The document discusses the Optiplanet Collaboratory, led by Dr. Larry Smarr at UCSD, which utilizes high-speed fiber-optic links to enhance collaborations across geographies in scientific research. It highlights the advancements made in optical networking, including efforts to interlink various universities and research institutions globally for high-resolution data sharing. Additionally, the strategies to implement and upgrade these networks, including partnerships with industry players and international collaborations, are outlined.

1. The OptIPlanet Collaboratory
Invited Presentation
Calit2@UCSD
September 16, 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. Interactive OptIPlanet Collaboratory Prototype: Using
Analog Communications to Prototype the Fiber Optic Future
“What we really have to do is eliminate distance between
individuals who want to interact with other people and SIGGRAPH 1989
with other computers.”
― Larry Smarr, Director, NCSA
Illinois
Boston
“We’re using satellite technology…
to demo what It might be like to have
high-speed fiber-optic links between
advanced computers
in two different geographic locations.”
― Al Gore, Senator
Chair, US Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space

3. The OptIPuter Project: High Resolution Collaboratory
Over Dedicated Optical Channels to Global Science Data
Scalable
Adaptive
Graphics
Environment
(SAGE)
Now in
Sixth and
Final Year
Picture
Source:
Mark
Ellisman,
David Lee,
Jason Leigh
Calit2 (UCSD, UCI), SDSC, and UIC Leads—Larry Smarr PI
Univ. Partners: NCSA, USC, SDSU, NW, TA&M, UvA, SARA, KISTI, AIST
Industry: IBM, Sun, Telcordia, Chiaro, Calient, Glimmerglass, Lucent

4. CENIC’s New “Hybrid Network” - Traditional Routed IP
and the New Switched Ethernet and Optical Services
~ $14M
Invested
in
Upgrade
Now
Campuses
Need to
Upgrade
Source: Jim Dolgonas, CENIC

5. The “Golden Spike” UCSD Experimental Optical Core:
Ready to Couple Users to CENIC L1, L2, L3 Services
Quartzite Communications
To 10GigE cluster Goals by 2008:
Core Year 3
node interfaces
>= 60 endpoints at 10 GigE CENIC L1, L2
>= 30 Packet switched Wavelength
Quartzite Selective
Services
Corewavelengths
.....
Switch
>= 30 Switched
>= 400 Connected endpoints
Lucent To 10GigE cluster
node interfaces and
other switches
To cluster nodes
.....
Glimmerglass
Approximately 0.5 Tbps .....
To cluster nodes
GigE Switch with
Dual 10GigE Upliks
Arrive at the “Optical”
Production
OOO
Switch
To cluster nodes
Center of Hybrid Campus
32 10GigE
.....
Switch GigE Switch with
Dual 10GigE Upliks
Force10
...
To Packet Switch CalREN-HPR
GigE Switch with
Dual 10GigE Upliks other Research
nodes
Cloud
GigE
Funded by
10GigE
NSF MRI Campus Research
4 GigE
4 pair fiber Grant Cloud
Cisco 6509
Juniper T320
OptIPuter Border Router
Source: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC/Calit2
(Quartzite PI, OptIPuter co-PI)

6. Calit2 Sunlight
Optical Exchange Contains Quartzite
10:45 am
Feb. 21,
2008

7. Block Layout of UCSD
Quartzite/OptIPuter Network
For Full
UCSD OptIPuter
Map see
Elazar Harel
Talk Today
Glimmerglass
OOO Switch
~50 10 Gbps Lightpaths
10 More to Come
Quartzite
Application Specific
Embedded Switches

8. Calit2 Microbial Metagenomics Cluster-
Next Generation Optically Linked Science Data Server
Source: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC, Calit2
512 Processors ~200TB
~5 Teraflops 1GbE Sun
X4500
~ 200 Terabytes Storage and
Storage
10GbE
Switche
d/ 10GbE
Routed
Core

9. CAMERA’s
Global Microbial Metagenomics CyberCommunity
2200 Registered Users From Over 50 Countries

10. Embedded iHDTV in an OptIPortal
Enables Collaboration
Photo: Maxine Brown, EVL
Larry Smarr in Reno Source: Michael Wellings Ginger Armbrust in Seattle
Research Channel
Univ. Washington

11. Genome and Medical Biosciences Building
First 10Gbps OptIPortal End Point at UC Davis
Next CAMERA OptIPortal
~70 Faculty
~25+ new
~700 people
Six floors
225,000 sq ft
$98M
Molecular Medicine
Genomics & Bioinformatics
Pharmacology
Biomedical Engineering Jonathan Eisen
Enabling Genomics Facility
Imaging & Vivarium

12. OptIPuter Persistent Global Backplane
Dana
is Rapidly Expanding and Enabling Applications
Roode Pete
UCI Talk
UCI Siegel
UCD Talk CineGrid
Talk
Jason Leigh
Richard Weinberg SAGE
Alternate Endings VisualCasting
USC Talk UIC Demo
Elazar
Harel
UCSD Talk
Source:Brian Dunne, Calit2@UCSD

