OptIPuter, Pacific and National Research Platforms, LambdaGrid, Kubernetes, and distributed data-intensive computing.
mediavideoNCSA’s Science by Satellite – SIGGRAPH 1989
NCSA used its presence at SIGGRAPH 1989 to paint a vision of distance bing eliminated by network and computing technology.
publicationLife After Internet: Making Room For New Applications – Information Technology Quarterly
Harvard University Information Technology Quarterly issue on Building an Information Infrastructure, Summer 1991, Vol. IX, No. 2, 12-21, with C. C. Catlett.
mediaDoing Science on the Network: A Long Way From Gutenberg – New York Times
In science, as in many other realms, computer networks are having a revolutionary influence. In forging intimate new ties among researchers around the globe, the computer is rapidly replacing old intellectual traditions with new ways of doing science.
A Whirlwind Tour of Science on the NRP
Invited presentation, Seventh National Research Platform Conference (7NRP), UC San Diego.
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The CENIC AI Resource Powers Diverse Disciplines
CENIC 2026: The Right Connection, Monterey, California. The archive date follows the official conference program; the source title slide retains its original year typo.
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From the Creation of CENIC to the CENIC-AI Resource
CENIC Annual Retreat.
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AI/ML Computing Across Scientific Disciplines
Invited presentation, Sixth National Research Platform Conference (6NRP), UC San Diego.
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presentationslides + videoThe CENIC-AI Resource
Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Technology Policy and Planning Committee (TPPC) – December 5, 2024
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NRP Supports AI/ML/DS Researchers and Students at UC San Diego
HDSI Faculty Council, UC San Diego.
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The Emergence of the National Research Platform: With University of Missouri Leadership
Invited seminar, University of Missouri-Columbia.
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presentationThe CENIC-AI Resource: The Right Connection
CENIC 2024: The Right Connection March 26, 2024
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presentationslides + videoThe Rise of NRP AI/ML Computing Across Diverse Disciplines
Invited Presentation Fifth National Research Platform Conference (5NRP) UC San Diego March 21, 2024
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Getting Started Using the National Research Platform
SoX Monthly Workshop Remote Presentation September 29, 2023
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The Increasing Use of the National Research Platform by the CSU Campuses
CIO Council Cal Poly Humboldt September 22, 2023
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The CENIC-Connected Cyberinfrastructure Commons: Enabling AI for Research and Education
Annual CENIC Retreat AI Panel July 18, 2023
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presentationThe National Research Platform Enables a Growing Diversity of Users and Applications
Remote Presentation Emerging Centers Track Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC) June 21, 2023
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presentationNRP Application Drivers
Presentation 4th National Research Platform (4NRP) Workshop February 9, 2023
presentationvideo4NRP Annual Conference 2023
Panel: Future Wireless Extensions of Regional Optical Networks
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Utilizing Nautilus and the National Research Platform for Big Data Research and Teaching
Panel Presentation Larry Smarr and Grant Scott MOREnet 2022 Annual Conference October 19, 2022
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presentationThe PRP and Its Applications
Panel Presentation With Tom DeFanti and Frank Wuerthwein Nautilus and the National Research Platform CENIC 2022 Annual Conference September 27, 2022
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Toward a National Research Platform to Enable Data-Intensive Open-Source Science Distributed Computing
Remote Briefing to the Data & Compute Architecture Study Workshop September 7, 2022
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The NSF Grants Leading Up to CHASE-CI ENS
Zoom Presentation to The NSF CHASE-CI ENS Grant Advisory Board July 8, 2022
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Integrated Optical Fiber/Wireless Systems for Environmental Monitoring
Invited Keynote UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Dean’s Council of Advisors Meeting UC San Diego May 12, 2022
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presentationThe Rise of Super-network Data Intensive Computing
Invited Remote Lecture to SC21 The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis St. Louis, Missouri November 18, 2021
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presentationToward a National Research Platform to Enable Data-Intensive Computing
Virtual Data Science Seminar Institute for Data Science New Jersey Institute of Technology October 27, 2021
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presentationThe Pacific Research Platform: The First Six Years
PRP Capstone Symposium Virtual Meeting June 22, 2021
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The Pacific Research Platform-a High-Bandwidth Distributed Supercomputer
Super Computing Asia (SCA21) Singapore March 2-4, 2021
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presentationslides + videoUC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 014
Larry is a physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. He’ll be speaking about the Pacific Research Platform (PRP), and the Nautilus Project.
