Cal-(IT)2: A Public-Private Partnership in Southern California

U.S. Business Council for Sustainable DevelopmentYear-End Meeting December 11, 2003

Institute of the Americas, UC San Diego

Dr. Larry Smarr

Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies

Harry E. Gruber Professor,

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

Cal-(IT)2--An Integrated Approach the Future of the Internet

www.calit2.net

220 UC San Diego & UC Irvine FacultyWorking in Multidisciplinary Teams

With Students, Industry, and the Community

The State’s $100 M Creates Unique Buildings, Equipment, and Laboratories

The UCSD Cal-(IT)2 Building Will Be Occupied in January 2005

Digital CinemaAuditorium

Virtual RealityCube

Nanotech Clean Rooms

RF and OpticalCircuit Labs

200 Single OfficesHundreds

of Collaborative Seats

Watch us Grow! [www.calit2.net]

Cal-(IT)2 Buildings Will Have Ubiquitous Tele-Presence

Falko Kuester, UCI, Laboratory with Smart Boards and

Optically Connected Large Screens

Cal-(IT)2 Industrial Partners are Supporting Academic Research and Education

• Hosting Seminars or Lectures• Co-Sponsoring Workshops/Conferences• Funding Faculty Research Projects

• Supporting Summer Undergraduate Fellows

• Funding Graduate Fellowships

• Providing Equipment for Living Labs

• Creating Chaired Professorships

Advanced Telecommunication and Information Technology to Enable Sustainable Development

• Access to Vast Amounts of Earth Science Data– Archives– Real Time

• Coupling Simulations to Observations• Enables Monitoring and “What If” Scenarios• Bringing Together University Research, Private

Sector, and Federal Agencies

NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise Fundamental Science Questions

• How is the Global Earth System Changing?• What are the Primary Forcings of the Earth

System?• How Does the Earth System Respond to Natural

and Human-Induced Changes?• What are the Consequences of Changes in the

Earth System for Human Civilization?• How Well Can We Predict Future Changes in the

Earth System?

How Is The Earth Changing And What Are The Consequences Of

Life On Earth?

I am Chair of NASA’s Earth System Science & Applications Advisory Committee (ESSAAC)

Components of a Future Global System for Earth Observation

The EOSDIS is the Largest e-ScienceDistributed Information Infrastructure

Flight Operations,Data Capture,Initial Processing,Backup Archive

DataTransportto DAACs

Science DataProcessing,Info Mgmt, DataArchive, & Distribution

Distribution,Access,

Interoperability,Reuse

EOSSpacecraft

NASAIntegratedServicesNetwork(NISN)MissionServices

NASAInternet

Value-AddedProviders

InteragencyData

Centers

Int’l Partners& DataCenters

Data Acquisition

White SandsComplex(WSC)

Tracking& Data

Relay Satellite(TDRS)

ResearchUsers

EducationUsers

DistributedActive

ArchiveCenters

InstrumentTeams

Data Processing

&MissionControl

EOS Polar Ground Stations

Geospatial

...To Enable Timely and Affordable Delivery of Earth Science Data and Information to Users

Computing

Earth System Science in the Future Will Leverage Three Ongoing Technology Revolutions:

Earth System Science Technology Emphasis Areas

Communications

SDSU Santa Margarita Field Station is a SensorNet Living Laboratory

Sensor Networks =

Real-Time Science and Education

Sedra Shapiro, Field Stations Director

Larry Smarr, Cal-(IT)2 Director

Pablo Bryant, FS Technical Lead

Claudia Luke, SMER Manager

Eric Frost, SDSU Prof.

Dan Cayan, SIO Water Sensors

Cal-(IT)2 is Hosting An Environmental Hydrology

Workshop Spring 2004

The OptIPuter Project – Removing Bandwidth as an Obstacle In Data Intensive Sciences

• NSF Large Information Technology Research Proposal– UCSD and UIC Lead Campuses—Larry Smarr PI– USC, UCI, SDSU, NW Partnering Campuses

• Industrial Partners: IBM, Telcordia, Chiaro, Calient• $13.5 Million Over Five Years• Optical IP Streams From Lab Clusters to Large Data Objects NIH Biomedical Informatics Research Network

NSF EarthScope

http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/gallery.html

siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/gallery/shoot1/index.shtml

Using Dedicated Dark Fiber to Link Earth and Ocean Science Researchers

Source: Tom West, CEO NLR

“National Lambda Rail” PartnershipServes Very High-End Experimental and Research Applications

4 x 10Gbps Wavelengths Initially Capable of 40 x 10Gbps Wavelengths at Build Out

Linking Goddard, ARC, & JPL with SIO Using NLR Under Discussion

Visualizing Ocean SimulationsWith the OptIPuter

• One of the World’s Most Powerful Dedicated Oceanographic Computers– 512 Intel Processors Using SDSC Rocks– Dedicated December 2001

– Nine Months Start to Finish– Simulates Global Climate Change– Center for Observations, Modeling and

Prediction at Scripps (COMPAS)

• IBM Cal-(IT)2 Industrial Partner • NSF and ONR Federal Funds• Collaboration of the Scripps Institution

of Oceanography, SDSC, Cal-(IT)2 • IBM Proposal will add this to UCSD

OptIPuter Visualization & Storage Clusters

Toward 100 Million Pixel DisplaysDriven by Earth Sciences