Developing a North American Global LambdaGrid

Developing a North American Global LambdaGrid

Dr. Larry SmarrDirector, California Institute for Telecommunications and

Information TechnologyHarry E. Gruber Professor,

Dept. of Computer Science and EngineeringJacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

OptIPuter All Hands MeetingJanuary 23, 2007

Creating a North American Superhighway for High Performance Collaboration

Connecting Mexico’s CUDI and Canada’s CANARIE Using California’s CENIC and the U.S. National Lambda Rail

Driving the “Golden Spike” to Connect California and Canada Via Dedicated Gigabit Network

Driven by the Canada*California Summit Process

San Diego

Ottawa

Calit2@UCSD

Canada

US

Achieved June 2006!

Communications Research Centre Canadais Joining the OptIPuter Project

• Establishing an OptIPuter Node at CRC will Enable the BADLABTM to Develop Collaborative Visualization Environments Using Lightpath Services across CAnet 4 to Calit2

• Architecture Application: Participatory Design Studio in Collaboration with Carleton University’s Immersive Multimedia Studio (CIMS)

•Primary federal government laboratory for R&D in advanced telecommunications

•Agency of Industry Canada (IC)

•200 research staff

•Primary federal government laboratory for R&D in advanced telecommunications

•Agency of Industry Canada (IC)

•200 research staff

Foundations for the Future

•Broadband Applications and Demonstration Laboratory (BADLAB)

•Optical Networking Laboratory (ONL)

•Broadband Applications and Demonstration Laboratory (BADLAB)

•Optical Networking Laboratory (ONL)

Key Broadband Facilities

Ottawa, Canada

Next: San Diego Interactive Imaging of High Resolution Brain Slices Generated at McGill University

Source: Mark Ellisman, UCSD, Calit2

There are 7407 Slices at 20 µmEach Image has 8513 x 12,472 pixels

Rogers Communications Centre

Ryerson University’s Rogers Communications CentreLinking to CA*net4 and CineGrid – Fall 2006

• In the Heart of Toronto - Canada’s Largest Media Centre– Creating Digital Cinema/Visualization Lab– School of Image Arts and School of Radio and Television Arts

– 1300 Undergraduate Students

Connection to Calit2 Achieved Dec 18, 2006!

Developing International Research Collaborations:Mexico

• UCSD Meeting on Joint CICESE/Calit2 Proposal Sept 2002• SDSU’s Eric Frost Talk at CUDI Meeting at CICESE April 2003• Arzberger PRAGMA talk-CUDI in Puebla, Mexico October 2003• Visit by CICESE and CONACYT to Calit2 Jan 2004• Visit by Calit2 and OptIPuter to CICESE March 2004• Visit by CICESE and CONACYT to Calit2 AHM April 2004• Many More Meetings 2004-2007

Jaime Parada, Felipe Rubio, & Carlos Duarte at the Calit2 All Hands Meeting

Collaboration Between CICESE and UCSD in Ocean Microbe Genomics

UCSD and CICESE Have 30-Year

History of Collaboration

CUDI-CENIC Fiber Dedication at Border Governor’s Conference, July 14, 2005

OsakaProf. Aoyama

Prof. Smarr

Torreon Conference---Fiber Dedication Linking Mexico and US, crossing at San Diego-Tijuana

• Shared Security

• Energy

• Trans-National Crime

• Education and Research

• Business Development

US Mexico

Arnold

Culmination of Three Years of Work Between Calit2,

CICESE, CENIC, and CUDI

http://www.cudi.edu.mx/

CICESE, CONACYT, CUDI, and Telmexat iGrid2005

September 26-29, 2005

Dedicated Optical Fiber Collaboratory:Remote Researchers Jointly Exploring Complex Data

Proposal:Connect OptIPortals

Between CICESE and Calit2@UCSD

with 10 Gbps Lambda

CICESE

UCSD

Deploy Throughout Mexico After CICESE Test

We are Very Close to Setting Upa Gigabit Lambda Between Calit2 and CICESE

Source: Raúl Hazas, CICESE