UL's LITE Technology Center

[ulforlife]

By the way, the "100% digital" you reference does not apply to the computer system but to the graphics projection system that displays on the screens (walls) of the cube. That is very unique and UL is one of the first in the world to build an all digital projection cube.

Cleared up now...thanks!

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LAFAYETTE — The opening Wednesday of the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise — which could give researchers and businesses unprecedented ability to innovate — is a turning point in the history of economic development of Louisiana, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said. Louisiana’s post-hurricane recovery must also focus on long-term economic development initiatives such as LITE, Blanco said. “We owe it to ourselves not to let our darkest hours shut down our brightest opportunities,” she said. LITE is a $27 million facility, operated by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the Lafayette Economic Development Authority. Already the facility has nine contracts for business and researchers interested in tapping into the special immersive visualization environments, powered by one of the country’s largest supercomputers. In a nutshell, the facility allows researchers to literally look around and inside vast amounts of data crunched by the supercomputers. While four states have similar visualization technology or computing capacity, Louisiana is the only state that has both features in one place, putting it on par with facilities in Japan and Germany, Blanco said. The rest of the story By KEVIN BLANCHARD Acadiana bureau

[Doug]

From ground breaking till now cost went up seven million $

[cypremort]

From ground breaking till now cost went up seven million $

Additional monies were allocated to this project. The large shared-memory machine was not in the initial allocation. Building costs, however, were higher than expected.

[Turbine]

A picture from the Hilton

[RaginFan2]

A picture from the Hilton

I drove past it tonight after the game and saw it lit up with changing colors. It looked pretty cool! It sorta looked like a giant Easter egg.

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LAFAYETTE — There’s still plenty of work to do, but the Louisiana Immersive Technology Enterprise has made quick progress in the six months it’s been open, LITE’s executive director said Wednesday.

“I think we’re on the right track,” Executive Director Carolina Cruz said.

LITE offers public and private researchers an opportunity to use high-tech visualization venues — including a six-sided virtual reality cave — in order to better interpret data.

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It wasn't a typical Memorial Day for local breast radiologist Dr. Robert Lapidus, Medical Director of Women's Imaging Centre in Lafayette, the new breast diagnostic facility which is affiliated with Women's and Children's Hospital, or for researchers at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprises (LITE) complex in Lafayette, Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, LITE's Executive Director and Chief Scientist, and Dr. Dirk Reiners, Assistant Professor of computer science of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Instead of attending a family outing, they were working with the world's preeminent figure in breast cancer diagnosis, Dr. Laszlo Tabar. The rest of the story

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  UL — Carolina Cruz-Neira has stepped down as the chief executive officer of the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise Center to focus on her duties as chief scientist, the LITE commission announced Wednesday.

Cruz-Neira was hired by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette as the center’s chief scientist in 2006 and agreed to temporarily serve in the dual role.

Henry Florsheim, the chief operating officer, will serve as the interim CEO.

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Advocate Acadiana bureau