01/15/09 HPCwire "UIC Technology Aids Obama Inaugural Security"

With more than a million people predicted to descend on Washington, D.C., next Tuesday to witness Barack Obama's presidential inauguration, many will stake a viewing spot near public monuments or along the Mall -- all land supervised by the U.S. Department of the Interior. While security planning and logistics are daunting, imaging technology developed by UIC's Electronic Visualization Laboratory is helping to make the job easier.

06/18/08 iSGTW "Optical network key to next-generation e-research"

At the TeraGrid '08 conference, UC San Diego’s Larry Smarr urges university campuses to remove network bottlenecks to supercomputer users.



6/11/08 HPCwire "Optical Network Is Key to Next-Generation Research Cyberinfrastructure"

The director of Calit2 said today that all the pieces are in place for a revolution in the usability of remote high performance computers to advance science across many disciplines. He urged early adopter application scientists to drive the creation of end-to-end dedicated lightpaths connecting remote supercomputers to their labs, greatly enhancing their local capability to analyze visually massive datasets generated by TeraGrid's terascale to petascale computers.



01/16/08 Max Australia "University of Melbourne Initiates Australia’s Ultra-Resolution Global Collaboration Laboratory"

In the last two months, the University of Melbourne has constructed a massive 96 million pixel “OptIPortal” visualization wall - known affectionately as the ‘OzIPortal’- constructed from 24 x 30 inch LCD screens. 



08/22/07 International Science Grid This Week
"LOOKING to sea: grids reveal our deepest secrets"

Article about the Laboratory for the Ocean Observatory Knowledge Integration Grid (LOOKING), which is "using grid technology to raise the bar when it comes to oceanographic data." The LOOKING project grew out of the OptIPuter's Earth science application

07/30/07 University of Michigan Record Online
"Key Initiatives for the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Campus"

The FY 2008 budget selectively supports new research, instructional programs and facilities that promise to keep U-M at the forefront. A School of Information pilot project (Virtual Space Interactive Test Bed) to improve interactions between and among faculty and students and to facilitate formal and informal meetings between North and Central campuses through the use of OptiPortals.