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Status and Plans for EVL Software Components

Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot

Venkat Vishwanath, Byungil Jeong, Eric He

Tom DeFanti

electronic visualization laboratory, university of illinois at chicago

Quick Reminder / Intro

• JuxtaView - 2D image viewer• Vol-a-Tile - 3D volume viewer• SAGE - Manages pixels on tiled displays• SAGE-UI - Handles user-interaction• LambdaCam - Web CAM of what’s on a tiled display• SVC - Scalable Video Consumer - HD camera streaming• Bplayer - NCSA’s HD stereo movie streaming• OptiStore - Storage manager for handling 2D/3D spatial multi-

resolution queries for JuxtaView/Vol-a-Tile• LambdaStream - UDP-based protocol for streaming• LambdaRAM - Network memory abstraction• PIN/PDC - Photonic Interdomain Negotiator / Photonic Domain

Controller

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How Everything Is Connected

SAGEOptiStore

LambdaRAM

BPlayer

JuxtaView

Vol-a-Tile

SAGE-UISVC

LambdaCAM

LambdaVisionStorageCluster

HD Camera

StorageCluster

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Status

• JuxtaView - Interface improved to dramatically increase panning/zooming speed• Vol-a-Tile - Now integrated with SAGE• SAGE - Performance improvements, wide-area deployment and testing to

Amsterdam, Korea, Chicago, San Diego, Urbana, Ottawa• SAGE-UI - Includes ability to post arbitrary images to Walls• LambdaCam - Deployed at all tiled display sites• SVC - Successfully tested at iGrid• OptiStore - Works in standalone (non-network) mode with JuxtaView; filters multi-

resolution data; spatial querying now possible.• Bplayer - Integration with SAGE enabled network streaming to walls as well as

stereo projectors• LambdaStream - new version under development & testing (Venkat)• LambdaRAM - new version being integrated with JuxtaView (Venkat)• PDC 2.0 - Advanced Reservation via Web portal & MySQL DB; Part of Optiputer

Gold Roll; Added command set to control Nortel encryption. • PIN - Extending advanced reservation to interdomain; developing simulations now

to compare algorithms

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Overarching Future Goal

• SAGE is now the “Web Browser” for Optiputer Tiled Displays bringing in high resolution rendering resources & video.

• Create 1 end-to-end pipeline that allows users to:– Launch existing demos to confirm operability– Add new data sets to actually use in their research– Participate in Optiputer collaboration sessions & experiments

• Pipeline should use resources at CALIT2, StarLight that can be declared as PERSISTENT. Ie have Optistore and LambdaRAM running 24/7 to provide access to all available data.

• Identify how the software components need to interact and what components are still missing.

• Based on NCMIR’s integration of our tools & EVL AHM see scenario.pdf

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Component-Level Future Goals

• JuxtaView - Integrate with new LambdaRAM / OptiStore• Vol-a-Tile - Integrate with new LambdaRAM / OptiStore• SAGE - Enable multi-site multicasting• SAGE-UI - Allow visualization sessions to appear persistent• LambdaCam - No change anticipated• SVC - Add audio decoding to SAGE to enable AccessGrid-like

conferencing; Examine HD GigE camera integration• OptiStore - Extend to network model and integrate with LambdaRAM• Bplayer - No change anticipated• LambdaStream - see Venkat• LambdaRAM - see Venkat• PIN / PDC - Compare advanced reservation algorithms; Integrate Zero-

Conf Application Programming Interface to enable IP addresses on OptIPuter nodes to be dynamically assigned

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Rocks EVL Visualization Roll

• Integration of EVL software into the Rocks distribution• Work done on a 3-node Opteron cluster

– Got latest Rocks 32bit OS installed– Got the latest viz packages integrated

• Created a 'EVL Roll’– depending on 'Viz Roll',– containing QUANTA, SAGE, and Mplayer,– Available in the Rock CVS server.

• Successful run of SAGE• Developed code for the Rocks management software

to maintain the layout of a tiled display

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Future Goals

• Develop the 64bit version of the rolls

• Install the Viz+EVL Rocks on– NCMIR 5x4 display– Calit2 11x5 100Mpixels– EVL's 2x2 display

• Used to develop, maintain, and update the EVL roll

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2006 PIN Plan

• Research the performance of advanced reservations in ARC-WA algorithm through simulations. (Jan 2006)

• Implement Interdomain Algorithms: (1) Aggregated Local Optimal (ALO), (2) Parallel Probe and Global Optimal (PPGO). (Feb 2006)

• Compare blocking rate, computational complexity and efficiency of the two algorithms through simulations. (Mar 2006)

• Release a new version of ARPIN/PDC and deploy them in experimental networks. (May 2006)

– Globus 4.0 compliance.– Identify needed resources with system admin and collaborative sites.

• Photonic switches: EVL, Amsterdam and San Diego.• Wavelengths: CAVEWAVE, trans-atlantic wavelengths.• Clusters.

• Zero-Conf Application Programming Interface (May 2006)– Try out Freek’s experiments in EVL.– Integrate Zero-Conf into ARPIN-PDC.

• Integrate with the intelligent cluster networking flow managing system to provide flow level Quality of Service to cluster applications. (Dec 2006)