Calit2:a SoCal UC Infrastructure for Innovation

Welcoming Talk

Visit to Calit2 by The Trusteeship

April 24, 2010

Dr. Larry Smarr

Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Harry E. Gruber Professor,

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

Twitter: lsmarr

Calit2 Continues to Pursue Its Initial Mission:

Envisioning How the Extension of Innovative Telecommunications and Information Technologies

Throughout the Physical World will Transform Critical Applications

Important to the California Economy and its Citizens’ Quality Of Life.

Calit2 is a University of California “Institutional Innovation” Experiment on How to Invent

a Persistent Collaborative Research and Education Environment that Provides Insight into How the UC, a Major Research University, Might Evolve in the Future.

Calit2 Review Report: p.1

Two Calit2 Buildings Provide New Laboratories for “Living in the Future”

• “Convergence” Laboratory Facilities– Nanotech, BioMEMS, Chips, Radio, Photonics

– Virtual Reality, Digital Cinema, HDTV, Gaming

• Over 1000 Researchers in Two Buildings– Linked via Dedicated Optical Networks

UC Irvinewww.calit2.net

Preparing for a World in Which Distance is Eliminated…

$100M From State for New Facilities

Calit2 Industrial Partners Team with Academic Research and Education

• Funding Joint Research Projects• Using Calit2 Facilities• Providing Equipment to Calit2 Projects• Joining on Federal Grants• Joint Support of Centers (CWC, CITA, CNS…)• Commercialization of Faculty/Staff/Student Research• Sending Staff to Live at Calit2• Supporting Graduate/Undergraduate Fellows• Granting Access to Industry Facilities• Endowing Chaired Professorships• Co-Sponsoring Workshops/Conferences• Hosting Seminars or Lectures

Worked WithOver 200

CompaniesSince June 2006

Nanotrope

Separation SystemsTechnology

Industrial Partners Using Calit2@UCSD Cleanrooms

Plus >75 Faculty!

Calit2 Has a Broad Portfolio of Grants:Federal, State, Foundations

• Criteria for Grant Affiliation:– Administered by Calit2– Calit2 Provides Cost-Share– Calit2 Provides Staff– Calit2 Space Used– Calit2 SPAWAR Master Agreement Used– Federal Grants Enabled by Calit2’s Nano3

Nearly 400Grants

Since June 2006

Industry Partners with Calit2 on Federal Grants

• Long Beach, CA Company Original Subcontractor and Co-PI

• Multiple Equipment Donations• Test-Bed Usage for Prototyping

and Evaluation• Internships and Training for

Students Leading to Employment

• Close Alliance with First Responders, to Meet their Specific Needs

Calit2@UCI Engages40+ Companies

22 Government Agencies6 Universities

27 Investigators 70+ students

Calit2 Has Sought to Increase the Entrepreneurial Culture on Both Campuses

Calit2 Has Facilitated Deep Interactions With the Digital Arts

“Researchers Look to Create a Synthesis of Art and Science

for the 21st Century”

By John MarkoffNYTimes November 5, 2005

Ruth West, UCSD “Ecce Homology”

Bill Tomlinson, Lynn Carpenter UCI “EcoRaft”

SPECFLIC 1.0 – A Speculative Distributed Social Cinema by Adrienne Jenik

Calit2 is Creating a Ten Year Strategic Plan

Using Campuses asLiving Laboratories for the Greener Future

www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume44/CampusesasLivingLaboratoriesfo/185217

Copies AvailableOutside

“Broadband” Depends on Your Application:Data-Intensive Science Needs Supernetworks

• Mobile Broadband– 0.1-0.5 Mbps

• Home Broadband– 1-5 Mbps

• University Dorm Room Broadband– 10-100 Mbps

• Dedicated Supernetwork Broadband– 1,000-10,000 Mbps

“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed”

William Gibson, Author of Neuromancer

International Meeting Using Digital Cinema 4k Streams

Keio University President Anzai

UCSD Chancellor Fox

Lays Technical Basis for

Global Digital

Cinema

Sony NTT SGI

Streaming 4k with JPEG

2000 Compression

½ Gbit/sec

100 Times the Resolution

of YouTube!

Calit2@UCSD Auditorium

4k = 4000x2000 Pixels = 4xHD

First Tri-Continental Premier of a Streamed 4K Feature Film With Global HD Discussion

San Paulo, Brazil Auditorium

Keio Univ., Japan Calit2@UCSD

4K Transmission Over 10Gbps--4 HD Projections from One 4K Projector

4K Film Director, Beto Souza

Source: Sheldon Brown, CRCA, Calit2

Linking the Calit2 Auditoriums at UCSD and UCI with LifeSize HD for Shared Seminars

September 8, 2009

Photo by Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego

Sept. 8, 2009

NSF’s OptIPuter Project: Using Supernetworks to Meet the Needs of Data-Intensive Researchers

OptIPortal– Termination

Device for the

OptIPuter Global

Backplane

Calit2 (UCSD, UCI), SDSC, and UIC Leads—Larry Smarr PIUniv. Partners: NCSA, USC, SDSU, NW, TA&M, UvA, SARA, KISTI, AIST

Industry: IBM, Sun, Telcordia, Chiaro, Calient, Glimmerglass, Lucent

1/3 Billion Pixel OptIPortal Used to Study NASA Earth Satellite Images of October 2007 Wildfires

Source: Falko Kuester, Calit2@UCSD

Collaborating with NASA’s Two Rover Robots on MarsLive Session with NASA Ames

Seen From Mars Orbiter

Calit2 3D Immersive StarCAVE OptIPortal:Enables Exploration of High Resolution Simulations

Cluster with 30 Nvidia 5600 cards-60 GB Texture Memory

Source: Tom DeFanti, Greg Dawe, Calit2

Connected at 50 Gb/s to Quartzite

30 HD Projectors!

15 Meyer Sound Speakers + Subwoofer

Passive Polarization--Optimized the

Polarization Separation and Minimized Attenuation

3D Stereo Head Tracked OptIPortal:NexCAVE

Source: Tom DeFanti, Calit2@UCSD

www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1584

Array of JVC HDTV 3D LCD ScreensKAUST NexCAVE = 22.5MPixels

You Can Download Presentations and Videos at lsmarr.calit2.net