Even before Coral8 announced our partnership with SGI yesterday, I was getting a steady stream of questions about what Coral8, and the CEP community as the whole, are doing with various defense, intelligence, and homeland security agencies. It's a tricky question to answer, for obvious reasons. There are some great projects to talk about, but "talk" is exactly what you are not supposed to do here.

But luckily, one of our very own engineers, Dave Clark, has recently put together a really cool demo that we can share with the general public. This demo showcases using Coral8 to track terrorist suspects throughout the United States, as well as correlating their phone conversation records with their locations. The goal, of course, is to prevent terrorists from doing something nasty.

The demo has four parts:

• The first one is just an intro, where the basic setup is discussed.
• The second is a cool demonstration of tracking the movement of suspected terrorists using Google Earth.
• The third is a very detailed explanation of how CCL is used to code this demo. Unless you are a programmer, you may want to skip through most of the third one.
• Finally, the fourth one showcases using Coral8 Portal to visualize information through real-time dashboards.

To learn more, you'll have to watch the demo!

DISCLAIMER

Now, before somebody decides to report me to the authorities for publishing this: These demos are here for educational purpose only. They are designed to illustrate how Coral8 may be used in the homeland security context. No classified information was used to build these demos. Any similarities to any real life homeland security projects where Coral8 is or is not used are entirely coincidental.

Mark Tsimelzon, President & CTO, Coral8