Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Grid-enabled Tele-Immersion Utilizing a grid computing architecture of distributed processing, UPenn computer scientists have been able to achieve real-time Tele-Immersion [Science Daily].  They can to scan, process and present a room in real-time to enable virtual presence: When they make their first public demonstration of tele-immersion at this week’s Super Computing 2002 conference in Baltimore, computer scientists will also attain another first: a “network computer” that processes data at a location far removed from either input or output.... “Shifting the computing from 10 processors at Penn to 1,240 parallel machines based in Pittsburgh will speed data processing 75-fold, turning tele-immersion into a true real-time technology,” said Kostas Daniilidis, an assistant professor of computer and information science at Penn. “It now takes our tele-immersion system roughly 15 seconds to scan, process and display the entire volume of a typical room. With help from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, that time will shrink to 200 milliseconds.” The most far-out crazy idea of Internet 2 is finally becoming a reality, or should I say, a virtual reality.  Distributed Immersion as an application has the potential for changing more than how we communicate -- but how we learn, train and design. 11:53:58 AM    comment [] On Demand Innovation Services IBM Research to offer consulting services. Big Blue unveils On Demand Innovation Services unit [InfoWorld: Top News] Initially, the On Demand Innovation Services will be limited to four areas, IBM said: Advanced Analytics, modeling scenarios to solve emerging problems; Business Process Transformation, aligning business strategy with IT investments; Information Integration, and Experimental Economics. IBM research is the largest R&D unit that files the most patents.  Making R&D customer-facing is more than an attempt to grab more services dollars.  It gives researchers to real world exposure to large scale distributed architectural challenges to advance their grid computing initiative. 9:11:27 AM    comment []

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