USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Global Digital Media Grid Presented by Ken Dozier USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC WIRED Project Department of Labor Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development initiative "Innovation, education and entrepreneurship: those are the keys that will open the door to challenging and rewarding jobs." Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, February 2, 2006 Interface with industry/economic development academia to support/develop education/training resources Create sustainable innovation economic development model Identify candidate companies for projects WESRAC is a funded-partner of WIRED USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Where it all started. Hughes Aircraft F-18 Flight Simulator Two 40 Foot Domes Air-to-Air Combat 60 Frames per second Discovered IMI Design USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC The Hollywood Connection The Last Starfighter, 1984 Cray XMP Supercomputer Images Courtesy of Universal Pictures Digital Productions, Inc. USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Digital Productions, Inc. Won an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award in 1984 For the practical simulation of motion picture photography by means of computer generated images For the Companys work on The Last Starfighter National Science Foundations Supercomputing Center for Western U.S. USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Interactive Machines, Inc. (IMI) Lockheed Skunkworks Stealth Fighter Simulator (F-117) Built Instructors Console and Graphics Engines Raised Venture Capital and listed in Fortune Magazines Companies to Watch Entertainment Clients included: Universal Studios, Disney Studios, Cranston/Csuri, Pacific Data Images, Digital Productions, Bo Gehring, Mr. Film, Japan Computer Graphics Lab, and ComputerFX London. USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Info-Tech Nano-Tech Bio-Tech Technologies Change Fast Copyright SRI International 2002 USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC People Dont TruthKnowledgeBelief Universal No Debate Effect Social Converge on debate Cause Personal Diverge on debate Cause 10 Philosophical Mistakes (Adler 85) USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Where are the Brains? (ERI/McGraw Hill,Americas Clusters,1995) USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Information Technology Two Primary Components Computation (This session) Connectivity (Next session) USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Computing the Future Practice of Science has undergone another revolution Kuhns paradigm shift, telescope, calculus, computer science Computing no longer merely help scientists instead it produces an orderly, formal framework and exploratory apparatus for all science. Economist Mar 2006 USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC High Performance Computing (HPC) Gigaflop One Billion Floating Point Operations per Second Teraflop One Trillion Floating Point Operations per Second Petaflop- One Thousand Trillion Floating Point Operations per Second USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Copyright SRI International 2002 Exponential Economy An increasing attribute of our knowledge age USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC High Performance Grid Computing USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology A joint federal-state venture to promote California as the national center for research, development, and commercialization of the nanotechnology industry. USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC California Council on Science and Technology 2004 USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Price per Megabyte 1988$ per Megabyte Today$ 0.01 per Megabyte IBM Millipede (2 years) $ per Megabyte Nantero/Zettacore (4 years) $ per Megabyte Hewlett Packard (6 years) $ per Megabyte Source: Jack Uldrich, The Next Big Thing is Really Small USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC HPC and Next Generation Biology Simulating 100 microseconds of protein folding could take 1025 machine instructions This computation would take three years on a PetaFLOP system or Keep a 3.2GHz microprocessor busy for the next million centuries. USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC PetaFLOPS computerscapable of performing a thousand trillion mathematical operations per second, 25 times faster than the largest supercomputers todaywill open new doors to understanding the functions of biological molecules. HPC and Next Generation Biology USC Viterbi School of Engineering WESRAC Contact Information For more information, please visit our website: