OPERA: storage, programming and display of multimedia objects

The OPERA project seeks to support the interactive display of synchronized multiple types of media on workstations. This style of application needs high speed ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) networks and suitable protocols and operating systems, which exist at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory. Above this infrastructure, the authors have designed and are building a multiple-service storage architecture (MSSA), a platform to support the creation and interactive display of multimedia presentations (IMP), and a persistent programming language (PC++), for reliable and convenient programming of multimedia applications. The authors give an overview of the work of the OPERA project.<
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