The Dynamic Physical Rendering Project seeks to develop a new form of programmable matter that can create physical artifacts using thousands to billions of tiny robotic modules. These modules will dynamically control their aggregate shape, movement, and visual appearance to mimic arbitrary objects, 3D scenes, and even people, enabling a new kind of software-created "reality" which is *not* virtual.
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We will demonstrate real time ray tracing running on a dual Conroe system. This will be an interactive fly–through of complex static scenes such as large scanned models of antique statues and other static objet’d’art. We will add complex shading to make the images look much more realistic and attempt to render dynamic scenes in real time.
Transactional memory (TM) makes it easier for programmers to synchronize access to shared data in multi–threaded environments. By using atomic transactions instead of today’s lock-based methods, we achieve higher performance and better utilization of threads and cores with less effort or risk of deadlock. TM makes it easier to compose together thread-safe modules in a reliable and scalable way.
The goal of web image clustering is to present the user with several categories of the search and remove unrepresentative results. The system presented here relies on the computational power of the user’s PC which is under–utilized by server-based image search and clustering engines. Our multimodal clustering system combines appearance–based visual features with the relevant text associated with the web image.
Personal Image Retrieval Application for Tera Scale Computing Platforms
Organizing and searching through large collections of personal images is a significant challenge. We will demonstrate our image mining application and several important usage models for searching through personal images (over 10000 photos). We will also demonstrate the architectural impact of such compute intensive workload on Intel’s many core platforms.
Today’s Web search engines find and rank pages based on maximizing relevance to the user’s query, but require users to read hundreds of closely–ranked documents to find the most relevant sections of text. Web page summarization will give concise descriptions of all different topics resulting from a query. Our multi–document summarizer lets the user review and find the information quickly and efficiently.
Diamond is a platform for interactive search that enables users to efficiently find buried gems in mountains of complex, non–indexed data. We will demonstrate prototype Diamond applications in medical imaging, photo search and shape–based 3D matching.
Our 3D global teaming software environment persists group memory, enables expressive real-time and asynchronous interaction with remote team members, and powerfully visualizes information and context in a gaming like metaphor. The demo will illustrate 2 usage models: Collaborative Mechanical and Board Design Engineering and Digital Health Patient Electronic Health Record.
Agent–based modeling can create what–if scenarios for complex systems. Data center virtualization is a problem requiring this approach. Model outputs will inform decisions about server resource allocation in a distributed environment supporting multiple customers, applications, job sizes and critical business factors.
Forward Error Correction (FEC) schemes are used for improving link margin and spectral efficiency. Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are an advanced FEC scheme for efficient data transmission close to the Shannon Limit. This demonstration compares standard convolution codes for WLAN protocols to LDPC codes under noisy channel conditions.
Reconfigurable Antennas for MxN Platforms
Future implementations of SDR and MIMO systems in mobile devices require new approaches to antenna system design. Space, location, packaging, EMC/EMI, RF interference and cost are major constraints to designing a single antenna approach. Reconfigurable antennas can dynamically change operating frequency, radiation patterns, polarization, and deliver new levels of performance.
CMOS MIMO Transceiver with High Isolation Antennas
MIMO is a promising technology for improving throughput, range and reliability in wireless networks. This demonstration shows Intel’s high isolation antennas and the fully integrated CMOS-MIMO radio transceiver. The system is capable of achieving data rates of 108Mb/s in a 20MHz channel, double what conventional Wi-Fi technology achieves today.
Distributed Wireless Communication
Distributed communication is an innovative technology that leverages network density as a new resource to improve wireless system performance. An ensemble of physically independent devices cooperates at the physical and higher layers to achieve the benefits of both MIMO and Mesh technologies, yielding improved range, reliability, coverage, and battery life.
Spectrum Sensing feature improves the system’s knowledge of its RF environment, which then enables the client to take appropriate actions based upon the channel conditions or the interferers being detected. We show a 30% throughput improvement on video transmissions by using specific MAC adaptation schemes that are tailored for microwave oven interference.
The Mobile Sensing Platform for Activity Recognition
The Mobile Sensing Platform (MSP) is a wireless sensing and inference platform designed to recognize human behavior and context anytime and anywhere. The MSP has the potential to be used as for deep personalization of future platforms in health and mobility where devices adapt and react to user behavior.
WISP: Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform
WISPs are battery-free wireless sensing devices that are powered and read by an RFID reader. Potential applications include perpetual, ubiquitous sensing for health monitoring, condition-based maintenance, and health monitoring of civil structures.
This research focuses on utilizing the platform’s virtualization technology to provide increased security assurance and reliability for VoIP applications on open mobile platforms.
Networked devices of the future will be fully autonomous, with the ability to automatically self-optimize at run-time according to their particular context. We present an example prototype of a tree-based firewall, seamlessly adapting to network traffic and thus mitigating a denial-of-service attack.
