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

该项目开发Augmentarium，能够直观地理解科学、工程和医学中的许多应用。一旦完成，该仪器预计将成为一个稳定的共享使用的网络设施，使用可编程机器人安装投影仪相机对的新兴技术，用于具有广泛可视化需求的高性能计算和科学应用。开发的仪器提供了前所未有的能力，以可视化本地高分辨率图像与低分辨率的背景下，新的交互方式，和基于投影的增强现实。Augmentarium的开发将在包括天文学、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在内的多个领域的领域专家的密切参与下进行。还预计这将吸引和涉及一些国际合作。可直接受益于拟议文书的项目包括：- 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-干细胞集落和材料特性的大规模表征-通过快速多极加速算法进行流体动力学和大分子重建的大规模模拟-用于网络安全的实时数据可视化-大型流数据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推进最先进的技术水平，例如天体物理学，宇宙过程建模，生物系统建模与仿真、气候变化、计算工程、材料科学和高性能计算。拟议的基础设施将用于与主要研究领域有关的不同研究小组的教育和研究培训。该设施还将用于运行一个暑期项目，旨在培养学生对计算机的兴趣，特别是那些来自计算机代表性不足的群体的学生。该网络设施还将与工程界妇女协会、计算机界妇女协会和马里兰州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.