Bringing Mexico

Into the Global LambdaGrid

Dr. Gregory Hidley, Technical Director

California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

University of California at San Diego

ghidley@ucsd.edu http://www.calit2.net

CUDI Presentation

Ensenada, Mexico

May25, 2012

Two Calit2 Buildings Provide

New Laboratories for “Living in the Future”

• “Convergence” Laboratory Facilities

– Nanotech, BioMEMS, Chips, Radio, Photonics

– Virtual Reality, Digital Cinema, HDTV, Gaming

• Over 1000 Researchers in Two Buildings

– Linked via Dedicated Optical Networks

UC Irvine

www.calit2.net

Preparing for a World in Which

Distance is Eliminated…

$100M From State for New Facilities

The OptIPuter Project: Creating High Resolution Portals

Over Dedicated Optical Channels to Global Science Data

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

Scalable

Adaptive

Graphics

Environment

(SAGE)

OptIPortal

2002-2008

Dedicated Optical Fiber Collaboratory:

Remote Researchers Jointly Exploring Complex Data

Proposal: Connect OptIPortals

Between CICESE

and Calit2@UCSD

with 10 Gbps Lambda

CICESE

UCSD

Deploy Throughout Mexico

After CICESE Test

OptIPortals Everywhere

A Ten Year Journey : Creating a

10Gbps Optical Fiber Link Between UCSD and CICESE

• UCSD Meeting on Joint CICESE/Calit2 Proposal Sept 2002

• SDSU’s Eric Frost Talk at CUDI Meeting at CICESE April 2003

• Arzberger PRAGMA Talk-CUDI in Puebla, Mexico October 2003

• Visit by CICESE and CONACYT to Calit2 Jan 2004

• Visit by Larry Smarr and Calit2 and UCSD OptIPuter

researchers to CICESE March 2004

• Visit by CICESE and CONACYT to Calit2 AHM April 2004

Jaime Parada, Felipe Rubio, & Carlos Duarte

at the Calit2 All Hands Meeting

CUDI-CENIC Fiber Dedication at

Border Governor’s Conference, July 14, 2005

Osaka Prof. Aoyama

Prof. Smarr

Torreon Conference---Fiber Dedication Linking

Mexico and US, crossing at San Diego-Tijuana

• Shared Security

• Energy

• Trans-National Crime

• Education and Research

• Business Development

US Mexico

Arnold

Culmination of Three Years

of Work Between Calit2,

CICESE, CENIC, and CUDI

http://www.cudi.edu.mx/

CICESE, CONACYT, CUDI, and Telmex

at iGrid2005

September 26-29, 2005

Success in First Phase—

OptIPortal is Installed in CICESE—First in Mexico

CICESE, Mexico

September 19, 2008

The Final Push to 10GigE

• Smarr OptIPuter Talk at CUDI Fall Meeting 2006 San Luis Potosi

• Dec 2006 CONACYT Funds Calit2/Mexico Collaborations

• 2006-7 Calit2 Sets up Funding Contracts for CUDI and CICESE

• 2006-7 Scope of Work MOU Between Calit2 and CICESE

• 2007-8 CICESE Gets Training in Visualization from Calit2

• 2007 Visits Between Calit2 and CICESE

• Sept 2008 CICESE Constructs OptIPortal display wall

• 2009-11 Investigations of 10GigE Networking Possibilities

• 2011 CONACYT Letter Directing Calit2 to Work with CUDI

• 2011 CUDI Negotiates Multi-Year Networking Agreement with

Televisa / BESTEL

• Feb 2012 NSF IRNC Upgrade of Cross-Border from 1G to 10G

• March 2012 First Light Calit2TijuanaCICESE …

photons are flowing!

Collaborations today and beyond

• CICESE display wall and 10GigE networking with Calit2 / UCSD enables

expanded scientific collaborations

• Discussions of collaboration occurring among

– The Mexican Space Agency

– The proposed Mexican Agency on Oceans and Coasts

– Calit2 / UCSD

– Others

• How do other Mexican education and research institutions build display

walls and join the collaborations?

– Engage with CICESE Telematics Group for display wall expertise

– Engage with CUDI for networking needs

– Engage with CICESE and other Mexican research institutes

– Engage Calit2 / UCSD and other UC Universities (all are already connected at

10GigE via CENIC CalREN-HPR and CUDI services to the CUDI network)

CICESE Joins GLIF Network

Collaborations with Calit2 / UCSD / SIO

• Mexican research institutions interested in engagement opportunities with

Calit2 / UCSD / SIO might consider the following “first steps”:

– Mexican Researchers could invite UCSD colleagues of interest to visit their

institution on a one-on-one basis

– Visits to UCSD would surely result from such contacts

– CICESE could organize a conference at UCSD/SIO or CICESE covering areas

of overlapping research interest

– UCSD's IR/PS International Relations and Pacific Studies might be a good

place to work with on CICESE-UCSD opportunities

– Contact: Ms. Grace D. Osborne GLI, Assistant Director gosborne@ucsd.edu

– CUDI and CENIC are good contact organizations for Mexico/California

advanced networking engagements

– SIO and Calit2 websites regularly announce upcoming conferences

– Scripps Institution of Oceanography http://sio.ucsd.edu/

– Calit2 http://www.calit2.net , http://www.calit2.net/research/index.php

– Calit2 has CSRO funding for collaborations involving UCSD researchers

using Calit2 research facilities (visualization, optics, cyber-infrastructure,

wireless, etc.). CSRO RFP coming out soon. See

– http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1647

Calit2 is a Framework for “Living in the Future”

Anticipating the Digital Transformation of Society