Intel platforms using virtualization increase platform security by strengthening application isolation. Our research utilizes virtualization and security techniques to virtualize the Trusted Platform Module (VTPM). Using VTPM with endpoint access control allows extension of platform isolation onto and across the network. This provides end to end isolation and containment of faults and attacks.
This demonstration shows system level and architectural improvements to advance system power management across the computing spectrum. In particular, usage model and workload patterns can be utilized to optimize power usage resulting in the reduction of overall power consumption.
This research project seeks to reduce data center cooling costs by taking a holistic view of data center thermal performance through the development of an on-line thermal control framework, which is based on multimodal system variables such as cooling capacity, hardware thermal characteristics, and workload profiles in order to make power and thermal-aware job scheduling decisions.
This exploratory research focuses on using distributed virtualization based on PlanetLab architecture with wireless technologies and mesh networking to enable planetary-scaled services and information exchange. Our research offers strategic direction to enable an infrastructure-less enterprise by using wireless mesh technology and offering decentralization, scalability, mobility, and resilience for transmitting information.
A core presence information service for mobile communications and business collaboration should be reliable, selectively controllable by users, and maintain privacy. Our presence awareness architecture has 3 primary elements: contextual data sensors; automatic availability inferencing, and intelligent tailoring of presence information to others based on permissions, work-styles, and availability models.
Remote IT saves service provider time and money, gets users running again without a truck roll! Home computer secure remote inventory, diagnostics, fixes made robust using virtualization. Incorporates outside-in connectivity, firewall management, security framework, web services interface. Home Services Infrastructure allows ISPs easily to integrate software into virtualized environment.
Imbued with the ability to “gossip”, our host-based anomaly detection system uses probabilistic inference to correlate weak beliefs generated at end hosts into stronger evidence of network-wide attacks. Our fully-distributed approach dramatically reduces false alarms and detects stealthy worms that try to cloak themselves in background traffic.
This demo illustrates Energy-efficient performance as the intersection of great performance, expanded capabilities and energy efficiency. It is derived from advances in architecture, silicon, platforms and software, and it enables continued innovation and tangible benefits for both business and consumers.
Adoption of computing requires more motivation than simply access to computing. If you build it, they may not come. Our research has found that the introduction of ubiquitous computer access to low infrastructure communities must be accompanied by content reflecting the local context and supporting local needs (e.g., economic growth).
Street Smart Spaces is a collaborative project between Intel Research and Nokia Research Center. We are using ethnography and design to understand the ways in which people live and work in streets around the world. Together we are imagining futures where new infrastructures and devices support old and new practices.
Through international ethnographic fieldwork, we examine the “social lives” of televisions in domestic spaces. Whether a physical object, content conduit or experience, televisions are not ‘just another screen,’ they are physically and socially integrated into homes. This knowledge will help inform Intel’s understandings of opportunities in the consumer electronics space.
This project explores culturally-specific relationships between handheld devices and domestic life. Using ethnographic fieldwork and exercises in four countries, this project demonstrates that technology occupies a place of significance among regularly carried objects. Findings will help to identify global and local opportunities for integrating Intel’s handheld and home technology platforms.
Through ethnographic study of travelers who are differently dependent on information networks and infrastructures, this project enriches Intel’s imagination of the digital home and at the same time deepen Intel’s understanding of mobility practices.
As a result of Intel’s extensive ethnographic research and studies, the India Rural PC, "Community PC" is an example of technology solutions that was specifically designed and developed to address the diverse social needs and environmental limitations of people in India and other similar emerging markets.
A novel variant of WiFi enables low-cost rural connectivity, which we use for telemedicine in cooperation with the Aravind Eye Hospital in southern India. Through the use of a new software stack we can achieve high bandwidth over very long distances using low-cost off-the-shelf WiFi cards.
We have 802.11b links in several counties that achieve 4-6 Mb/s over 20-60 km, and expect up to 20 Mb/s for 802.11g. In India, we use these links to connect five rural vision centers to one of the Aravind Eye Hospitals, which enables video conferencing between patients and the doctor at the hospital. This system now examines about 1500 patients per month, with about 10% achieving significant vision improvement.
Silicon Photonics is the science of making optical devices from everyday silicon. In the last 2 years Intel has made several announcements of its research breakthroughs in this area including the first 1 giga-bit per second silicon modulator and the first ever continuous silicon laser. The researchers and labs for this effort are located in this Intel campus. Come join us and tour the Silicon Photonics labs. See where the first Silicon Laser & modulator were designed and tested. You will also get a chance to see some of the other research this world class team is working on and talk to the award winning lab director, Mario Paniccia, and his team.
EUV Mask Progress and Enabling Infrastructure Development
Discussion of the steps of producing EUV mask blanks and patterned masks, including Intel's in-house development and that of the mask supplier infrastructure. Samples of EUV masks and blanks will be available to illustrate the stages of the fabrication process and the associated infrastructure.
