DNSSEC is still slowly rolling out across the country, hoping to prevent lots of domain name hijacking and attacks that have cropped up in recent years. Researchers at Sandia Labs have come out with an interesting tool they call ‘DNSVis’ to help visualize DNSSEC configurations and hopefully find both errors and potential breaches.
Sandia Labs is looking for funding and partners to extend the tool, such as by enabling historical analysis to improve monitoring. Deccio envisions DNSViz becoming available as open source software, though currently it’s accessible only via the Web interface.
Sandia has merged several pieces of technology (touch-surface tables, game engines, simulations) into an impressive tool for testing and evaluating border control systems.
For the Borders HLM project, the Ground Truth software has been integrated into a bottom-projected touch surface table. On this game surface, users can see “people” moving across the border terrain, observe CBP “personnel” responding to incidents and essentially control those movements and “apprehend” suspects. Users can also view a leader board of sorts that shows how many suspects have been apprehended, the dollar amount spent implementing the chosen architecture and other metrics that matter to CBP decision-makers.
Looks like it could be both a great training tool, and later a great monitoring and control solution.
Update 6/6/2011: The original video was taken down, so I’ve replaced it with another (non-Youtube) video.
The brains behind one of my favorite visualization tools ParaView, the guys at Sandia National Labs, have turned their sites on new prey: Textual Analysis. Their new tool “ParaText” can process massive collections of text in parallel across massive supercomputers, churning through massive 500-million work collections in under a day. (War and Peace is only 560,000 words).
ParaText distributes a different subset of documents to each processor, which in turn analyses that subset. And because of their efforts to minimize communication and make ParaText scalable, the result is a tool that could be run in a variety of environments, including on a grid or cloud. It can be embedded in any application using a native C++ API, Python, or Java. A standalone ParaText MPI executable can be run via command line. Or ParaText can be deployed as a web service using a RESTful API.
ParaText is based on the existing Titan Informatics toolkit, created by Sandia and Kitware
DNSSEC is still slowly rolling out across the country, hoping to prevent lots of domain name hijacking and attacks that have cropped up in recent years. Researchers at Sandia Labs have come out with an interesting tool they call ‘DNSVis’ to help visualize DNSSEC configurations and hopefully find both errors and potential breaches.
Sandia has merged several pieces of technology (touch-surface tables, game engines, simulations) into an impressive tool for testing and evaluating border control systems.
The brains behind one of my favorite visualization tools ParaView, the guys at Sandia National Labs, have turned their sites on new prey: Textual Analysis. Their new tool “ParaText” can process massive collections of text in parallel across massive supercomputers, churning through massive 500-million work collections in under a day. (War and Peace is only 560,000 words).
VizWorld.com 
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