OptIPuter Accomplishments at SIO

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Biosciences and Geosciences Projects

• Integrated latest infrastructure for display and
  driving software into collaborative environment
  for bioscience and geosciences applications

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OptIPortals

• Biowall at NCMIR
• Upgraded to ROCKS 4.2.
• Migrating application functionality to updated
  base software layer.
• Web Portals based UI for launching datasets
• Birnwall, a 3x2 display wall deployed at BIRN.
• CEOAs MiniMe
• Mobile INteractive Imaging Multidisplay
  Environment 5 x 3 portable display.
• 15 Apple Mac minis and Dell 24 displays. Total
  resolution is 34 megapixels.
• Based on the 3x4 iCluster wall at SIO.
• MiniMe traveled to 3 meetings so far and to be
  showcased in the NSF booth at the AAAS meetiing
  in San Francisco, February 2006.
• California World Oceans, SC06 and American
  Geophysical Union.
• SIO OptIPuter Visualization cluster also in the
  process of being upgraded.

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Software for OptIPortals

• OptIPuter software being adapted installed on
  OptIPortals to support collaboration and data
  visualization.
• SAGE 1 and 2
• Magic Carpet
• COVISE
• VLC
• Display clusters also time shared for parallel
  computing.

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SC06 NCMIR - CALIT2 - NBCR Demo
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SC06 Video
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SIO - CEOA demos at SC06

• High resolution video renderings of datasets
  related to EarthScope, LOOKING (underwater video
  of hydrothermal vents) and the SIO-BP
  collaboration (3D rendering of Gaviota-Goleta
  slide.)

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SIO - CEOA projects

• SC06 demos continued..
• Real time display of data from image sensors on
  ROADNet and seismic traces from the USArray.
• Calit2 Scripps Genome Center demos related to
  mining the ocean for novel proteins and genese
  that encode them.
• LOOKING NSF site visit July 2006
• Demonstrated 5 layer OptIPuter application to NSF
  review panel.
• Data transferred over OptIPuter from UIC UIUC,
  processed and visualization streamed back to
  Calit2.
• DVC was used to transfer data, launch processing
  job and to execute SAGE.

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Education Outreach
Lincoln Elementary School
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Presentation to the Japanese Emperor

• Professor Mark Ellisman Presents Neuroscience
  Research Findings to Emperor of Japan
• September 6, 2006 At the invitation of Japans
  Emperor Akihito, Mark Ellisman presented an
  overview of NCMIRs research on multi-scale
  imaging and multi-scale modeling of the nervous
  system. Ellisman presented a multimedia poster
  and summarized research advances made possible by
  an alliance of leading researchers in biology and
  brain research, as well as advanced computing
  technologies. View the complete CalIT2 press
  release with video clips.
• The event occurred on the occasion of the 16th
  International Microscopy Congress in Sapporo,
  Japan. The six-day congress continues through
  8-September at the Sapporo Convention Center.
• This honor has particular resonance for me
  because we have collaborated with scientific
  groups and companies in Japan for over twenty
  years, said Ellisman. Our joint work with
  advanced 3D electron microscopy is helping us to
  understand the normal and abnormal structure and
  function of the nervous system. There are no
  modern high-voltage electron microscopes
  available to us for basic biological and
  biomedical research in the United States. We are
  very thankful to the Japanese government for
  enabling our access to these high-powered
  instruments for collaborative projects.
• In his presentation to the Emperor, Ellisman
  stressed the value of observing the brain at
  multiple scalesfrom the very large (gross
  anatomical) to the very small (molecular) level.
  Visualizing data at multiple scales allows for
  insights that are just not possible if you only
  look at one im

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Media Response to Earthquakes National Local
Coverage

• CNN
• Good Morning America
• Yuri Fialko interviewed by CNN for Nature paper
  regarding Southern San Andreas rupture potential.
• Tahoe Center for Environmental Research.

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Number of Unique Visitors to the SIO
Visualization Center Web-pages
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SIO Visualization Center(over 125 events per
year)
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Remote Collaborations/Learning Ada Harris
Elementary School (students) SIO (researchers)
Ada Harris
SIO
Discussion with Dr. Helen Fricker (SIO) about
her research on the Antarctic Ice Sheet
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Breaking Down Spatial Boundaries
Distance Learning between students at Ada Harris
Elementary School and Researchers in Antarctica
(Planned for spring 2007)
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4th Annual SIO Teacher Workshop 2006
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USGS Eros Data Center Outreach

• Extensive outreach to
• Federal agency earth science researchers
• non-NSF academic researchers
• Federal agency managers
• Federal agency bureaucrats
• Some of the 55 example audiences include
• USGS Biological Resources Division Coordinator
  for Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative
• Director, National Wetlands Research Center,
  Lafayette, Louisiana
• NASA Antarctic Geology Program manager
• Assistant Secretaries of the Interior and
  Agriculture
• USGS Department of Homeland Security Liaison
• Republic of South Korea Political Delegation
• National Science and Technology Council, Office
  of Science and Technology Policy, Executive
  Office of the President
• Joint Fire Science Program Manager (Interior/USGS
  and Agriculture/Forest Service)

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Impact Over 400 students in 6 schools
participated in Embedded Phenomena science units
in 2006
National Teachers Academy, Chicago, ILDawes
Elementary School, Chicago, ILNorth Kenwood
Oakton Elementary, Chicago, ILGalileo Academic
Academy, Chicago, ILLincoln Elementary, Oak
Park, ILPoughkeepsie Day School, Poukeepsie,
NY99-100 Minority population schools
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Momentum Two pending NSF grant proposals to
continue work on student learning and technology
development beyond OptIPuter
NSF CISE Human-Centered Computing Embedded
Phenomena (submitted December 2006)Extending
the technology base of Embedded Phenomena via
Phenomenon Server, responsive phenomena,
development of new classroom simulations NSF
EHR Multiplexing classroom time and space to
support extended science investigations (with D.
Kilb, UCSD, submitted January 2007)
Investigating the differential impacts of
Embedded Phenomena temporal and spatial
attributes on learner outcomes
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Research Five scholarly articles describing
student learning in Embedded Phenomena units
during 2006
Thompson, M. and Moher, T. (2006). HelioRoom
Problem-solving in a whole class visual
simulation. Proceedings International Conference
of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2006) (June 2006,
Bloomington, IN) Moher, T. (2006). Embedded
Phenomena Supporting Science Learning with
Classroom-sized Distributed Simulations.
Proceedings ACM Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI 2006) (April 2006,
Montreal, Canada). In press (Best Paper
award) Barron, M., Moher, T., and Maharry, J.
(2006). RoomBugs Simulating Insect Infestations
in Elementary Classrooms using Commodity
Hardware. ACM Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI 2006) Extended Abstracts
(April 2006, Montreal, Canada) Moher, T.,
Hussain, S., Barron, M., and Thompson, M. (2006).
RoomQuake Learning, Self-Concept, and Growth of
a Community of Practice in a Persistent
Whole-Classroom Simulation. Annual Conference of
the American Education Research Association
(April 2006, San Francisco, CA) Moher, T.,
Rogers, Y., and Quintana, C. (2006). Co-Present
Distributed Simulations of Science Phenomena for
K-8 Learners A Technology Designers' Round-Robin
Symposium. Annual Conference of the American
Education Research Association (April 2006, San
Francisco, CA)
OptIPuter grant acknowledged in all publications
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