'OptIPuter' design for data-intensive computer wins $13.5 million...( San Diego and Chicago September 25 20...)

San Diego and Chicago, September 25, 2002 -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) today awarded $13.5 million over five years to a consortium led by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The funds will support design and development of a powerful distributed cyber "infostructure" to support data-intensive scientific research and collaboration. Initial application efforts will be in bioscience and earth sciences research, including environmental, seismic and remote sensing. It is one of the largest Information Technology Research (ITR) grants awarded since the NSF established the program in 2000.

Dubbed the "OptIPuter" -- for optical networking, Internet Protocol, and computer storage and processing -- the envisioned infostructure will tightly couple computational, storage and visualization resources over parallel optical networks using the IP communication mechanism. "The opportunity to build and experiment with an OptIPuter has arisen because of major technology changes in the last five years," said principal investigator Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2], and Harry E. Gruber Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. "Optical bandwidth and storage capacity are growing much faster than processing power, turning the old computing paradigm on its head: we are going from a processor-centric world, to one centered on optical bandwidth, where the networks will be faster than the computational resources they connect."

The OptIPuter project will enable scientists who are generating massive amounts of data to interactively visualize, analyze, and correlate their data from multiple storage sites connected to optical networks. Designing and deploying the OptIPuter for grid-intensive computing will require fundamental inventions including software and middleware abstractions to deli
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Contact: Doug Ramsey
dramsey@ucsd.edu
858-822-5825
University of California - San Diego
25-Sep-2002

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