Participation
to a panel at SC'05
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12-18 Nov 2005 |
| Chris Willing was
invited to participate to a panel session at SC'05 and present the
latest developments in the AG technology. |
Demonstration
of an AG node on Mac OSX at APAC'05
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26-8 Sept 2005 |
Thanks to a grant from
the Apple University Consortium (AUC), an Access Grid node can now run
on a mac G5-OSX. The node was installed on the exhibit floor of the
APAC'05 conference that was held on September 26-28, 2005 in the Gold
Coast. The following pictures are snapshots and screen capture taken
during the conference.
Some
pictures available here. |
Highlights of
APAC'05
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26-8 Sept 2005 |
VisLab staff was
involved in the APAC'05 conference with a demonstartion of a Mac OSX
Access Grid room node as well as the organisation of an Access Grid
workshop.
Some
pictures available here.
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| Prof. B.
Pailthorpe in the IT section of the Sydney Morning Herald/the Age |
20 Sept 2005 |
Profs B. Pailthorpe
(VisLab/QPSF) and J. O'Callaghan (APAC) were featured in the Sydney
Morning Herald/The Age on supercomputing
and the upcoming APAC conference.
Read article online 'Harnessing
supercomputer power' by Helen Meredith. |
VisLab will
launch Mac OSX AG room node on the G5 at APAC'05 conference
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16 Sept 2005 |
VisLab will launch Mac
OSX AG room node on the G5 at APAC'05.
D. Kosovic modified ANL vic so that it can run under OSX and this has
been included in the new version of the AccessGrid toolkit which can be
downloaded from Argonne National Lab.
We will also demonstrate the OSX AG room node on the G5 in the
QPSF booth during the APAC conference which will be held next week
(Sept 19-24) in the Gold Coast.
This work was funded by an Apple University Development Fund grant, UQ
and QPSF.
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VisLab
participates to AccessGrid (AG) Townhall Meeting
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7 Sept 2005 |
Townhall meetings are
organised by Argonne National Laboratory in the USA. AG developers meet
and discuss news and topics of interest for the Access Grid.
The invited speaker was Rhys Hawkins from ANU. The meeting was held on
Tuesday, September 6, at 6:00PM CDT (23:00 UTC) and broadcasted
on Wednesday, September 7, 10:00AM CDT (15:00 UTC).
Some
pictures available here.
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Chris Willing
presents at the 2005 APAN conference
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25 Aug 2005 |
Chris Willing gave a
seminar presentation to the APAN conference
attendees held in Taipei, Taiwan through the AccessGrid.
The presentation was held during the HDTV & Access GridSession 2 on
Thursday August 25. Title and abstract follow.
'Progress with Access Grid Clustered Displays and PAL/NTSC Video
[Remote Presentation via AG (or Polycom)'
Room based AG nodes
typically have three projected screens and an operator display, usually
implemented using a mixture of AGP and PCI bus cards. Apart from the
performance problem due to the lower video bandwidth available on the
PCI bus cards, there is also a limit on the number of display outputs
that can be generated from a single general purpose machine.
Distributed Multihead X (DMX) enables a single desktop to span AGP
display outputs from multiple computers. This allows (in principle) AG
nodes with as many screens as may be desired. An unexpected problem is
the amount of space required to house so many computers, which is
addressed through the use of Single Board Computers (SBC's).This talk
will describe the issues involved in building a room size AG node using
this clustered display technique. Some of the uses to which such
"oversized" displays may be put will be discussed, as well as the
possibility that such systems could provide additional compute
capacity. As an example, a JPGVideo node service has been created to
take advantage of the extra processing power is now available.
Some
pictures available here.
