SDSU collaborates with Lucian Plesea at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, which is currently finishing the creation of the global datasets
from the Landsat7 satellite, which will be transferred to SDSU's lab for
further processing, in the Silicon Graphics Prism into the GMX format. "
"The ever-expanding datasets that the SDSU Immersive Visualization Center
is processing, and the myriad applications these geophysical images serve,
demonstrates the robust power and impressive versatility of the Silicon
Graphics Prism visualization system," said Shawn Underwood, director, Visual
Systems Group, SGI. Electric Cloud 2.

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"Some of our images are 20GB files, so when you have to mosaic three of
those 20GB files together, which is what I'm doing right now with the
California-Mexico border, it really helps to have the multiprocessor support
in the program that's doing it," said John Graham. The scalable
computing power and large memory of their Silicon Graphics Prism system allows
researchers at the Visualization Center to use GeoMatrix tools to process
their 20GB to 100GB data sets directly from memory, while the system's
multi-pipe visualization capability allows them to bring together large groups
for critical decisions.
The datasets will only get bigger. The Visualization Center is about to
receive global Landsat7 mosaics that are 15-metre resolution, covering the
entire planet. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil
more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland
security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital
broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for
scientific, engineering and creative users. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
in several countries.
In order to ensure that parallel builds will not break, Electric
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Venture Partners and RRE Ventures.

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I can throw very large images with
very long process times at it, and the Prism just cranks it up and does it.
Another current project, for the U. provides the backbone for the
Visualization Center's high performance GIS environment . If we want to add more capacity to the
Prism, we can just keep on adding more bricks, more CPUs , more memory, more
graphics pipes, a bigger rack."
SDSU also plays a role in the development of high-performance grid
computing. SDSU's
nearly 33,000 students participate in academic curricula distinguished by
direct contact with faculty and an increasing international emphasis that
prepares students for a global future. The GMSL includes list and string manipulation, integer
arithmetic , associative arrays, stacks, debugging facilities and more.1
accelerates builds 10 - 20 times by distributing the software build in
parallel across scalable clusters of inexpensive, industry-standard
servers.1 is
currently being deployed at several of Silicon Valley's most widely
recognized technology companies.

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Based in Mountain View, California,
Electric Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms, Mayfield, U.

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"We
chose the Silicon Graphics Prism system because it's hard to find a single
machine with so many CPUs and so much RAM. military, NGOs (non-government organizations)
and the United Nations. Soon, SDSU will be processing imagery on the Silicon Graphics
Prism system that will extend their mapping and security possibilities to
greater Los Angeles, followed by the entire state of California. With offices worldwide, the
company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. "We believe that making the GMSL available as free
software, and opening its growth to the community at large will, as
with other open source projects, lead to greater efficiencies, more
excitement among programmers and better software products for
everyone.S.com

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The SDSU Immersive Visualization Center
is co-directed by Eric Frost (SDSU) and Bob Welty (SDSURF), and is employed
extensively in support of Humanitarian and Homeland Security initiatives, and
support to the SDSU Interdisciplinary Homeland Security Master's Degree
Program.

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It will definitely
be several terabytes."

About San Diego State University
San Diego State University is the oldest and largest institution of higher
education in the San Diego region., is a leader in high-performance
computing, visualization and storage.

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For example, the Silicon Graphics Prism system was up and running when the
horrific tsunami arose from the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004. SGI's vision is to provide technology
that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the
21st century.sgi.
Until now , when developers wished to create a complex Makefile
they were often forced to code, from scratch , common functions, or
search the Internet for snippets of GNU Make code that could assist
them .

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, To rapidly process
and disseminate large 3D geophysical datasets for a number of vital national
and international programs and educational activities, the Immersive
Visualization Center at San Diego State University (SDSU) relies on the
high-performance computing and visualization technology of Silicon Graphics
(NYSE: SGI).S.
Increasing homeland security efforts through the use of advanced,
high-resolution 3D GIS and video surveillance is another area in which the
SDSU Visualization Center is actively involved."

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Electric Cloud 2.1 records and re-uses build
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MOUNTAIN VIEW , Calif. "We
started out with two pipes, two bricks, 12GB of RAM and 4 CPUs and then
doubled it , 24GB memory and 8 CPUs.sdsu. At Electric Cloud it is our core mission to improve and
accelerate build processes and we feel that the GMSL is just one of
the ways we can do that.

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"The interactivity is phenomenal, and just like the San Diego county
images, the global mosaics will be available at our website to anyone.
"We've doubled the number of bricks we had originally," says Graham.- ---Electric
Cloud, the software build infrastructure company, today announced that
the company has sponsored the creation of the GNU Make Standard
Library (GMSL).

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That's a pretty unique thing , to be able to
organically grow your computer.
"With 10 gigabit Ethernet in the Silicon Graphics Prism, we will directly
connect into very fast computer networks, including National Lambda Rail ,
Starlight, through Cal IT2 and TerraGrid, and internationally with a couple of
different peering arrangements," explains Graham. Founded in 1897, SDSU offers bachelor's
degrees in 81 areas, master 's degrees in 72 and doctorates in 16.
"Having an efficient build process is at the heart of building
complicated pieces of software, but creating the necessary Makefiles
can be daunting," said John Graham-Cumming, Electric Cloud Chief
Scientist.

