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Andrew Odlyzko, Director

Jim Licari, Industrial Liaisons

Michael Olesen, Facilities and

Programs

http://www.dtc.umn.edu

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DTC Facilities• $64 Million renovation

• Home to Science and Engineering Library, I.T. Dean’s Office, and a student computing laboratory

• Over 45,000 square feet assigned to the DTC

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Gifts to the DTC

• ADC – Five Chairs and an endowment for graduate student fellowships

• Unisys – Supercomputing equipment

• Ted and Linda Johnson – Established Digital Design Consortium

• 3M – Networking equipment

• IBM – Supercomputing and data storage equipment

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DTC FundingRecurring funds

• 12 Faculty appointments tied directly to the DTC

• Technical Support for DTC faculty and researchers

• Administrative support for researchers and programs

Other funding sources

• Research grants

• Seed funding for select initiatives• Consortium fees• Affiliates membership fees

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Research Areas and Interactions

Digital Design Storage Systems Recognition& Verification

Graphics & Visualization AI, Robotics, andVision

Networks

Bioinformatics &Computational Biology

Databases, Datamining Signal Processing, Wireless

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Current Programs and InitiativesDigital Technology Center Intelligent Storage Consortium (DISC)

• System level storage architecture

• Consortium is up and running

• Currently two consortium members:

StorageTek

Veritas

BlockStorage Device

File SystemStorage Component

Intelligent Layer

Interconnect

File System User Component

I/O Application

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Current Programs and InitiativesDigital Design Consortium (DDC)

• Application of graphics and visualization tools to design processes

• Developing new tools

• 3D Visualization

• Interactive color designing system

• 2nd DTC consortium initiativeDigital scanner on the

Northrop Mall

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Current Programs and InitiativesGrid Computing

• Uses processing power of student lab PCs for data analysis and visualization

• Researchers from Institute of Technology, Academic Health Center, and Office of Information Technology

• Funded by National Science Foundation

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Current Programs and InitiativesSummer Bioinformatics Institute

• Developing bioinformatics skills and interests in 16 undergraduate interns

• Faculty from Academic Health Center, College of Biological Sciences, and Institute of Technology

• Funded by National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health

• DTC instrumental in obtaining funding

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Current Programs and InitiativesUsability Laboratory

• State-of-the-art facility for real-time evaluations of human-computer interactions

• Partnership between the Office of Information Technology and the Digital Technology Center

• Available to DTC Affiliate Program members

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Current Programs and Initiatives

• High-performance computation and visualization

• Supports over 1,600 U of M researchers

• Resources includes: IBM, SGI, Sun andUnisys Systems

• Professor Donald Truhlar, Director

Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation

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Current Programs and InitiativesLaboratory for Computational Science and Engineering (LCSE)

• 3D visualization of large-scale data sets

• Home of the PowerWall

• Integrating Unisys supercomputer using Microsoft operating system

• Part of the Grid Computing project

• Professor Paul Woodward, Director

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Partnership Program

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Partnership Program

Three Levels of Participation

• Affiliates Program

• Consortium Program

• Research Program

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Partnership ProgramAffiliates Program

• General membership

• Yearly meeting to review DTC research and latest trends in digital technology

• Quarterly members E-mail updates

• Reduced fee access to Usability Laboratory

• A $10,000 per year fee

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Partnership Program

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Partnership Program

Consortium Program

• Formal agreement/contract

• Intellectual Property (IP) rights

• Participation in DTC seed funding and external grants

• Must be an Affiliates Program member to participate

• Fees vary by Consortium: ~ $50K per year

• Residency Program

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Partnership Program

Research Program

• One-to-one contractual agreement opportunities between partners and the DTC faculty

• Possible proprietary research agreements between partners and DTC faculty