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In an age of scientific visualization employing huge datasets, and of networked instruments that produce data in torrents, bandwidth is an issue. More of it may be available than ever before and it may be faster than in the past, but the pipeline remains relatively limited and expensive. “Networking is not cheap,” said Purdue computer science Professor Chris Hoffmann. “Bandwidth is not very big at the moment. We’re working on technology to make all that, shall we say, affordable, particularly the networking.” A system being developed at Purdue could make moving large, high-resolution scientific visualizations long distance over a network like the Internet manageable and it may open up new opportunities in interactive video conferencing and online collaboration as well, said Hoffmann, who also is director of Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, the research and discovery arm of Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the university’s central information technology organization. For more information click here.