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February 18, 2009

NSF Showcases High-Performance Networks at AAAS 2009

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UIC's National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) used the gigabit bandwidth to demonstrate Sector, a cloud computing platform that is designed to support computing over geographically distributed racks of computers. At the AAAS meeting, Sector was used over four racks located at UIC, StarLight, Johns Hopkins University, and Calit2 at University of California, San Diego.
NCDM is the first group to use cloud computing for data intensive computing over wide-area networks rather than within a single datacenter. Sector was used to sort one terabyte of data over racks at four sites to demonstrate how a large data computation can be performed across several datacenters at scale.

"The high-performance networks already connect datacenters around the world," said NCDM director and UIC professor of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science Robert Grossman. "Sector allows a user to harness the combined computational power of several datacenters simultaneously, with only a slight degradation in the quality of the computing work. It's a major leap in the field of high-performance computing."

In addition to these networked demonstrations, UIC's EVL demonstrated its TacTile multi-touch display, which is a funded NSF Major Research Instrumentation project. The TacTile system has touch-enabled pan, zoom and interactive functions, like a tabletop-sized Apple iPhone, but in high-resolution suitable for displaying scientific data.

TacTile was running RainTable, an application EVL developed with the Science Museum of Minnesota to demonstrate how water flows over terrain, which is now part of a traveling museum exhibit about water. TacTile was extremely well received by AAAS attendees, as well as the hordes of students and children who participated in the AAAS Family Science Days.

The NSF was pleased to have gigabit networking to its booth, enabling its funded researchers to show their work rather than just talk about it. The 2010 Annual Meeting of AAAS will be in San Diego, and NSF is already thinking of the possibilities!

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Source: University of Illinois at Chicago

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