06/18/08 iSGTW "Optical network key to next-generation e-research"

At the TeraGrid '08 conference, UC San Diego’s Larry Smarr urges university campuses to remove network bottlenecks to supercomputer users.



6/11/08 HPCwire "Optical Network Is Key to Next-Generation Research Cyberinfrastructure"

The director of Calit2 said today that all the pieces are in place for a revolution in the usability of remote high performance computers to advance science across many disciplines. He urged early adopter application scientists to drive the creation of end-to-end dedicated lightpaths connecting remote supercomputers to their labs, greatly enhancing their local capability to analyze visually massive datasets generated by TeraGrid's terascale to petascale computers.



01/16/08 Max Australia "University of Melbourne Initiates Australia’s Ultra-Resolution Global Collaboration Laboratory"

In the last two months, the University of Melbourne has constructed a massive 96 million pixel “OptIPortal” visualization wall - known affectionately as the ‘OzIPortal’- constructed from 24 x 30 inch LCD screens. 



08/22/07 International Science Grid This Week
"LOOKING to sea: grids reveal our deepest secrets"

Article about the Laboratory for the Ocean Observatory Knowledge Integration Grid (LOOKING), which is "using grid technology to raise the bar when it comes to oceanographic data." The LOOKING project grew out of the OptIPuter's Earth science application

07/30/07 University of Michigan Record Online
"Key Initiatives for the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Campus"

The FY 2008 budget selectively supports new research, instructional programs and facilities that promise to keep U-M at the forefront. A School of Information pilot project (Virtual Space Interactive Test Bed) to improve interactions between and among faculty and students and to facilitate formal and informal meetings between North and Central campuses through the use of OptiPortals.

11/28/2006 SpaceRef"NASA Demonstrates Cross-Country Visualization Application Using Obsidian Longbows"
Obsidian Research Corporation, the leader in InfiniBand range extension, helps NASA bring the power of its top-rated Columbia supercomputer to SC06 by using the Obsidian Longbow XR to transparently extend the benefits of its InfiniBand network across a 6,400 km 10GE Wide-Area Network (WAN).

11/27/2006 NCDM"NCDM Wins SC 06 Bandwidth Challenge and Establishes New Milestone Transporting Terabyte Size E-Science Data Sets"
A team of experts from the University of Illinois at Chicago's National Center for Data Mining (NCDM), Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University won the 7th annual Bandwidth Challenge held November 16th in Tampa, FL at SC06, the international conference for high performance computing, networking and storage.

11/26/2006 HPCwire"NCDM Wins Bandwidth Challenge at SC06"
The National Center for Data Mining at UIC has won the HPC Bandwidth Challenge at SC06 in Tampa, FL, sponsored by Qwest. Nine institutions participated in the competition. NCDM won by sustaining a data transfer rate of 8 Gb/s over a 10 Gb/s link, with a peak rate of 9.18 Gb/s during the competition window. NCDM uses its own open source software products, UDT and SECTOR, to transfer large datasets efficiently at high speeds on optical networks.

11/18/2006 HPCWire"Purdue Researchers Stream Massive Internet"
Researchers at Purdue University's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization have transmitted what may be the largest movie ever streamed over the Internet.

11/15/2006 HPCWire"Building a Visualization Cluster with Rocks"
As high performance computing (HPC) becomes a ubiquitous part of the scientific computing landscape, the science of visualizing HPC datasets has become a critical field of its own. One of the hottest solutions can be found in commoditized high performance visualization clusters (HPVC), which are just starting to pop up in data rich environments around the world.

11/13/2006 I2-NEWS"ResearchChannel to Reveal the Research Environment of the Future at SC 06"
At this year's SuperComputing 2006 conference in Tampa, Fla., ResearchChannel (www.researchchannel.org) will demonstrate the look and feel of the research environment of the future. Leading-edge visualization and conferencing technologies actually make this interactive environment possible today and will one day revolutionize
>>how research is carried out.

09/11/2006 GRIDtoday"New Global Grid Computing and Communications Technology Demonstrated by Researchers in the U.S. and Japan"
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (Sept. 11, 2006) -- Researchers in the United States and Japan today demonstrated "automated" interoperability between network and computing resources in two national grid computing research testbeds ­ the first such demonstration of this scale between two countries of new, integrated computing and communication technology that can be used to exponentially enhance next-generation Internet performance.

09/01/2006 Optics & Photonics News"The OptIPuter: An Information Superhighway for Terabytes"
Using a single computer to do scientific research is sooooo 20th century, according to supercomputing pioneer Larry Smarr. His OptIPuter team is laying the groundwork for linking computers all over the world via dedicated optical-fiber channels.

07/27/2006 Chicago Tribune"New Internet Is the Stuff of Dreams"
 The day is coming when you'll talk to a friend, even shake his hand and offer him a seat--from a city hundreds of miles away.

