Presentation on the CineGrid Amsterdam Day, 9 september 2011, delivered to the annual CineGrid Workshop in San Diego. It deals with the aims, the program & the outcomes, as well as the future of the CineGrid Amsterdam Collaboration in 2012.

1. CINEGRID DAY (9/9/2011) & BEYOND
Frank Kresin / frank@waag.org / @kresin
Research Director Waag Society
5th December 2011, La Jolla

2. CINEGRID AMSTERDAM GOALS
• Assemble technology, science, artLab based in Amsterdam
Non profit independent Media and education
• to create new concepts, pilots & business(The Digital City)
Started in 1994 with De Digitale Stad models
• that resultdiverse makers, thinkers & tinkerers
60 very in:
• Democratization of Technology & Innovation
• • Enabling people to make use of the information society &
New forms of storytelling
•tools domains for scientific exploration
New
• • Collaborations: designers, scientists, artists,production
Transformation of workflows in creative media programmers
• • Users at the center
Better education
• • Working with & for (non-) profit organisations & governments
Enhanced economic growth
• Partner in national & international research programmes
• Delivering pilots & prototypes, events, papers & publications
• Spin-offs & incubator facilities
• Founding Partner of Creative Commons, PICNIC, IIP CREATE
• Board Member of FabLabNL, GATE Consortium, CineGrid NL

3. CINEGRID AMSTERDAM GOALS
Assemble technology, science, art and education
to create new concepts, pilots & business models
that result in:
• New forms of storytelling
• New domains for scientific exploration
• Transformation of workflows in creative media production
• Better education
• Enhanced economic growth

4. PARTNERS
CONSORTIUM PARTNERS
SURFnet, UvA, SARA, Dutch Film- and Television Academy,
DELL, TNO, Holland Festival, Blender Institute, Sandberg Institute,
MediaGuild, Waag Society
COLLABORATORS
Poznan Supercomputing Center, Amsterdam Innovatie Motor,
UCSD, University of Illinois, NHK, KTH, KEIO University,
Pathé Benelux, Filmmuseum, Salto, Nationale Computer
Faciliteiten, IDFA, BeamSystems, ISOC, IDFA, DutchView,
PICNIC, GridForum and many more

5. SEEING IS BELIEVING

6. Experience the Future of 4K now! CINEGRID AMSTERDAM
CineGrid Day 2011 at Pakhuis de Zwijger
Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society, a 4K stopmotion film By Robin Noorda & Bethany de Forest

8. PROGRAMME
• Laurin Herr (CineGrid org)
• Tatsuya Fujii (NTT)
• Maciej Glowiak (PSNC)
• Dimitra Simeonidu (Essex University)
• Kunitake Kaneko (was: KEIO University)
• Jasper Klaus (Eén camera)
• Richard Weinberg (USC)
• Ton Roosendaal (Blender)
• Michal Krsek (CESNET, CZ)
• Lieven Bertels (Holland Festival)
• Harry Schreurs (NFTA)
• Philippe Vié (Camalot)
• Peter Wilson (European Digital Cinema Forum)

9. Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam)

10. Laurin Herr (Pacific Interface / CineGrid.org)

11. Kunitake Kaneko (was: KEIO University)

12. Tatsuya Fujii (NTT)

13. Maciej Glowiak (PSNC)

14. Richard Weinberg (USC)

15. Technology thanks to NTT & PCS

16. Poster Presentations & Demo’s

17. SOME HIGHLIGHTS
• We need both professional quality and entry-level
solutions
• Forthcoming: UK Uncompressed 8K Olympic Games
Testbed
• Forthcoming: a wholly new streaming approach (KK)
• Filmmakers want 4K: downscaling tot 720p from 4K
gives a remarkable quality boost
• There is great potential of 4K in eHealth –
much more than just scary pictures
• Convincing artists requires convincing content
• Future filmmakers are educated in the digital domain
now
• 'K' is a passe metric - it means everything & nothing

18. WE SPEAK MANY LANGUAGES
• Lambda’s & Dark Fibers
• Bayer Filters, 1080p & 4K
• Color Spaces & Grain
• Parallax & Color Separation
• Close-ups & Long Shots
• Crabs & Pans
• Copyrights & Licenses
• Workshops & Sponsor events

19. WE SPEAK MANY LANGUAGES
• Lambda’s & Dark Fibers
• Bayer Filters, 1080p & 4K
• Color Spaces & Grain
• Parallax & Color Separation
• Close-ups & Long Shots
• Crabs & Pans
• Copyrights & Licenses
• Workshops & Sponsor events
AND WE NEED THEM ALL

20. Networ KEIO
RNP Japan
NTT
Brazil
NTT
• UCSD
San Diego
NTT
NPS Japan
Monterey
StarLight NTT
Chicago
NTT
NTT
NetherLight
Amsterdam
PSNC
Poland
CESNET
UvA
Czech
Amsterdam De Zwijger
Amsterdam NTT
IntoPIX
IntoPIX
NTT NTT

21. Battle of Grunwald / PCS

22. Sintel (Blender Foundation)

23. Blimp Footage (Jeff Weekley)

24. Micro Organisms (Richard Weinberg)

25. Metro of Amsterdam trailer (Eén Camera)

26. Jean-Guihen Queyras (Holland Festival 2010)

27. CONCLUSIONS
• Great speakers, much new information
• Reached a good & partially new audience
• Impressive & diverse screening program
• Had the first 3D 4K screening in the NL’s
• Meetup of all the CG Amsterdam partners & affiliates
• And enjoyed the company of many old & new friends
• HUGE THANKS TO ALL SPEAKERS, NTT LABS AND
THE POZNAN SUPERCOMPUTING & NETWORKING
CENTER (!!)

28. ACTIVITIES CINEGRID AMSTERDAM
Center of Excellence
Scientific Research
Content production
Education Integration
Business Models
Outreach

29. CINEGRID STUDIO

30. AVAILABLE RESOURCES
• CineGrid Studio for 4K postproduction
• XX TB of Storage Space
• High Performance Render Cluster
• 3 4K Screens and 1 Camera
• 1 - 10 Gb/s light path connections
• Expertise in
- production
- encoding
- transmission
- screening

31. CINEGRID STUDIO SUPPORTED BY:
• documenting
best practices
Cookbook 4K Video
SURFnet
Hoog Catharijne, Radboudburcht
Radboudkwartier 273
3511 CK Utrecht
Postadres:
Postbus 19035
3501 DA Utrecht
T +31 (0)30 230 53 05
F +31 (0)30 2 305 329
Admin@SURFnet.nl
www.surfnet.nl
• Bandwith = Oxygen

32. PLANS FOR 2012
• New content, challenges, workshops & events
• Collaboratorium by SARA
• Deep Archiving White Paper
• Finalizing & populating the portal and workflow tool
• Research into workflow, integration, service
compositions, transformations, clouds & scalable
infrastructure
• Develop a WIKI for best practices
• Reach out to health care domain
• Streaming & Live 4K
• Artist in Residence
• CineGrid Incubator

33. CINEGRID IS SUPPORTED BY
• City of Amsterdam, Pieken in de Delta
• EFRO / Kansen voor West, Province of Noord-Holland