Pegasus Overview

Project Team

• PI: Peter Ainsworth, University of Sheffield
  
• RA: Michael Meredith, University of Sheffield
• White Rose Grid Development Officer: Mike Griffiths
• Consultant: Colin Dunn, Scriptura Ltd (Oxford)

Project Description

Pegasus is funded by the EPSRC in association with the National Science Foundation of America with the aim of promoting, demonstrating and running experiments with grid technologies.

Pegasus will develop a grid-enabled interface using Storage Resource Broker clientware designed at the University of California San Diego, to establish a program for sharing and displaying in real-time selected virtual reality exhibition materials of mutual interest to each institution mentioned below, drawing on high-volume, high-resolution digital image datasets held on and managed via compatible Solaris SUN servers.

Robust protocols will permit real-time access to and distribution of exhibition packages developed respectively at (1) the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, and (2) The Frazier Gallery, Louisville KY (American home of the Royal Armouries Museum). Pegasus will establish a secure infrastructure to allow each partner museum to create, share and exchange such materials with the other's audiences and researchers. In addition, Pegasus will create the resources needed to share these materials, virtually, with visitors to two other key Royal Armouries venues: the Tower of London and Fort Nelson, Hampshire UK.

Pegasus officially starts on the 1st January 2008 although preparatory work in connection with the Royal Armouries is currently being undertaken