Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions
Vol.
58 (
2008),
Pages
205-
205
ABSTRACT: LITE—A New Paradigm to Integrate Research, Technology
Transfer,
and Production
Carolina Cruz-Neira
LITE, 537 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, Louisiana 70506
ABSTRACT
The Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) was created in September
2006, as an economic development driver for the state of Louisiana. LITE brings
together academic research, technology transfer, and commercial services under a
unique combination of visualization, high-performance computing, and advanced networks.
The integration of these technologies enables a wide range of synergistic activities
involving teams of faculty, scientist, students, industry practitioners, and government
researchers. Together, these teams address applied research problems in many disciplines,
developing new visualization and computing models, as well as deploying innovative
software technologies and applications. Examples of such projects are the real-time
integration of intense supercomputing simulations with immersive visualization to provide
researchers a dynamic environment to explore interactively their problem domain,
and the ability to display and correlate large amounts of data though the use of multidimensional
visualizations.
LITE is a leading institution in the area of the integration of visualization and computational
simulations, making its facility available to industry, research, and applied
groups from around the nation. LITE's wide range of projects are supported through
collaborations with many agencies: Department of Energy, National Science Foundation,
Army Research Lab, and Office of Naval Research, as well as private funding
through its collaborations and partnerships with industry. LITE leverages the State of
Louisiana technical infrastructure by being one the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative
(LONI) nodes, and having strong collaborations with most of the other universities in
the state.
This presentation will provide a summary of the activities that are happening at
LITE, emphasizing work in the oil and gas areas. Copyright © 2008, The Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies. All Rights Reserved.