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presentationslides + videoNCSA Colloquium | The Pacific Research Platform: a Science-Driven Big-Data Freeway System
The NCSA Colloquia series brings leaders in big data, big computing, and big research to the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign to enlighten and spark innovation among researchers.
presentationAn Integrated West Coast Science DMZ for Data-Intensive Research
Panel Presentation CENIC Annual Conference University of California, Irvine – Irvine, CA March 9, 2015
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presentationvideoThe Next Ten Years in Computing
Larry Smarr shares his vision of the future of computing and what changes are on the horizon in the next ten years at the Rethink Disruption conference. 11.24.2014.
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A California-Wide Cyberinfrastructure for Data-Intensive Research
Invited Presentation CENIC Annual Retreat Santa Rosa, CA July 22, 2014
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Building US-Mexico Collaborations Using Optical Networks
Calit2 Director Larry Smarr presents at the opening session of the Big Data Big Network 2 Workshop, which follows the first such workshop which took place at CICESE in Ensenada, Mexico, featuring public and private networking officials from both sides of the border.
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High Performance Cyberinfrastructure Is Required for the Era of Big Data
Opening Workshop Presentation “Whither Science in Mexico: an Analysis for Action from the Academic, Industry and Technology” Held at CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico
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A Campus-Scale High Performance Cyberinfrastructure is Required for Data-Intensive Research
Keynote Presentation CENIC 2013 Held at Calit2@UCSD 03.11.2013
presentationvideoTerminating the GLIF at UCSD – 2013 ON*VECTOR
Presenter: Larry Smarr, Calit2 Illustrated Lecture and Remote Collaboration with UIC/ EVL. February 28, 2013
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Bringing Mexico Into the Global LambdaGrid
CENIC 2012 Conference Award Talk 2012 CENIC Innovations in Networking Award *for High-Performance Research Applications: *Enhancing Mexican/American Research Collaborations. Title: Bringing Mexico Into the Global LambdaGrid Palo Alto, CA
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A Campus-Scale High Performance Cyberinfrastructure is Required for Data-Intensive Research
Seminar Presentation Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE) Princeton University Princeton, NJ
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High Performance Cyberinfrastructure is Needed to Enable Data-Intensive Science and Engineering
Remote Luncheon Presentation from Calit2@UCSD National Science Board Expert Panel Discussion on Data Policies National Science Foundation Arlington, Virginia
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Science and Cyberinfrastructure in the Data-Dominated Era
Invited talk Symposium #1610, How Computational Science Is Tackling the Grand Challenges Facing Science and Society San Diego, CA
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Bringing Mexico Into the Global LambdaGrid
Presentation Visit by UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies La Jolla, CA
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The Future Applications of Australia’s National Broadband Network
Invited Talk Digital Futures Keynote Address Plenary Hall, Wrest Point Hotel Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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There are No Islands in Cyberspace – Tasmania’s Leading Role in the NBN
Invited Talk Inaugural Joseph Aloysius Lyons Lecture The Board of the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI) Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Superhuman Cyberinfrastructure – Crossing the Rubicon – Singularity University
Invited Talk Singularity University NASA Ames Mountain View, CA
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The OptIPlanet Collaboratory — a Global CineGrid Testbed
Invited Presentation CineGrid International Workshop 2008 La Jolla, CA
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A New Global Research Platform – Dedicated 10Gbps Lightpaths
Panel Symposium on How Will the U.S. Elections Change US-China Cooperation Tsinghua University Beijing, China
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The OptIPlanet Collaboratory
Invited Presentation CENIC / CalREN-XD/HPR WORKSHOP 2008 La Jolla, CA
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From the Shared Internet to Personal Light Waves: How the OptIPuter is Transforming Scientific Research
Invited Talk Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA
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The OptIPlanet Collaboratory Supporting Researchers Worldwide
Talk CineGrid Workshop La Jolla, CA
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OptIPuter-A High Performance SOA LambdaGrid Enabling Scientific Applications
IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award Keynote At the Joint Meeting of the: 8th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems 2nd International Workshop on Ad Hoc, Sensor and P2P Networks 11th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems.
