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
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

Nano3 Facility
“Nano3”–NanoScience, NanoEngineering, NanoMedicine
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
• Networking “Living Lab”
Testbed Core
– Real-Time Terabit/s Processing
– Single 640Gbps channel transport over >100km
– Scalable Channel Transport to 5Tbps
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.
UCSD Photonics

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
We Run Video Sykpe Continuously
During Office Hours
Virtual Kristen
Kristen
Prints Here
For Amy
Real Amy
Kristen
Reads My Email,
Sets My Calendar.
Works With Amy on My Trips

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 10 th Anniversary Class Photo
UCSD/UCI Partnership
December 7, 2010

Academic Research “OptIPlatform” Cyberinfrastructure:
An End-to-End 10Gbps Lightpath Cloud
Campus
Optical
Switch
HD/4k Video Cams
HD/4k Telepresence
End User
OptIPortal
10G
Lightpaths
Instruments
National LambdaRail
Data
Repositories
& Clusters
HD/4k Video Images
HPC

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 Over
60+ Dedicated 10G Fibers

Maxine
Brown,
EVL, UIC
OptIPuter
Project
Manager
Calit2 Sunlight
Optical Exchange Contains Quartzite

Calit2 Microbial Metagenomics Cluster-
Next Generation Optically Linked Science Data Server
Source: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC, Calit2
1GbE and
10GbE
Switched
/ Routed
Core
~200TB
Sun
X4500
Storage
10GbE

Calit2 CAMERA: 0ver 4000 Registered Users
From Over 90 Countries

OptIPuter Persistent Infrastructure Enables
Calit2 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

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
Keio Univ., Japan Calit2@UCSD
July 30, 2009
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 Performance
Combining Virtual Reality, Motion Capture, Second Life
365 hours, from December 1-17 th , 2008
Source: Micha Cárdenas, CRCA, Calit2

You Can Download This Presentation at lsmarr.calit2.net