PFI: 3DHub: A Geometric Kernel and Infrastructure for Community-based Rapid Application Development and Deployment

该创新伙伴关系（PFI）项目是普渡大学内部的II型（a:B）合作伙伴关系，由PFI毕业受助人（0227828）和另一个NSF合作伙伴支持的项目——计算纳米技术网络（NCN）（0228390/0634750）的参与者组成，旨在改变3D算法的知识供应链、3D应用的基础设施开发和相应的商业模式的工作方式。用于创建物体数字数据表示的新兴技术，如3D激光扫描仪、3D相机、计算机辅助设计系统和冷冻显微镜，导致了大量“非结构化2D和3D几何数据”的创建。该项目将使嵌入在数据中的知识能够被提取和使用。该项目将开发所需的基本算法以及支持它的计算基础设施。由于3DHub（TM）具有通过共享资源影响应用程序的创建、分发和维护的能力，因此它可以从根本上改变业务。技术曾经是商业战略的工具，现在已经成为商业战略的驱动力。由易于使用的网格基础设施支持的3D几何内核将为公司以新的方式构思、创建、开发和分发产品和服务提供竞争优势。这将改变依赖几何的商业模式的概念化方式，以及它们在许多领域的运作方式，包括外科、蛋白质组学、制造业和教育。几何学相关领域的其他研究也将通过受影响的商业团体取得更快的进展。在这个项目中，一项旨在增加行业获取和使用的技术推动，可能会开辟新的市场和机会，也可能反过来反馈到发现研究中。项目初期的合作伙伴是一个学术机构：普渡大学（牵头机构），包括机械工程和电气与计算机工程学院的成员；私营部门组织：Peyton Manning儿童医院、雷丁工业、VCom3D和Imaginestics；联邦政府实验室：国家标准与技术研究所（NIST）。

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project--a Type II (A:B) partnership within Purdue University, between the PFI graduated grantee (0227828) and participants from another NSF partnership supported program, Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) (0228390/0634750)--seeks to change the way the knowledge supply chain for 3D algorithms, infrastructure development for 3D applications, and corresponding business models work. New and emerging technologies for creating digital data representation of objects such as 3D laser scanners, 3D cameras, computer-aided design systems, and cryo-microscopy have resulted in the creation of large amounts of "unstructured 2D and 3D geometric data." This project will enable knowledge that is embedded in the data to be extracted and made usable. This project will develop basic algorithms needed as well as the computing infrastructure to support it.Because the 3DHub(TM)has the ability to influence the creation, distribution, and maintenance of the applications through shared resources, it can transform businesses fundamentally. Technology, once a tool for business strategy, now has become a driver of business strategy. A 3D Geometric Kernel supported by an easy to use Grid Infrastructure will provide a competitive advantage for companies to conceive, create, as well as develop and distribute, products and services in new ways. This will transform the way geometry-dependent business models will be conceptualized and how they operate in many sectors including surgery, proteomics, manufacturing, and education. Additional research in geometry dependent fields will also progress much faster through the affected business communities. In this project, a technology push designed to increase access and use by industry in ways that might open up new markets and opportunities might also in turn feedback into discovery research.Partners at the inception of the project are an Academic Institution: Purdue University (lead institution), including participation of members in Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Private Sector Organizations: Peyton Manning Children's Hospital, Redding Industries, VCom3D, and Imaginestics; Federal Government Laboratory: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).