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Bringing Mexico Into Global Borderless Innovation
Invited Talk ADIAT Tijuana, Mexico
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Bringing Mexico Into the Global LambdaGrid
Calit2 Workshop
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Metacomputer Architecture of the Global LambdaGrid
Invited Talk Department of Computer Science Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Irvine, CA
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The OptIPuter Project: From the Grid to the LambdaGrid
Invited Talk IEEE Orange County Computer Society Irvine, CA
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Blowing up the Box–the Emergence of the Planetary Computer
Invited Talk Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN
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How Fiber Optics are Transforming our World
Invited Talk Telluride Tech Festival Telluride, CO
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Towards a World of Ubiquitous Sensors and Actuators
After Dinner Talk AFOSR Program Review Birch Aquarium, UCSD
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The OptiPuter, Quartzite, and Starlight Projects: A Campus to Global-Scale Testbed for Optical Technologies Enabling LambdaGrid Computing
Invited Talk Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC2005). Anaheim, CA.
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The Optiputer – Toward a Terabit LAN
The On*VECTOR Terabit LAN Workshop Hosted by Calit2 University of California, San Diego
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OptIPuter Overview
Third All Hands Meeting OptIPuter Project San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego
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Using OptIPuter Innovations to Enable LambdaGrid Applications
Keynote JGN II Symposium HDTV Over Fiber From Seattle to Osaka
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presentationvideoSensor Networks for Healthcare, the Environment and Homeland Defense
Larry Smarr’s talk from February 2002 at the Jacobs School of Engineering, where he discusses Sensor Networks.
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Constructing a National Scalable Information Infrastructure
Plenary talk, National Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (NEEDHA 2000) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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presentationvideoNetworked Computing, lecture by Larry Smarr on Scientific Computing – Open Michigan
To appreciate the opportunities and make wise choices about the use of technology, information professionals need to understand the architectures of modern information systems.
presentationFrom Supercomputing to the Grid
Invited Talk at SGI Booth, Supercomputing ‘98 Orlando, Florida, November 10, 1998
The Emerging National Technology Grid: Coupling Supercomputers, Networks, Virtual Reality to the Researchers’ Desktops
1998 Annual Kansas Center for Advanced Scientific Computing Distinguished Lecture, University of Kansas.
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Increasing Competitiveness Through the Utilization of Emerging Technologies
Leader to Leader Speaker Series, Allstate Insurance Company. Source presentation is labeled “Proprietary Material Removed.”
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Information Infrastructure for the Social Sciences in the 21st Century
Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. Memorial Lecture Series on Advanced Topics in Social Research, University of Michigan.
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Supercomputers: Directions in Technology, Architecture, and Applications
Keynote presentation, Supercomputer ’98, Mannheim, Germany.
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Supercomputing and International Network Collaboration in the 21st Century
Presentation to Illinois Secretary of State George Ryan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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The Coming of the Grid
Building a Computational Grid Workshop Argonne National Laboratory September 8-10,1997
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Redefining Collaboration through Groupware – From Groupware to Societyware
Vanguard University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign September 22-23, 1994 Atlanta, GA
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publicationBuilding a Scalable America
L. Smarr, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1082, 35-42 (1996).
publicationComputational Infrastructure: Toward the 21st Century
L. Smarr, CACM 40(11): 28-32 (1997).
publicationA Nationwide Parallel Computing Environment
K. Kennedy, C. F. Bender, J. W. D. Connolly, J. L. Hennessy, M. K. Vernon, L. Smarr, CACM 40(11): 62-72 (1997).
publicationGrids in Context
L. Smarr, Chapter 1 in The Grid: A Blueprint for the New Computing Infrastructure edited by I. Foster and C. Kesselman (MKP) (1998).
publicationInformation Technology Research: Investing In Our Future A Report To The President Of The United States
Members of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee. (1999).
