High Performance Collaboration Grid Systems Symposium on Knowledge Environments for Science and Engineering: Past, Present, and Future National Science.

High Performance Collaboration Grid Systems

Symposium on Knowledge Environments for Science and Engineering: Past, Present, and Future

National Science FoundationNovember 25-26, 2002

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

High Performance Collaboration GridSIGGRAPH 89--Science by Satellite

“Using satellite technology…demo ofWhat It might be like to have high-speed fiber-optic links between advanced computers in two different geographic locations.”― Al Gore, Senator

Chair, US Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space

“What we really have to do is eliminate distance between individuals who want to interact with other people and with other computers.”― Larry Smarr, Director

National Center for Supercomputing Applications, UIUC

ATT & Sun

Source: Maxine Brown

http://sunsite.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sunflash/1989/Aug/08.21.89.tele.video

Supercomputing 95I-WAY: Information Wide Area Year

UIC

The Barriers: Time And DistanceThe Barrier-Shattering Prototype: I-WAY

I-Way Featured:• Networked Visualization Application Demonstrations• OC-3 (155Mbps) Backbone• Large-Scale Immersive Displays• I-Soft Programming Environment

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Training/SC95/GII.HPCC.html

CitySpace

Cellular Semiotics

Alliance 1997: Collaborative Video Productionvia Tele-Immersion and Virtual Director

Donna Cox, Bob Patterson, Stuart Levy, Glen Whelesswww.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/cox/

Alliance Project Linking CAVE, Immersadesk, Power Wall, and Workstation

UIC

Corporations Use the Collaborative Grid For Virtual Prototyping

Real Time Linked Virtual Reality and Audio-Video Between NCSA, Peoria, Houston, and Germany

Fall 1997

Caterpillar, NCSAUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

From Telephone Conference Calls to Access Grid International Video Meetings

Based on IP MulticastAccess Grid Lead-Argonne

NSF STARTAP Lead-UIC’s Elec. Vis. Lab

Creating Shared Interactive Collaborative Spaces

Boston University Alliance Chautauqua Sept. 1999

• Fifteen Countries/Locations Proposing 28 Demonstrations: Canada, CERN, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States

• Applications Demonstrated: Art, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Cosmology, Cultural Heritage, Education, High-Definition Media Streaming, Manufacturing, Medicine, Neuroscience, Physics, Tele-science

• Grid Technologies: Grid Middleware, Data Management/ Replication Grids, Visualization Grids, Computational Grids, Access Grids, Grid Portal

iGrid 2002 September 24-26, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

www.startap.net/igrid2002UIC

Sponsors: HP, IBM, Cisco, Philips, Level (3), Glimmerglass, etc.

Networked Performance Arts are a Collaboration Driver

UC San Diego

Internet Linked Pianos

UC Irvine

Lemma 2

States are Installing Dark Fiber NetworksWhich Will Support NSF Program in Experimental Networks

Figure 2: SoCal Optical Research and Experimental Network

CENIC CalREN-XD The SoCal Component

OptIPuter NSF ITR Award –Removing Bandwidth as a Collaborative Barrier

Vancouver

Seattle

Portland

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Diego(SDSC)

NCSA

SURFnet CERNCA*net4

AsiaPacific

AsiaPacific

AMPATH

PSC

Atlanta

CA*net4

Source: Tom DeFanti and Maxine Brown, UIC

NYC

TeraGrid DTFnet

CENIC

Pacific LightRail

Chicago

UICNU

USC

UCSD, SDSUUCI

The OptIPuter is an Experimental Network Research Project

• Driven by Large Neuroscience and Earth Science Data

• Multiple Lambdas Linking Clusters and Storage– Optimizing LambdaGrid Software Stack– Integration with PC Clusters– Interactive Collaborative Volume Visualization– Lambda Peer to Peer Storage With Optimized Storewidth– Enhance Security Mechanisms– Rethink TCP/IP Protocols

• NSF Large Information Technology Research Proposal

Metro Optically Linked Collaboration Wallswith Industrial Partners Set Stage for OptIPuter

• Driven by SensorNets Data– Real Time Seismic– Environmental Monitoring – Distributed Collaboration– Emergency Response

• Linked UCSD and SDSU– Dedication March 4, 2002

Linking Control Rooms

Cox, Panoram,SAIC, SGI, IBM,

TeraBurst NetworksSD Telecom Council

UCSD SDSU44 Miles of Cox Fiber

½ Mile

The UCSD OptIPuter Deployment

SIO

SDSC

CRCA

Phys. Sci -Keck

SOM

JSOE Preuss

6th College

Phase I, Fall 02

Phase II, 2003

SDSCAnnex

Collocation point

Node M

Creating a Campus Optical Network Collaboration Infrastructure

Earth Sciences

SDSC

Arts

Chemistry

Medicine

Engineering

High School

UndergradCollege

Phase I, Fall 02

Phase II, 2003

SDSCAnnex

To CENIC

Collocation point

Collocation

Chiaro Router

Production Router

OptIPuter UCSD LambdaGrid Testbed

Fast polygon and volume rendering with stereographics

GeoWall

Earth Science

GeoFusion GeoMatrix Toolkit

Underground Earth Science

Rob Mellors and Eric Frost, SDSUSDSC Volume Explorer

Dave Nadeau, SDSC, BIRNSDSC Volume Explorer

NeuroscienceAnatomy

Visible Human ProjectNLM, Brooks AFB,

SDSC Volume Explorer

3D APPLICATIONS:

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OptIPuter Collaborative Discovery Science Education Program

The Preuss School UCSD OptIPuter Facility

Source: Michael Bailey, SDSC, Cal-(IT)2

The Continuum at EVL and TRECCOptIPuter Amplified Work Environment

Passive stereo display AccessGrid Digital white board

Tiled display

Source: Tom DeFanti, Electronic Visualization Lab, UIC