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SGI-QPSF Altix
presentation
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25 Aug 2005 |
SGI and QPSF organised a
presentation on the Altix system. Some 30 participants, including
VisLab staff, attended the presentation which included:
>
Introduction
Bernard Pailthorpe
> SGI
Into/Installs
Nick Conomo
> SGI Altix
Overview
Todd Churchward
> ESSCC Use of
Altix System Lutz Gross
> Tips on Using
Altix for HPC Todd
Churchward
> QPSF/UQ Specific
Info
Martin Nicholls
> Questions
all
The morning session (10.30am to 12pm) in Vizlab (Foots Building) and
the afternoon session (2.30-4pm) in the Access Grid room in GP South,
Level 6, Rm621.
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Tony Gill wins
a prize at the Postgraduate Research Exhibition
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24 Aug 2005 |
Tony Gill, a PhD of
Profs Bernard
Pailthorpe and Stuart Phinn, won a prize at the 2005 Showcase
and Exhibition for postgraduate students of the School of
Geography, Planning and Architecture.
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VisLab
participates in successful ARIIC grant led by Monash University
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23 Aug 2005 |
Prof. Pailthorpe was
part of a succesful grant led by Monash University in the latest round
of funding through the Australian Research Information Infrastructure
Committee (ARIIC).
For more information, see http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Nelson/2005/08/n1173220805.asp.
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RoboCup Junior
Queensland Championships
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20-21 Aug 2005 |
Nicole Bordes, Bernard
Pailthorpe and Cihan Altinay participated to RoboCup Junior Queensland
as volunteers, judges and referees. Pictures
available here.
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Visit from
Virtual Environment students
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18 Aug 2005 |
| C. Willing made a
presentation to Dr Theodor Wyeld's class of 'Virtual Environments'
students. Chris talked about the Access Grid as well as the use of
high-resolution displays. |
VisLab staff
wins two ARC Special Research Initiative (SRI) e-research grants and
participate to two others.
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15 Aug 2005 |
Dr N. Bordes, B.
Pailthorpe and C. Willing won two ARC SRI grants:
'e-Archaeology:
Towards an
Australian Archaeological Data Grid'
Dr N Bordes; Dr S Ulm; Mr S Hungerford; Dr P Hiscock; A/Prof J Hall;
Prof B Pailthorpe
Summary: The central goal of this
pilot project is the development and implementation of an Australian
archaeological digital collection platform based on existing High
Performance Computing techniques and infrastructure. This collection
will facilitate the dissemination and interchange of archaeological
data across disciplines and institutions and across the public and
private sectors; enhance archaeological research; and contribute to
discourses about Australian cultural heritage and identity. Our case
study will be the Mill Point Archaeological Project in southeast
Queensland. This initiative will build on existing developments made
overseas and through strategic collaborations between UQ, ANU and the
San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD.
'Collaborative Working using Shared Applications in the Access Grid'
Prof B Pailthorpe; A/Prof I Atkinson; Mr C Willing; Dr N Bordes
Summary: This project aims to
further develop an amplified collaboration environment, based on the
Access Grid (AG), that will support shared software applications
between geographically distributed research groups. This enhanced AG
will provide a platform for collaborative and network-based, shared
scientific visualisation tools. The project will build upon our
all-linux AG, the emerging suite of tools for tiled displays and our
strategic collaborations with JCU, Leeds (UK), ANL (USA) and NCHC
(Taiwan). Case studies will be on ecological and geosciences data,
relevant to agriculture and coastal studies, marine sciences and coral
reefs
Prof. B. Pailthorpe is also a CI on two additional grants:
'Smart astronomy:
using
computational science to understand distant radio galaxies'
led by Dr M. Drinkwater at UQ.
Dr M Drinkwater; Prof
E Sadler; Dr M Gallagher; Dr P Francis; Prof B
Pailthorpe
Summary: Radio galaxies are among
the largest galaxies in the universe with their copious radio emission
powered by massive black holes. Australian radio telescopes are very
effective at tracing these massive galaxies back in time so we can
measure how black holes formed and developed. These measurements depend
on reliable identification of the radio sources with our optical
telescopes to make vital measurements of their distances. Until now
this identification process has been straightforward, but the next
generation of studies will look so far back in time that the
identification will become ambiguous. Our project will develop a
software tool that applies techniques from computational science to
overcome the ambiguity in this matching problem.