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mediaNCSA Unveils ROADRUNNER Linux-based Workstation Supercluster – HPC Wire
The National Computational Science Alliance will introduce its first 128 processor workstation supercluster running the Linux operating system as the latest addition to the National Technology Grid, its arsenal of powerful computational resources.
publicationInfrastructure For Science Portals – IEEE Internet
From Arpanet to NSFnet, this far-reaching partnership between government, universities and industry planted the seeds that grew into the modern cyberworld. More recently, NCSA Mosaic and NCSA’s Web server software catalyzed the development of the World Wide Web.
publicationThe Emergence Of Grid Information Infrastructures
Larry Smarr, Chapter 23 in AAAS Science and Technology Yearbook 2000, editors Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson, Ceilia McEnaney, Stephen J. Lita.
mediaThe Soul of the Ultimate Machine – New York Times
The Internet, he explained, is evolving into a single vast computer fashioned out of billions of interconnected processors. Then he went another step: ”The real question, from a software point of view, is: Will it become self-aware?”
mediaTECHNOLOGY; Computer Gains Driven by Consumer Products – New York Times
The twice-annual ranking of the world’s 500 fastest computers, being issued today, shows that the United States still has a significant lead in building powerful supercomputers.
mediaThe “OPTIPUTER”: A New Paradigm for Data Computing – HPC Wire
The National Science Foundation (NSF) 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).
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Supercomputer To Utilize Optical Fibers – New York Times
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.
publicationThe OptIPuter
Larry Smarr, Andrew Chien, Tom DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Philip Papadopoulos, Comm. ACM, 46 (11) 58-67 (2003).
mediaLarry Smarr, Internet’s grandfather, looking for an encore
In 1985, Larry Smarr started championing the construction of the first National Science Foundation (NSF) backbone, which connected the five NSF supercomputer centers in 1986.
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Smarr Touts Optical Networks As Nation’s Future – HPC Wire
November 11, 2004 – Smarr emphasizes the importance of networking to U.S. competitiveness and elaborates on his current projects and activities.
publicationA Framework For Middleware Supporting Real-Time Wide-Area Distributed Computing
Kane Kim, Steve Jenks, Larry Smarr, Andrew Chien, and Liang-Chen Zheng, Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2005) pp. 231-240. Sedona, AZ, February 2-4, 2005.
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publicationThe OptIPuter, Quartzite, And Starlight Projects: A Campus To Global-Scale Testbed For Optical Technologies Enabling LambdaGrid Computing
Larry Smarr, Joe Ford, Phil Papadopoulos, Shaya Fainman, Thomas DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Jason Leigh, Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) 2005, Anaheim, California, March 6-11, 2005, CD ROM.
publicationThe Cyberinfrastructure Backplane: The Jump To Light Speed – Introduction
Larry Smarr and Phil Papadopoulos, Guest Editors, Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch (CTWatch) Quarterly, vol. 1, #2 May 2005, pps 2-4. (2005).
mediaThe OptIPuter Gets Real – HPC Wire
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.
publicationIGrid 2005: The Global Lambda Integrated Facility
L. Smarr, T. A. DeFanti, M. D. Brown and C. de Laat, Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 22, Elsevier, pp. 849-851 (2006).
publicationThe OptIPuter: High-Performance, QoS-Guaranteed Network Service For Emerging E-Science Applications
N. Taesombut, F. Uyeda, A.A. Chien, L. Smarr, T.A. DeFanti, P. Papadopoulos, J. Leigh, M. Ellisman, J. Orcutt. IEEE Communications, 4, 38- 45 (2006).
publicationThe OptIPuter: A National and Global-Scale Cyberinfrastructure for Enabling LambdaGrid Computing
M. Brown, L. Smarr, T. DeFanti, J. Leigh, M. Ellisman, P. Papadopoulos, TeraGrid ’06 Proceedings, Indianapolis, IN, June 12-15, (2006).
publicationGrid Networks: Enabling Grids with Advanced Communication Technology
Foreword by Larry Smarr – (Franco Travostino, Joe Mambretti, Gigi Karmous-Edwards, editors), John Wiley & Sons, pp. xxv – xxvi. August 2006.
