Cal-(IT)2: A Public-Private Partnership in
Southern California
U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development
Year-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
220 UC San Diego & UC Irvine Faculty
Working in Multidisciplinary Teams
With Students, Industry, and the Community
The State’s $100 M
Creates Unique Buildings, Equipment, and Laboratories
www.calit2.net
The UCSD Cal-(IT)2 Building
Will Be Occupied in January 2005
200 Single Offices
Hundreds
of Collaborative Seats
Nanotech
Clean Rooms
Virtual Reality Digital Cinema
Auditorium
Cube
RF and Optical
Circuit Labs
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
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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 Earth Changing And
What Are The Consequences Of
Life On Earth?
• 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?
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-Science
Distributed Information Infrastructure
Data Acquisition
EOS
Spacecraft
Flight Operations,
Data Capture,
Initial Processing,
Backup Archive
Data
Transport
to DAACs
Distribution,
Access,
Interoperability,
Reuse
Research
Users
Tracking
& Data
Relay Satellite
(TDRS)
White Sands
Complex
(WSC)
Science Data
Processing,
Info Mgmt, Data
Archive, & Distribution
Data
Processing
&
Mission
Control
NASA
Integrated
Services
Network
(NISN)
Mission
Services
Distributed
Active
Archive
Centers
NASA
Internet
Education
Users
Value-Added
Providers
EOS Polar Ground Stations
Instrument
Teams
Interagency
Data
Centers
Int’l Partners
& Data Centers
Earth System Science
Technology Emphasis Areas
Earth System Science in the Future Will Leverage
Three Ongoing Technology Revolutions:
Geospatial
Computing
Communications
...To Enable Timely and Affordable Delivery of
Earth Science Data and Information to Users
SDSU Santa Margarita Field Station is
a SensorNet Living Laboratory
Cal-(IT)2 is Hosting
An Environmental Hydrology
Workshop Spring 2004
Larry Smarr,
Cal-(IT)2 Director
Sedra Shapiro,
Field Stations Director
Pablo Bryant,
FS Technical Lead
Sensor Networks
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Real-Time Science
and Education
Dan Cayan, SIO
Water Sensors
Eric Frost,
SDSU Prof.
Claudia Luke,
SMER Manager
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
Linking Goddard, ARC, & JPL with SIO
Using NLR Under Discussion
Source:
Tom West, CEO NLR
“National Lambda Rail” Partnership
Serves Very High-End Experimental and Research Applications
4 x 10Gbps Wavelengths Initially
Capable of 40 x 10Gbps Wavelengths at Build Out
Visualizing Ocean Simulations
With 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 Displays
Driven by Earth Sciences