High Performance Collaboration
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The document outlines the goals and initiatives of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, emphasizing high-performance collaboration supported by advanced technologies such as Cisco Telepresence and the Optiputer project. It details the collaboration between various universities and industry partners to enhance interdisciplinary research in fields like metagenomics and marine ecology. Additionally, it highlights the environmental impact of reducing travel through virtual collaboration tools and the extensive infrastructure developed for data-intensive scientific research.
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High Performance Collaboration
- 1. High Performance Collaboration Invited Talk National Astrobiology Institute Executive Council Meeting Astrobiology Science Conference 2008 Santa Clara Convention Center April 14, 2008 Dr. Larry Smarr Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
- 2. The NASA Astrobiology Institute is a Virtual Research Institute NAI Goals: Conducting, Supporting, and Catalyzing Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Exploring New Approaches , Using Modern Information Technology, to Conduct Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Research Among Widely Distributed Investigators NRC Recommendations: Develop Strategic Alliances with Silicon Valley Companies Partner with University Collaboration Systems Beyond Commercial Take Advantage of Social Science Research Have Reluctant Adopters Suggest Improvements Explore Social Networks Source: NRC Assessment of the NASA Astrobiology Institute
- 3. Cisco Telepresence Provides Leading Edge Commercial VTC 191 Cisco TelePresence in Major Cities Globally US/Canada : 83 CTS 3000, 46 CTS 1000 APAC: 17 CTS 3000, 4 CTS 1000 Japan : 4 CTS 3000, 2 CTS 1000 Europe: 22 CTS 3000, 10 CTS 1000 Emerging: 3 CTS 3000 Overall Average Utilization is 45% 85,854 TelePresence Meetings Scheduled to Date Weekly Average is 2,263 Meetings 108,736 Hours Average is 1.25 Hours 13,450 Meetings Avoided Travel Average to Date (Based on 8 Participants) ~$107.60 M To Date Cubic Meters of Emissions Saved 16,039,052 (6,775 Cars off the Road ) Source: Cisco 3/22/08 Cisco Bought WebEx Uses QoS Over Shared Internet ~ 15 mbps
- 4. Dedicated Optical Channels Makes High Performance Cyberinfrastructure Possible ( WDM) Source: Steve Wallach, Chiaro Networks Single 10G Lightpath to Individual Users Enables Data-Intensive Science with High Performance Collaboration 10 Gbps per User ~ 500x Shared Internet Throughput “ Lambdas”
- 5. National Lambda Rail (NLR) Provides Cyberinfrastructure Backbone for U.S. Researchers NLR 4 x 10Gb Lambdas Initially Capable of 40 x 10Gb wavelengths at Buildout Links Two Dozen State and Regional Optical Networks NASA Ames Calit2
- 6. Calit2--A Systems Approach to the Future of the Internet and its Transformation of Our Society www.calit2.net Calit2 Has Assembled a Complex Social Network of Over 350 UC San Diego & UC Irvine Faculty From Two Dozen Departments Working in Multidisciplinary Teams With Staff, Students, Industry, and the Community Integrating Technology Consumers and Producers Into “Living Laboratories”
- 7. Two New Calit2 Buildings Provide New Laboratories for “Living in the Future” “ Convergence” Laboratory Facilities Nanotech, BioMEMS, Chips, Radio, Photonics Virtual Reality, Digital Cinema, HDTV, Gaming Over 1000 Researchers in Two Buildings Linked via Dedicated Optical Networks UC Irvine www.calit2.net Preparing for a World in Which Distance is Eliminated…
- 8. The OptIPuter Project: Creating High Resolution Portals Over Dedicated Optical Channels to Global Science Data Picture Source: Mark Ellisman, David Lee, Jason Leigh Calit2 (UCSD, UCI) and UIC Lead Campuses—Larry Smarr PI Univ. Partners: SDSC, USC, SDSU, NW, TA&M, UvA, SARA, KISTI, AIST Industry: IBM, Sun, Telcordia, Chiaro, Calient, Glimmerglass, Lucent $13.5M Over Five Years Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE)
- 9. My OptIPortal TM – Affordable Termination Device for the OptIPuter Global Backplane 20 Dual CPU Nodes, 20 24” Monitors, ~$50,000 1/4 Teraflop, 5 Terabyte Storage, 45 Mega Pixels--Nice PC! Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment ( SAGE) Jason Leigh, EVL-UIC Source: Phil Papadopoulos SDSC, Calit2
- 10. Use of Tiled Display Wall OptIPortal to Interactively View Microbial Genome Acidobacteria bacterium Ellin345 Soil Bacterium 5.6 Mb; ~5000 Genes Source: Raj Singh, UCSD
- 11. Use of Tiled Display Wall OptIPortal to Interactively View Microbial Genome Source: Raj Singh, UCSD
- 12. Use of Tiled Display Wall OptIPortal to Interactively View Microbial Genome Source: Raj Singh, UCSD
- 13. OptIPuter Enables Telepresence Combined with Remote Interactive Analysis Live Demonstration of 21st Century National-Scale Team Science August 12, 2005 SIO/UCSD NASA Goddard OptIPuter Visualized Data HDTV Over Lambda
- 14. The Calit2 200 Megapixel OptIPortals at UCSD and UCI Are Now a Gbit/s HD Collaboratory Calit2@ UCSD wall NASA Ames is Completing a 245 Mpixel Hyperwall as Project Columbia Interface NASA Ames Visit Feb. 29, 2008 Calit2@ UCI wall
- 15. U Michigan Virtual Space Interaction Testbed (VISIT) Instrumenting OptIPortals for Social Science Research Using Cameras Embedded in the Seams of Tiled Displays and Computer Vision Techniques, we can Understand how People Interact with OptIPortals Classify Attention, Expression, Gaze Initial Implementation Based on Attention Interaction Design Toolkit (J. Lee, MIT) Close to Producing Usable Eye/Nose Tracking Data using OpenCV Source: Erik Hofer, UMich, School of Information Leading U.S. Researchers on the Social Aspects of Collaboration
- 16. The New Science of Metagenomics: Application Driver for OptIPuter Collaboration “ The emerging field of metagenomics, where the DNA of entire communities of microbes is studied simultaneously, presents the greatest opportunity -- perhaps since the invention of the microscope – to revolutionize understanding of the microbial world.” – National Research Council March 27, 2007 NRC Report: Metagenomic data should be made publicly available in international archives as rapidly as possible.
