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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 Irvinewww.calit2.net
Preparing for a World in Which Distance is Eliminated…
$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
Nano3 FacilityCALIT2.UCSD
10,000 sq. feet State-of-the-Art Materials and Devices Laboratory
Calit2 Materials and Devices Laboratory:“Nano3”–NanoScience, NanoEngineering, NanoMedicine
Source: Bernd Fruhberger, Calit2
Similar Clean Rooms at UCI
Greener Terabit Photonics:Calit2 Photonics Systems Laboratory
• Networking “Living Lab” Testbed Core– Real-Time Terabit/s Processing – Single 640Gbps channel
transport over >100km– Scalable Channel Transport
to 5Tbps
UCSD Photonics
Shayan MookherjeaOptical devices and optical communication networks, including photonics, lightwave systems and nano-scale optics.
Stojan RadicOptical communication networks; all-optical processing; parametric processes in high-confinement fiber and semiconductor devices.
Shaya FainmanNanoscale science and technology; ultrafast photonics and signal processing
Joseph FordOptoelectronic subsystems integration (MEMS, diffractive optics, VLSI); Fiber optic and free-space communications.
George PapenAdvanced photonic systems including optical communication systems, optical networking, and environmental and atmospheric remote sensing.
ECE Testbed Faculty
StarCAVE AnalysisAnd Calibration
Meyer Sound - Calit2 Partnership:StarCAVE Audio Hardware, Acoustical Analysis,
State-of-the-Art Sound for Cinema and Scientific Visualization Systems
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
We Run Video Sykpe Continuously During Office Hours
Kristen Reads My Email,
Sets My Calendar.Works With Amy
on My Trips
Using High Definition to Link the Calit2 Buildings:Living Greener
June 2, 2008
LifeSize System
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
Calit2 10th Anniversary Class PhotoUCSD/UCI Partnership
December 7, 2010
Academic Research “OptIPlatform” Cyberinfrastructure:An End-to-End 10Gbps Lightpath Cloud
National LambdaRail
CampusOpticalSwitch
Data Repositories & Clusters
HPC
HD/4k Video Images
HD/4k Video Cams
End User OptIPortal
10G Lightpaths
HD/4k TelepresenceInstruments
CineGrid 4K Digital Cinema Projects: “Learning by Doing”
CineGrid @ iGrid 2005 CineGrid @ AES 2006
CineGrid @ GLIF 2007
Laurin Herr, Pacific Interface; Tom DeFanti, Calit2
CineGrid @ Holland Festival 2007
The Calit2 OptIPuter LAN—Growing to Over60+ Dedicated 10G Fibers
Calit2 SunlightOptical Exchange Contains Quartzite
Maxine Brown,
EVL, UICOptIPuter
Project Manager
Calit2 Microbial Metagenomics Cluster-Next Generation Optically Linked Science Data Server
512 Processors ~5 Teraflops
~ 200 Terabytes Storage 1GbE and
10GbESwitched/ Routed
Core
~200TB Sun
X4500 Storage
10GbE
Source: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC, Calit2
Calit2 CAMERA: 0ver 4000 Registered Users From Over 90 Countries
OptIPuter Persistent Infrastructure EnablesCalit2 and U Washington CAMERA Collaboratory
Ginger Armbrust’s Diatoms:
Micrographs, Chromosomes,
Genetic Assembly
Photo Credit: Alan Decker Feb. 29, 2008
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
Covise, Phil Weber, Jurgen Schulze, Calit2CGLX, Kai-Uwe Doerr , Calit2
http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1421
January 15, 2008No Calit2 Person Physically Flew to Australia to Bring This Up!
January 15, 2008
New Year’s Challenge: Streaming Underwater Video From Taiwan’s Kenting Reef to Calit2’s OptIPortal
UCSD: Rajvikram Singh, Sameer Tilak, Jurgen Schulze, Tony Fountain, Peter ArzbergerNCHC : Ebbe Strandell, Sun-In Lin, Yao-Tsung Wang, Fang-Pang Lin
Local ImagesRemote Videos
March 26, 2008
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
Source: David Abramson, Monash Univ
Qvidium Compressed HD ~140 mbps
Remote Control of Scientific Instruments:Live Session with JPL and Mars Rover from Calit2
Source: Falko Kuester, Calit2; Michael Sims, NASA
September 17, 2008
eMedia Studio: Interactive TelepresenceDance/Media Performances
http://embodied.uci.edu
Calit2@UCI
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
July 30, 2009
Becoming Dragon-A Mixed Reality, Durational PerformanceCombining Virtual Reality, Motion Capture, Second Life
Source: Micha Cárdenas, CRCA, Calit2
365 hours, from December 1-17th, 2008
You Can Download This Presentation at lsmarr.calit2.net