The First Year of Cal-(IT)2

Report to

The University of California Regents

UCSF San Francisco, CA

March 13, 2002

Dr. Larry Smarr

Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies

Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

UCSD

UCI

High Tech Coast

Two New Cal-(IT)2 Buildings Designed in 2001

• Will Create New Laboratory Facilities– Clean Rooms for Nanotech and BioMEMS– Computer Arts Virtual Reality– Wireless and Optical Networking– Interdisciplinary Teams

Bioengineering

UC San Diego

UC Irvine

Building “Living Laboratories”

• Extend Research Outside of Building• Using the Internet to Create Laboratories• Students, Faculty, and Industry• In Partnership with Surrounding Communities

Using Students to Invent the Futureof Widespread Use of Wireless Pocket PCs

• Year- Long “Living Laboratory” Experiment 2001-02– Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduates

– 500+ Wireless-Enabled HP Pocket PCs at UC San Diego – 50 Compaq Pocket PCs at UC Irvine

• UCSD Sixth College Will be “Born Wireless” Fall 2002• Linking to the Preuss School at UCSD

Cal-(IT)2 Team: Bill Griswold, Gabriele Wienhausen, UCSD; Rajesh Gupta, UCI

UC San Diego

UC Irvine

Internet Video Conferencing Is Now Possible Anywhere on Campus

• UCSD Is a Qualcomm Cellular Internet Test Site

Mobile RobotFrom CVRR

Lab

Student in Lab

Student on Campus

Attacking Traffic Congestion with Industry and State Government

• Campus Partnering for Implementation– UC Irvine’s Institution of Transportation Studies – UCSD Computer Vision and Robotics Research

• Caltrans ATMS Testbed + Cal-(IT)2 = ZEVNET – 50 Toyota Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV)– Add GPS Tracking, Wireless Communications

Source: Will Recker, UCI

“Living Laboratory”

Creating Environmental SensorNets

• Air and Water Pollution Sensor Development– Lead is Michael Sailor, UCSD Chemistry– Partnering with SensorNet Startups

• Santa Margarita Ecological Preserve– 4000 Acres–Wildlife Monitoring

– Rapid Prototyping Site– Linked by NSF’s HPWREN

Broadband Networking Enables New Cyber Arts

• Internet Linked Pianos

• UCSD/UCI Computer Gaming Initiative

• Humans Interacting with Virtual Realities

UC San Diego UC Irvine

Developing RegionalUltra High Speed Internet Laboratories

• Driven by Data-Intensive Applications– Real Time Seismic – Emergency Response– Medical Imaging

• Linked UCSD and SDSU– Dedication March 4, 2002

Linking Control Rooms

Cox, Panoram,SAIC, SGI, IBM,

TeraBurst NetworksSD Telecom Council

Next Step– California Must Have a State-Wide

Experimental Optical Network• The Institutes are Creating a Joint Plan– Led by Cal-(IT)2 & CITRIS

– Involving QB3 and CNSI

• Leveraging Today’s CENIC Investment– Provides California Internet Connectivity–K-12 and Universities

• Necessary for Data-Intensive Science– Widely Available to Many Disciplines

• California is Not the Leader Today!

NIH Has Funded the First National-Scale Data Repository for Brain Images

National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

Biomedical Informatics Research Network

(BIRN)NIH Plans to Expand

to Other Organs and Many Laboratories

UCSD is IT and Telecomm Integration Center

New BIRN Proposal Led by UCI and UCSD

Focus on Schizophrenia

Cal-(IT)2 Industrial PartnersLeverage Federal Funds

• World’s Most Powerful Dedicated Oceanographic Computer– 512 Intel Processors– Dedicated December 2001

– Nine Months Start to Finish

– Simulates Global Climate Change

• IBM Cal-(IT)2 Industrial Partner • NSF and NRO Federal Funds• Scripps Institution of

Oceanography