Accelerating Toward the Singularity

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Accelerating Toward the Singularity Invited Presentation Singularity University Formation Meeting NASA Ames Mountain View, CA September 19, 2008 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

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Accelerating Toward the Singularity

Invited PresentationSingularity University Formation Meeting

NASA Ames Mountain View, CASeptember 19, 2008

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

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Three Accelerators for an Exponentially Data Rich World

• Supercomputers Surpassing Human Brain Speed

• Scalable Visualization of Large Scale Images

• Personal Lightpaths Enable Global Collaboratories

All Are Transformational for Singularity University

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First Sustained PetaFLOP Supercomputer

• NSF’s IBM Blue Waters at NCSA– On-Line 2011– 200,000 Processor Cores– 1 PetaByte Memory– 10 PetaBytes of Rotating Storage– ¼ of UIUC Electricity

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Fastest Computer on Earth will Reach ~ Human Brain Speed 100 PetaFLOPS by 2016

www.top500.org/lists/2008/06/performance_development

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Accelerator: Visualize Vast Data Sets Using Scalable Commodity Systems

Green: Purkinje CellsRed: Glial CellsLight Blue: Nuclear DNA

Source: Mark

Ellisman, David Lee,

Jason Leigh

300 MPixel Image!

OptIPuter

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Scalable Displays Allow Both Global Content and Fine Detail

Source: Mark

Ellisman, David Lee,

Jason Leigh

30 MPixel SunScreen Display Driven by a 20-node Sun Opteron Visualization Cluster

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Allows for Interactive Zooming from Cerebellum to Individual Neurons

Source: Mark Ellisman, David Lee, Jason Leigh

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Global Innovation Centers are Being Connected with 10,000 Megabits/sec Clear Channel Lightpaths

Source: Maxine Brown, UIC and Robert Patterson, NCSA

Research on 100 Gbps and 1 Tbps

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Optical Fiber Telepresence Will Accelerate Rate of Global Discovery

January 15, 2008

Melbourne, Australia

UC San Diego

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Ultra Resolution Virtual Reality: 3D Global Collaboratory

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

See www.kurzweilai.net


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