Cal-(IT)2 – The Impact on San Diego and the High Tech Coast

Invited Talk for the

University of The Third Age

University of San Diego

San Diego, CA

January 24, 2001By Larry Smarr, Director, Cal-(IT)2

The Emerging Concept of anInformation Power Grid

• Wireless Access--Anywhere, Anytime

• Broadband to the Home and Small Businesses

• Vast Increase in Internet End Points– Embedded Processors– Sensors and Actuators– Information Appliances

• Highly Parallel Light Waves Through Fiber

• Emergence of a Planetary Computer

“The all optical fibersphere in the center finds its complement in the wireless ethersphere on the edge of the network.”

--George Gilder

The Emerging Information Power GridA Mobile Internet Powered by a Planetary Computer

The Internet is Poised to MoveThroughout the Physical World

Radio(1940s)

Internet(1990s)

UC San Diego and UC Irvine California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

• 220 Faculty and Senior Researchers

• New Funding Model (4 Years)– State $100M– Industry $140M– Private $30 M– Campus $30M– Federal $100-200M– Total $400-500M

• One of Three Awarded

www.calit2.net

Our Faculty and Students will Work with Industrial Partners of All Sizes and Interests

Akamai Boeing

BroadcomAMCC CAIMISCompaq

Conexant Copper Mountain

EmulexEnterprise Partners VC

EntropiaEricsson

Global PhotonIBM

IdeaEdge VenturesIntersil

Irvine SensorsLeap Wireless

Litton IndustriesMedExpert

Merck Microsoft

Mission VenturesNCR

Newport CorporationOrincon

Panoram Technologies Printronix

QUALCOMMQuantum

R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical RISAIC

SciFrameSeagate Storage

Silicon Wave Sony

STMicroelectronicsSun Microsystems

TeraBurst Networks Texas InstrumentsUCSD Healthcare The Unwired Fund

WebEx

Over 40 CompaniesCommitting Over

$140 MillionIn Four Years!

ComputersCommunications

SoftwareSensors

BiomedicalStartups

Venture Firms

Creating Tiny and Inexpensive Wireless Internet Sensors Combining…

Fluids

Stresses and Strains

Optics and Lasers

UCI Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility

0.1 millimeter

100,000 nanometers

Nanotechnology Blurs the Distinction Between Biology and Physics

50 nanometers

Human Rhinovirus

IBM Quantum CorralIron Atoms on Copper

Microscopes Can Be Used For Creating Nanoscale Devices

Source: Lyding, Brady

2 nanometers

UIUC Beckman Institute

and NCSAEarly 1990s

Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Cal-(IT)2 Will Bring the Southern High Tech Coast into Cyberspace

• Pollution

• Water Cycle

• Earthquakes

• Traffic

HuntingtonBeach

Mission Bay

San Diego Bay

UCSD

UCI

High Tech Coast

The High PerformanceWireless Research and Education Network

• Cal-(IT)2 Will Build on This Pioneering Experiment

• Add New Science Sensor Arrays

• Instrument Civil Infrastructure

• Try Out New Wireless Technologies

• Data Analysis

• Outreach and Education

NSF FundedPI, Hans-Werner Braun, SDSC

Co-PI, Frank Vernon, SIO45mbps Duplex Backbone

Wireless Antennas Anchor Network High Speed Backbone

http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Presentations/HPWREN

Source: Hans-Werner Braun, SDSC

The Wireless Internet Adds Bio-Chemical-Physical Sensors to the Grid

• From Experiments to Wireless Infrastructure

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• San Diego Supercomputer Center

• Cal-(IT)2

• Building on the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network

Source: John Orcutt, SIO

The Wireless Internet Will Improve the Safety of California’s 25,000 Bridges

New Bay Bridge Tower with Lateral Shear Links

Cal-(IT)2 WillDevelop and Install

Wireless Sensor ArraysLinked to

Crisis Management Control Rooms

Source: UCSD Structural Engineering Dept.

Pervasive Computing Means Overlaying the Physical and Cyber Realities

Source: Virginia Tech/Univ. Illinois, MIT, Univ Washington, UCSD

From Telephone Conference Calls to Access Grid International Video Meetings

Access Grid Lead-ArgonneNSF STARTAP Lead-UIC’s Elec. Vis. Lab

Linking Researchers from UCSD, UCI and Partners

Cal-(IT)2 Will Pioneer Links Between Art, Technology, & Science

“UCSD ”

Gradually Our Bodies Will Move “On-Line”

www.givenimaging.com

Example:Israeli Video Pill

Wireless Colonoscopy

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Broadband Will Connect 30 Million Homes and Small Businesses in Three Years

• PCs Always On• High Bandwidth Access• Corporate Drivers

– Ford Motor Co. is Buying Home PCs for All its Employees

– IBM Is Using SBC to Supply 12,000 Employees with Home DSL Internet Connections

• Stage is Set for Explosion of Internet Computing– Tie PCs Together as Virtual

Megacomputer

Source: Kinetic Strategies Inc., Gilder Technology Report

Pioneer Consulting

SETI@home Demonstrated that PC Internet Computing Could Grow to Megacomputers

• Running on 500,000 PCs, ~1000 CPU Years per Day– Over Half a Million CPU Years so far!

– 22 Teraflops sustained 24x7

• Sophisticated Data & Signal Processing Analysis• Distributes Datasets from Arecibo Radio Telescope

Next Step-Allen Telescope Array

AreciboRadio Telescope

The Rush to Create Distributed Computing Applications

Time MagazineOctober 16, 2000

Evolving Drugs to Match Evolving AIDS Virus Varying Both Target Molecules and Target Proteins

AutoDock Application Software Has Been Downloaded to Over 10,000 PCs

In SilicoDrug Design

Art Olson, TSRI

Why Will a Million Processor Computer Be Different?

• Individual Processors Running at Gigaflops– One Million Means a Collective Petaflops– One Petaflops is Roughly a Human Brain-Second

– Morovec-Intelligent Robots and Mind Transferral– Koza-Genetic Programming – Kurzweil-The Age of Spiritual Machines– Joy-Humans an Endangered Species?

• Will the Grid Become Self-– Organizing– Powered– Aware?

Things Are About to Get Very Interesting…