Superhuman Cyberinfrastructure—Crossing the Rubicon
Three Accelerators for
an Exponentially Data Rich World
From Elite Science
to the Mass Market
Fifteen Years from
Bleeding Edge Research
to Mass Consumer Market
Frontier Applications of High Performance Computing Enabled by NSF’s TeraGrid
Los Alamos
Roadrunner-
World’s First PetaFLOP Supercomputer
Department of Energy
Office of Science
Leading Edge Applications of Petascale Computers
Fastest Computer on Earth
will Reach
~ Human Brain Speed 100 PetaFLOPS by 2016
Exploring the Limits of
Scalability
The Metacomputer as a Megacomputer
The Planetary Computing
Power is
Passing Through an Important Threshold
From Software as
Engineering
to Software as Biology
Accelerator: Robots Tap the Power
of the Planetary Computer
“Broadband” Depends on
Your Application:
Data-Intensive Science Needs Supernetworks
What is the Rate at Which
the Eye-Brain System
Can Ingest Information?
The Shared Internet Has a 10,000 Mbps Backbone
Global Innovation Centers
are Being Connected
with 10,000 Megabits/sec Clear Channel Lightpaths
Dedicated 10,000Mbps
Supernetworks
Tie Together State and Regional Fiber Infrastructure
Creating a California
Cyberinfrastructure of
OptIPuter “On-Ramps” to NLR, I2DC, & TeraGrid
Accelerator: Global
Connections
Between University Research Centers at 10Gbps
NSF Instruments Generate Data at Enormous Rates--Requiring Photonic Interconnects
Next Great Planetary
Instrument:
The Square Kilometer Array Requires Dedicated Fiber
Challenge—How to Bring Scalable Visualization Capability to the Data-Intensive End User?
NSF’s OptIPuter Project:
Using Supernetworks
to Meet the Needs of Data-Intensive Researchers
Accelerator: Visualize
Vast Data Sets
Using Scalable Commodity Systems
Scalable Displays Allow
Both
Global Content and Fine Detail
Allows for Interactive
Zooming
from Cerebellum to Individual Neurons
UM Professor Graeme
Jackson Planning
Brain Surgery for Severe Epilepsy
Prototyping the PC of
2015:
Two Hundred Million Pixels Connected at 10Gbps
Visualizing Human Brain
Pathways Along
White Matter Bundles that Connect Distant Neurons
Ultra Resolution Virtual
Reality:
3D Global Collaboratory
OptIPortals: Scaling up the Personal Computer
For Supernetwork Connected Data-Intensive Users
Optical Fiber
Telepresence
Will Accelerate Rate of Global Discovery
Victoria Premier and Australian Deputy Prime Minister Asking Questions
University of Melbourne
Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis
in Calit2 Replies to Question from Australia
OptIPlanet Collaboratory
Persistent Infrastructure
Between Calit2 and U Washington
Remote Control of
Scientific Instruments:
Live Session with JPL and Mars Rover from Calit2
Just in Time OptIPlanet
Collaboratory:
Live Session Between NASA Ames and Calit2@UCSD
EVL’s SAGE OptIPortal
VisualCasting
Multi-Site OptIPuter Collaboratory
Academic Research
“OptIPlatform” Cyberinfrastructure:
A 10Gbps Lightpath Cloud
We Stand at the Beginning
of
the Globalization 3.0 Era
The Technology Innovations of Ten Years Ago-the Shared Internet & the Web-Have Been Adopted Globally