UCSD Site Report to the IAB Sheldon Brown Site Director May 29, 2012 NIST, MD.

UCSD Site Report to the IABSheldon Brown

Site Director

May 29, 2012NIST, MD

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Next Generation Digital Media

Existing Projects• Growth Tracker - Heap Growth Detection in C++• Visual Analytics of User Behavior• Combining Incremental and Parallel Methods for

Large-scale Physics Simulation• Client Server Systems for Next Gen Media – Future

Cinema• The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination

– New Facility with Structural and Materials Engineering

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Extending the CHMPR• FRP leads to FIRMEE, multiple proposals• Clarke Center – Imaginarium, proposed work• Virbela – Virtual World Business Education Lab,

collaboration with Rady School of Management at UCSD, GMAC grant.

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StaffingSheldon Brown, Site Director

Erik Hill, Lead Software Engineer

Daniel Tracy, Software Engineer

Vikki DeVries, Administrator

Pardis Miri, Grad Student

Joey Ly, Undergrad

Gina Chen, Undergrad

Affiliated Faculty, David Kirsh, Cog Sci, Erik Viire, Neurosciences, Todd Coleman, Bio-engineering, Brian Keating, Physics, Lev Manovich, Visual Arts

Potential Partner Universities: University of Liverpool, Oxford, ASU, UW.

Calit2• 215,000 gross square feet • Clean room including:• Circuits laboratory • Optical networking laboratory • Rooftop "antenna garden"• New Media Arts research labs:• 200-seat auditorium • Gallery, Black Box,• High Def production, motion capture,• Gamelab, spatialized audio, virtual • reality, 3D fabrication

UCSD FacilitiesUCSD Facilities• IBM z10 mainframe with the San Diego Supercomputer Center• 4 Blade QS20 Cell Cluster, QS22 Blade• 4 Dual Xeon Blades• 4 CPU Xeon Server• SDSC Storage Array• nVidia Fermi• Experimental Game Lab - quad core PC's - Nvidia 580 and Quadro 5400• 16 sided StarCAVE (immersive VR stereo surround environment)• 300 Megapixel tiled display wall• 55 screen tiled 3D Varrier screen display.• 4K cinema technology - Sony SXRD Projector, JVC 4K projection, Zaxel• 4K servers, JPEG2000 encoder/decoder, 10gb network streams, Prototype 4K

and stereo display panel prototypes• Spatialized Audio Research Lab - 26 Channel 3D sound lab• Motion Capture/Computer Vision Research Lab - 24 channel VICON motion

capture system, 3D laser scanning, structured light, multi-channel video.• VR Development Lab - variety of interfaces and display types• Optiputer network environment - Global Lambda Infrastructure• 3D Fabrication Lab - rapid prototyping and CNC machining tools

Products and Activities 2011/2012:

Virtual World Exhibitions• Maison d'Allieurs, Yverdon-les-Bains, SwitzerlandUpcoming: Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow

Next Generation Cinema PresentationsURBAN RESEARCH AT DIRECTORS LOUNGE, BerlinVideo Art in a global Context , Ukraine

Conferences Panels Lectures• Shanghai University Honorary Professorship lecture• Launch events for Clarke Center –

• SME building opening• Lecture Series

• Drones at Home Symposium -calit2– Co-organizer• Goddard Space Center: Wondering and Becoming: Imaging and Imagination as Guides to Discovery• IntelSat - Clarke Awards Ceremony• Designing Geo-politics symposium, co-sponsor

PapersTracy, D. Hill, E., Brown, S. Diagnosing Unbounded Heap Growth in C++ Software. 2012,  IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation. Luxembourg.Book ChaptersBrown, Sheldon “Being Dazzled: Living in Machinima,” in Understanding Machinima, forthcoming 2012, Continuum Press

Website: http://chmpr.ucsd.edu

Display output is highly malleable, as demonstrated by ongoing exhibitions of underlying system for the Scalable City. From multi user desktops, to multiscreen immersive displays

Display output is highly malleable, as demonstrated by ongoing exhibitions of underlying system for the Scalable City. From multi user desktops, to multiscreen immersive displays

Zacheta Gallery – WarsawE3 – Los AngelesArs Electronica –Austria India International Center – New DelhiMuseum of Contemporary Art - ShanghaiNational Academy of Science, Wash. DCSiggraph 2007 Exploratorium – San Francisco Supercomputing 2007FILE, Sao Paulo, BrazilLos Angeles Barnsdall Art Gallery Gallery@calit2Beall Center for Art and TechnologyRio de Janeiro, BrazilKeio University3D Media Film Festival, BelgiumSPIE Festival San Jose, CACES, Las VegasSupercomputing 2009LA Freewaves, LA CAReal Fake Exhibit, CSU Sacramento

New This Year:Maison d’allieurs, SwitzerlandDutch Film FestivalMoscow Museum of Multimedia, Russia

SponsorsExisting Sponsors:• IBM provide dues and in-kind• Intel stopped this year – re-evaluating their strategy as

members of industry consortium projects.

Discussions with new members: • Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination is cultivating

founding corporate sponsors – discussion with several in which CHMPR membership would be a component.

• Sony –continues to provide $50K of in-kind support per year, reluctant to sign member agreement.

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