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HICSS-44 Distinguish Lecture Thursday, January 6
Smarr served as PI on the NSF's OptIPuter grant and is currently PI on the Moore Foundation's CAMERA microbial metagenomics projects, as well as co-PI on the NSF GreenLight Project. Smarr was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee for President Clinton and served until 2005 on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the NASA Advisory Council. He served on Governor Schwarzenegger's California Broadband Taskforce in 2007. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006 he received the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for his lifetime achievements in distributed computing systems. He spent October 2008 in Australia as the Leadership Dialog Scholar. You can follow Larry at http://twitter.com/lsmarr and on his lifestreaming portal at http://lsmarr.calit2.net. Abstract: "Building a Global Collaboration System for Data-Intensive Discovery" Larry Smarr We are living in a data-dominated world where scientific instruments, computers, and social interactions generate massive amounts of data, increasingly being stored in distributed storage clouds. Data-intensive discovery requires rapid access to multiple datasets and computational resources, coupled with a high-resolution streaming media enabled collaboration infrastructure. The goal of this collaboration system is to allow globally distributed investigators to interact with visual representations of these massive datasets as if they were in the same room. The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology has a variety of projects underway to realize this vision via the use of dedicated 10 gigabit/s optical lightpaths, each with 1000x the typical bandwidth of the shared Internet. I will share some examples of the use of such collaboration spaces to carry out data-intensive discovery from disciplines as diverse as bioinformatics, health care, crisis management, and computational cosmology and discuss the barriers to establishing such a global collaboration system which still remain.
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Larry
Smarr became founding director in 2000 of the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a University of
California San Diego/UC Irvine partnership. He holds the Harry E. Gruber
professorship in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at UCSD. At Calit2, Smarr has continued to drive major
developments in information infrastructure-- including the Internet, Web,
scientific visualization, virtual reality, and global telepresence--begun
during his previous 15 years as founding Director of the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).