SPEAKERS
Application Integration for the OptIPortal
Bernard Pailthorpe and Richard Hammond
An OptIPortal is a visualization cluster which can be deployed on a variety of hardware platforms. Functionally, OptIPortals are tiled displays, that is, many displays capable of acting as one or many virtual displays. OptIPortals can be used in a wide variety of visualization approaches; viewing high definition static images, video, or in streaming mode across one or more OptIPortals.
Specialised display managers are required for large OptIPortals and software applications generally need porting to operate natively on these displays. One of these display managers, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE), is also well suited to collaboration between multiple Optiportal sites.
This presentation will describe the process of enabling highly valuable scientific software, iCLuster, to run in the enhanced display environment offered by an OptIPortal. This provides not only enhanced visualizaton and analysis of the data, but also enables collaboration between researchers at multiple sites.
iCluster is both a methodology and the name of an application for visualizing, clustering and comparing large sub-cellular localization image sets. iCLuster facilitates automated spatial layout to allow comparison and discrimination of high throughput sub-cellular imaging.
 | Bernard Pailthorpe's Biography Bernard Pailthorpe is Professor of Computational Science at UQ, Director of UQ Vislab and, until recently, CEO of Qld. Cyberinfrastructure (QCIF. Ltd.). He has built up advanced computing research infrastructure over nearly two decades. In 1992 he established Sydney VisLab as a component of the national advanced computing infrastructure, with one of the first labs at the ATP in 1995. He was a member of the team that presented to PMSEC in Dec’94, leading to the establishment of APAC. During 1999-2000 he was a Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD. There he directed the Interaction Environments research program for the 50-member NSF-funded NPACI consortium. He also was involved in the early planning of CalIT2 with which he has continued collaborations, in particular with its OptIPortal development program. From 2003 until recently he was CEO of the Queensland’s advanced computing partnership (then QPSF, now QCIF) during which time funding was provided for construction of OptIPortals and associated infrastructure at UQ and the QUT. |
| Richard Hammond's Biography Richard Hammond joined Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) at the beginning of 2009 after completing his bachelor in Information Technology and Mathematics at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Since then he has been working on smart traffic congestion solutions with Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads. He has also worked on porting application to the OptIPortal and methods of interaction with it. |