publicationRiding the Light Towards New Science – Nature Photonics
Smarr, Larry. “Riding the light towards new science.” nature photonics 1, no. 3 (2007): 133-135.
mediaThe Case For Faster Broadband: Professor Larry Smarr – StereoNET
The future of broadband in Australia is already a hot election issue, but a US analyst is warning today that the proposals being put forward by both the Government and the Labor Party will ultimately force a steep fall in living standards in Australia.
publicationQuartzite: A Campus-Scale Hybrid Networking Infrastructure
P. Papadopoulos, B. Dunne, L. Smarr, J. Ford, S. Fainman, Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, San Diego, CA, 2008, pp. 1-3. (2008).
mediaOptical Network Is Key to Next-Generation Research Cyberinfrastructure – HPC Wire
June 11, 2008 – At TeraGrid ’08 Conference, UC San Diego’s Smarr urges university campuses to remove network bottlenecks to supercomputer users
publicationSpecial Section: OptIPlanet – The OptIPuter Global Collaboratory
L. Smarr, M. Brown, C. de Laat, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25, pp. 109-113 (2009)
publicationInfrastructure for eScience and eLearning in Higher Education
Lazowska, E., Lee, P., Elliott, C., & Smarr, L. Infrastructure for eScience and eLearning in Higher Education. 12/12/2008. Computing Community Consortium.
mediaUS net pioneer hails Australian govt’s ‘breathtaking’ broadband network – Goldstein Report
Call him Kevin Rudd’s $ 43 billion man. Larry Smarr, a 60-year-old US physicist and one of the pioneers of the internet, says the Rudd Government’s announcement last month of a new broadband network is “breathtaking” and puts Australia at the forefront of government policy around the world embracing “intelligent infrastructure”, reports The Australian.
mediaNBN ‘breathtaking’ – The Political Flâneur
Larry Smarr, one of the early pioneers of the Internet, says “the Rudd Government’s announcement last month of a new broadband network is “breathtaking” and puts Australia at the forefront of government policy around the world embracing “intelligent infrastructure”.
publicationThe OptIPuter And Its Applications – IEEE LEOS
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Summer 2009 Topical Meeting on Future Global Networks, July 22, 2009, pp. 151-152
publicationThe OptIPuter and Its Applications
Summer Topical Meeting, 2009 on Future Global Networks. LEOSST ’09. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), pp 151-152 (2009)
publicationA High-Performance Campus-Scale Cyberinfrastructure For Effectively Bridging End-User Laboratories To Data-Intensive Sources
Philip Papadopoulos, Larry Smarr. Submitted to the NSF Campus Bridging Network/Data Workshop, April 1, 2010
publicationThe Emergence Of A Planetary-Scale Collaboratory For Data-Intensive Research
Larry Smarr. In Ian Piumarta and Kim Rose (eds.),”Points of View — a tribute to Alan Kay”, Viewpoints Research Institute, May 2010, pp. 79–96. ISBN 978-0-9743131-1-5.
mediaThe Future of Broadband — in Tasmania – New York Times
By 2013, Tasmania plans to have the hyper-speed broadband available to nearly all its 500,000 citizens — and the government is installing it without charging the users. The plan is for the rollout to be completed throughout Australia five to seven years.
publicationAn Evolution Toward A Programmable Universe – The New York Times
Using this data, the planetary computer will be able to build a computational model of your body and compare your sensor stream with millions of others. Besides providing early detection of internal changes that could lead to disease, cloud-powered voice-recognition wellness coaches could provide continual personalized support on lifestyle choices, potentially staving off disease
mediaOne Cloud to Rule Them All – HPC Wire
December 6, 2011 – Smarr’s theory begins with a simple premise: “Over the next 10 years, the physical world will become ever more overlaid with devices for sending and receiving information.”
mediaA Big Data Freeway for Scientists – New York Times
The University of California, San Diego, this week plans to announce that it has installed an advanced optical computer network that is intended to serve as a “Big Data freeway system” for next-generation science projects in fields including genomic sequencing, climate science, electron microscopy, oceanography and physics.
mediaBrainlike Computers, Learning From Experience – New York Times
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.
