DIGISCOPE 2010 Acronyme du projet - Institut Farman - ENS Cachan

APPEL A PROJETS EQUIPEX /
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
2010
DIGISCOPE
SCIENTIFIC SUBMISSION FORM B
bandwidth network and also linked to high-performance computing facilities such as
Teratec. Together, these nodes will form the DIGISCOPE infrastructure and provide the
world's most advanced system for real-time collaboration across heterogeneous platforms.
2.1. ORIGINALITY AND INNOVATIVE FEATURE OF THE EQUIPEMENT PROJECT
DIGISCOPE will provide a unique set of platforms to a wide range of users from the Plateau
de Saclay Campus and beyond. As such, it is a structuring component for the academic
institutions of the Saclay Campus but also for the many industrial actors of the area,
including SMEs.
DIGISCOPE is unique because of the type and performance of each platform, the number of
platforms, their ability to support collaborative work and their availability to outside users.
This will enable research and teaching activities, multidisciplinary collaborations and rich
interactions with industry that no other facility can provide today for the targeted
applications.
First, DIGISCOPE will provide unique research facilities for the computer science groups
working on interaction, visualization and collaboration. There is no other example in the
world of such a concentration of state-of-the-art equipment to study, develop and test
advanced interaction, visualization and collaboration techniques. This is particularly
important for collaboration: without the close vicinity among some of the nodes it is simply
not possible to properly study remote collaboration scenarios and develop appropriate
solutions.
DIGISCOPE will also foster collaborative research among the partners on modeling and
simulation. New algorithms such as Reduced-Order Modeling now support a very
condensed representation of mechanical systems including design variables, control
variables and environmental parameters. This could be used in collaborative Visualization
environments for direct manipulation, real-time simulation, online analysis, haptic
manipulation of high-fidelity virtual systems with real-time feedback and dynamic
evolution.
Second, DIGISCOPE will facilitate multidisciplinary scientific collaborations. The nature of
the equipment and the availability of multiple nodes will make it easy for scientists from
different disciplines or specialties to get together, confront their data, test new hypotheses,
etc. We are confident that DIGISCOPE will enable new forms of multidisciplinary work
because of the unique affordances of the interactive technologies that will be made available
to a large and diverse audience.
Third, DIGISCOPE provides a unique opportunity for industry to use research prototypes
for their own needs, whether it is analyzing large datasets or conducting computer-assisted
engineering (See the letters of support from industry in appendix 6.5). This will be
particularly facilitated by the two competitivity clusters in ICT in the greater Paris area,
Systematic and Cap Digital, which gather hundreds of companies, large and small. In return,
this will also provide researchers with unique access to case studies from industry. In this
way, DIGISICOPE will greatly contribute to a better integration between research and
innovation in a number of domains.
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