[CAnet - news] Collaborative Architectural Design with Lightpaths at iGrid 2005

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NEWS RELEASE from iGrid 2005
 
Canadians Blaze New Media Trail in Architectural Design at iGrid 2005
 
Ottawa’s Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) to showcase commercial
potential of world’s fastest global computer network
 
Ottawa, Canada and San Diego, Calif., September 23, 2005 – Faster than a
bolt of lightning. More powerful than anything Bill Gates has put together.
Able to leap a continent in a split second – the dawn of a new era in
architecture is taking flight.
 
Two teams of Carleton University students, thousands of kilometers apart,
will be linked Monday via computer network “lightpaths” in a unique
demonstration of the future of digital design in architecture as part of the
global iGrid 2005 showcase. The students from the Carleton Immersive Media
Studio (CIMS) have been selected for an opening night presentation at iGrid
2005, one of the largest aggregations of computing and data transmission
bandwidth ever assembled for research. One of roughly 50 demonstrations over
the event’s three days, the CIMS demonstration will showcase the commercial
potential of architecture and high performance Grid computing.
 
Led by Professor Michael Jemtrud, Director of CIMS, the nine students will
work simultaneously on a highly detailed, complex three-dimensional digital
replica of the famous Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla,
near San Diego, established by Dr. Jonas Salk, the creator of the polio
vaccine. Now, 40 years later, the Salk Institute is the leading U.S.
research base for vaccines against bioterrorism.
 
“What we are doing today signals a paradigm shift in the world of
architectural design and CIMS is leading the way,” said Jemtrud, who
accompanied the student design team in San Diego. “We are showing that the
technology now exists to quickly link architects, designers, engineers and
construction teams together in a seamless real-time digital work environment
for flawless execution in a fraction of the time of traditional processes.”
 
One team will be at the CIMS lab at Carleton University and the other will
be at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information
Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego. A
high-definition video link will connect the two teams to enable real-time,
face-to-face collaboration.
 
 “This demonstration shows how the most creative minds can come together
anywhere in the world to imagine and construct together in rich, digitally
enabled collaborative work environments,” said Jemtrud. "The complex digital
re-construction will include precise and accurate details and design
features in a 3-D model which will have a highly-rendered and sophisticated
quality to it.”
 
CIMS is using CA*Net  4, Canada’s high-speed national research and education
network established by Ottawa’s CANARIE Inc., linked to other high speed
research networks as part of the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) a
international virtual high speed computer research network. The massive
quantities of data for the CIMS students’ designs will travel on User
Controlled LightPaths (UCLP) or fibre-optic linked networks at speeds of 1
gigabit per second (Gbps). That is the equivalent of transmitting all the
music on 1.5 compact discs in a second, an entire DVD movie in about four
seconds, or 20,000 web pages in one second. 
 
“It is exciting to see CA*net 4 transforming not only what people do but how
they do it,” said Andrew Bjerring, President and CEO of Ottawa-based
CANARIE. “CIMS is demonstrating the practical utility of lightpath
capabilities and the power of the network to allow them to create new
collaborations and achieve innovative results.”
 
“Whether used by scientific collaborators, Hollywood or teams of architects
thousands of miles apart, there is a need for quality and security
guarantees for high-resolution and super-high-resolution streaming media,”
said Maxine Brown, Co-chair of iGrid 2005. “CIMS is showcasing the
value-added that 10 to 20Gb of persistent connectivity can bring to the
design and engineering of structures, just as it does for interactive
conferencing, remote scientific observation, long-distance educational
mentoring, or distributed media production.”
 
In addition to CANARIE, the CIMS demonstration involves the support of a
number of partners including the Communications Research Centre (CRC), the
National Research Council (NRC), and corporate partners such as IBM , Cisco
Canada and Alias Wavefront.
 
The live event will take place at the CIMS lab at Carleton University at 11
p.m. on Monday September 26, 2005. The CIMS lab is located in room 448 of
the Azrieli Pavilion at Carleton University.
 
About CIMS
The Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) explores the creation of virtual
and built environments, and investigates their capacity to transform and to
be transformed by our perceptual and epistemological foundations. Using new
media technologies, CIMS produces digital cultural content that enhances the
development and application of new technologies in a variety of cultural
fields. Funded through public and private sector partnerships, this applied
and theoretical research supports a jointly creative and critical mandate,
with the objective of expanding these research capabilities to foster global
institutional competitiveness. 
 
The CIMS research agenda encompasses the development of new technologies and
expertise in three-dimensional real-time visualization and simulation for
output to advanced rich-media visualization, immersive environments,
high-fidelity display, and the Web. By producing content specific to
research in architecture, urban design, heritage preservation, and related
disciplines, CIMS uses cultural content-based research to drive innovations
and to complement traditional research and development methods in the
relevant fields. For more information: www.cims.carleton.ca.