'Scientific
Instruments as ICT Components in Building a GrEMLIN for
e-Research' led by Prof. CJ Kepert at the University of Sydney.
A/Prof C Kepert; Prof
D Abramson; Dr K Chiu; Dr N Hauser; Prof M
Hursthouse; Dr D McMullen; Prof B Pailthorpe; Dr P Turner; Prof A Zomaya
Summary: The proposal seeks to
initiate the development of a GrEMLIN, a Grid Enabled Multi-Level
Instrument Network, for e-Research. Scientific instruments, whether at
conventional laboratories or at major facilities, may be regarded as
specialised ICT components in a network providing remote access to such
instrumentation. Collaborative remote access and data analysis brings
efficiency and effectiveness dividends, that can be enhanced through
the harnessing of Grid technologies. The collaborative project will
leverage middleware, Web Services and e-Science software developments
in the US and UK, to provide Grid enabled remote instrument access and
data analysis as a powerful e-Research tool.
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SGI
presentation on the ALTIX supercomputer
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11 Aug 2005 |
SGI gave a technical
presentation on the application of the ALTIX architecture to
engineering in the James Foots Building, 6th level.
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UQ Open Day -
St Lucia
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7 Aug 2005 |
UQ Open Day will take
place on Sunday August 7 on the St Lucia campus. N. Bordes and B.
Pailthorpe (as well as other volunteers from the School of Physical
Sciences (SPS)) will respond to enquiries from prospective students in
the SPS stand.
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RoboCup Junior
2005: Call for Volunteers
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3 Aug 2005 |
RoboCup Junior is
rolling around for another year, with ITEE hosting
the Qld finals this year. The Australian finals are moving around
Australia and will be held in Sydney in September.. UQ is
expecting in excess of 400 participants from schools all over
Australia. The competition will be held on the 20th and 21st of August, in the UQ
Center (Building 27A).
ITEE is looking for a variety of volunteers to help the competition run
smoothly, including:
Referees for the
soccer,
rescue and dance competitions
Front desk
registration and
sign in
Timekeepers
AV people
who are available for either one day, both days, or even a half day,
with each day running approximately from 8:30am to 6:00pm. All
volunteers will get a free official RoboCup Jnr polo shirt as well as
lunch and snacks throughout the day. ITEE will also need some
people on the Friday afternoon to help setup tables, power leads etc
and pack down again on Monday.
More information at http://www.robocupqld.net.au
Contact Damien Kee <damien at itee uq edu au
> |
New students
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25 Jul 2005 |
Stéphane Bidet
and Cihan Altinay joined VisLab to work on Access Grid and tiled
display software development.
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Invited
lecture at National Archaeology Week
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17 May 2005
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Nicole Bordes will give
a public lecture for National Archaeology Week on "e-Archaeology:
Case Studies in Data Visualisation". The lecture will take place at the
University of Queensland, St Lucia Room 212, Goddard Building (#8), at
12:30 pm.
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Apple
University Development Fund (AUDF) grant successful
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23 Mar 2005 |
VisLab was successful in
applying for an Apple University Development Fund grant entitled
"Access Grid video implementation on Mac OS X"
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Prof. Ken Brodlie, University of Leeds, UK
visits VisLab
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23 Feb 2005
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| Prof. Ken Brodlie from
University of
Leeds, UK visited UQ and gave a seminar on collaborative visualisation
in ITEE on March 1. Prof. Brodlie leads the UK "G-Viz" Projects at the
White Rose
Universities,
as part of the UK e-Science program. Prof. Brodlie will give a seminar
at UQ on Tuesday, 1 March. His visit is sponsored by QPSF. |
Launch of the
Philippine AG node at the Advanced Science and Technology Institute
(ASTI)
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4 Feb 2005
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ASTI launched
its first AG node in the Philippine. VisLab, CQU participated to an AG
session.
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