CineGrid Brasil 2014

O CineGrid é uma associação internacional sem fins lucrativos fundada em 2006 e tem como objetivo a distribuição de conteúdos educacionais, científicos e de entretenimento (visualizações científicas avançadas, telemedicina, telessaúde, cinema, animações e conteúdos para planetários) através de redes ópticas (fotônicas) de alta capacidade (de 1 a 120 Gigabytes por segundo – Gbps) interconectadas através de Grid’s (grades) computacionais não comerciais que permitem o envio e recebimento de dados através de redes ópticas em escala supercomputacional.

Em 2014 o CineGrid acontece pela segunda vez no Brasil, na cidade de São Paulo. O evento será no Teatro Central da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), nos dias 28 e 29 de agosto. O CineGrid Brasil 2014 conta com o apoio da Pró-reitoria de Cultura da USP, do CINUSP, da CAPES, do CNPq e da Universidade Mackenzie, além de inúmeras instituições de pesquisa e universidades parceiras.

Atualmente a associação conta com 64 instituições afiliadas, entre elas a Universidade de Keio (Japão), a Universidade do Sul da Califórnia (USC), a Universidade de Illinois em Urbana Champaigne, o Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) da Universidade de Chicago, a Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego (UCSD) e no Brasil a Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP), a Universidade Mackenzie e o CPQd. Também fazem parte da associação instituições como o Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Lucasfilm, Disney , SONY, JVC, Cisco e NTT.

As entidades que compõem o CineGrid formam um grupo interdisciplinar focado em pesquisa, desenvolvimento e demonstrações de ferramentas de colaboração em rede que viabilizam a produção, uso, preservação e troca de mídia digitais de super/ultra alta definição.

Uma das principais tecnologias em desenvolvimento pela associação é a transmissão de cinema/vídeo em super/ultra alta definição (4k ou superior), além de ferramentas para edição colaborativa e on-line de vídeos em alta definição.

Sobre os Grid´s

Existem redes ópticas acadêmicas com velocidades ainda inimagináveis, algo equivalente a 100 mil vezes a velocidade que um usuário médio tem à sua disposição em casa (1 Mbps) e que são mantidas por entidades de pesquisa e desenvolvimento. Essas redes estão conectadas através da manutenção física de cabos ópticos fotônicos (a laser) submarinos que já cobrem boa parte do mundo. As redes desenvolvem aplicativos de alta complexidade e conectam vários supercomputadores ao redor do globo. As aplicações são em sua maioria ligadas às ciências exatas, tais como previsão do clima, visualização de fenômenos físicos e o envio das imagens em alta definição em tempo real para várias universidades e a distribuição de visualizações astronômicas através das interconexões de exploratórios com planetários e instituições de pesquisa.

A associação Cinegrid iniciou suas atividades na Califórnia a partir de uma demanda do campo das artes cinemáticas, que através de seus fundadores, vislumbraram a distribuição, produção e cooperação na área das imagens em movimento (cinema/vídeo) operando através dessas redes científicas e produzindo uma nova possibilidade para o campo do cinema, tanto no ensino quanto na pesquisa e desenvolvimento de conteúdos culturais. No campo do ensino, podemos citar exemplos do que em pouco tempo será possível realizar através desses sistemas: cursos de cinema em universidades poderão ter acesso em tempo real ao acervo de uma Cinemateca em ultra definição e projetar filmes em suas próprias salas, além de poderem editar filmes ultra definidos de forma colaborativa e visualizá-los em tempo real. No campo das ciências, estudantes de astronomia e física poderão visualizar em planetários fenômenos astrofísicos em tempo real com imagens em ultra definição vindas de observatórios conectados, médicos poderão observar imagens de pacientes em escalas muito mais ampliadas, entre outras inúmeras possibilidades.

O Brasil já conta com uma infraestrutura interligada a essas redes e pode se tornar uma plataforma internacional de produção e distribuição de conteúdos audiovisuais, como demonstrado no ano de 2009 com a primeira sessão de cinema global do filme Enquanto a Noite não Chega (de Beto Souza e Renato Falcão), realizada do Brasil para Japão e Estados Unidos através da rede Glif.

An Encounter of Lights from Coletivo Garapa on Vimeo.

A origem do nome vem da junção do termo Grid com Cinema, uma vez que os sistemas computacionais para transmitir e armazenar as imagens seguem a estrutura de uma grade computacional.

 

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Participantes confirmados | Confirmed Speakers

Cees de Laat
Professor, Informatics Institute
University of Amsterdam
delaat@uva.nl

As chair of the System and Network Engineering Research Group at the University of Amsterdam, Prof. dr. ir. Cees de Laat researches optical/switched networking for Internet transport of massive amounts of data in eScience applications, Semantic Web description language for networks and connected resources, cross-organization authorization architectures, and security/privacy systems for distributed environments.
De Laat collaborates in such European Union projects as CN3, Geyser, NOVI and ENVRI. He also serves in the Open Grid Forum as a board member. Additionally, he is chair of GridForum.nl/ and an advisory board member of ISOC.nl/. De Laat is co-founder and the organizer of several of the past meetings of the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF). He is one of the founding members of CineGrid and chairs the CineGrid Amsterdam steering group. Web address: http://www.science.uva.nl/~delaat/

 

Thomas A. deFanti
Research Scientist, CalIT2, University of California, San Diego
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
tdefanti@ucsd.edu

Thomas A. DeFanti, Ph.D., has been an internationally recognized expert in computer graphics since the early 1970s. He is currently the principal investigator of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF)
International Research Network Connections Program’s TransLight/StarLight project.
DeFanti is the recipient of the 1988 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award and was appointed an ACM Fellow in 1994. He shares recognition––along with Electronic Visualization Laboratory Founding Director Daniel J. Sandin––for conceiving the CAVE virtual reality theater in 1991.
Striving for two decades to connect high-resolution visualization and virtual reality devices over long distances, he is a founding member of GLIF (Global Lambda Integrated Facility), a group that manages international switched wavelength networks for research and education.