A new and improved Internet, now under development in labs around the globe, will offer holographic images and go beyond the flat screen in other ways, offering consumers an array of products that can only be imagined right now. You could find yourself in the middle of a virtual reality NASCAR race, for example. Or perhaps you'll become a detective trying to solve a three-dimensional mystery.

In other words, it isn't your father's Internet.

06/28/2006 Science Grid This Week"The OptIPuter: 21st Century E-Science"
Reprinted from GRIDtoday article by Faith Singer-Villalobos from the Texas Advanced Computing Center

The OptIPuter project­named for its use of optical networking, computer storage, processing and visualization technologies­is a 21st-century prototype cyberinfrastructure that tightly couples computational resources over parallel optical networks using the internet protocol (IP) communication mechanism

06/27/2006 GRID Today"The OptIPuter: 21st Century E-Science"
The OptIPuter project -- named for its use of optical networking, computer storage, processing and visualization technologies -- is a 21st-century prototype cyberinfrastructure that tightly couples computational resources over parallel optical networks using the internet protocol (IP) communication mechanism.

06/27/2006 International CNN.com"Study: Stress building up along south San Andreas fault"
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- The southern end of the San Andreas fault near Los Angeles, which has not had a major rupture for more than 300 years, is under immense stress and could produce a massive earthquake, a new study said on Wednesday.

06/15/2006 NetworkWorld.com"Futuristic optical system tackles image processing: OptIPuter clustering system outlined at TeraGrid '06 conference"
A team of researchers led by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of California at San Diego are creating an IP-based computing system for scientists who need to visualize and analyze massive amounts of data stored in multiple locations connected via optical networks.

06/15/2006 Reprinted from NetworkWorld.com"Futuristic Optical System Tackles Image Processing"
Researchers led by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of California at San Diego are creating an IP-based computing system that can help scientists visualize and analyze massive amounts of data from multiple locations connected via optical networks. Dubbed the OptIPuter, the federally funded project is focused on earth, ocean and biosciences applications, where researchers have large repositories of 2-D and 3-D images.

05/30/2006 Calit2"National LambdaRail Selects Calient Networks Switches for Backbone Network"
Calient Networks, a leading supplier of carrier-class all-optical switching systems and GMPLS software, today announced that National LambdaRail (NLR), the provider of infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications in the U.S., has signed a multi-year supply contract to deploy Calient’s DiamondWave® PXC in key locations across the U.S. Further, NLR has signed a partnership and reseller agreement with Calient for the sale of the PXC to NLR members, including Regional Optical Networks (RONs).

05/30/2006 QJ.NET Blog Network"Visualize and Innovate with the LambdaTable"
You need not be a genius or a sociologist to know that there are so many things that are wrong with the world today. There is AIDS, famine, terrorism, corruption...the list goes on and on. With that, scientists and researchers need all the adequate and up-to-date technological resources to be able to alleviate the situation and even eradicate the problem.

05/24/2006 Science Grid This Week"3D Animation of Hurricane Katrina"
3D animation of the Katrina hurricane displayed on the 50 million pixel 'iCluster' system at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. The 'iCluster' is a visualization system that offers a resolution of up to 50 million pixels for the exploration of Earth sciences datasets.

04/07/2006 Apple"Seeing the Big Picture"
Today’s scientists require powerful visualization tools to bring their ever growing data sets to life. This is especially true for the researchers at SIO. That’s why they built iCluster, a 50-megapixel system composed of a wall of 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays driven by Power Mac G5s.

02/24/2006 HPCWire"National LambdaRail Completes Infrastructure Deployment"
National LambdaRail (NLR), a consortium of leading U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies, has announced that it has completed deployment of a nationwide advanced optical, Ethernet and IP networking network infrastructure on more than 15,000 miles of fiber optic cable across the United States.

01/27/2006 HPCwire"The OptIPuter Gets"
What do you get when you combine one of the most advanced computational infrastructures in the world with one of the most renowned genomic research organizations? We're about to find out. Larry Smarr recently spoke with HPCwire about how OptIPuter technology is poised to transform scientific research and discovery.

01/27/2006 HPC Wire"Optical Race"
Researchers collaborating over long distances are more interested than ever in the possibility of real-time decision making, which would allow geographically remote groups to view and work simultaneously with the same large datasets or large-scale, high-resolution visualizations. Technology development at TRECC is attempting to address this need by harnessing the power of optical networks.

01/27/2006 R&D Magazine"Photonic Switches Put the Internet on Steroids"
 Researchers around the world use the Internet to share data, collaborate on analyses, and publish results. But communication glitches that inconvenience the casual user disrupt scientific collaboration. Without reliable, fast, well-defined communication links, large data sets cannot be shared and scientific collaboration cannot prosper. The years since the birth of the Internet have seen tremendous advances in computing speed, and comparable growth in data collection: more instruments around the world are gathering more data. Bioscience and geoscience experiments can generate terabytes, even petabytes of data. Transmission speeds, however, have not kept pace.

