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Biocomputing Lab (BCL):
The Biocomputing Laboratory (BCL) is a home for teaching, learning,
and research for computer scientists, engineers, biologists, and
theoreticians interested in combining discoveries in computing, biology,
engineering, and mathematics to improve our understanding of biology
and to build better computer systems. The BCL has a multidisciplinary
focus, with great emphasis placed on bridging the semantic gap between
these fields of study. We want to create an environment where no field
these fields of study. We want to create an environment where no field
is primary. In the BCL, computers are not an enabling technology, biology
is not an application area, and mathematics is not fundamental background.
Our goal is to combine inquiry in all these fields --- without regard to
preconceived notions of disciplinary boundariesto explore, to learn,
to teach, to discover, and to invent. Current work in the BCL falls
into four major categories: Neuronal Coding, Sensorimotor Systems and
Central Pattern Generators, Informatics, and Computational Neuroscience.
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Center for Multimedia Research (CMMR):
The Interdisciplinary Center for Multi-Media Research (CMMR)
was established with an equipment grant from the University
of Washington, Bothell to research and develop new technologies
in the delivery and presentation of 3D digital multimedia. The
long-term goal of the CMMR is to build technology that supports
the total immersion of audiences in remote real world events in
real time. For example, instead of passively viewing the aftermath
of a nature disaster or a surgical procedure on television, we
propose to immerse a viewer into the environment, witnessing the
events as they unfold. This is much like the total immersion
experience of virtual reality. The difference is that in our
case, the audiences are immersed in a real world environment with
on-going real life events. Our audiences do not actively interact
with the environment but become active observers in experiencing
the events without actual participation.
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Distributed Systems Lab (DSL)
DSL is focusing on constructing a distributed job coordination
infrastructure as its main project. The coordination of
high-performance computing applications burdens users with
searching for and co-scheduling distributed computing resources,
dispatching their jobs, and transferring the results back to
them. DSL is working on the automation of such job coordination
procedures using mobile agents. Upon receiving a users job
request, a mobile agent navigates over the network in search
for computing resources such as cluster computers, coordinates
the job execution, and reports computation results to its user.
The autonomy of mobile agents not only allows for the offloading
of the job coordination task from the user but also has the
potential to simplify the maintenance and upgrading of remote
computing resources.
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Scientific Computing Lab (SCL):
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