Broadband speeds several hundred times faster than regular broadband connections will be reached at The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus on Thursday, November 20.
The speeds will be reached as the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation participates in the Super Computing 08 conference - specifically in the Broadband Challenge - run out of Texas, USA.
CEO of QCIF and Chair of Computational Science at UQ, Professor Bernard Pailthorpe said the QCIF operated state-of-the-art supercomputers, tera-scale data archives and visualisation systems for the use of Queensland’s research and development community.
“We will be streaming live 4k resolution images - that's four times the resolution of HD TV - to sites around the globe including Europe, Korea, Japan and the US,” he said.
“This is a first for Australian universities.”
Professor Pailthorpe said the high broadband speeds would be reached with the help of the Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNET).
“The high resolution images will be screened on our OptiPortal, a device developed in collaboration with the Californian Institute of Technology,” he said.
“There are only a small number of these devices in Australia and they comprise a 'wall' of 20 or more LCD screens using specialised software to display images and video streams.
“The OptiPortal is the future of real-time global collaboration and has already been used in the field of brain research.”
QCIF will be hosting an informal breakfast and Q&A session on the day of the Broadband Challenge.
About QCIF
The QCIF was founded in 2001 by six Queensland universities as a collaborative vehicle to build shared research infrastructure.
Current University members include The University of Queensland, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, CQUniversity, University of Southern Queensland and the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Media: Nicole Crowe, telephone 3365 7350, mobile 0434 539 221.
Web: www.qcif.edu.au
