Closing the Digital Gap in Underdeveloped Regions

缩小欠发达地区的数字鸿沟

• 批准号: 0083047
• 负责人: John W.D. Connolly
• 金额: $ 74.93万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0083047&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Closing; Digital; Gap; Underdeveloped; Regions

The recently Access Grid (AG) technology, will be used to establish and strengthen the networking bonds to researchers in jurisdictions participating in the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). This will facilitate technology transfer to and formation of collaborations with, the major research centers in the more densely populated and technologically developed parts of the country. The AG is a multi-site, interactive multimedia system which allows group to group collaboration. To deploy AG nodes to EPSCoR states, a concerted effort is needed to package the required hardware, document the installation process, assist in trouble shooting, and provide training. Six multimedia teleconferencing facilities in the EPSCoR states would be established after constructing nodes of the AG at: the University of Kansas, the University of Kentucky (in place), Montana State University, North Dakota State University, the University of South Carolina, and West Virginia University. The project, serving as a prototype, or proof of concept of viability within the EPSCoR community, is geared toward establishing partnerships (e.g., additionally, the Argonne National Laboratory, along with the National Computational Science Alliance at the University of Illinois will serve as technical resources). In addition to establishing the six AG sites the project will also explore research issues that affect AG operation. For example, Spatialized Audio (ability to make a qualitative differentiation to separate voices to make individual voices more distinguishable), Audio, Setup, Balance and Quality (mechanisms for remotely setting and detecting audio balances), Video (improvements: tools to monitor and control color balance and quality), Networking (designate important streams to dynamically switch and re-route traffic), and Application Integration (visualization stream integration).

最近的Access Grid(AG)技术将用于建立和加强与参与激励竞争研究实验计划(EPSCoR)的司法管辖区的研究人员之间的网络联系。这将促进向该国人口较稠密和技术发达地区的主要研究中心转让技术并与其形成合作关系。AG是一个多站点的交互式多媒体系统，允许组对组协作。要将AG节点部署到EPSCoR状态，需要共同努力来打包所需的硬件、记录安装过程、协助故障排除和提供培训。在建立AG的节点后，将在EPSCoR各州建立六个多媒体电话会议设施：堪萨斯大学、肯塔基大学(就位)、蒙大拿州立大学、北达科他州立大学、南卡罗来纳大学和西弗吉尼亚大学。该项目作为EPSCoR社区内可行性概念的原型或证明，旨在建立伙伴关系(例如，此外，阿贡国家实验室将与伊利诺伊大学的国家计算科学联盟一起作为技术资源)。除了建立六个AG站点外，该项目还将探索影响AG运营的研究问题。例如，Spatialized Audio(能够对单独的语音进行定性区分，以使单个语音更容易区分)、Audio、Setup、Balance和Quality(用于远程设置和检测音频平衡的机制)、Video(改进：用于监视和控制色彩平衡和质量的工具)、网络(指定重要的流以动态切换和重新路由流量)以及应用集成(可视化流集成)。