The document discusses high-performance collaboration facilitated by enhanced cyberinfrastructure, including advancements in network speed and capabilities, particularly focused on the National Lambda Rail (NLR) and Teragrid systems. It highlights various initiatives and partnerships, particularly in the realms of optical networking and high-resolution data portals, among U.S. research institutions and international collaborators. Key outcomes aim to create an integrated 'Optigrid' for high-performance collaboration in scientific research, with an emphasis on enabling comprehensive data access and services.

1. “ High Performance Collaboration – The Jump to Light Speed " Talk to A Visiting Team from Intel [email_address] June 25, 2006 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. From “Supercomputer–Centric” to “Supernetwork-Centric” Cyberinfrastructure Megabit/s Gigabit/s Terabit/s Network Data Source: Timothy Lance, President, NYSERNet 32x10Gb “Lambdas” 1 GFLOP Cray2 60 TFLOP Altix Bandwidth of NYSERNet Research Network Backbones T1 Optical WAN Research Bandwidth Has Grown Much Faster Than Supercomputer Speed! Computing Speed (GFLOPS)

3. National Lambda Rail (NLR) and TeraGrid 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 DOE, NSF, & NASA Using NLR San Francisco Pittsburgh Cleveland San Diego Los Angeles Portland Seattle Pensacola Baton Rouge Houston San Antonio Las Cruces / El Paso Phoenix New York City Washington, DC Raleigh Jacksonville Dallas Tulsa Atlanta Kansas City Denver Ogden/ Salt Lake City Boise Albuquerque UC-TeraGrid UIC/NW-Starlight Chicago International Collaborators NSF’s TeraGrid Has 4 x 10Gb Lambda Backbone

4. The OptIPuter Project – Creating High Resolution Portals Over Dedicated Optical Channels to Global Science Data NSF Large Information Technology Research Proposal Calit2 (UCSD, UCI) and UIC Lead Campuses—Larry Smarr PI Partnering Campuses: SDSC, USC, SDSU, NCSA, NW, TA&M, UvA, SARA, NASA Goddard, KISTI, AIST, CRC(Canada), CICESE (Mexico) Industrial Partners IBM, Sun, Telcordia, Chiaro, Calient, Glimmerglass, Lucent $13.5 Million Over Five Years—Now In the Fourth Year NIH Biomedical Informatics NSF EarthScope and ORION Research Network

5. OptIPuter Software Architecture--a Service-Oriented Architecture Integrating Lambdas Into the Grid GTP XCP UDT LambdaStream CEP RBUDP Globus XIO GRAM GSI Source: Andrew Chien, UCSD DVC Configuration Distributed Virtual Computer (DVC) API DVC Runtime Library Distributed Applications/ Web Services Telescience Vol-a-Tile SAGE JuxtaView Visualization Data Services LambdaRAM DVC Services DVC Core Services DVC Job Scheduling DVC Communication Resource Identify/Acquire Namespace Management Security Management High Speed Communication Storage Services IP Lambdas Discovery and Control PIN/PDC RobuStore

6. OptIPuter Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) Allows Integration of HD Streams Photo: David Lee, NCMIR, UCSD OptIPortal– Termination Device for the OptIPuter Global Backplane

7. OptIPortal– 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

8. The New Optical Core of the UCSD Campus-Scale Testbed: Evaluating Packet Routing versus Lambda Switching Goals by 2007: >= 50 endpoints at 10 GigE >= 32 Packet switched >= 32 Switched wavelengths >= 300 Connected endpoints Approximately 0.5 TBit/s Arrive at the “Optical” Center of Campus Switching will be a Hybrid Combination of: Packet, Lambda, Circuit -- OOO and Packet Switches Already in Place Funded by NSF MRI Grant Lucent Glimmerglass Force10

9. Calit2/SDSC Proposal to Create a UC Cyberinfrastructure of OptIPuter “On-Ramps” to TeraGrid Resources UC San Francisco UC San Diego UC Riverside UC Irvine UC Davis UC Berkeley UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Barbara UC Los Angeles UC Merced OptIPuter + CalREN-XD + TeraGrid = “OptiGrid” Source: Fran Berman, SDSC , Larry Smarr, Calit2 Creating a Critical Mass of End Users on a Secure LambdaGrid

10. Creating a North American Superhighway for High Performance Collaboration Next Step: Adding Mexico to Canada’s CANARIE and the U.S. National Lambda Rail

11. Countries are Aggressively Creating Gigabit Services: Interactive Access to CAMERA Data System www.glif.is Created in Reykjavik, Iceland 2003 Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA.

12. First Remote Interactive High Definition Video Exploration of Deep Sea Vents Source John Delaney & Deborah Kelley, UWash Canadian-U.S. Collaboration

13. PI Larry Smarr

14. Marine Genome Sequencing Project Measuring the Genetic Diversity of Ocean Microbes CAMERA will include All Sorcerer II Metagenomic Data

15. Calit2’s Direct Access Core Architecture Will Create Next Generation Metagenomics Server Source: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC, Calit2 + Web Services User Environment CAMERA Complex Flat File Server Farm TeraGrid Backplane (10000s of CPUs) W E B PORTAL Web Local Cluster Direct Access Lambda Cnxns Dedicated Compute Farm (1000 CPUs) Data- Base Farm 10 GigE Fabric

16. Analysis Data Sets, Data Services, Tools, and Workflows Assemblies of Metagenomic Data e.g, GOS, JGI CSP Annotations Genomic and Metagenomic Data “ All-against-all” Alignments of ORFs Updated Periodically Gene Clusters and Associated Data Profiles, Multiple-Sequence Alignments, HMMs, Phylogenies, Peptide Sequences Data Services ‘ Raw’ and Specialized Analysis Data Rich Query Facilities Tools and Workflows Navigate and Sift Raw and Analysis Data Publish Workflows and Develop New Ones Prioritize Features via Dialogue with Community Source: Saul Kravitz Director of Software Engineering J. Craig Venter Institute

17. Calit2 and the Venter Institute Will Combine Telepresence with Remote Interactive Analysis Live Demonstration of 21st Century National-Scale Team Science OptIPuter Visualized Data HDTV Over Lambda 25 Miles Venter Institute

18. Calit2 Works with CENIC to Provide the California Optical Core for CineGrid Calit2 UCI USC SFSU UCB In addition, 1Gb and 10Gb Connections to: Seattle, Asia, Australia, New Zealand Chicago, Europe, Russia, China Tijuana, Rosarita Beach, Ensenada Calit2’s CineGrid Team is Working with Cinema Industry in LA and SF Extending SoCal OptIPuter to USC School of Cinema-Television Calit2 UCSD Prototype of CineGrid Digital Archive of Films Partnering with SFSU’s Institute for Next Generation Internet Discussions with CITRIS

19. First Trans-Pacific Super High Definition Telepresence Meeting in New Calit2 Digital Cinema Auditorium Lays Technical Basis for Global Digital Cinema Sony NTT SGI Keio University President Anzai UCSD Chancellor Fox