Berkeley XIS Lab: Advancing Collaborative Research in Extreme Interconnected Systems

1. Intel Berkeley Extreme Interconnected Systems Lablethttp://www.intel-research.net/berkeley David Culler UCB EECS & Academic Director Shattuck and Center, 13th floor, between BWRC and ICSI, great view!

2. New model for ind/acad collaboration • Key challenges ahead in EECS are fundamentally problems of scale • require level of investigation and of engineering that is beyond what is sustainable within the university and beyond what a company can commit outside product scope • industry possesses key technology and expertise • requires insights from many perspectives • A new lab stucture built around deep research collaboration and intimate ties to the EECS department • industry contributes substantial effort of high quality • projects span boundaries • faculty co-direct lab • student / faculty cycles drive the continuous motion • Operate in uniquely open fashion Berkeley XIS Lab

3. Intel Research Network of Lablets Concept • Network of small labs working closely with top computer science departments around the world on deeply collaborative projects. • currently Berkeley, Washington, CMU • Complement the corporate labs • explore off the roadmap, long range, high risk • Complement the external research council • drive projects of significant scale and impact • Expand the channel • bidirectional transfer of people, ideas, technology Berkeley XIS Lab

4. Mission for the Network of Labs • Bold new form of Industry-University collaboration that reflects the changing nature of the information age. • Conduct the highest quality research in emerging, important areas of CS and IT. • Join the unique strengths of Universities and the company in concurrent, collaborative efforts that are both broad in scope and deeply penetrating in exploration. • Operate in a uniquely open fashion, promoting a powerful, bidirectional exchange of groundbreaking ideas, technology, and people. • Leadership role in the creation of new research ecosystems spanning the continuum from academic study to product development. • Labs will be project-focused with an active, constantly evolving agenda involving Intel researchers, University researchers, and members of the larger research community Berkeley XIS Lab

5. Scale and structure Active day-to-day involvement • 15 full-time Intel Researchers and Engineers • ~5 part-time Intel folks • 20 faculty, students, visitors, research consultants Two-in-a-box co-directors • University Direction + Intel Director • Report to David Tennenhouse, VP Research Project focused • ~6-year projects starting about every two years Berkeley XIS Lab

6. Berkeley Focus Extreme Interconnected Systems • Invent, develop, explore, analyze, and understand highly interconnected systems at the extremes of the computing and networking spectrum - the very large, the very small, and the very numerous • Do leading-edge Computer Science on problems of scale, cutting across traditional areas of architecture, operating systems, networks, and languages to enable a wide range of explorations in ubiquitous computing, both embedded in the environment or carried easily on moving objects and people Berkeley XIS Lab

7. Areas of Emphasis • “endonets” • dense, fine-grain networked systems deeply embedded in or interacting with physical environment • sensor networks • ubiquitous computing architectures • computational fabrics, surfaces, structures • “exonets” • broad coverage networked systems at societal scale • world-wide storage systems • composable infrastructure services • massive servers for millions of users Berkeley XIS Lab

8. Initial Projects • Open experimental platform for Networked Embedded Systems Technology (NEST) • collaborative with UCB DARPA project • supporting 10 other DARPA projects • Goal: • new approach to networked embedded SW • enable research in algorithms, real-time systems, ... • explore platform system architecture in new space • Components • Low-cost flexible wireless sensor device for large-scale experimentation • Extensible Event-driven Tiny OS • Tiny Networking & Security • FSM-based Development Environment • Scalable, Adversarial Simulation • Infrastructure services • Building blocks for ubiquitous computing • Pocket-change computing dot Berkeley XIS Lab

9. Current Research Team • Kevin Fall: UCSD, ISI, UCB, NetBoost, Intel • high speed ip networking • Alan Mainwaring: TMC, UCB, Sun, Intel • virtual networks, deep scalable network systems • Anind Dey: Georgia Tech, aware house • framework for context aware applns • David Gay: UCB • Prog. Lang. design/Imp for novel comm. layers • Deborah Estrin, Faculty consultant • internet, multicast, rsvp,...sensor nets • Paul Wright, Faculty consultant • infopad, BWRC, cybercut • Justin Tomilson • optimization, IEOR PhD Student Berkeley XIS Lab

10. Current Faculty Research Associates • James Demmel Large-scale computational science • Michael Franklin Sensor Databases • Steven Glaser structural dynamics • Joe Hellerstein Streaming Databases • John Kubiatowicz planetary storage • James Landay User Interfaces • Jennifer Mankoff HCI • David Patterson Architecture • Kris Pister MEMS, Smart Dust • Jan Rabaey Low power systems • Satish Rao Distr. Systems Theory • Ion Stoika Networking • Vivek Subramanian Disposable devices • David Wagner Security • Kathy Yelick Parallel Languages Berkeley XIS Lab

11. Summer Interns 2001 • UCB Tiny OS team • Jason Hill, Rob Scewczyk, Alec Woo • UCLA directed diffusion • Depak Ganesan, Solomon Bein • UCB sensor database • Sam Madden (with Michael Franklin) • UCB IP/Infiniband SAN • Philip Buonadonna • UCB ocean store • Hakim Weatherspoon (with John Kubiatowicz) • visiting grad from Cornel + other UCB grads Berkeley XIS Lab

12. Where this is going? • Deep involvement in CITRIS • societal sensor network infrastructure • New networking foundations at each of the levels • Design principles • HW structures, OS support • Media access, transmission control, Routing, Security • Theory • Applications • New set of concerns • dynamic self-organization, adaptation • harsh resource constraints • collective behavior • Unique opportunity in the union • microscopic devices (really) Berkeley XIS Lab