Virtual laboratory: A distributed collaborative environment

Achalakul, Tiranee; Sirinaovakul, Booncharoen; Nuttaworakul, Nion

doi:10.1002/cae.20008

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“…Various display paradigms exist, such as immersive environments, tabletop displays, large tiled displays, domes and geowalls (Akkiraju et al, 1996;Achalakul et al, 2004;Li et al, 2003;Maxfield et al, 1998;Forlines & Lilien, 2008;Tate et al, 2001). From the user's point of view, because there may be different points of view for looking at the same molecule, moving between viewpoints of each participant is common, and considerable time is spent recreating previous views.…”

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Using a commodity high-definition television for collaborative structural biology

Yennamalli

Arangarasan²,

Bryden

et al. 2014

J Appl Cryst

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Visualization of protein structures using stereoscopic systems is frequently needed by structural biologists working to understand a protein's structurefunction relationships. Often several scientists are working as a team and need simultaneous interaction with each other and the graphics representations. Most existing molecular visualization tools support single-user tasks, which are not suitable for a collaborative group. Expensive caves, domes or geowalls have been developed, but the availability and low cost of high-definition televisions (HDTVs) and game controllers in the commodity entertainment market provide an economically attractive option to achieve a collaborative environment. This paper describes a low-cost environment, using standard consumer game controllers and commercially available stereoscopic HDTV monitors with appropriate signal converters for structural biology collaborations employing existing binary distributions of commonly used software packages like Coot, PyMOL, Chimera, VMD, O, Olex2 and others.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Using a commodity high-definition television for collaborative structural biology

Yennamalli

Arangarasan²,

Bryden

et al. 2014

J Appl Cryst

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“…In the TNGC project, Globus [13] was adopted as a standard middleware. A virtual research laboratory initiative, Access Grid, was launched [18] to allow the members of the TNGC project to collaborate on their research via teleconferencing. A custom ThaiGrid portal [19] was developed to manage the TNGC infrastructure.…”

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A Survey of High Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure in Thailand

Varavithya¹,

Prueksaaroon²

2023

ECTI-CIT Transactions

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In the last decade, government organizations and private companies in Thailand have invested considerably in computing resources. Research collaborations typically band together based on shared interests and propose projects to compete for funding. Thus, many institutions frequently use similar computing resources. A bird's eye view of high-performance computer infrastructure in Thailand is important in many ways. To the best of our knowledge and ability, we gathered information on government procurements of HPC resources in the past five years, which cover several organizations and ministries. We list the system specifications and tabulate the target application areas for each system. The aggregated number of cores and storage space for HPC in Thailand, commissioned during the past five years, is 54,838 cores and 21 PB, respectively. We also describe the large data transfers using UniNet for HPC applications. The survey results can be used by academics and decision-makers to build research agendas and national development strategies.

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“…As with many other experimental disciplines, courses on distributed systems require laboratory environments where students can apply the concepts and empirically verify theoretical results provided during lectures 4, 5. Since it is not trivial to design and implement a distributed application—in fact, it can be a highly complex, error‐prone, and time‐consuming task—it becomes necessary to provide lab facilities that support the teaching process and promote the active participation of students in their own learning process 1, 6.…”

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PlanetLab@UOC: A real lab over the Internet to experiment with distributed systems

Marquès

Lázaro

Juan

et al. 2013

Comp Applic In Engineering

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This paper presents an innovative academic experience regarding the use of PlanetLab-an open large-scale platform over the Internet-in engineering courses on distributed systems. By integrating a live-deployment environment such as PlanetLab into distributed-systems courses, software implementations developed by students can interact with instructors' implementations in a real Internet-distributed scenario. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experience regarding the use of the PlanetLab nodes available over Internet to teach distributed computing concepts to engineering students, since most of the existing literature on distributed-systems courses describes only learning experiences in lab-simulated or lab-emulated scenarios. As discussed in this paper, experimenting with a real laboratory over the Internet adds some complexity to students' practical activities, but it also facilitates a deeper and more intensive learning experience. A survey among students shows some clear benefits of this approach over the use of simulation labs, as well as some pitfalls that must be avoided whenever possible. The paper ends with a set of recommendations for instructors that might want to design similar courses as well as with an overview of future work to be performed in this field.

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Virtual laboratory: A distributed collaborative environment

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Using a commodity high-definition television for collaborative structural biology

Using a commodity high-definition television for collaborative structural biology

A Survey of High Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure in Thailand

PlanetLab@UOC: A real lab over the Internet to experiment with distributed systems

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