IBM Pervasive Computing Visit
June 9, 1997
David E. Culler
Computer Science Division
U.C. Berkeley
Looking Forward ...
• What kinds of problems should Computer
Science research be focusing on?
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Future Internet-Scale Systems
• 10 Billion of
Information
Appliances
• 100 Million of
Stationary
Computers
• Million
Scalable
Servers
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Millennium Testbed (started 9/97)
Business
SIMS
BMRC
Chemistry
C.S.
E.E.
Biology
Gigabit Ethernet
Astro
NERSC
M.E.
Physics
N.E.
IEOR
C. E.
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Transport
MSME
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Economy
Math
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Millennium Basic Components
• Hierarchical Cluster of Clusters
– 6 M$ Intel Equipment (~1,000 PCs)
» participant desktops => dept SMPs => group clusters =>
campus cluster
– TBs of IBM storage
– Gigabit Ethernet (Bay Nets. 70% dis.) between CAN within
– NT and Solaris/x86
• Staff through Campus and NSF
• Network and High-end Visualization through NSF
• Common Technical SW env. For computational
Science and Engineering
• NOW cluster system SW => distributed
computational economy
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Expanding the Vision
• Small devices will be pervasive.
• They can be powerful when they draw
upon the infrastructure.
• How do they change they way we think
and work and learn?
– cuts through many research areas
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Partnership => Testbed for I.S. Research
Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless
Infrastructure
Future Devices
PDAs
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Cell Phones
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Plan for Today
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1:00 - 1:15
1:15 - 1:45
1:45 - 1:50
1:50 - 2:15
Greetings
Mission for IBM Pervasive Comp.
UCB Intro
Big Infrastructure Small Clients
– Demos: Wingman and MediaPad
• 2:15 - 2:35
Informal Collaborative Note Taking
– Demo: notepals
• 2:35 - 2:50
• 2:50 - 3:15
• 3:30 - ???
Experimental Plan
Strategic Issue Discussion
Tactical Planning
– IBM tech. Road map, Wireless options, … => TODO list
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