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The FWGrid research infrastructure models the world of five
years hence, where widespread high bandwidth wireless, extreme wired
(fiber) bandwidth, and plentiful wired computing and data resource are
the norm. The key aspects of this infrastructure are:
1. highly capable mobile image/video devices (to interact with the world)
2. high bandwidth wireless 100-500 Mbps (to tightly couple mobile elements to high capability resources),
3. a rich wired network infrastructure 10-100Gbps (move and aggregate data and computation without limit),
and
4. distributed clusters with large compute (teraflops) and data (10's of terabytes) capabilities (to power the
infostructure).
The FWGrid infrastructure will include a wealth of computing elements,
ranging from small video cameras to rich fixed and head-mounted
displays to clustered 64-bit fast compute engines to 10's of terabytes
of storage (100x current infrastructure), from wireless clients with
100-500Mbps (100x current practice) and wired network infrastructures
with 10-100Gbps switched connections (100x current practice). The
wired networks' massive bandwidth allow the fixed resources
(computing and data bricks) to be dedicated to local activities,
clustered or even aggregated in units of any size up to the entire
infrastructure (and with resources outside the building). The fast
wireless networks will be achieved by using commercial products
configured to use multiple channels of the allocated frequency band
simultaneously, leveraging commercial products and achieving
multiples of the current nominal bandwidth. Such high wireless
bandwidth will enable mobile clients to stream/receive multiple high
resolution video or data streams, enabling rich interaction with the
environment, based on computing and data in the core. The proposed
research infrastructure models the world of five years hence, where
widespread high bandwidth wireless, extreme wired bandwidth, and
plentiful wired computing and data resource are the norm. The
requested resources enables to model this future environment for a
limited space, parts of a single building environment, but by the end
of the decade we expect such capabilities to be widespread (perhaps
analogous to WiFi in 2003, or cellular in late 1980's). The proposed
research infrastructure also constitutes the hardware elements of
scientific cyberinfrastructure, but one that is even more interesting
because the fast wireless technology enables coupling to mobile, rich
media devices which can enable a range of innovative consumer grid
applications. Our plans include a significant upgrade of the
infrastructure in year 3 to keep the infrastructure's capabilities
approximately 5 years ahead of the rapidly advancing technology.
Citing FWGrid Use
Users of FWGrid funded resources are REQUIRED to acknowledge
this fact in publications, references, research reports, funding
applications, etc. A typical citation would be of the following
form:
This research was supported in part by
the UCSD FWGrid Project, NSF Research Infrastructure Grant
Number EIA-0303622.
In general, we would like to know how researchers are using
FWGrid resources, as such information is an important part
of our progress
reports to the NSF. This also allows us to understand better how the
resources are being utilized, as well as plan for future enhancements.
Please send descriptions of how you’ve used/are using the FWGrid
equipment and any acknowledgments as described above to
fwgrid@cs.ucsd.edu. Thanks!
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