About CANARIE Inc.
CANARIE is Canada’s advanced Internet organization, a not-for-profit
corporation funded by Industry Canada to facilitate the development and use
of next-generation research networks and the applications and services that
run on them. CANARIE promotes collaboration among key sectors and partners
with innovators around the world, and in so doing stimulates innovation and
growth and helps to deliver social, cultural, and economic benefits to all
Canadians. For more information, visit www.canarie.ca  
 
About iGrid 2005
The International Grid ( iGrid) collaborative event showcases ongoing global
collaborations in middleware development and applications research that
require high-performance multi-gigabit networks. The iGrids are organized
every two or three years by institutions, organizations, consortia and
National Research & Education Networks who also participate in the Global
Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF). Overall planning responsibilities for
iGrid 2005 are being handled by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at
the University of Illinois at Chicago and the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of
California, San Diego, in cooperation with the Mathematics and Computer
Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory, SURFnet, University of
Amsterdam, and CANARIE. For more information, see www.igrid2005.org.

 
For more information, or to arrange interviews, please contact:

Kevin MacNeill
CIMS Lab
(613) 277-1384
[email protected]

Mats Lindeberg
CANARIE
Manager, Communications
613-43-5377
[email protected]
 
Bluesky Strategy Group (For CIMS)
Stuart McCarthy
613-241-3512 x 229
[email protected]
or 
Susan Smith
713-241-3512 x 221
[email protected] 
 
Doug Ramsey
iGrid 2005
858-822-5825
[email protected]

BACKGROUNDER
 
CIMS Demonstration of UCLP X GRID Application at iGrid 2005
 
In the effort to showcase Canadian–built lightpath technologies, CIMS will
be presenting research done as part of the Virtual Design Studio at iGrid
2005 in San Diego, California.  The demonstration will be part of the
opening night activities at the event which runs from September 26 – 29,
2005.
 
The CIMS’ demonstration will feature the 3D digitization of the Salk
Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.  The collaborative
process by which the Salk Institute, a well-documented and much-respected
work of architecture by Louis Kahn, was digitized incorporates variable and
heterogeneous digital assets which will be presented as part of a real-time
application demonstration titled “Worlds First Demonstration of X GRID
Application Switching using User Controlled LightPaths.”
 
The demonstrations involve more than 40,000 kilometers of lightpaths
stretching between Taiwan, Korea, Canada and Spain to enable multiple GRID
applications to be delivered sequentially to the iGrid 2005 meeting in San
Diego. Representatives from each participant will demonstrate the setup and
switching of the lightpaths from the various GRID applications sources
around the world and sequentially projecting them to the attendees at the
iGrid 2005 meeting. Bidirectional communication between participants will be
performed via a multiple-party HDTV video conferencing system.
 
The User Controlled LightPaths (UCLP) was first developed as a critical part
of Canada’s CA*Net4 advanced network program. UCLP lets end users establish
lightpaths and change the configuration without a central network management
facility. 
 
This demonstration will show that it is possible for GRID users to quickly
establish global optical lightpaths and rapidly exchange data between GRID
applications in a real time manner and quickly reconfigure these networks to
redistribute GRID feed to other destinations
 
iGrid is an international event that strives to accelerate and showcase the
use of multi-10Gb international and national networks, to advance scientific
research, and to educate decision makers, academicians and industry
researchers on the benefits of these hybrid networks.  For more information:
www.igrid2005.org
 
The CIMS team participating in the demonstration is led by Director Michael
Jemtrud.
 
Researchers: 
• Konstantin Privalov
• Nicolas Valenzuela
• James Hayes
• Nathan Dykstra
• Ryan Mclennan
• Grant Oikawa
• Philam Nguyen
• Nik Beaudin
• Venk Prabhu
• Tom Ngo
• Marc Léonard
• Alla’a Elbadri.

 
Dates and Times of demonstrations:
Monday, September 26th   21h30 – 23h00 EST
Tuesday, September 27th   15h00 – 16h30 EST
Wednesday, September 28th  15h00 – 16h30 EST
 
Collaborators and Partners:
• CANARIE – CA*Net4
• Communications Research Canada
• Cisco Canada Inc.
• National Research Council
• Alias Wavefront
• IBM
Related Links:
www.cims.carleton.ca www.canarie.ca/canet4/uclp/igrid2005/demo.html
http://phi.badlab.crc.ca/uclp
http://www.salk.edu/
http://www.igrid2005.org/



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