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This model features one-foot resolution imagery, and is
used in collaborative practice exercises with local agencies and for a
graduate studies course on the use of mapping technology and visualization
techniques. You
will be able to go anywhere on the planet and zoom right down, and see the
latest results that were processed on the Silicon Graphics Prism," notes
Graham. Aimed at providing a common set of tools for all users
of GNU Make , the GMSL was created by Electric Cloud Chief Scientist
John Graham-Cumming and is an invaluable tool for GNU Make developers
and a foundation that simplifies the creation and maintenance of
complex build environments.

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Rapidly becoming the nerve center for all of these efforts, the Silicon
Graphics Prism(TM) visualization system at SDSU is an integral part of the
geospatial image-processing pipeline used to create new datasets, processing
image files up to 20GB in size to create mosaics up to 60GB and beyond. By visualizing hundreds of gigabytes of geospatial
data on a Silicon Graphics Prism system , with eight Intel Itanium 2
processors, four graphics pipes and 24GB of memory, the researchers at the
Visualization Center are able to continuously create up-to-date 3D
fly-throughs that depict the changes wrought by the tsunami. "Once connected directly to
the fiber network, the Visualization Center joins the OptiPuter concept where
you're making your computer power available across a fast glass network.edu.

NOTE: Silicon Graphics, SGI, the SGI cube and the SGI logo are registered
trademarks and Silicon Graphics Prism, NUMAflex and The Source of Innovation
and Discovery are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc.sourceforge.

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The SGI(R) technology at the SDSU Visualization Center is
involved in many projects including natural disaster mitigation and response,
homeland security , remote sensing and environmental monitoring, global sharing
of information and collaborative visualization , and grid computing.
In early January, the center also supported SDSU adjunct faculty medical
doctors who work with the U. Its
shared-memory, shared disks and shared applications are accessible across the
country or on the other side of the world. For more information log on to http://www .

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By displaying interactive, high-performance
visualizations on displays with 5 to 50 million pixels of resolution,
decision-makers in environmental planning or homeland security, for instance,
are able to rapidly reach conclusions based on shared observations. "We don't know the final size of all the rendered images that are
creating the global mosaic as yet, but very big, of course."
The scalability of the SGI Prism visualization solution has allowed the
Visualization Center, through SGI(R) NUMAflex(TM) architecture, to expand as
quickly as their needs. That, and the use of open source
software on top of these fast, scalable Silicon Graphics computers, is the
real story.

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Border Patrol, uses open source
programs based on Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) that are
translating and re-projecting 6-inch per pixel aerial photography of the
California-Mexico border. "To put three 20GB files
together as one, then write those out to the GeoFusion GMX format took 10
hours on the Prism, and if I wasn't running on a multiprocessor-aware software
system , it would have taken easily over 100 hours, again, just to process this
image.
The GMSL is released under the General Public License and is
hosted on SourceForge (http://gmsl. For customer inquiries please
contact Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.

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The GMX
format highly pre-compresses and optimizes visual data in files, making it
ready for the GeoFusion engine to display interactively on local
high-resolution displays or on a Web browser for remote access.com.
At the core of Electric Cloud 2. Electric Cloud 2.
The Company was founded to addresses the build related frustrations,
delays and resource scheduling nightmares that every software
development team endures.electric-cloud.

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Because of the high-performance and speed of the
Silicon Graphics Prism system, the Visualization Center was able to process
the high-resolution satellite imagery and deliver high-fidelity 3D geospatial
visualization and maps to relief workers and government officials so they
could establish initial refugee camps and provide emergency medical care. Visualization Center
researchers have collaborated with local law enforcement and fire departments
to create a 60GB 3D GIS model of all of San Diego County using their Silicon
Graphics Prism system.

SILICON GRAPHICS | The Source of Innovation and Discovery(TM)
SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc.1 is Electric Make, which is
plug -compatible with existing Make-based build infrastructures so it
can be rapidly deployed with little or no change to existing tools or
environments.

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SDSU was
one of the first of any organizations to acquire high-resolution
before-and-after satellite imagery of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, where the worst
devastation occurred.

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"As scientists, automotive and aerospace manufacturers,
and researchers throughout the world are discovering , the Silicon Graphics
Prism system processes and delivers the highest fidelity 3D interactive images
at real-time speed, and the variety of applications those images can
serve -- from saving lives to protecting borders -- is truly limited only by
our imaginations.net

About Electric Cloud

Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company
pioneering technologies that improve the software development process.

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The
Silicon Graphics Prism system's powerful 64-bit Linux(R) OS environment based
on Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 CPUs allows conversion of all data into easily
accessible , open source format; the data is then stored back out to the
servers at SDSU for public access.S .com
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"With 8 CPUs running our image processing software, we get 10 times the
improvement of speed, so a project that would have taken 100 hours takes 10,"
said John Graham, senior research scientist at SDSU Visualization Center. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property
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The GeoMatrix Toolkit from GeoFusion, Inc. The Visualization Center directly connects into the supercomputer
center via fiber optic cables that can provide tens of gigabits per second of
bandwidth to the San Diego Supercomputing Center and wide area supercomputing
networks. Intel and Itanium are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United
States and other countries. Now, with the GMSL, GNU Make developers have a single free
collection of functions implemented using native GNU Make
functionality.1 is for medium-to-large software development
teams unhappy with ever-increasing build times. Electric Cloud 2.

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