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Calit2: Experiments in Living in the Virtual/Physical World. Invited Talk “Cultivating Networked Centers of Excellence” CineGrid International Workshop 2010 December 15, 2010. Dr. Larry Smarr Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
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Calit2: Experiments in Living in the Virtual/Physical World Invited Talk “Cultivating Networked Centers of Excellence” CineGrid International Workshop 2010 December 15, 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 is a Framework for “Living in the Future” of the Digital Transformation of Society
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 Irvine Preparing for a World in Which Distance is Eliminated… www.calit2.net $100M From State for New Facilities
Radical Decentralization Enables Many Simultaneous Projects Across Many Disciplines • Calit2 Staff (~120) Critical • Broad Faculty Involvement • Over 600 UCSD & UCI Faculty • 24 Departments Engaged • Over 400 Grants Affiliated with Calit2 • More Than 220 Companies Engaged • Unique Shared Facilities • Reconfigurable Space for Multi-Disciplinary Grants • Ubiquitous Video, Audio & Visualization Environments • Destination Site for Workshops and Conferences • >10,000 Visitors Per Year
Calit2 Materials and Devices Laboratory:“Nano3”–NanoScience, NanoEngineering, NanoMedicine Nano3 Facility CALIT2.UCSD 10,000 sq. feet State-of-the-Art Materials and Devices Laboratory Similar Clean Rooms at UCI Source: Bernd Fruhberger, Calit2
Greener Terabit Photonics:Calit2 Photonics Systems Laboratory UCSD Photonics ECE Testbed Faculty Stojan Radic Optical communication networks; all-optical processing; parametric processes in high-confinement fiber and semiconductor devices. George Papen Advanced photonic systems including optical communication systems, optical networking, and environmental and atmospheric remote sensing. Joseph Ford Optoelectronic subsystems integration (MEMS, diffractive optics, VLSI); Fiber optic and free-space communications. Shaya Fainman Nanoscale science and technology; ultrafast photonics and signal processing Shayan Mookherjea Optical devices and optical communication networks, including photonics, lightwave systems and nano-scale optics. • Networking “Living Lab” Testbed Core • Real-Time Terabit/s Processing • Single 640Gbps channel transport over >100km • Scalable Channel Transportto 5Tbps
Meyer Sound - Calit2 Partnership:StarCAVE Audio Hardware, Acoustical Analysis, State-of-the-Art Sound for Cinema and Scientific Visualization Systems StarCAVE Analysis And Calibration Source: Peter Otto, Calit2, CRCA, UCSD Dept of Music
Calit2 Has Tried to Make Virtual/Physical Routine Virtual Kristen Kristen Prints Here For Amy Real Amy Kristen Reads My Email, Sets My Calendar. Works With Amy on My Trips We Run Video Sykpe Continuously During Office Hours
Using High Definition to Link the Calit2 Buildings:Living Greener LifeSize System June 2, 2008
Linking the Calit2 Auditoriums at UCSD and UCI with LifeSize HD for Shared Seminars September 8, 2009 Sept. 8, 2009 Photo by Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego
Calit2 10th Anniversary Class PhotoUCSD/UCI Partnership December 7, 2010
Academic Research “OptIPlatform” Cyberinfrastructure:An End-to-End 10Gbps Lightpath Cloud HD/4k Video Cams HD/4k Telepresence Instruments HPC End User OptIPortal 10G Lightpaths National LambdaRail Campus Optical Switch Data Repositories & Clusters HD/4k Video Images
CineGrid 4K Digital Cinema Projects: “Learning by Doing” CineGrid @ iGrid 2005 CineGrid @ AES 2006 CineGrid @ Holland Festival 2007 CineGrid @ GLIF 2007 Laurin Herr, Pacific Interface; Tom DeFanti, Calit2
The Calit2 OptIPuter LAN—Growing to Over60+ Dedicated 10G Fibers
Calit2 SunlightOptical Exchange Contains Quartzite Maxine Brown, EVL, UIC OptIPuter Project Manager
Calit2 Microbial Metagenomics Cluster-Next Generation Optically Linked Science Data Server Source: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC, Calit2 ~200TB Sun X4500 Storage 10GbE 512 Processors ~5 Teraflops ~ 200 Terabytes Storage 1GbE and 10GbE Switched/ Routed Core
Calit2 CAMERA: 0ver 4000 Registered Users From Over 90 Countries
OptIPuter Persistent Infrastructure EnablesCalit2 and U Washington CAMERA Collaboratory Photo Credit: Alan Decker Feb. 29, 2008 Ginger Armbrust’s Diatoms: Micrographs, Chromosomes, Genetic Assembly iHDTV: 1500 Mbits/sec Calit2 to UW Research Channel Over NLR
Launch of the 100 Megapixel OzIPortal Kicked Off a Rapid Build Out of Australian OptIPortals January 15, 2008 January 15, 2008 No Calit2 Person Physically Flew to Australia to Bring This Up! Covise, Phil Weber, Jurgen Schulze, Calit2 CGLX, Kai-Uwe Doerr , Calit2 http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1421
New Year’s Challenge: Streaming Underwater Video From Taiwan’s Kenting Reef to Calit2’s OptIPortal Remote Videos Local Images March 26, 2008 UCSD: Rajvikram Singh, Sameer Tilak, Jurgen Schulze, Tony Fountain, Peter Arzberger NCHC : Ebbe Strandell, Sun-In Lin, Yao-Tsung Wang, Fang-Pang Lin
Multi-User Global Workspace:Calit2 (San Diego), EVL (Chicago), KAUST (Saudi Arabia) Source: Tom DeFanti, KAUST Project, Calit2
HD Talk to Australia’s Monash University from Calit2:Reducing International Travel July 31, 2008 Qvidium Compressed HD ~140 mbps Source: David Abramson, Monash Univ
Remote Control of Scientific Instruments:Live Session with JPL and Mars Rover from Calit2 September 17, 2008 Source: Falko Kuester, Calit2; Michael Sims, NASA
eMedia Studio: Interactive Telepresence Dance/Media Performances http://embodied.uci.edu Calit2@UCI
First Tri-Continental Premier of a Streamed 4K Feature Film With Global HD Discussion 4K Film Director, Beto Souza July 30, 2009 Keio Univ., Japan Calit2@UCSD Source: Sheldon Brown, CRCA, Calit2 San Paulo, Brazil Auditorium 4K Transmission Over 10Gbps-- 4 HD Projections from One 4K Projector
Becoming Dragon-A Mixed Reality, Durational PerformanceCombining Virtual Reality, Motion Capture, Second Life 365 hours, from December 1-17th, 2008 Source: Micha Cárdenas, CRCA, Calit2