The OptIPuter

The OptIPuter is a large-scale National Science Foundation Information, Technology and Research project. Were 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 were 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.
See www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=1&indi=236

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Science & Technology

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• EVL
• Electronic
• Visualization
• Laboratory
• OptIPuter
• Advanced
• Optical
• Networking
• Distributed
• Computing
• Displays
• www.evl.uic.edu
• University
• of
• Illinois
• at
• Chicago

[ventouse]

Very interesting! but please change the music! It may ruin your communication.

[XanderX84]

Lol that's was my first thought!

[alphabonco]

Skynet is finally coming out of the closet !