The VIP team works on a number of projects centered around NYU Research Technology Infrastructure, as well as direct educational and research projects. Many subteams often work on specific aspects of a project related to their field.

Check out our demos from previous years: 2023 Spring, 2023 Fall.

Corelink is a programmable low-latency messaging platform for real-time research applications, and comprises 4 of our subteams. Corelink can be used to selectively broadcast messages between producers and consumers with low latency across a variety of platforms. Corelink allows easy organization and connection of streams by type, either manually or programmatically, and allows configuration of plugins to apply processing or filters to streams on the server. See details in docs.

Researchers use Corelink to move data between applications in real-time at very low latencies for specific applications, such as real-time concert audio transmission. Currently, we focus on developing and improving the main Corelink APIs, as well as creating plugins to different data sources/sinks that may enable new kinds of real-time research and applications previously not possible.

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HSRN

The NYU High Speed Research Network is a division of NYU Research Technology that works closely with NYU HPC, Network Engineering, and Research Faculty to deploy a low latency, high bandwdith specialty network for advanced real-time research at 100x the speed of NYU-NET. The cutting-edge nature of the division presents unique & complex challenges related to networking, security, deployments, and much more.

The HSRN group also offers a Kubernetes edge cluster to researchers, which is currently in its pilot phase. The cluster has nodes in different NYU buildings, enabling researchers to deploy applications with low latency to their experiments, HSRN-enabled or otherwise. Understand more about our kubernetes cluster in docs.