mediaIntelligence Too Big for a Single Machine – New York Times
Ever since the computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence in 1955, the field has gone through cycles of boundless optimism and sobering disillusion.
mediaResearch Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet – New York Times
A series of ultra-high-speed fiber-optic cables will weave a cluster of West Coast university laboratories and supercomputer centers into a network called the Pacific Research Platform as part of a five-year $5 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.
mediaNSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform – HPC Wire
BERKELEY and LA MIRADA, Calif., Aug. 4 — For the last three years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a series of competitive grants to over 100 U.S. universities to aggressively upgrade their campus network capacity for greatly enhanced science data access.
mediaLarry Smarr on Solving the Big Data Challenge in HPC – HPC Wire
September 25, 2015 – Internet pioneer Larry Smarr once had a vision of bringing connected computers out of academia and into the consumer world. Today, he envisions a second virtual highway, one capable of delivering on the promise of big data by leveraging fiber optic networks to transmit data at speeds of 10 gigabits to 100 gigabits per second.
mediaCyber-archaeology, Big data and the race to save threatened cultural heritage sites – UC News
“People have been destroying material culture representations of their enemies for millennia,” said Thomas Levy, distinguished professor of anthropology at UC San Diego and director of the Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute.
mediaLarry Smarr Talks Machine Intelligence at Jackson State – HPC Wire
JACKSON, Miss., April 13, 2017 — Dr. Larry Smarr, physicist and Big Data thought leader, practices what he preaches.
mediaNSF Project Sets Up First Machine Learning Cyberinfrastructure – HPC Wire
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.
publicationThe Pacific Research Platform: Making High-Speed Networking a Reality for the Scientist
L. Smarr, C. Crittenden, T. DeFanti, J. Graham, D. Mishin, R. Moore, P. Papadopoulos, F. Würthwein. In PEARC ’18: Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing, pp. 1-8. (2018).
publicationWorkflow-Driven Distributed Machine Learning in CHASE-CI: A Cognitive Hardware and Software Ecosystem Community Infrastructure
I. Altintas, K. Marcus, I. Nealey, S. Sellars, J. Graham, D. Mishin, J. Polizzi, D. Crawl, T. DeFanti, L. Smarr. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW) (2019).
publicationThe Evolution of Bits and Bottlenecks in a Scientific Workflow Trying to Keep up With Technology: Accelerating 4D Image Segmentation Applied to NASA data
S. Sellars, J. Graham, D. Mishin, K. Marcus, I. Altintas, T. DeFanti, L. Smarr, C. Crittenden, F. Wuerthwein, J. Tatar, P. Nguyen, E. Shearer, S. Sorooshian, M. Ralph, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International eScience Conference (2019).
mediaSC21: Larry Smarr on The Rise of Supernetwork Data Intensive Computing – HPC Wire
November 26, 2021 – At SC21 last week, Smarr delivered a racing reprise of this (ongoing) HPC tour de force in his talk, The Rise of Supernetwork Data Intensive Computing. Presented here are a sampling of his comments (lightly edited) and quite a few of his slides.
mediaFrom Coffee Cart to Educational Computing Platform – UCSD News
In classic UC San Diego fashion, an overheard conversation at a campus coffee cart has turned into an interdisciplinary project that’s making computing-intensive coursework more exciting while saving well over one million dollars so far.
mediaSan Diego Supercomputer Center and CENIC Work to Expand AI Education Infrastructure in California – UC San Diego Today
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) have developed a prescient AI education infrastructure called CENIC AI Resource (CENIC AIR) for K-12 education, public libraries, community colleges, the California State University (CSU) and the University of California (UC) campus systems.
publicationThe National Research Platform: Stretched, Multi-Tenant, Scientific Kubernetes Cluster
Weitzel, D., Graves, A., Albin, S., Zhu, H., Wuerthwein, F., Tatineni, M., Mishin, D., Khoda, E., Sada, M., Smarr, L. and DeFanti, T., 2025. The National Research Platform: Stretched, Multi-Tenant, Scientific Kubernetes Cluster. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2025: The Power of Collaboration (pp. 1-5).