Laurin Herr
President
Pacific Interface, Inc.
laurin@pacific-interface.com

Laurin Herr is founder and president of Pacific Interface, an international consulting company that facilitates research and business between Japan, America and Europe. For more than 30 years, Pacific Interface has been analyzing trends in media, computing, video/graphics, displays and networking applications on behalf of clients wishing to explore new markets. In addition to strategic consulting and business development services, Pacific Interface provides a wide range of specialized services to organize and manage research collaborations, technical symposia, technology showcases, and media events. Herr is one of the co-founders of CineGrid, a non-profit international interdisciplinary community focused on the research, development, and demonstration of networked collaborative tools to enable the production, use, preservation and exchange of very-high-quality digital media over photonic networks. From 1992 to 2004, concurrent with his activities at Pacific Interface, Herr also held senior management positions at several Silicon Valley digital media technology companies, including SuperMac, Radius, Truevision and Pinnacle Systems. He has also worked extensively as an independent video producer/director. From 1982 to 1992, he was the official liaison to Japan for ACM SIGGRAPH. From 2001 to the present, he has served as an advisory member of the Digital Cinema Consortium of Japan. After receiving his bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University, Herr studied Japanese intensively in the U.S. and Japan, and pursued additional graduate studies at Cornell and at Sophia University in Tokyo. He holds a fifth-degree black belt in the martial art, aikido.

Maxine D. Brown
Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory
University of Illinois at Chicago
maxine@uic.edu

Maxine Brown is the Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), responsible for fundraising, outreach, documentation, and promotion of its research activities. Her research interests include computer graphics, scientific visualization, collaboration, human-computer interfaces, and high-performance computing and international network infrastructure. Brown has been active in the ACM SIGGRAPH organization and in SIGGRAPH and ACM/IEEE Supercomputing conferences; she is currently the General Coordination Chair for IEEE Visualization 2015. In recognition of her services to UIC and the community at large, Brown is a recipient of the 1990 UIC Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) award; the 2001 UIC Merit Award; and the 1998 ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award. In 2009, Chicago’s award-winning multimedia public affairs series “Chicago Matters: Beyond Burnham” designated Brown as one of 15 Global Visionaries for her role in co-developing the StarLight national/international communications exchange, located in downtown chicago. Brown is co-principal investigator of the US National Science Foundation’s (NSF) International Research Network Connections Program’s TransLight / StarLight award, and was previously co-principal investigator of the NSF-funded EuroLink and STAR TAP / StarLight initiatives. Brown was also the project manager of the NSF-funded OptIPuter project. She is a founding member of the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) and the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF). Brown is also the UIC representative and Past President of the Board of Directors of the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computing. She co-created and co-chaired the international grid (iGrid) Workshops in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005.

Natalie van Osdol
Vice President
Pacific Interface, Inc.
vanosdol@pacific-interface.com

Van Osdol is vice president of Pacific Interface, an international consulting company that provides a wide range of specialized services to organize and manage research collaborations, technical symposia, technology showcases, and media events, in addition to strategic consulting and business development services, Van Osdol has managed many international events and conferences produced by Pacific Interface, including technical workshops, digital cinema symposia, technology demonstrations, exhibitions at international trade shows, press events and two museum exhibitions of computer graphics art in Japan. She produced the first U.S. and European demonstrations of 4K digital cinema and was associate producer of the Visualization: State of the Art series of video reports published by ACM/SIGGRAPH. In collaboration with NTT Corporation and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Van Osdol was the producer of The American Century: A Director’s Preview, the first multimedia showcase of fine art using super-high-definition (SHD) imaging technology. Van Osdol is one of the co-founders of CineGrid, a non-profit international interdisciplinary community focused on the research, development, and demonstration of networked collaborative tools to enable the production, use, preservation and exchange of very-high-quality digital media over photonic networks. Van Osdol was also a founding partner of Compression Technologies, Inc., a company dedicated to the
development and licensing of digital video compression tools. She attended Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, and UCLA.

Naohisa OHTA
Professor
Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) Keio University, Japan
naohisa@kmd.keio.ac.jp

Naohisa Ohta, Ph.D., is currently in charge of the Advanced Media Technology Laboratory at KMD where he directs several projects focused on technology, design, management and policy for society in the future. He also directs research on long-term stable archive systems and technologies for sharing high-quality digital media via networks, including 4K and “Beyond 4K” applications.
Ohta formerly worked at NTT Laboratories, where he researched and developed signal processing algorithms for audio/visual communication and highly parallel DSP systems and architectures. He was part of the R&D team that worked on Super-High-Definition (SHD) imaging applications for futuristic optical fiber networks, and contributed to the basic development for one of the world’s first 4K motion picture systems. After NTT, he worked at Sony, serving as the president of its Broadband Applications Laboratory, directing R&D on audio/visual transmission with QoS for real-time applications, scalable coding for high-quality digital cinema, extra-reality video creation technologies, and personalization technologies. Ohta is currently the chair of COMSOC’s Emerging Technology Committee, IEEE. He is an IEEE Fellow, a SPIE Fellow, and a board member of the Digital Cinema Consortium of Japan as well as the Digital Content Institute. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tohoku University.

Steve Morris
Director of Engineering Skywalker Sound
Lucasfilm Ltd.
stevem@skysound.com

Steve Morris is a 20-year veteran in the audio engineering industry and has worked on designing facilities in every facet of the media business, including music, film and video post-production as well as television broadcast. He attended New York University.