Cyberinfrastructure and Software Development Research
OSC’s Remote Instrumentation and Collaboration Environment (RICE)
RICE is an extensible and customizable software that supports use-cases involved in remote instrumentation sessions. It can be used by instructors and researchers to train students or conduct research on computer-controlled scientific instruments (e.g. electron microscopes, NMRs, telescopes) from remote locations on the Internet.
RICE Features:
- Network-aware video encoding
- Optimizes frame rates based on available network bandwidth
- Manual video-quality adjustment slider
- Network-status and user-action blocking
- Warns user of network congestion that leads to unstable session state
- Blocks user-actions during extreme congestion scenarios and prevents breakdown
- Collaboration tools
- VoIP, Chat, Annotation, Command-abstraction
- Multi-user support
- Control-lock passing, collaborators presence, colored-text chat conference
- Workflow and Image management
- Simultaneously connects to multiple PCs, transfers images and transparently switches between them
- Multiple display resolutions
Fig. 1 Cyberinfrastructure for Shared Instrumentation in Ohio
Developers:
Prasad Calyam, Abdul Kalash
Documents:
Papers
Prasad Calyam, Nathan Howes, Abdul Kalash, Mark Haffner, “User and Network Interplay in Internet Telemicroscopy”, ICST/ACM Immersive Telecommunications Conference (IMMERSCOM), 2007.
Presentations
Prasad Calyam, “Remote Instrumentation Collaboration Environment (RICE) for Online Training and Research”, SLOAN-C International Conference on Online Learning, Orlando, Nov. 2007.
News Articles
- "Future Watch: A Better View From Afar" - by Erik Rhey,
PC Magazine, Volume 26, Number 25, 2007.
- “Software lets researchers share scientific instruments via the Internet” – by Jamie Abel, Ohio Supercomputer Center Outreach
- “Software overcomes major problems for Scientists who operate Research Tools over the Internet” – by Pam Frost Gorder, The Ohio State University Research Communications
Demonstrations
Ohio Supercomputer Center Booth (#2357) at Supercomputing (SC07), Reno, Nov. 2007.
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Last updated: November 2007
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