MRI: Development of Augmentarium: High Performance Visual Computing Infrastructure with Adaptive Displays

这个项目，开发Augmentum，使人们能够直观地了解科学、工程和医学中的许多应用程序。一旦完成，这台仪器预计将成为一个稳定的共享使用的网络设施，使用新兴的可编程机器人安装的投影仪-相机对技术，用于高性能计算和具有广泛可视化需求的科学应用。开发的仪器提供了前所未有的能力，可以使用较低分辨率的背景、新的交互模式和基于投影的增强现实来可视化本地高分辨率图像。在天文学、大气和海洋科学、生物学、材料科学、计算流体动力学、航空航天工程、电气工程和计算机科学等多个领域的领域专家的密切参与下，Augmentum的开发将继续进行。预计这将吸引并涉及一些国际合作。可直接受益于拟议仪器的项目包括：-了解大规模天文数据-大气和海洋中的多尺度不稳定性和混合过程-干细胞群体和材料特性的大规模表征-流体动力学的大规模模拟和通过快速多极加速算法的高分子重建-网络安全的实时数据可视化-大型数据流的分析和可视化拟议的仪器预计将在广泛的科学和工程学科中促进最先进的技术水平，如天体物理、宇宙过程的建模、生物系统的建模和模拟、气候变化、计算工程、材料科学和高性能计算。拟议的基础设施将由附属于主要研究领域的不同研究小组用于教育和研究培训。该设施还将用于运营一个暑期项目，旨在吸引学生对计算机感兴趣，特别是那些来自计算机行业代表性不足群体的学生。这一网络设施还将与工程女性协会、计算女性协会和马里兰大学黑人工程师协会联系，以鼓励参与将利用新设施的计算科学项目。

This project, developing Augmentarium, enables visual understanding of a number of applications in science, engineering, and medicine. Once completed, this instrument is expected to be a stable shared-used cyberfacility that uses the emerging technologies of programmable-robot-mounted projector-camera pairs for high-performance computing and scientific applications with extensive visualization needs. The developed instrument provides unprecedented capabilities to visualize locally high-resolution images with lower-resolution context, new interaction modalities, and projection-based augmented reality. The Augmentarium development will proceed with close involvement of domain experts in a number of areas including Astronomy, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Biology, Materials Science, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. It is also anticipated that this will attract and involve a number of international collaborations. The projects that can directly benefit from the proposed instrument include:- Understanding Large-Scale Astronomy Data- Multiscale Instabilties and Mixing Processes in the Atmosphere and the Oceans- Large Scale Characterization of Stem Cell Colonies and Material Properties- Large Scale Simulations in Fluid Dynamics and Macromolecular Reconstruction via Fast Multipole Accelerated Algorithms- Real-Time Data Visualization for Cyber Security- Analysis and Visualization of Large Streaming DataThe proposed instrumentation is expected to advance the state of the art in a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines, such as astrophysics, modeling of cosmological processes, modeling and simulation of biological systems, climate change, computational engineering, materials science, and high performance computing. The proposed infrastructure will be used for education and research training by the different research groups affiliated with the main research areas. The facility will also be used to operate a summer program designed to interest students in computing, particularly those from groups under-represented in computing. This cyberfacility will also reach out to the Women in Engineering Society, the Association of Women in Computing, and the Society of Black Engineers at the University of Maryland to encourage participation in computational science projects that will make use of the new facility.