University of California at Berkeley and IBM to manufacture a new digital broadcasting center
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers today announced plans to use the most sophisticated calculation all over the world, one server - IBM mainframe Systemz digital media to build a new campus center, to develop the next generation of virtual worlds, multiplayer online high-fidelity digital games and movies. IBM Shared University Research Grants through the project (SUR), the University of California at San Diego to help create the next generation of new digital media center. In addition to a variety of peripheral equipment and auxiliary support, IBM’s award also includes the company uses the latest Cell Broadband Engine (Cell / BE) of enterprise-class server Systemz10EC.
IBM Systems and Technology Division, IBM Fellow, vice president and BernieMeyerson said: “The students will be able to up-to-date by visiting IBM’s mixed computing systems, feel blazing speed and powerful functions. Now the University of California, San Diego can enjoy the students designed to meet the next generation of virtual world applications of security features and ’special engine’ (specialtyengines), to support the mass of concurrent users simultaneously share the same environment. ”
University of California, San Diego, Professor of Visual Arts SheldonBrown said: “We expect to facilitate the development of the next current inhabitants of digital media.through highly enrich the customer understanding of virtual worlds, we trust that there will be recreational activities and cinemas for instance such as digital broadcasting creation and the Internet divided untested environment. With the virtual world and digital movie theatre perfection of the visual artists creations and the request for paid job of more highly developed society, the development of these two groups will be more integration and more diverse. ”
Brown and his UCSD Experimental Game Lab Team constituent will be IBMSystemz server, founded on the development of the Museum of Brown configure the “city expansion (ScalableCity)”, to conceive and run a virtual world, and can then step-by-step elaborate into the promise for thousands of concurrent 7 24 hours the client know-how of the environment. And “Second Life,” “The Sims” and other sport as well as the “World of Warcraft” This large-scale online multiplayer role-playing game contrasted to, the client can seem a more affluent visual know-how, a diversified variety of shift demeanour of the virtual world.
At present, even though the virtual world carries hundreds of thousands of users and objective listeners, but the deficiency of computing power is constricted by the customer understanding all this. When the customer in the virtual world to another territory, are in item cluster in the derived worth of the amendment to the other server nodes, so their complete understanding of the virtual world will become fragmented.
Brown said, IBM mainframe Systemz fully meet the future needs of the virtual world. Deal with the mass of the system capacity and IBMCell / BE multi-processor technology, a combination of intensive computing power, you can bring real-time interaction for the user of the virtual world experience.
Brown further explained: “We can put IBM mainframe as a cluster of several hundred computers, you can put it as a super computer. We can deal with the capacity of storage and a balanced optimization, to change the virtual the world to experience the form and status. ”
Although the IBM mainframe can redevelopment the virtual world and the real-time imitation, but the customer understanding or because of their use to entry to the virtual world of the private computer (that is, the so-called “client-side) and be limited. To this end, the University of California, San Diego Researchers are employing multi-core processors for customer computing test, with a scenery to looking for a result to this obstacle for the test, embracing a multi-core processor, code-named Larrabee of Intel chips, the wares will be early in 2010 concurrently with the processor IBMCell market. In augmentation, Brown in addition worked with three other universities have been the National Science Foundation (NationalScienceFoundation) support for the training of the hybrid multi-core computing examine center study.
“Home of a computer piece was implanted in some processor-intensive, as if set 4 Units, Units 8, 16 and even 32 on a computer, the computer has become a strong computing capacity.” Brown said, “but It in addition demanded to enhance the prevailing computing power of 60 times, only adequate to assure real-time to give users with the virtual world experience. Faced with this circumstances, we should not turn a visually ruined eye and sanction the customer to hold back for this. ”
Brown’s assembly will carry on to investigate the use of high bandwidth written knowledge lines to the backbone of the new ways to entry to the network. They are now toiling with Peking University to study at San Diego and Beijing combined visit the virtual world technology.
University of California, San Diego hope to attract other partners to be able to add the new release of the next generation of digital media research center. Brown said: “The most fundamental way, we must assume that the next generation of digital media will be the development. Calculations and the basic structure of a major breakthrough in various forms will affect prospects for the development of digital media? Virtual world and the figure is the two new movies of digital media. We can be both independent of each other as individuals, but also can be used as integration, a combination of interrelated. ”
At the center was first established, will be supported on the surviving bond with the Hollywood studios and the derived worth and the Arts Research Center (CRCA), California Association of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) for their support, focusing on the development of a new podium for digital picture production. IBM mainframe is now left in the SDSC, a extraordinary light-weight through a direct narrow pathway to bind to the digital movie theatre apparatus Calit2, and the adoption of high-bandwidth binding to the Internet and worldwide optical fiber network.
As super computing and high-bandwidth fiber-optic network of the pioneers of the field, the California Association of Telecommunications and Information Technology Director LarrySmarr said: “As the media and the social environment, has a massive user of the virtual world is becoming more and more important. Calit2 will CineGrid through projects, is committed to pioneering digital cinema. We believe that the Center will be a significant deepening of the various types of digital media art practice. ”
San Diego Supercomputer Center FranBerman Officer, said: “Technology and the boundaries between art is step-by-step distorted, to ‘the town can be expanded (ScalabelCity)’ for the collaborative representing the natural environment affirms this trend. We are very satisfied that the Center Units be adept to owner is established here, but furthermore very respected to be adept to take part in this significant project. ”
Brown said: “I will use this virtual world as the development of ultra-high-fidelity digital movie theatre podium, through the picture, collections, actors and even one by one implementation, the virtual prototype of the world movie theatre will give a new way of creation. Film goods produced is in addition will become more quick and more flexible.