Enabling Virtual Organizations with Cyberinfrastructure

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Enabling Virtual Organizations with
Cyberinfrastructure

• Jason Leigh
• Director - Electronic Visualization Laboratory,
• University of Illinois at Chicago

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A long time ago in a laboratory not far away

• Established in 1973
• Jason Leigh, Director Tom DeFanti, Co-Director
  Dan Sandin, Director Emeritus
• 10 full time staff
• Interdisciplinary Art, CS, Comm
• 15 funded students
• Research in
• Advanced display systems
• Visualization and virtual reality
• High speed networking
• Collaboration human computer interaction
• 34 years of collaboration with Science, Industry
  Arts to apply new computer science techniques
  to these disciplines.

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Virtual Organizations

• Virtual organizations are an important part of
  NSFs Cyberinfrastructure mission
• Virtual Organizations seeks to enhance discovery
  and innovation by bringing people and resources
  together across institutional, geographical and
  cultural boundaries.
• Regarding VOs- I think this is just the sort of
  work required to scale the benefits of
  cyberinfrastructure to reach millions of
  researchers and students. - Ian Foster

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Enabling Virtual Organizations is the motivation
behind the Global Lambda Visualization Facility

• Problem
• Optical networks and LambdaGrids enable
  large-scale global science collaborations - but
  interoperable visualization and collaboration
  tools are missing!
• Approach
• Launched in September 2005, a group of iGrid 2005
  Workshop and OptIPuter partners who were
  designing and developing complementary,
  distributed visualization and collaboration
  technologies decided to pool expertise, build on
  each others successes, and integrate their work
  into a coherent whole, providing a unique model
  for international partnerships.

www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/glvf
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Global Lambda Visualization FacilityLive the
Dream Persistent Connectivity Among NLR GLIF
Sites

• GLVF Goals
• To create integrated tools for real-time,
  interactive visualization and distance
  collaboration
• To work with global domain science teams on the
  social science of collaboration, to both learn
  from and educate them on how to use these new
  technologies to transform how they do science
• To train students and junior faculty, the
  next-generation workforce
• Participants
• Canada Simon Fraser University University of
  Alberta Communications Research Centre
• Japan Grid Technology Research Center, National
  Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
  Technology (GTRC/AIST) Cybermedia Center, Osaka
  University, Kyoto University
• Europe SARA Computing and Networking Services,
  Masaryk University-Czech Republic, Russian
  Academy of Sciences-Space Research
  Institute-Moscow
• South Korea Networked Media Lab, Gwangju
  Institute of Science Technology, GIST (GIST)
  Korea Institute of Science and Technology
  Information (KISTI)
• US Electronic Visualization Laboratory,
  University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Calit2 _at_
  University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
  National Center for Microscopy and Imaging
  Research, UCSD Scripps Institution of
  Oceanography, UCSD International Center for
  Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern
  University National Center for Supercomputing
  Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at
  Urbana Champaign NCSA-ACCESS NCSA-TRECC
  Envision Center, Purdue University Collaboratory
  for Research on Electronic Work, University of
  Michigan Earth Resources Observation Systems, US
  Geological Survey (USGS)
• Potential new partners from Brazil, China, India,
  Mexico, Taiwan

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OptIPortal Cyber Mashup Environment
forCollaborative Scientific Discovery
100 Megapixel walls allows detailed viewing of
data
4K Cinegrid graphics streams
Multi-site HD Video conferencing
Ultra high resolution imagery
Middleware for Mashing Up (Combining)
Information on OptIPortals
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SAGEScalable Adaptive Graphics Environment
Provides a common middleware framework for
sharing visualizations
www.evl.uic.edu/sage
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www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/sage
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SAGE Visualcasting forCyber Mashups between VOs
over Long Distances

• Motivation
• In time-critical situations, HD video and
  ultra-high-resolution visualizations need to be
  distributed in real time to collaborating sites
  to facilitate joint analysis and decision making
• Immersive war room environments with resolutions
  on the order of hundreds of megapixels require
  multicasting of visualizations at tens of
  gigabits per second, not possible with current
  war room technology and telco equipment.

• Approach
• Visualcasting uses commodity clusters to provide
  a scalable way to broadcast real-time
  ultra-high-resolution content.
• To scale up resolution or number of
  collaborators, you increase number of cluster
  nodes. The visualcast management system
  coordinates the clusters.
• Augment OptIPuters SAGE to support visualcasting.

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VisualCasting on the LambdaTable at SC07 (EVL
booth 561)
LambdaTable combines intuitive table-top
interaction with high resolution OptIPortal
visualization capabilities.
Resolution is important for working with REAL
data products such as maps, charts, blueprints
CAD
30 LCD tiles, 6 computers- 3 for graphics, 3 for
camera tracking
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About the LambdaTable

• LambdaTable encourages social interaction between
  its users and the data.
• When people stand around the LambdaTable to
  manipulate the visualizations they can look down
  to see the information and look up to see and
  talk to each other. The vertical LCD panels next
  to the LambdaTable allow us to bring in remote
  collaborators and have them virtually standing in
  front of the table.
• Content on LambdaTable can be streamed in from
  remote visualization servers and manipulated in
  windows.
• Can also run real-time simulation applications.

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SAGE Global Visualcasting at SC 2007
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Demos on the LambdaTable

• 2D and 3D demos are streamed with HD video by
  VisualCasting from CALIT2 and Reno to SARA booth,
  Research Channel booth, EVL in Chicago, Masaryk
  University, Institute of Computer Science- Czech
  Republic and Russian Academy of Sciences, Space
  Research Institute- Moscow
• 2D imagery (each multiple tens of Gb)
• USGS Chicago Aerial Photos
• Hubble Telescope imagery
• Rat cerebellum from NCMIR
• 3D imagery
• Large-scale data volumes of microscope sections
• Visible woman
• Real-time Simulation
• Steering of rain particles over high resolution
  topography
• Hawaii
• Ice-covered West Lake Bonney in the McMurdo Dry
  Valley of Artarctica
• Mars

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Special Thanks

• SARA
• Jorrit Adriaanse
• Paul Wielinga
• Masaryk University, Institute of Computer Science
• Petr Holub
• Jiri Matela
• Ludek Matyska
• CESNET
• Jan Gruntorad
• University of Amsterdam
• Cees de Laat
• Russian Academy of Sciences, Space Research
  Institute
• Mikhail Zhizhin
• Michael Boyarsky
• GLORIAD
• Natalia Bulashova
• Greg Cole

• NCSA
• Donna Cox
• Robert Patterson
• CALIT2
• Phil Papadopoulos
• Tom DeFanti
• Larry Smarr
• EVL
• Luc Renambot
• Byungil Jeong
• Lance Long
• Alan Verlo
• Jason Leigh

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Additional ThanksCome see us in the SDSC Booth
561

• EVLs projects have been supported by grants from
  the National Science Foundation, the Office of
  Naval Research
• NSF Awards CNS 0420477 OCI 0225642
• email- spiff_at_uic.edu
• www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/glvf
• www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/sage