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California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Larry Smarr was founding director of Calit2, the UC San Diego and UC Irvine partnership now represented at UC San Diego by the Qualcomm Institute.

Browse the Calit2 founding proposal and associated publications, presentations, and media preserved in this archive.

January 1, 2000

Calit2 Proposal

Proposal · Calit2

Proposal for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a UC San Diego and UC Irvine partnership.

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Jun 13, 2020
Pioneering Scientist and Innovator Larry Smarr Retires – HPC Wire
Print; Profiles | 2020-06-13
June 13, 2020 – During these two decades, Smarr grew the two-campus Calit2 into a collaborative discovery system that engaged hundreds of faculty, staff, students, and companies.
Jul 25, 2017
NSF Project Sets Up First Machine Learning Cyberinfrastructure – HPC Wire
Print | 2017-07-25
July 25, 2017 – Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation issued a $1 million grant to Larry Smarr, director of Calit2, and a group of his colleagues to create a community infrastructure in support of machine learning research.
Nov 6, 2014
From Quantified Self to Personalized Medicine – HPC Wire
Print | 2014-11-06
November 6, 2014 – The University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecture series recently welcomed Calit2 luminary Larry Smarr to speak on a very interesting topic, bringing wellness into the digital age.
Jun 8, 2011
Calit2 – Harvard Business School Case Study
Print | 2011-06-08
Calit2 represented an experiment in inventing the university research environment of the future. From its inception in 2000, the Institute was envisioned as a catalyst that could fuel innovation and address large-scale societal issues by bringing together multidisciplinary teams of the best minds.
Jan 4, 2010
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Reflections on the NSF Supercomputer Center Program – HPC Wire
Print | 2010-01-04
In a position paper for community input at NSF’s Future of High Performance Computing Workshop in early December, Calit2 Director Larry Smarr reviewed the successes, failures and continuing challenges of the NSF supercomputing program that he helped create.
Oct 2, 2009
Calit2: Wireless health to drive preventative medicine – MobiHealthNews
Print | 2009-10-02
Smarr said he’s pushing the digital transformation of healthcare along with similar transformations in energy, the environment and “our culture” itself.
Jun 27, 2006
CalViz Studio and New Optical Link Enable Smarr to Go ?Telepresent? to NCSA Industrial Meeting – QI News
Print | 2006-06-27
This event was held during the 2006 NCSA Private Sector Program Annual Meeting. Smarr s participation demonstrated an early use of the optical link now in place between Calit2 and NCSA to enable the latter to be persistently coupled into the 10-Gbps optical fabric that Calit2, the National LambdaRail, and CENIC are building out.
Feb 8, 2006
Calit2: A Case Study in a Next-Generation Research Environment – EDUCAUSE
Print | 2006-02-08
By Don Spicer – 2/8/2006 Abstract In higher education, team-based, collaborative research activities, call for new modalities and methods of investigation. Calit2 is responding to this challenge by creating a next-generation research environment that includes a range of technical and nontechnical systems to foster large-scale, multidisciplinary collaborations in innovative ways. This case study explores the […]
Jan 27, 2006
The OptIPuter Gets Real – HPC Wire
Print | 2006-01-27
January 27, 2006 – Last week, the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and the J. Craig Venter Institute announced that they would collaborate to decipher the genetic code of the world’s marine microbiological communities.
Nov 28, 2003
Interview with Larry Smarr, Cal-(IT)2 – HPC Wire
Print | 2003-11-28
November 28, 2003 – I was here in Supercomputing ’00 and most years before then, but I hadn’t been to SC01 or 02. I’m very impressed with the scale of the exhibit and the balance that has come to the conference.
Nov 18, 2003
CAL-(IT)2, UCSD Team with Bigbangwidth to Speed “OPTIPUTER” – HPC Wire
Print | 2003-11-18
November 18- Researchers building a new type of Grid computing environment known as the OptIPuter have agreed to deploy BigBangwidth’s next-generation lightpath technology. The system will be installed at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD), and will act as an on-ramp for large data streams from high-performance workstations connected to packet-switched networks.
Nov 18, 2002
Supercomputer To Utilize Optical Fibers – New York Times
Print | 2002-11-18
Highlighting a radical departure in the design of the fastest computers, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology plans to announce on Monday that it will use an optical router designed by a Texas company as the heart of a campus-wide supercomputer that will be woven together with optical fibers.
Dec 8, 2000
Larry Smarr To Direct Cal-(IT)2 – HPC Wire
Print | 2000-12-08
San Diego, CALIF. — Governor Gray Davis announced that the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2], led by UC San Diego in partnership with UC Irvine, has been selected as one of three California Institutes for Science and Innovation.
Jun 25, 2025
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EXODUS2 Conference | Larry Smarr, CalIT2 Founding Director
Video; Video Presentations | 2025-06-25
Welcome Remarks | Larry Smarr, CalIT2 Founding Director EXODUS2 Conference June 25, 2025 Atkinson Hall, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego EX2
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Jun 7, 2018
FuturePatient – Larry Smarr, PhD
Profiles; Video | 2018-06-07
The full recording of computer scientist Larry Smarr presenting ten years of his personal health data on the Visualization Wall at his institute, Calit2 at UC San Diego.
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Jul 11, 2012
Larry Smarr Quantified Health 3D
Video | 2012-07-11
Larry Smarr discusses his efforts in the quantified self movement in this 3D clip shot in the Calit2 StarCAVE virtual reality environment.
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Jun 2, 2012
D:GP 2012: Larry Smarr, Peter Cowhey, Ed Keller, Benjamin H. Bratton
Video | 2012-06-02
The 2nd Annual Conference of the Center for Design and Geopolitics. Black Box theater, Calit2. University of California, San Diego. 06.02.012
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Feb 7, 2012
Future Health – Quantified Self and the Future of Personal Health
Video | 2012-02-07
The local San Diego Quantified Self meetup group working in collaboration with CALIT2, the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, and the West Wireless Health Institute brought together great panel discussion. 02.07.2012.
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Dec 16, 2010
Calit2 4K 10th Anniversary Promo
Video | 2010-12-16
Director Larry Smarr and UC San Diego Division Director Ramesh Rao reflect on the history and future of Calit2 on the occasion of its 10th Anniversary. This film was shot in 4K resolution on a RED digital Cinema camera.
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Mar 6, 2007
Calit2 Atkinson Hall Building Fly Thru
Video | 2007-03-06
From notated two dimensional plans, Ben Maggos, Matt Hope and Bobby Mazaheri constructed 3D models of the Calit2 Atkinson Hall building under the direction of NMA layer leader, Sheldon Brown.
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Nov 18, 2009
Larry Smarr on Green IT Strategies
Podcasts | 2009-11-18
In this seven minute podcast, Calit2 Director Larry Smarr shares his thoughts on strategizing cleaner energy for data centers and greener IT campus-wide.
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May 2, 2007
Futures in Biotech 15 – The SuperNet
Podcasts | 2007-05-02
Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Leo Laporte Guest: Dr. Larry Smarr, the Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2)
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