CAL-(IT)2, UCSD Team with Bigbangwidth to Speed “OPTIPUTER” – HPC Wire
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.
He sees IT coming – Mizzou Alumni Magazine
For decades, Larry Smarr has helped shape information technology that has given us the Internet, special effects for blockbuster movies and more.
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.
The “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).
Planet Internet – MIT Review
Achievements to date: Internet backbone, Web browser. So when Larry Smarr takes the reins of a new $400 million institute and starts talking about intelligent highways and digital genomics, people listen.