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As networks grow in quality and capacity they enable new forms of communication. In particular, interactive, real-time visualizations and simulations demand a new level of computing power, bandwidth and quality of service (QoS) that is only now becoming available through grid computing and lightpaths. The MediaLightPaths Project will build on these capabilities to achieve a new level of collaboration between key researchers at universities across Canada. This project will exploit the possibilities of grid computing and end-to-end lightpaths to develop applications for distributed collaboration, simulation and visualization, and for the transport, sharing and management of the large-scale data sets generated by these simulations. The vision is of a high-capacity infrastructure that could be dynamically scheduled by the users themselves to conduct advanced experiments in these fields. |
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RATIONALE MediaLightPaths addresses two important questions: Why are broadband networks necessary? And how can the general public (and key funders) understand and be convinced of their Recent statistics (see www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/list.html) indicate that as much as twothirds of current ISP traffic involves the downloading of music and movies. This suggests that media-rich content may prove to be the most significant bottleneck in the deployment of the Internet. Projects such as MediaLightPaths that address the high-speed delivery of content are critical to solving this problem but in doing so they also prove the value and necessity of broadband networks without which the Internet as we know it may grind to a standstill in the near future. At the same time, because of its visual nature, because it is interactive, because it is entertaining and because it is easy to understand, the MediaLightPaths project will make advanced networks like CA*net 4 comprehensible to the average Canadian who will come to value the importance of this infrastructure. OBJECTIVES The intent is that at the completion of this project participants will be able to: Allocate lightpaths as necessary to run complex visualizations in real-time by tapping into computational and graphics resources situated across Canada. Integrate these visualizations into a media-rich collaboration environment that is aware of the communication requirements of the collaboration and therefore able to provision lightpaths as needed. Save and access the results of these visualizations from a network of servers distributed across the country. Access a similar and consistent level of functionality across multiple, different platforms. ADVANCED SIMULATION AND VISUALIZATION The MediaLightPaths project provides a forum for world-class research in networked visualization and through this forum its researchers will work together to design and build an advanced system for interactive, real-time visualization of large-scale, computationally intense simulations. |
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