The OptIPuter

Abstract

This architecture/infrastructure of parallel optical networks couples data exploration, visualizationy and ' •• collaboration technologies through IP at multi-gigabit speeds. he OptlPuter exploits a new world of distributed Grid infrastructure in which the ' central architectural element is optical networking, not computers, creating "supernetworks," or networks faster than te the computers attached to them. As in supercomputing a decade ago, parallelism makes this transition possible. But this time, parallelism takes the form of multiple wavelengths of light, or lambdas, capable of traversing individual strands of optical fiber.

A Step towards Making Local and Remote Desktop Applications Interoperable with High-Resolution Tiled Display Walls

“…These include the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) [9] based on TeraVision [22] and TeraScope [31], OptiStore [30], Active Data Repository [11], Active Semantic Caching [4], DataCutter [5], ParVox [12], The Remote Interactive Visualization and Analysis System (RIVA) [13], OptiPuter [23], Digital Light Table [10] and Scalable Parallel Visual Networking [7]. However, these systems do not support remote compute resources nor the ability to customize personal computers on-the-fly to become compute nodes in the system.…”

The TMO Scheme for Wide-Area Distributed Real-Time Computing and Distributed Time-Triggered Simulation

“…Efforts to create wide area network (WAN) environments in which bounds on communication delay jitter are significantly smaller than those in most segments of the current Internet, started appearing only in recent years. The OptIPuter research sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a good example [13].…”

A feedback mechanism for network scheduling in LambdaGrids

“…The optIPuter project [10] observed that network speeds have been outstripping the ability of processor speeds to keep up. This technology inversion resulted in the emergence of LambdaGrids, which have fundamentally changed the way that we think about distributed computing.…”