12/09/2005 CNET News.com"Innovations battle natural calamities"
Scientists are banking on the convergence of several technology projects, such as an international "light pipe" for high-speed data exchange and even Google Earth, to eventually help predict and mitigate natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.

10/19/2005 Chicago Sun-Times"LambdaVision helps scientists get big picture"
Picture a wall of big-screen digital TV sets that create one giant image, nearly as picture-perfect as real life.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed such a 100-million-pixel display screen, measuring 17 feet wide and 8 feet tall, to help scientists work together more effectively to solve problems.

08/08/2005 EETimes Online"The list: R&D projects that must get done"
Larry Smarr has a simple back-of-the-envelope computation to support his proposition that the supercomputer's distinguished 30-year reign as a scientific-research driver may be nearing an end.

"From 1985 to today, supercomputers went from a gigaflops [the Cray] to 100 teraflops [IBM's Blue Gene] — an increase in performance of a factor of about 100,000 times. Now consider just one supernetwork, New York State's NYSERnet. It just lit up with 32 ten-gigabit lambdas — that's 320 Gbits, vs.a megabit in 1985," Smarr said. "So network performance has gone up by a factor of 320,000 times over the period."

05/23/2005 GRIDtoday"Larry Smarr on Future of Grid, Cyberinfrastructure"
Editor Derrick Harris interviewed Calit2 director Larry Smarr for this Q&A about, "among other things, the effects LambdaGrids will have on Grid computing, the timeline for a legitimate cyberinfrastructure in the United States and what he calls the "Third Era" for campus infrastructure."  

01/20/2005 Internet2"Hawaii's First 10Gbps External Network Connection Demonstrated By UH"
The University of Hawaii has demonstrated Hawaii's first 10Gbps (billions of bit per second) connection outside the State. The new link, which connects Hawaii to Australia and the U.S. mainland, is part of the SX TransPORT project, a partnership between the Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) and AARNet, Australia's Academic and Research Network.

12/01/2004 InterAct"OptIPuter Meeting Discusses Year 1 Progress & Plans for Year 2"
During a three-day meeting held in 2004, some 70 participants from Europe, the United States and Japan met to discuss OptIPuters first year of progress and update work plans, timelines and deliverables to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the second year...

11/22/2004 EE Times"Consortium sheds light on dark fiber's potential"
Research scientists are poised to take advantage of the enormous capacity of unused fiber that's lying underground waiting to be "lit." This so-called dark fiber, the result of the exuberant buildout of fiber optics in the 1990s, is available to anyone who needs to transfer massive amounts of data over long distances.

11/11/2004 HPCwire"Luminary Smarr Touts Optical Networks As Nation's Future"
Larry Smarr, a visionary and pioneer in the high-performance computing and Grid networking industries, found some time to discuss the importance of dedicated optical networks with HPCwire. Smarr emphasizes the importance of networking to U.S. competitiveness and elaborates on his current projects and activities.

11/10/2004 HPCwire"Tech Keynote West: Nat'l LambdaRail To Go Above and Beyond"
Kicking off the technical portion of the SC2004 program on Tuesday, November 9, was be Tom West, President and CEO of National LambdaRail, Inc., a national effort comprised of members and associates from across the country focused on implementing and operating a national network infrastructure to serve the needs of the advanced research community. HPCwire caught up with Tom to discuss what will be happening with NLR in 2005.

11/10/2004 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review"Powerful computers in demand"
Michael Yeomans reports on the start of SC2004 in Pittsburgh, with an overview of the state of supercomputing. He profiles "the National LambdaRail project -- a consortium of universities seeking to build a nationwide fiber-optic computing infrastructure to support researchers -- freeing them from the congestion of the common Internet," and quotes Cal-(IT)² director Larry Smarr as calling it "disruptive technology of the first order" that will allow researchers to have instantaneous access to computational power from supercomputers from inside their own laboratories, now that networks are faster than the computers they connect. 

11/08/2004 Yahoo! News"Platform Computing Launches Platform Rocks for Linux Cluster Market"
At Supercomputing 2004, Platform Computing announced a powerful new software solution called Platform Rocks, a comprehensive cluster management toolkit that simplifies and speeds the deployment and management of small to large scale Linux clusters. The article quotes SDSC program director Phil Papadopoulos as saying, "We look forward to the contributions that Platform and their partners will make to the open source community at large and especially to the education market. This adds value to the National Science Foundation's funding investment in the Rocks core development at UCSD and should positively impact the science and engineering research community." Papadopoulos is co-PI on the Cal-(IT)²-led OptIPuter project at UCSD. 