- 17. PI Larry Smarr Paul Gilna Ex. Dir. Announced January 17, 2006— $24.5M Over Seven Years
- 18. Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis http://camera.calit2.net/
- 19. Marine Genome Sequencing Project – Measuring the Genetic Diversity of Ocean Microbes Sorcerer II Data Will Double Number of Proteins in GenBank! Plus 155 Marine Microbial Genomes Specify Ocean Data Each Sample ~2000 Microbial Species
- 20. CAMERA Fragment Recruitment Viewer Compares Candidate Genome Against GOS Sites
- 21. CAMERA Fragment Recruitment Viewer Visualizes Overlap of GOS with Reference Microbial Genome Prochlorococcus marinus str. MIT 9312 , Complete Genome Smallest Known Phototroph--~50% Ocean’s Primary Production 112,688 Hits Shewanella baltica OS155 , complete genome Oxides Organic Material—Found in Baltic 48,725 Hits Thermotoga maritima MSB8 , complete genome Thrives at 80 o C—1/4 of Genome is Archaeal 1,472 Hits Ribosomal RNA Gene
- 22. Moore Foundation Funded the Venter Institute to Provide the Full Genome Sequence of 155+ Marine Microbes Phylogenetic Trees Created by Uli Stingl, Oregon State Blue Means Contains One of the Moore 155 Genomes www.moore.org/microgenome/trees.aspx Prochlorococcus Shewanella Thermotoga
- 23. CAMERA’s Global Microbial Metagenomics CyberCommunity—Can We Employ Social Network Software? Over 1850 Registered Users From Over 50 Countries
- 24. Calit2 Microbial Metagenomics Cluster- Next Generation Optically Linked Science Data Server 512 Processors ~5 Teraflops ~ 200 Terabytes Storage 1GbE and 10GbE Switched/ Routed Core ~200TB Sun X4500 Storage 10GbE Source: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC, Calit2
- 25. OptIPlanet Collaboratory Persistent Infrastructure Supporting Microbial Research Ginger Armbrust’s Diatoms: Micrographs, Chromosomes, Genetic Assembly Photo Credit: Alan Decker UW’s Research Channel Michael Wellings Feb. 29, 2008 iHDTV: 1500 Mbits/sec Calit2 to UW Research Channel Over NLR
- 26. An Emerging High Performance Collaboratory for Microbial Metagenomics CICESE UW JCVI MIT SIO UCSD SDSU UIC EVL UCI OptIPortals OptIPortal UC Davis UMich
- 27. OptIPortals Are Being Adopted Globally UZurich SARA- Netherlands Brno-Czech Republic [email_address] [email_address] [email_address] KISTI-Korea [email_address] AIST-Japan CNIC-China NCHC-Taiwan Osaka U-Japan
- 28. Source: Maxine Brown, OptIPuter Project Manager Green Initiative: Can Optical Fiber Replace Airline Travel for Continuing Collaborations?
- 30. Launch of the 100 Megapixel OzIPortal Over Qvidium Compressed HD on 1 Gbps CENIC/PW/AARNet Fiber www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1219 January 15, 2008
- 31. UM Professor Graeme Jackson Planning Brain Surgery for Severe Epilepsy as Seen from Calit2 www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1219
- 32. Victoria Premier and Australian Deputy Prime Minister Asking Questions www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1219
- 33. University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis in Calit2 Replies to Question from Australia
- 34. “ Using the Link to Build the Link” Calit2 and Univ. Melbourne Technology Teams www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1219 No Calit2 Person Physically Flew to Australia to Bring This Up!