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 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

The UCSD Cal-(IT) 2 Building Will Be Occupied in January 2005 Digital Cinema Auditorium Virtual Reality Cube Nanotech Clean Rooms RF and Optical Circuit Labs 200 Single Offices Hundreds of Collaborative Seats Watch us Grow! [

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 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 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? How Is The Earth Changing And What Are The Consequences Of Life On Earth? 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 Flight Operations, Data Capture, Initial Processing, Backup Archive Data Transport to DAACs Science Data Processing, Info Mgmt, Data Archive, & Distribution Distribution, Access, Interoperability, Reuse EOS Spacecraft NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) Mission Services NASA Internet Value-Added Providers Interagency Data Centers Int’l Partners & Data Centers Data Acquisition White Sands Complex (WSC) Tracking & Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) Research Users Education Users Distributed Active Archive Centers Instrument Teams Data Processing & Mission Control EOS Polar Ground Stations

Geospatial...To Enable Timely and Affordable Delivery of Earth Science Data and Information to Users Computing Earth System Science in the Future Will Leverage Three Ongoing Technology Revolutions: Earth System Science Technology Emphasis Areas Communications

SDSU Santa Margarita Field Station is a SensorNet Living Laboratory Sensor Networks = Real-Time Science and Education Sedra Shapiro, Field Stations Director Larry Smarr, Cal-(IT) 2 Director Pablo Bryant, FS Technical Lead Claudia Luke, SMER Manager Eric Frost, SDSU Prof. Dan Cayan, SIO Water Sensors Cal-(IT) 2 is Hosting An Environmental Hydrology Workshop Spring 2004

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 siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/gallery/shoot1/index.shtml

Using Dedicated Dark Fiber to Link Earth and Ocean Science Researchers 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 Linking Goddard, ARC, & JPL with SIO Using NLR Under Discussion

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