13. Calit2 at UCI and UCSD Are Prototyping
Gigabit Applications— Today 2 Gbps Paths are Used
ONS 15540 WDM at UCI
campus MPOE (CPL) 10 GE DWDM Network
Line
1 GE DWDM Network
Line Tustin CENIC CalREN
POP
UCSD Optiputer
Calit2 Building Wave-2: layer-2 GE. Network
Floor 4 Catalyst 6500 67.58.33.0/25 using 11-
126 at UCI. GTWY is .1
Engineering Gateway Building,
SPDS
Kim Jitter
Floor 3 Catalyst 6500 Measurements
Lab E1127
Wave-1: layer-2 GE Catalyst 3750 in
Los 67.58.21.128/25 UCI using 1st floor IDF
Floor 2 Catalyst 6500
Angeles 141-254. GTWY .128
Catalyst 3750 in
NACS Machine
ESMF
HIPerWall
UCInet Room (Optiputer)
Catalyst 6500,
Beckman Laser Institute Bldg.
1st floor MDF Berns’ Lab--
Catalyst 3750 in CSI
Remote Microscopy
10 GE
Created 09-27-2005 by Garrett Hildebrand Wave 1 1GE
Modified 02-28-2006 by Smarr/Hildebrand Wave 2 1GE

14. The Calit2 OptIPortals at UCSD and UCI
Are Now a Gbit/s HD Collaboratory
NASA Ames Visit Feb. 29, 2008
HiPerVerse:
First ½ Gigapixel
Distributed
OptIPortal-
124 Tiles
Yesterday
Sept. 15, 2008
Calit2@ UCI wall
Calit2@ UCSD wall

15. EVL’s SAGE VisualCasting
Multi-Site OptIPuter Collaboratory
CENIC CalREN-XD Workshop Sept. 15, 2008
EVL-UI Chicago
Streaming 4k
U Michigan
Source: Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, EVL, UI Chicago

16. OptIPortals
Are Being Adopted Globally
AIST-Japan Osaka U-Japan KISTI-Korea CNIC-China
UZurich
NCHC-Taiwan
SARA- Netherlands Brno-Czech Republic
U. Melbourne,
EVL@UIC Calit2@UCSD Calit2@UCI Australia

17. Green
Initiative:
Can Optical
Fiber Replace
Airline Travel
for Continuing
Collaborations
?
Source: Maxine Brown, OptIPuter Project Manager

18. New Year’s Challenge: Streaming Underwater Video
From Taiwan’s Kenting Reef to Calit2’s OptIPortal
My next plan is
to stream stable Remote Videos Local Images
and quality
underwater
images
to Calit2,
hopefully by
PRAGMA 14. --
Fang-Pang to LS
Jan. 1, 2008
March 6, 2008
Plan
Accomplished!
March 26, 2008
UCSD: Rajvikram Singh, Sameer Tilak, Jurgen Schulze, Tony Fountain, Peter Arzberger
NCHC : Ebbe Strandell, Sun-In Lin, Yao-Tsung Wang, Fang-Pang Lin

19. Coupling CENIC/PW to AARNet International Network:
The Core of the OptIPlanet Collaboratory

20. Launch of the 100 Megapixel OzIPortal Over Qvidium
Compressed HD on 1 Gbps CENIC/PW/AARNet Fiber
January 15, 2008
Covise, Phil Weber, Jurgen Schulze, Calit2
CGLX, Kai-Uwe Doerr , Calit2
www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1219

21. “Using the Link to Build the Link”
Calit2 and Univ. Melbourne Technology Teams
No Calit2 Person Physically Flew to Australia to Bring This Up!
www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1219

22. Victoria Premier and Australian Deputy Prime Minister
Asking Questions
www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1219

23. University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis
in Calit2 Replies to Question from Australia

24. OptIPuterizing Australian Universities in 2008:
CENIC Coupling to AARNet
UMelbourne/Calit2 Telepresence Session May 21, 2008
Augmented by Many Physical Visits This Year
Culminating in Two Week Lecture Tour
of Australian Research Universities
by Larry Smarr October 2008
Phil Scanlan
Founder-
Australian American
Leadership Dialogue
www.aald.org

25. Smarr American Australian Leadership Dialogue
OptIPlanet Collaboratory Lecture Tour October 2008
AARNet National Network
• Oct 2—University of Adelaide
• Oct 6—Univ of Western Australia
• Oct 8—Monash Univ.; Swinburne
Univ.
• Oct 9—Univ. of Melbourne
• Oct 10—Univ. of Queensland
• Oct 11—AIMS, James Cook Univ.,
Townsville
• Oct 13—Univ. of Technology,
Sydney
• Oct 14—Univ. of New South Wales
• Oct 15—Leadership Dialogue
Scholar Oration, Canberra
• Oct 16—CSIRO OptIPortal
Dedication; ANU; AARNet
• Oct 16—Sydney Univ.

26. University of Queensland OptIPortal
B. Pailthorpe, Univ. Queensland, April ’08
www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/optiputer/

27. OptIPortable - at QuestNet-08 too!
B. Pailthorpe, QciF at QuestNet, July’08

28. OptIPortal in Canberra Discovery Center
Source: Dave Smith, CSIRO ICT Centre

29. HD Talk to Monash University from Calit2
July 31, 2008

30. AARNet 10Gbps Access Product is Here!!!
• HD and Other High Bandwidth Applications Combined
with “Big Research” Pushing Large Data Sets Means
1 Gbps is No Longer Adequate for All Users
Vivaty
• Will Permit Rresearchers to Exchange Large Amounts of
Data within Australia, and Internationally via SXTransPORT
© 2008, AARNet Pty Ltd 30
Slide From Chris Hancock, CEO AARNet