Calit2: Experiments in Living in the Virtual/Physical World

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 Irvinewww.calit2.net

Preparing for a World in Which Distance is Eliminated…

$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 FacilityCALIT2.UCSD

10,000 sq. feet State-of-the-Art Materials and Devices Laboratory

Calit2 Materials and Devices Laboratory:“Nano3”–NanoScience, NanoEngineering, NanoMedicine

Source: Bernd Fruhberger, Calit2

Similar Clean Rooms at UCI

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

UCSD Photonics

Shayan MookherjeaOptical devices and optical communication networks, including photonics, lightwave systems and nano-scale optics.

Stojan RadicOptical communication networks; all-optical processing; parametric processes in high-confinement fiber and semiconductor devices.

Shaya FainmanNanoscale science and technology; ultrafast photonics and signal processing

Joseph FordOptoelectronic subsystems integration (MEMS, diffractive optics, VLSI); Fiber optic and free-space communications.

George PapenAdvanced photonic systems including optical communication systems, optical networking, and environmental and atmospheric remote sensing.

ECE Testbed Faculty

StarCAVE AnalysisAnd Calibration

Meyer Sound - Calit2 Partnership:StarCAVE Audio Hardware, Acoustical Analysis,

State-of-the-Art Sound for Cinema and Scientific Visualization Systems

Source: Peter Otto, Calit2, CRCA, UCSD Dept of Music

Calit2 Has Tried to Make Virtual/Physical Routine

Virtual Kristen

Kristen Prints Here

For Amy

Real Amy

We Run Video Sykpe Continuously During Office Hours

Kristen Reads My Email,

Sets My Calendar.Works With Amy

on My Trips

Using High Definition to Link the Calit2 Buildings:Living Greener

June 2, 2008

LifeSize System

Linking the Calit2 Auditoriums at UCSD and UCI with LifeSize HD for Shared Seminars

September 8, 2009

Photo by Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego

Sept. 8, 2009

Calit2 10th Anniversary Class PhotoUCSD/UCI Partnership

December 7, 2010

Academic Research “OptIPlatform” Cyberinfrastructure:An End-to-End 10Gbps Lightpath Cloud

National LambdaRail

CampusOpticalSwitch

Data Repositories & Clusters

HPC

HD/4k Video Images

HD/4k Video Cams

End User OptIPortal

10G Lightpaths

HD/4k TelepresenceInstruments

CineGrid 4K Digital Cinema Projects: “Learning by Doing”

CineGrid @ iGrid 2005 CineGrid @ AES 2006

CineGrid @ GLIF 2007

Laurin Herr, Pacific Interface; Tom DeFanti, Calit2

CineGrid @ Holland Festival 2007

The Calit2 OptIPuter LAN—Growing to Over60+ Dedicated 10G Fibers

Calit2 SunlightOptical Exchange Contains Quartzite

Maxine Brown,

EVL, UICOptIPuter

Project Manager

Calit2 Microbial Metagenomics Cluster-Next Generation Optically Linked Science Data Server

512 Processors ~5 Teraflops

~ 200 Terabytes Storage 1GbE and

10GbESwitched/ Routed

Core

~200TB Sun

X4500 Storage

10GbE

Source: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC, Calit2

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

OptIPuter Persistent Infrastructure EnablesCalit2 and U Washington CAMERA Collaboratory

Ginger Armbrust’s Diatoms:

Micrographs, Chromosomes,

Genetic Assembly

Photo Credit: Alan Decker Feb. 29, 2008

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

Covise, Phil Weber, Jurgen Schulze, Calit2CGLX, Kai-Uwe Doerr , Calit2

http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1421

January 15, 2008No Calit2 Person Physically Flew to Australia to Bring This Up!

January 15, 2008

New Year’s Challenge: Streaming Underwater Video From Taiwan’s Kenting Reef to Calit2’s OptIPortal

UCSD: Rajvikram Singh, Sameer Tilak, Jurgen Schulze, Tony Fountain, Peter ArzbergerNCHC : Ebbe Strandell, Sun-In Lin, Yao-Tsung Wang, Fang-Pang Lin

Local ImagesRemote Videos

March 26, 2008

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

Source: David Abramson, Monash Univ

Qvidium Compressed HD ~140 mbps

Remote Control of Scientific Instruments:Live Session with JPL and Mars Rover from Calit2

Source: Falko Kuester, Calit2; Michael Sims, NASA

September 17, 2008

eMedia Studio: Interactive TelepresenceDance/Media Performances

http://embodied.uci.edu

Calit2@UCI

First Tri-Continental Premier of a Streamed 4K Feature Film With Global HD Discussion

San Paulo, Brazil Auditorium

Keio Univ., Japan Calit2@UCSD

4K Transmission Over 10Gbps--4 HD Projections from One 4K Projector

4K Film Director, Beto Souza

Source: Sheldon Brown, CRCA, Calit2

July 30, 2009

Becoming Dragon-A Mixed Reality, Durational PerformanceCombining Virtual Reality, Motion Capture, Second Life

Source: Micha Cárdenas, CRCA, Calit2

365 hours, from December 1-17th, 2008

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