Calit2:a SoCal UC Infrastructure for Innovation

Welcoming Talk

Meeting of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judges

April 21, 2009

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

From Elite Science to the Mass Market

• Four Examples I Helped “Mid-Wife”:– Supercomputers to GigaHertz PCs– Scientific Visualization to Movie/Game Special Effects– CERN Preprints to WWW– NSFnet to the Commercial Internet

• Technologies Diffuse Into Society Following an S-Curve

Automobile Adoption

Source: Harry Dent, The Great Boom Ahead

“Calit2 Works Here”{

Fifteen Years from Bleeding Edge Research to Mass Consumer Market

• 1990 Leading Edge University Research Center-NCSA– Supercomputer GigaFLOPS Cray Y-MP ($15M)– Megabit/s NSFnet Backbone

• 2005 Mass Consumer Market– PCs are Multi-Gigahertz ($1.5k)– Megabit/s Home DSL or Cable Modem

NSF Blue Waters Petascale Supercomputer (2011)Will be Over 1 Million Times Faster than Cray Y-MP!

www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/BlueWaters/system.html

An Unexpected Benefit of NSF Investments:NCSA Mosaic Led to the Modern Web World

100 Commercial Licensees

NCSA Programmers

1990

Open Source

Licensing

Source: Larry Smarr

NCSA Collage

1993

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

Calit2--A Systems Approach to the Future of the Internet and its Transformation of Our Society

www.calit2.net

Calit2 Has Assembled a Complex Social Network of Over 350 UC San Diego & UC Irvine Faculty

From Two Dozen DepartmentsWorking in Multidisciplinary Teams

With Staff, Students, Industry, and the Community

Integrating Technology Consumers and ProducersInto “Living Laboratories”

Two New 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 UCSD Affiliated CentersLoci for Innovation

Nanotrope

Separation SystemsTechnology

New Industrial Partners Using Calit2@UCSD Cleanrooms

Plus >75 Faculty!

Partnering with Large Companies: QUALCOMM: $22 M Innovation and Strategic Relationship With Calit2

• Chairs and Fellowships– Five Endowed Chairs– 50 Student Fellowships

• Early Access to Equipment--EVDO Base Station/BREW• Collaborations

– Calit2 US-India Summit: – Co-Chairs Paul Jacobs and Frieder Seible

– Roberto Padovani, QUALCOMM CTO and Adjunct Professor in ECE in Residence at Calit2

• Workshop on Spectrum Allocation and Assignment• Innovation Funds for Programs

– Center for Information Theory and Applications– Summer Undergraduate Research Program

• High Risk Ventures– Microfluidics-Based Laparoscopic Surgery Tool– Digital Clinical Charts for Works of Art at the SD Museum of Art– Search for the Tomb of Genghis Khan Using Non-Invasive Materials Imaging

Federal Agency Source of Funds

Federal Agencies Have Funded Over $400 Million to Over 300 Calit2 Affiliated Grants

Creating a Rich Ecologyof Basic Research

50 Grants Over $1 Million

Broad Distribution of Medium and Small Grants

OptIPuter

Calit2 Review Report p.4,21

Plus $50M From Foundations

Calit2 Has Introduced Innovative Wireless Systems to Support SoCal First Responders

Aug. 22, 2006 MMST

Disaster Drill at

Calit2@UCSD Involved

Over 200 First Responders

NSF RESCUE Mardi Gras Testbed 2006

Crowd Analysis

“Waterproof” Cameras!

Photo by Michael Hennig

CalMesh on a Rooftop

Photo by Michael Hennig

Satellite Backhaul

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

“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

100,000 Fold Range All Here Today!

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

William Gibson, Author of Neuromancer

Dedicated 10Gbps Lightpaths Tie Together State and Regional Fiber Infrastructure

NLR 40 x 10Gb Wavelengths Expanding with Darkstrand to 80

Interconnects Two Dozen

State and Regional Optical NetworksInternet2 Dynamic

Circuit Network Is Now Available

OptIPortals Scale to 1/3 Billion Pixels Enabling Viewing of Very Large Images or Many Simultaneous Images

Spitzer Space Telescope (Infrared)

Source: Falko Kuester, Calit2@UCSD

NASA Earth Satellite Images

Bushfires October 2007

San Diego

Calit2/EVL Varrier --60 Screen Panorama OptIPortal

Dan Sandin, Greg Dawe, Tom Peterka, Tom DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Javier Girado, Bob Kooima, Todd Margolis, Lance Long, Alan Verlo, Maxine Brown,

Jurgen Schulze, Qian Liu, Ian Kaufman, Bryan Glogowski

Mars Rendered at 46,000 x 23,000 pixels360 Degree Mars LandscapeRover Spirit at McMurdo 2006

16384 by 4096 pixels

Photo:Amy Bennion

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

Telepresence 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