DARRT: Distributed audio rendering & retrieval using triana - Experiments in applying grid computing technologies for audio processing

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Abstract

Triana is a Java-based software framework that facilitates computational workflows over networks of Grid enabled computers. The framework enables researchers to automatically find available computational resources, transfer necessary code and data to those resources, process that data, and pass that data to other computational processes on other computers. The advantage of using Grid-enabled computers for audio processing is the unlimited availability of computing resources both in terms of CPU power, and DSP-imposed computational limits. The DARRT project, "Distributed Audio Rendering & Retrieval using Triana," explores the potential uses of Gridcomputing technologies towards sound computation and music synthesis. Our team of researchers is using Triana to control a cluster of 32 Apple Xserve computers in order to demonstrate the potential of distributed audio rendering over a gigabit network. We are developing software objects that will function much like unit generators, software instruments or effects processors that can run simultaneously or in parallel on different machines across a common network. Ultimately, we envision a Web-services or peer-to-peer virtual sound design engine or synthesizer to which anyone on the Web can subscribe, utilize and provide component parts.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

International Computer Music Conference Icmc 2006

First Page

716

Last Page

723

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