The First Year of Cal-(IT)2
Report to
The University of California Regents
UCSF San Francisco, CA
March 13, 2002
Dr. Larry Smarr
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technologies
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
The California Institute for Telecommunications
and Information Technology
UCI
High Tech Coast
UCSD
Two New Cal-(IT)2 Buildings
Designed in 2001
Bioengineering • Will Create New Laboratory Facilities
UC Irvine
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Clean Rooms for Nanotech and BioMEMS
Computer Arts Virtual Reality
Wireless and Optical Networking
Interdisciplinary Teams
UC San Diego
Building “Living Laboratories”
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Extend Research Outside of Building
Using the Internet to Create Laboratories
Students, Faculty, and Industry
In Partnership with Surrounding Communities
Using Students to Invent the Future
of Widespread Use of Wireless Pocket PCs
• Year- Long “Living Laboratory” Experiment 2001-02
– Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduates
– 500+ Wireless-Enabled HP Pocket PCs at UC San Diego
– 50 Compaq Pocket PCs at UC Irvine
• UCSD Sixth College Will be “Born Wireless” Fall 2002
• Linking to the Preuss School at UCSD
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Cal-(IT)2 Team: Bill Griswold, Gabriele Wienhausen, UCSD; Rajesh Gupta, UCI
Internet Video Conferencing
Is Now Possible Anywhere on Campus
• UCSD Is a Qualcomm
Cellular Internet Test Site
Mobile
Robot
From
CVRR
Lab
Student
on Campus
Student in Lab
Attacking Traffic Congestion
with Industry and State Government
• Campus Partnering for Implementation
– UC Irvine’s Institution of Transportation Studies
– UCSD Computer Vision and Robotics Research
• Caltrans ATMS Testbed + Cal-(IT)2 = ZEVNET
– 50 Toyota Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV)
– Add GPS Tracking, Wireless Communications
“Living Laboratory”
Source: Will Recker, UCI
Creating Environmental SensorNets
• Air and Water Pollution Sensor Development
– Lead is Michael Sailor, UCSD Chemistry
– Partnering with SensorNet Startups
• Santa Margarita Ecological Preserve
– 4000 Acres
– Wildlife Monitoring
– Rapid Prototyping Site
– Linked by NSF’s HPWREN
Broadband Networking Enables
New Cyber Arts
• Internet Linked Pianos
• UCSD/UCI Computer Gaming Initiative
• Humans Interacting with Virtual Realities
UC San Diego
UC Irvine
Developing Regional
Ultra High Speed Internet Laboratories
• Driven by Data-Intensive
Applications
– Real Time Seismic
– Emergency Response
– Medical Imaging
• Linked UCSD and SDSU
– Dedication March 4, 2002
Linking Control Rooms
Cox, Panoram,
SAIC, SGI, IBM,
TeraBurst Networks
SD Telecom Council
Next Step– California Must Have a State-Wide
Experimental Optical Network
• The Institutes are Creating a Joint Plan
– Led by Cal-(IT)2 & CITRIS
– Involving QB3 and CNSI
• Leveraging Today’s CENIC Investment
– Provides California Internet Connectivity
– K-12 and Universities
• Necessary for Data-Intensive Science
– Widely Available to Many Disciplines
• California is Not the Leader Today!
NIH Has Funded the First National-Scale
Data Repository for Brain Images
UCSD is
IT and Telecomm
Integration Center
Biomedical Informatics
Research Network
(BIRN)
New BIRN Proposal
Led by UCI and UCSD
Focus on Schizophrenia
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
NIH Plans to Expand
to Other Organs
and Many Laboratories
Cal-(IT)2 Industrial Partners
Leverage Federal Funds
• World’s Most Powerful
Dedicated Oceanographic
Computer
– 512 Intel Processors
– Dedicated December 2001
– Nine Months Start to Finish
– Simulates Global Climate Change
• IBM Cal-(IT)2 Industrial Partner
• NSF and NRO Federal Funds
• Scripps Institution of
Oceanography