11/06/2004 Buffalo News"Buffalo seen as possible link with supercomputer network"
Writer Fred Williams reports on Cal-(IT)² director Larry Smarr's speech at the University of Buffalo, quoting him as saying, "We're completely balkanized on our campuses... [Without the capacity to connect with far-flung data sources,] you've got to sit in your little science cave."   

11/02/2004 Yahoo! News"End-To-End 10 Gbps Wavelength Inaugurates New Optical Networking Infrastructure"
A dedicated 3,200-mile wavelength linking Chicago and San Diego and dubbed the CAVEwave will support the NSF-funded and Cal-(IT)²-led OptIPuter project. OptIPuter PI and institute director Larry Smarr is quoted saying "the OptIPuter team is excited to be an early adopter of NLR [National LambdaRail] and CAVEwave services." 
 

11/02/2004 EE Times"Optical 'Pipeline' Opens Research Connections"
The trade publication's Nicolas Mokhoff reports that the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago "has acquired a dedicated 10 Gigabit 'pipe' on the National LambdaRail infrastructure from Chicago to the University of California, San Diego... The 3,200-mile wavelength, known as the CAVEwave, will initially tie to the OptIPuter project shared" between UIC and UCSD [led by Cal-(IT)² director Larry Smarr]. 

10/22/2004 HPC Wire"Internet Visionary Smarr To Deliver SC Global Keynote"
Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2], will give the keynote address at SC Global 2004, the Access Grid-enabled component of the SC04 high-performance computing, networking, and storage conference, Nov. 6-12, 2004.

08/30/2004 Sun News"Sun Java Workstations Power Biomedical "BioWall" Visualization Environment"
Biomedical researchers and scientists at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) located at the University of California, San Diego use Sun Java Workstations, NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics and partner technologies to power the "BioWall Tiled Display."

03/15/2004 Scotsman.com"Chiaro Networks' Enstara Ip/mpls Platform Selected by Cern for Trans-Atlantic Trial"
The Enstara(TM) Platform to Demonstrate Ultra Reliability

in Intercontinental Data-Intensive Grid Test Bed

Chiaro Networks, the developer of true infrastructure-class Internet Protocol/Multi-Protocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) platforms, today announced that its Enstara(TM) router has been selected by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) for its DataTAG project.

12/15/2003 Grid Today"Telescience Facilitates Biomedical Research on Global Grid"
The United States has not placed a high voltage electron microscope in service for biomedical research since the 1970s, yet access to these microscopes is vital for the study of disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, as well as mental retardation. To offset this obstacle, and improve speed and accessibility to microscopic data, the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR), in collaboration with the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), developed Telescience, a process that provides, through one Web interface, a suite of tools for end-to-end electron tomography including remote microscopy, bioinformatics, distributed computing and collaborative visualization. Telescience allows researchers to access rare, high energy electron microscopes.

11/28/2003 HPCwire"SDSC Bandwidth Challenge Winners Demonstrate at SC2003"
Four teams affiliated with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) won High Performance Bandwidth Challenge awards at SC2003. In the Bandwidth Challenge, contestants from science and engineering research communities around the world demonstrate the latest technologies and applications for high-performance networking, many of which are so demanding that no ordinary computer network could sustain them.

11/28/2003 HPCwire"Interview with Larry Smarr, Cal-(IT)²"
HPCwire Assistant Editor Tim Curns’ interview with Larry Smarr of Cal-(IT)² concerning his impressions of SC2003 and the future of supercomputing.

11/24/2003 New York Times"Grids and networks highlights of SC2003"
John Markoff column says new interest of supercomputers was evident at SC2003 trade show in Phoenix, which drew crowd of 8,000 visitors; says decline of Comdex show in Las Vegas, where attendance was down to 45,000 to 50,000 from more than 200,000 just three years ago, illustrates how center of gravity in computing world is shifting from its focus on development of faster, more powerful personal computers toward creating supersophisticated machines and building computing intelligence into common consumer electronics devices.
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11/24/2003 EnterTheGrid - Primeur Monthly"Supercomputer Awards at SC2003"
At the SC2003 conference last week, the winners of the Gordon Bell Prizes, the HPC Challenge, and the best research papers and poster were announced. The conference itself gives awards for Best Paper, Best Student Paper, Best Poster, and the HPC Challenge and Bandwidth Challenge. In addition, SC2003 serves as the venue for presenting the Gordon Bell Prizes, which reward practical uses of high-performance computers, including best performance of an application and best achievement in cost-performance. Additionally, two special awards are presented by the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) to recognize longtime innovators in high-performance computing.

11/23/2003 Primeur"Supercomputer Awards at SC2003"
At the SC2003 conference last week, the winners of the Gordon Bell Prizes, the HPC Challenge, and the best research papers and poster were announced. The conference itself gives awards for Best Paper, Best Student Paper, