INFRASTRUCTURE 95

I.   SUMMARY

Since the establishment of the NSF-CATE Center, we have been able to make the following accomplishments:

- Hardware and software have been upgraged with up to date Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) technology. The NSF-CATE Center shown in Figure 1 reflects a state of-the-art facility.

- Created a joint ECE/SCS Computer Laboratory for undergraduates housed in ECS 241 (approximetly 1500 sq.ft.), neighbooring the NSF-CATE which is housed in ECS 243 with nearly 2000 sq. ft.

- Our efforts in publications and proposal funding begin to show improvement.

- Our institution commitment to the following items have been honored:

(a) space allocation of 1950 sq.ft. at ECS 243

(b) the waiving of the entire overhead:

year 1 = $ 50,295

year 2 = $ 49,669

year 3 = $ 51,904

(c) the significant match so far for the first two years:

year 1 = Equipment $134,865 ; Students = $ 52,148;  OPS = 4,000               Total = $ 191,013

year 2 = Equipment $  31,504 ; Students = $ 38,316 ; OPS = 5,047               Total = $   74,867

year 3 = Similar to year 2 but higher on equipment & Students:      Expected Total= $    90,000

Total Year 1 = $ 191,013

Total Year 2 = $   74,867

Total Year 3 = $   90,000 (Expected)

* VERY IMPORTANT: every dollar of this entire match is hard cash.  Release time for Co-PIs and related type of match is not and will not be included in our reports.

- The NSF-CATE Center helped Dr. Naphtalie Rishe in acquiring his 3.6 million dollar NASA grant by using CATE as a starting platform to carry-out the first year research, which we are presently doing.  A first publication by Dr. Rishe acknowledges the support of CATE.  This collaboration is going on strong and will continue to grow.

- The NSF-CATE Center has helped several investigators carrying-out their research by giving them accounts and access to our NSF-CATE Center.  Research grants through these PIs include 1 NASA grant, and three US Air Force grants.  This will also lead into publications which will acknowledge NSF-CATE support.

- Through the NSF-CATE Center, we are also providing mentorship with stipends to students who are part of the following three funded programs:

(1) the NASA Sharp Plus/ Florida International University team Program spearheaded by our associate Dean, Gustavo Roig.

(2) the Gateway program from the College of Engineering and Design.

(3) the NSF-REU grant supporting 8 undergraduates with identified research projects as outlined in the attached annual report entitled  “UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY THE NSF-REU GRANT CDA - 9313264”

- Currently, the NSF-CATE Center support 48 active computer accounts serving several research    disciplines.  Details are provided in Section 5.3.

II.   ON THE SUBJECT OF RESEARCH PROPOSALS

2.1  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR’S EFFORTS

This year, the PI alone has written 6 proposals, 2 white proposal papers for Office of Naval Research and the National Institute of Standards and Technology and 2 progress reports.  Here is a listing:

A.  PROPOSAL FUNDED THIS YEAR

 (1)       M Adjouadi, G. Roig, J. Story, M. Evangelist, NSF, 1993-94

            Establishment of an Institutional Infrastructure: Center for Advanced Technology            Education - CATE - Amount Requested: 1, 494, 893 / 5 years

            Funded Amount:  FY 94          $ 250,733 / 1 year (Continuation)

(2)        M. Adjouadi, NSF

            Research Experience for Undergraduates-Supplemental Funds

            Funded Amount:                      $ 40,000  / 1 year

(3)        M. Adjouadi, Coulter Corporation, May 1995 - April 1996

            Imaging Algorithms for Enhanced Pattern Classification

            Funded  Amount:                     $ 18,000  / 1 year

B.  PROPOSAL PENDING THIS YEAR

(1)        M. Adjouadi , P. Schmidt , G. Larkins, J. Andrian, and A. Pasztor, NSF

            Acquisition of Equipment for Integrated Sensing Towards Real-Time Vision, Cognition, and 3-D Modeling

            Amount Requested:  FY 95                  $ 337,260

(2)        M Adjouadi, G. Roig, J. Story, M. Evangelist, NSF, 1993-94

            Establishment of an Institutional Infrastructure: Center for Advanced Technology            Education - CATE - Amount Requested: 1, 494, 893 / 5 years

            Amount Requested:  FY 95                  $ 199,167 (Continuation)

C.  PROPOSALS NOT FUNDED THIS YEAR

(1)        M. Adjouadi and J. Andrian, DOD-DURIP, Defense University Instrumentation Program

            A Research Instrumentation Request fro the Design of a Dimensionally and Spectrally       Augmented Vision System for Enhanced Image Understanding.

            Requested Amount:                  $ 352,146 / 1 year

(2)        M. Adjouadi, S. Mergui , J. Andrian, and P. Schmidt, DOD-MURI

            Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative

            An Integrated and Spectrally Enhanced Vision/Sensing System.

            Requested Amount:                  $ 4,168,256 / 5 years

D.  WHITE PAPERS

(1) Office of Naval Research

(2) National Institute of Standards and Technology

E.  NSF PROGRESS REPORT and PI MEETING RELATED TO CATE

[P1]      National Science Foundation Progress Report, CISE Institutional Infrastructure. Project Title: Center for Advanced Technology and Education - Impact on Research and Human Resources. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University

[M1]    NSF Institutional Infrastructure Workshop and PI Meeting - Pannel Member on the Topic: Increasing the Number of Minority Computer Scientists and Engineers, Snowbird, Utah, 8-10 July, 1994.

2.2.  CO - PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR’S EFFORTS

A.  PROPOSALS

Dr. James Story:

a. Pending Proposal

-           PI:                                Story

            Co-PI's:                       Barreto, Mergui, Fernandez

            Title:                             Learning Industry Teamwork

            Source:                         NSF

            Award Requested:        $300,000

            Period:                         3 years

b. Reviewer

-           Reviewer for NSF proposals (RIMI).

Dr. Gustavo Roig

a.  Proposals Funded

- NASA SHARP PLUS / QEM

            Principal Investigator:  Gustavo Roig

            Co - Pi:  Kang Yen

            Source of Support:  QEM

            Award Amount:  $48,700.00

            Period Covered:  Summer/95

- FLORIDA ACTION FOR MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING  (FLAME) Summer Program

            Principal Investigator:  Gustavo Roig

            Co - Pi:  Pierre Schmidt

            Source of Support:  Dade County Public Schools

            Award Amount: $13,382.00

            Period Covered:  Summer/94

- FLORIDA ACTION FOR MINORITIES ENGINEERING (FLAME) Fall and Spring/94-95

            Principal Investigator:  Gustavo Roig

            Co - Pi:  Pierre Schmidt

            Source of Support:  Dade County Public Schools

            Award Amount:  $24,255.00

            Period Covered:  Fall/95 - Spring/95

- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (PREP PROJECT) Summer Program

            Principal Investigator:  Gustavo Roig

            Source of Support:  Dade County Public Schools

            Award Amount:  $19,329.00

            Period Covered:  Summer/94

- FLORIDA/GEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION (FGAMP)

            Principal Investigator:  Lynette Padmore,

            Co - Pis:  Dr. Roig, Dr. Milton, Dr. Turner, Dr. Green

            Source of Support:  National Science Foundation

            Award Amount:  $1,000.000.00/FIU Award $103,040.00

            Period Covered:  Academic Year 1994

- FLORIDA/GEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION - LEGISLATURE

(FGAMP-LEG)

            Principal Investigator:  Lynette Padmore,

            Co - Pis:  Dr.Roig, Dr. Milton, Dr. Turner, Dr. Green, Dr. Roig

            Source of Support:  National Science Foundation

            Award Amount:  $ 875,000.00/ FIU Award $151,237.00

            Period Covered:  Academic Year 1994

- FLORIDA/GEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION - SUMMER PROGRAM

            Principal Investigator:  Lynette Padmore,

            Co - Pis:  Dr. Milton, Dr. Tuner, Dr. Green, Dr. Roig

            Source of Support:  National Science Foundation

            Award Amount:  $33,000.00

            Period Covered:  Summer/94

- JUNIOR ENGINEERING TECHNICAL SOCIETY (JETS) /UNITED

            Principal Investigator:  Gustavo Roig

            Source of Support:  US Army

            Award Amount:  $30,000.00

            Period Covered:  Summer/94

Dr. Wunnava Subbarao

a.  Funded Proposal

-           PI:                    Subbarao V. Wunnava

            Title:                 FIU/Coulter Network Project; Grant Number # 5718 20300

            Source: Coulter Corporation, Miami;

            Amount:           $16,000.00

            Period:             July 10, 94 to July 10, 95

b.  Proposals Pending:

-           PI:                    Subbarao V. Wunnava;

            Co Pis:             Kang Yen, Armando Barreto, Nagarajan Prabhakaran

            Title:                 Automated Collision Notification System

            Source: Federal Department of  Transportation DOT (Submitted Feb 95)

            Amount:           2.78 Million dollars for 4 years

            Period:             1995 Fall thru 1999 Summer

c.  Additional Efforts:

-           Working on ideas for DOT, consortium with New Mexico State University, and Florida

            Memorial College for networked education and distance learning schemes.

d.  Proposals Not funded during 94/95

            PI:                    Eric Johnson, New Mexico State University

            Co PI               Subbarao V. Wunnava along with another 4

            Title:                 Research center for advanced simulation

            Source: Department of Defense Infrastructure support

            Amount            9.4 Million dollars for 5 years

Dr. Dong Park

Dr. Park is developing two ideas for two proposals to be written this summer:

-     Research on the application of BiLinear Recurrent Neural Networks for (a) Predictive Image  Coding problems (with Dr. Malek Adjouadi as Co-PI); (b) Stock Market Prediction problem

-     Research on the application of large scale traveling solving neural network to communication routing problem ( this may result in grant from the Korean Telecommuniction  Authorithy (KTA) since the cellular phone market is growing so rapidly (200 % increase in the last two year period) in Korea that the communication traffic problem is extremely bad (they say the success rate is about 10 % during rush hour). The proposed neural network approach is very promising and I am contacting the people in KTA now.)

Dr. Dawn Holmes

a.  One proposal written:

             Status - not funded

            Principal Investigator: Dawn Holmes

            Project Title:  A Prototype Instructional System for Communicating Expertise

            Source of support:  NSF

b.   Invitation to serve on NSF Networking Infrastructure for Education (NIE)

      review panel (June 7-9, 1995).

c.   This summer I will be re-submitting the above mentioned proposal incorporating the suggestions and recommendations specified by the reviewers.  In addition I am also working on an application of  computer-assisted instruction for the Advanced C course to be taught in the Fall or Spring '96.

Dr. Jean Andrian

a.         Dr. Jean Andrain participated as Co-PI in three proposals, one pending, and two not funded     with Dr. Adjouadi - see Section 1.1-C, ref (1) and Section 1.1-D refs (1) and (2).

b.         This Summer Dr. Andrian as PI will be working on two proposals on the subjects of Sensors,    and Wavelets to enhance image processing applications.

Dr. Yi Deng

Proposal submitted:

PI: Yi DEng

"Model-driven distributed multimedia communication", Dec. 1994.

submitted to Rome Laboratory, U.S.  Air Force, Amount requested: $160,000.

a. Proposal Funded

Co-PI and Project Director (with Michael Evangelist and Paul Attie),

see listing of proposal below under PI Dr. Evangelist.

Dr. Michael Evangelist

a. Proposal Funded

PI: Michael Evangelist

Co-PIs: Yi Deng and Paul Attie

"Intermediate Architecture Representation for KBSA ADM", Rome Laboratory, U.S. Air Force, Contract No. 572102100, $194,000 (Continuation award).

            Also, As Director of the School of Computer Science (SCS), Dr. Evangelist has been   instrumental in establishing the Joint ECE and SCS Computer Lab for undergraduates,             housed in ECS 243 next door to the CATE Center in ECS 241.

III.  On the SUBJECT of  STUDENTS.

                        Graduated Students Supported by CATE

                        A. Ph. D. Students:

                                    Irma Fernandez, the first female Ph.D. to graduate from the ECE department

                        Ph.D thesis entitled "Data Encryption schemes for ISDN communications"  Ph.D awarded, Fall 94.

                        B. Ph. D. Students who have passed their PH.D comprehensive exam this year:

                        Habibie Sumargo

                        Mildred Saenz

                        C. Ph. D. Students who will take their PH.D comprehensive exam in Fall 1995:

                        John Riley

                        D. Students who Obtained their MS. Degree with the Help of NSF-CATE Center:

                        Habibie Sumargo

                        Carol Levey

                        Anthony Figueras

                        Andrian Delboca

                        Joisil Berteau

                        E. Masters Students

                        Noemi Fernandez

                        Ana Maria Rodriguez

                        Margaret Dabdoub

                        Mehran Geranmeyah

                        Carlos Reyes

                        Christophe Godefroy

                        Miguel Rosario

                        Patricio Vidal (visiting student from Venezuela)

                        F.  Other Master Students Working in CATE but supported fully by other                                  grants:           

                        Jorge Rico (Gateway grant with the Dean’s Office)

                        Konstantin Beznosov (NASA grant)

                        Yuriy Ivanov (NASA grant)

                        Shengkai Lu (U.S. Air Force grant)

                        Wenliang Du (U.S. Air Force grant)

                        Guohong Cao (U.S. Air Force grant)

                        Ya Xu (U.S. Air Force grant)

                        G.  Other Undergraduates who are working in CATE and have shown interest in                        pursuing their graduate studies.

                                    Female Students:

                                    Sonia Duranza- Hispanic - Dean’s List

                                    Linda Curtin - US resident from Canada

                                    Annette Taberner - Hispanic - Dean’s List

                                    Paula Guthrie - African American

                                    Eleanny Pichardo - Hispanic - High-School Senior

                                    Male Students

                                    Marco Midon - Hispanic - A Blind Person - Dean’s List

                                    Franklin Adams - African American

                                    Jorge Castellano - Hispanic

                                    Dorian Hernandez - Hispanic

                                    Alberto De la Serna - Hispanic

                                    Bryan Daniel - Non-minority

                                    Johan Sosa - Hispanic

                                    Gabriel Novo- Hispanic

IV.  ON THE SUBJECT OF THIS YEAR’S PUBLICATIONS:

4.1.   PI’s Efforts

A.        BOOK:

           FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER DESIGN In Preparation for John Wiley & Sons, Dr. Steven Elliot, Editor, College Division.  The main contribution of the book is in the design of the control unit of a microprocessor taking a perspective different from all the books published in this field. The complete design of a control unit of a commercial microprocessor is described in the final versions of the following two chapters:

            Chapter IV:  Instruction Decoder and Machine Cycle Encoding

            Chapter  V:  Timing and Control Signals

B.        JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

[1]        M. Adjouadi and F. Candocia," A Stereo Matching Paradigm Based on the Walsh Transformation", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 1212-1219, December 1994.

[2]        M. Adjouadi, J. Riley, F. Candocia, J. Andrian, and H. Sumargo  " An Augmented Computer Vision Approach for Enhanced Image Understanding", Journal of  Rehabilitation Research and Development, Vol. 32, No. 3, 1995.

[3]        M. Adjouadi and R. Schwartz “ Vision, Knowledge and Perception”, Journal for the Art of Teaching, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer, 1995.

[4]        F. Candocia and M. Adjouadi, "Stereo Feature Matching Using a New Similarity Measure", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,2nd revision, Jitendra Malik, Assoc. Editor.

[5]        M. Adjouadi F. Candocia, and X. Zhang "  Exploiting Walsh-Based Attributes in Stereo Vision", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2nd revision, Shigeru Katagiri, Assoc. Editor,

B1: JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS IN REVIEW

[1]        C. Reyes, M. Adjouadi, " An Analytical Approach to Gaussian Curve Fits for Nornal Data Distributions” submitted to the Journal of Mathematical Imaging, May 1995, .

B2: JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS TO BE SUBMITTED  JUNE 1995

[1]        M. Adjouadi , J. Riley, and F. Candocia, " Computational Aspects in Stereo Vision” to be submitted to the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing.

[2]        M. Adjouadi , N. Fernandez, and S. Duranza " Design Approach to the Instruction Decoder and Machine Cycle Encoding of a Microprocesor” to be submitted to the IEEE Trans. on Computers.

[3]        M. Adjouadi , N. Fernandez, and S. Duranza " Design of Timing and Control Circuitries Based on a Control Unit of a Microprocessor” to be submitted to the IEEE Trans. on Computers

[4]        J. Riley, M. Adjouadi, " Wavelet Theory and its Application to Feature Extraction and Image Reconstruction” to be submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

C.  CONFERENCE PAPERS

[1]        C. Reyes, M. Adjouadi, "A Directional Clustering Technique For Enhanced Pattern Classification” accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 1995.

4.2.   Co-PI’s Efforts

Dr. James Story:

[1] J. Story, The Design of a Distance Learning Presentation, Southcon/95, March, 1995.

[2] J. Story, Interactive Engineering Lectures, FIE, November, 1995.

[3] J. Story, Creation of a User’s Manual for Multimedia Digital Design, Technical Report, ECE  department, FIU.

Dr. Gustavo Roig

a. Conference Papers:

[1] G. Roig, - FGAMP and its impact in the science, math, and engineering areas”, Florida Academy of Science, Washington D.C., April 1995.

[2] G. Roig, “Florida/Action for Minority Participation, FGAMP” Conference on the Alliance for Hispanic Engineering Advancement (AHEAD), Puerto-Rico, February, 1995

Dr. Wunnava Subbarao

(a) Journal Papers:

[1] W. Subbarao and De Quintana “ I/O Language & I/O Computer System”, Micro Computer Applications,  pp. 31-39, March 95.

[2] W. Subbarao and V. Mocanu, “ Operational Software for Fault Tolerant Digital Systems”, Computers in Education, pp. 64-68, Fall 94.

[3] W. Subbarao and I. Fernandez “Gaining ISDN Privacy with data encryption”, News Item in Communication News, Aug 94.

(b) Conference Papers:

[1] Hamid Ghassemi and Subbarao Wunnava “Development of an operational medical network” Proceedings of the Southeastcon 95, pp 162 -164, March 1995.

[2] Subbarao Wunnava & Vince Ordax, “Emulation of 3 Phase” , Proceedings of the Southeastcon 95, pp 224-226, March, March 1995

[3] Thomas Gilbar & Subbarao Wunnava, “Fault Tolerant Token ring model implementation”, Proceedings of the Southeastcon 95, pp 123-125, March 1995

[4] Subbarao Wunnava, Miguel Rosario, Kishore Gandham, “Network based virtual design center (VDC) development”, Proceedings of the Southeastcon 95, pp 150-154, March 1995

[5] Subbarao Wunnava, “Advances in Internet and inter connectivity of networks”, Proceedings of the Southeastcon 95, pp 155-155-161, March 1995

Dr. Dong Park

a. Journal Papers in Review in the IEEE Transactions on  Neural Networks:

[1] Dong Park and Yan Zhu, " Development of Bilinear Recurrent  Neural Network  and its application to  time-series prediction"

[2] Dong Park and Anthony Figueras, " A Hierarchical Approach for Solving Large-Scale Traveling Salesman Problem"

b. Conference papers:

[1]  Adrian Del-Boca and Dong Park, " Myoelectric Signal Recognition using Fuzzy clustering and Artificial Neural Networks  in Real Time" , Proc. of the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks

[2] Yan Zhu and Dong Park," BiLinear Recurrent Neural Network", Proc. of the 1994 IEEE    International Conference on Neural Networks

[3]  Dong Park,  Anthony Figueras and C. Chen, " A Hierarchical Approach for Solving Large-Scale Traveling Salesman Problem", Proc. of the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks

[4]  Dong Park and Issam Dagher," Gradient Based Fuzzy c-means Algorithm" , Proc. of 1994 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks

Dr. Jean Andrian

a. Journal Paper:

            See reference [2] with Dr. Adjouadi

b. Conference Papers:

[1]        Barreto A., Chin N., Andrian J., and Riley J., “ Multiresolution Characterization of Interictal Epileptic Spikes Based on a Wavelet Transformation”, Proceedings of the 14th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference ,Shreveport, Louisiana, April 1995.

[2]        Chin N., Barreto A., Riley J. and Andrian J., “ Temporal Multiresolution Detection of Epileptic Spikes Based on a Wavelet Transformation” Proceedings of the Wavelet Applications for Dual Use Conference , SPIE, Orlando, Florida , April 1995.

[3]        Andrian J., Angulo L., Schmidt P., Riley J., Sumargo H., “ Low Frequency Noise in             Mosfets: Analysis and Synthesis using Wavelet-Based Decomposition” IEEE Signal   Processing International Symposium on  Time-Frequency and Time Scale Analysis,       Philedelphia, Pennsylvania, December 1994.

Dr. Yi Deng

a. Journal paper:

[1]        Yi Deng, Shi-Kuo Chang and Xiaola Lin, "Executable specification and analysis for the design of concurrent object-oriented systems", International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1994, pp 427-450.

Conference papers:

[1]        Shigang Chen, Yi Deng, Cyril Orji and Wei Sun, "Efficient Deadlock Detection in Distributed Systems", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Las Vagas, Nevada, October 1994, pp. 531-538.

[2]        Sha Guo, Wei Sun, Yi Deng, Wei Li, Qing Liu, and Weiping Zhang, "PANTHER: An Inexpensive and Integrated Multimedia Environment," Proc.  of 1994 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Boston, May 1994. pp. 382-391.

[3]        Sha Guo, Wei Sun, Y. Deng and Naphtali Rishe, "Semantic Query Optimization by Class Reference Reduction in Object-Oriented Database Systems", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, June, 1994. pp. 306-313.

[4]        S. Lu and Y. Deng, "An environment for specification and simulation of distributed object-oriented systems", to appear in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, June 1995, Rockville, MD.

[5]        X. Ya, C. Orji, Y. Deng and N. Rishe,"An architecture for operating system support of distributed multimedia systems", to appear in Proceedings of 1995 International Workshop on Multimedia Database Management Systems.

Dr. Naphtali Rishe *

[1]        N. Rishe, A. Shaposhnikov, and S. Graham, “ Load Balancing in a Massively Parallel Semantic             Database, Submitted for consideration for the special issue of Computer Systems Science and    Engineering on Parallel and Distributed Computing Environment, March , 1995.

            * Through our NSF-NASA collaboration.

4.3.  OTHER REPORTED INVESTIGATORS ACHIEVEMENTS

            A.        PI’s RECENT AWARDS and RECOGNITION

-           Teaching Incentive Award (TIP), a State University System award,  April 1994 .

-           Recognition from the Board of Education and Services for the Blind, Department of       Human  Resources, State of Connecticut, 1994.

-           Certificate of Recognition for Service as Vice Chair of the IEEE Miami Section, 1994

-           Certificate of Recognition for Service as Chair of the IEEE Miami Section, 1994

-           Candidate for FIU Research Award

            B.        Co - PI’s RECENT AWARDS and RECOGNITION

            Dr. Subbarao

-           Received TIP (Teaching Incentive Program) award of FIU/State of Florida; April 1995

-           Candidate for FIU faculty Teaching award

            Dr. Gustavo Roig

-           Recent Awards and Recognition from:

-           Miami Coral Park Senior High

-           Miami Magnet Program

-           Richmond Height Middle School

V.  EQUIPMENT RESOURCES FOR THE NSF-CATE CENTER

5.1.    Main Equipment Purchased the Second Year

            - 2 x 75 Mhz R-8000 (TFP)-based CPU Board to increase the parallel processing power of the ONYX parallel Machine to 4 processors.

            - 3 SGI Indy workstations with 100/50 Mhz based on the R4600 processor with 8-bit color

            - 1 SGI Indy workstation with 150/75 Mhz based on the R4400SC processor.

            - 2 SGI Indy workstations with 100/50 Mhz based on the R4600 processor with 24-bit color

            - 3 Cornell Pentiums dual-processor (upgradable to two processors)

            - Memory upgrade for the ONYX parallel machine

            - 2 486-based DX2/66 MHz bare bone computer systems

            - Multiprotocol Router and accessories for High bandwidth system Networking

            - HP laser printer

            - Camera System

            Prices for the following equipment and other detailed expenditures including software and hardware maintenance are provided in a separate report entitled “ EXPENDITURES : SEPTEMBER 94 - AUGUST 1995”.

            5.1.1 Brief Overview On The Power Of The Onyx Multiprocessing Graphics Supercomputer

            The Onyx supercomputer offers true supercomputing power which combines a parallel CPU subsystem configured at present with 4 R8000  64-bit RISC-based microprocessors (expendable to 12 Processors). The R8000 , formerly code-named TFP (for allegedly Tremendous Floating Point), is undoubtedly the fastest commercially available supercomputing microprocessor. The R8000 provides 300 million double-precision floating operations per seconds (MFLOPS) and 300 million instructions per second (MIPS).  The R8000 performance is roughly equivalent to a Cray Y-MP processor unit.  The R8000 costs about twice the dollar amount of the R4400, but provides roughly 4 times the computational power of the R4400 with its 75 MFLOPS and 128 MIPS.

            The Onyx system provides researchers access to a computing platform that is both highly suited for advanced 3D graphics, visualization, as well as for the development of computationally intensive algorithms. This is made possible by its high bandwidth symmetric multiprocessing architecture, which incorporates a 1.2 Gigabyte per second system bus. The full power of the present four R8000 RISC processors yields 1.2 billion floating point operations per second (GFLOPS) with an estimated 300 million FLOPS per processor. It is this type of processing power, with integrated parallel and distributed processing capabilities, that will facilitate the modeling of real-time vision systems, multimedia applications, ISDN implementations, interaction with massive data sets in real time, and unique 3-D visualization methods which include such things as stereoscopic viewing and full performance texture mapping.

            5.1.2 Brief Overview About the Importance of the Multiprotocol Router:

The router and fiber optic cable purchased for the College of Engineering and Design will be used to implement a much needed segmentation of the Engineering Information Network (EInet) to which CATE is connected to.  This segmentation will make more efficient use of already existing bandwidth giving Engineering users what would appear to be a greater amount of bandwidth.  This will give our users better performance when dealing with network applications. Whether they are accessing our compute servers, or loading PC type applications from file servers. This will enhance interactive response time, eliminating what normally appears to be "network lag".  Currently the EInet is comprised of several repeated ethernet segments, with the router we will divide it into several subnets, and in the near future, we hope to implement a high speed backbone using ATM technology at 155 megabits per second.

5.2.  Listing of the Computer Machines with their Specifications

Hardware specifications on computer resources for Computer Vision Research :

The NSF - CATE Center with all the available equipment through the first two years is illustrated in Figure 1.

5.3 Other Available Equipment:

            Roving Robot: Nomadic Technologies model Nomad 200

            Printer: HP Laser Jet 4M

5.4  Active Accounts on the NSF - CATE Center

jc                             kahina:/ext11/jc

malek                      kahina:/int11/staff/malek

marijke                    kahina:/int11/staff/marijke

sonia                      kahina:/int11/staff/sonia

chris                       kahina:/int11/vision/chris

habibie                   kahina:/int11/vision/habibie

john                        kahina:/int12/john

noemi                     kahina:/int12/noemi

mildred                   kahina:/int11/vision/mildred

patricio                   kahina:/int11/vision/patricio

dabdoubm             kahina:/ext11/mmedia/dabdoubm

guthrie                   kahina:/ext11/mmedia/guthrie

arodri01                  kahina:/ext11/image/arodri01

cborme01               kahina:/ext11/image/cborme01

clares01                  kahina:/ext11/image/clares01

eduran01                kahina:/ext11/image/eduran01

gferna01 kahina:/ext11/image/gferna01

jechev01                kahina:/ext11/image/jechev01

lgarci02                  kahina:/ext11/image/lgarci02

kzarba01 kahina:/ext11/image/kzarba01

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5.5  Research Accounts and Research Activities

- Managing Staff

Malek Adjouadi

Jorge A. Castellano

Sonia    Duranza           

Noemi Fernandez

Marijke Hallo de Wolf 

- Computer Vision Research

Christopher Godefroy

Ana Maria Rodrigue

Mildred Saenz

Habibie Sumargo                                                         

Patricio Vidal                           

- Biomedical Engineering

Annette M. Taberner

- Communications

Jorge Rico

- Computational geometry

Jay Mookherje

- Database: In support of NASA Institutional Research Award Grant of Dr. Naphtali Rishe- PI

Konstantin Beznosov               

Yuriy V. Ivanov

Scott Graham

- Gateway team: In support of the Gateway Grant from the Dean’s Office

Bryan S Daniel

Johan S Sosa                           

- Computer Design Applications

Eugene M. Maximilian 

Gabriel J. Novo

Alberto de la Serna

Ming T. Ly

- Genetic Algoritms

Fuat G. Uler

- Image Processing               

            Corina Borceo                         

Rafael E Diaz Enrique                          

Mehran Geranmayeh

Michael G Gordon

Michael Mitchell

Milagros Silveiro

Gong Weiyan

Kevin Zarbaf

            Guilletmo Fernandez

            Mohammad Ronosentono

- Multimedia

            Franklin Adams

Margaret-Rose Dabdoub         

Paula A. Guthrie          

- Wavelets

Chris Edmonds

            Shaiqulah Islam

            John Riley

- Distributed Processing:

In support of the Rome Laboratory, U.S. Air Force, Contract No. 572102100 of Drs. Michael Evangelist and Yi Deng.

            Shengkai Lu

            Wenliang Du

            Guohong Cao

            Ya Xu