1. OptIPuter Application-Centered Tools and Techniques Jason Leigh (EVL/UIC) Luc Renambot (EVL/UIC) Paul Wielinga (SARA) Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST) Xingfu Wu (Texas A&M) Jysoo Lee (KISTI)

2. www.optiputer.net What is the OptIPuter? NSF large ITR project that began 3 years ago. Moore’s law equivalent for bandwidth is steeper than the curves for computing and storage. Meaning for the first time the bottleneck is in the end points of the system. This means we have a problem and an opportunity. The problem is that we need to learn to redesign the end systems to handle this capacity- disks, cpus, OS, etc. The opportunity is that we can think of new models for computing- such as the network as a system bus. The project Involves a team of computer scientists, geoscientists, and bioscientists from: CALIT2, UCSD, NCMIR, SIO, UIC, NW, TAMU, UvA, NASA, USGS, SARA, KISTI, AIST.

3. www.optiputer.net Goal of this panel Introduce you to an international group of optIPuter partners old and new who are developing tools in support of end-users on the optIPuter From their experience and point of view, explain how the optIPuter concept could be beneficial to their community of users Challenges / problems that need to be solved to achieve goal of global “optIPuterization”