SC09 Booth 451 Presentation Topics

The following list of topics is subject to change. Please visit the Presentation Schedule for speaking times and dates.

Next-Generation Ocean Science, presented by John Delaney (University of Washington)

Cabled ocean observatories now under construction in the U.S. and Canada — such as the Regional Scale Nodes component of the National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative and NEPTUNE Canada, both in the northeast Pacific Ocean — will enable bold new approaches to studying the oceans. The provision of significant electrical power (up to 200 kilowatts) and high telecommunications bandwidth (up to 240 Gigabits/second) through the Pacific Northwest Gigapop to networked arrays of sensors on the seafloor, below the seafloor, and throughout the water column will enable scientists to conduct real-time local investigations of the global ocean processes that help make our planet habitable. The ocean has been chronically undersampled for as long as humans have been trying to characterize its innate complexity. The current suite of computationally intensive numerical/theoretical models of ocean behavior has outstripped the requisite level of actual data necessary to ground those models in reality. Only by quantifying powerful episodic events, like giant storms and erupting volcanoes, within the context of longer-term decadal changes can we begin to approach dependable predictive models of ocean behavior.

Better than Going There: Globally Shared Visualization, presented by Tom DeFanti (UC San Diego, Calit2)

This has been a good year for tiled LCD panel displays-the bezels have almost disappeared in 2D displays and 3D (with and without glasses) is finally here. The networks, switches, and interface cards are affordable at 10Gb/s, HD videoconferencing is easy to make work and software to integrate it all is propagating fast with SAGE (from EVL) and CGLX (from Calit2). So, you don't need to take off your shoes, jacket, and belt to "go there" to work with your colleagues. And, enough energy can be saved with one long-distance multi-person meeting to run these displays for a year! Several hardware and software systems, designed and proven to be replicable by SC-class researchers, will be discussed and illustrated.

Scalable Energy-Efficient Datacenter (SEED), presented by George Papen (UC San Diego)

The principle goal of building the Scalable Energy Efficient Datacenter (SEED) testbed is to develop an integrated solution that encompasses physical layer hardware, protocols, and topologies that can provide the expected size and performance scaling for future data centers while minimizing the cost and energy per switched bit. Our fundamental premise is that in many datacenter applications, most of the data is carried in a small number of flows. By developing the protocols and the necessary optical aggregation technology, we hope to identify these flows and route them into a rate agnostic switch fabric which does not regenerate optical signals (e.g. a Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System (MEMS) fabric), while switching the remaining data flows using an efficient electrical "fat-tree" topology.

International Advanced Collaboration with GLORIAD/KREONet2 and Pacific Wave, presented by Kwangjong Jo (KISTI)

(Information to come)

TWAREN/TaiwanLight and International Collaboration, presented by Dan Chang (NCHC)

TWAREN is the national research and education backbone in Taiwan. We connect TWAREN with GLIF partners via a TAIWANLight international circuit. Several scientific collaborations such as OptIPuter, HPDMnet, and medical video streaming are supported by IP/Optical exchange points such as Pacific Wave, CANARIE, StarLight, NetherLight, and CESNET.

About Pacific Wave

Pacific Wave is a state-of-the-art international peering exchange facility designed to serve research and education networks throughout the Pacific Rim and the world. A joint project between CENIC and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop in collaboration with the University of Washington, Pacific Wave creates a new peering paradigm by removing the geographical barriers of traditional peering facilities. It enables any US or international network to connect at any of three locations along the US Pacific coast, as well as offers the option to peer with any other Pacific Wave participant, regardless of physical location.

By presenting a seamless, unified, international peering exchange facility at strategic Pacific coast locations, the Pacific Wave peering facility will be a magnet for research and education partners throughout Canada, Mexico, South America and the Pacific Rim. For more information, visit www.pacificwave.net.