIs: Tom DeFanti & Jason Leigh, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC); Mark Ellisman, John Orcutt & Phil Papadopoulous, UCSD
Project Manager: Maxine Brown, UIC
System Software Architect: Andrew Chien, UCSD
Education/Outreach: Debi Kilb, UCSD
Partner Institutions: UCSD, UIC, Northwestern University, San Diego State University, Texas A&M University, University of California, Irvine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (UIUC/NCSA), University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Affiliate Partner Institutions: University of Amsterdam, USGS Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center, NASA (Ames, Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Corporate Partners: BigBangwidth, Calient Networks, Inc., CANARIE, Inc., Chiaro Networks, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Glimmerglass Networks, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Level 3 Communications, Inc., Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Producer: Maxine Brown, UIC, Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)
Video: Jim Morrissette, Kartemquin Films
Additional Video: Doug Ramsey, UCSD
Participants: Larry Smarr, Tom DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Venkatraman Vishwanath, Laura Wolf, UIC/EVL
UIC/EVL OptIPuter Computer & Communications Manager: Alan Verlo
UIC/EVL Tile Display Designer & Developer: Greg Dawe
The OptIPuter is funded by the National Science Foundation Information Technology Research (ITR) Award SCI-0225642 to UCSD.
High-resolution tiled display development is funded by National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Award CNS-0115809 to UIC.
Rat cerebellum microscopy data courtesy of National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, UCSD.
Anatomy of a Ridge-Axis Discontinuity (ARAD) data courtesy of Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
EarthData National Aerial Photography Program images courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center.
GLIF image courtesy of Bob Patterson, UIUC/NCSA.
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