Distributed Systems
The National Research Platform: Stretched, Multi-Tenant, Scientific Kubernetes Cluster
Critical operational insights are discussed, including security enhancements using Kubernetes-integrated threat detection, extensive monitoring, and comprehensive accounting systems.
The Evolution of Bits and Bottlenecks in a Scientific Workflow Trying to Keep up With Technology: Accelerating 4D Image Segmentation Applied to NASA data
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International eScience Conference (2019).
Workflow-Driven Distributed Machine Learning in CHASE-CI: A Cognitive Hardware and Software Ecosystem Community Infrastructure
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW) (2019).
The Pacific Research Platform: Making High-Speed Networking a Reality for the Scientist
Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing, pp. 1-8. (2018).
An 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
The 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).
A 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
The 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)
The 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 Abstract The NSF-funded OptIPuter project [see www.optiputer.net and special issue of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 25, Issue 2, February 2009] has been exploring for the last six years how user-controlled 10Gbps dedicated lightpaths (lambdas) […]
Infrastructure 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.
Special Section: OptIPlanet – The OptIPuter Global Collaboratory
L. Smarr, M. Brown, C. de Laat, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25, pp. 109-113 (2009).
Quartzite: 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).
Riding the Light Towards New Science – Nature Photonics
Smarr, Larry. "Riding the light towards new science." nature photonics 1, no. 3 (2007): 133-135.
Grid Networks: Enabling Grids with Advanced Communication Technology
Foreword by Larry Smarr - John Wiley & Sons, pp. xxv - xxvi. August 2006.
The 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).
The 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).
IGrid 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).
The 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).
The OptIPuter, Quartzite, And Starlight Projects: A Campus To Global-Scale Testbed For Optical Technologies Enabling LambdaGrid Computing
Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) 2005, Anaheim, California, March 6-11, 2005.
A Framework For Middleware Supporting Real-Time Wide-Area Distributed Computing
Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2005) pp. 231-240. Sedona, AZ, February 2-4, 2005.
The OptIPuter
Larry Smarr, Andrew Chien, Tom DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Philip Papadopoulos, Comm. ACM, 46 (11) 58-67 (2003).
The 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. (2000).
Infrastructure 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.
Information 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).
Grids 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).
Computational Infrastructure: Toward the 21st Century
L. Smarr, CACM 40(11): 28-32 (1997).
A 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).
Building a Scalable America
L. Smarr, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1082, 35-42 (1996).
Metacomputing
L. Smarr, C. E. Catlett, Comm. of the ACM, 35(6):44-52 (1992).
Life After Internet: Making Room For New Applications – Information Technology Quarterly
Harvard University Information Technology Quarterly issue on Building an Information Infrastructure, Vol. IX, No. 2, 12-21, with C. C. Catlett. Summer 1991.
San 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.
From 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.
SC21: 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.
NSF 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.
Larry 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.
Cyber-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.
Larry 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.
NSF 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.
Research 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.
Intelligence 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.
Brainlike 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.
A 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.
One 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.”
The 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.
NBN ‘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".
US 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.
Optical 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
The 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.
The 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.
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.
Larry 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.
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).
TECHNOLOGY; 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.
The 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?''
NCSA 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.