project. "The faster communication will enable radical new ways to distribute applications, and give us the opportunity to manipulate and process terabytes of data as easily as we handle megabytes today." Three other members of Jacobs School's computer science faculty will par- ticipate in the FWGrid project. David Kriegman leads the graphics and image processing efforts, whereas Joseph Pasquale and Stefan Savage are responsi- ble, respectively, for the efforts in distributed middleware and network measurement. Key aspects of this infrastructure include mobile image/video capture and display devices, high-bandwidth wireless to link the mobile devices to the rest of the network, "rich" wired networks of 10-100 Gbps to move and aggregate data and computation without limit, and distributed clusters with large pro- cessing (teraflops) and data (tens of terabytes) capabilities (to power the infra- structure). "We see FWGrid as three concentric circles," explained Chien. "At THE INTERNET RULES-IP TECHNOLOGIES the center will be super-high-bandwidth networks, large compute servers, and data storage centers. The middle circle includes wired high bandwidth, desktop compute platforms, and fixed cameras. And at the mobile periphery will be wireless high bandwidth, mobile devices with large computing and data capabilities, and arrays of small devices such as PDAs, cell phones, and sensors." Because FWGrid will be a living laboratory, the researchers will gain access to real users and actual workloads. "This new infrastructure will have a deep impact on undergraduate and graduate education," says CSE chair Ramamohan Paturi. "It will support experimental research, especially cross- disciplinary research. It will also provide an opportunity for our undergradu- ates to develop experimental applications." Research areas to be supported by FWGrid include low-level network measurement and analysis, grid middle- ware and modeling, application-oriented middleware, new distributed appli- cation architectures, and higher-level applicat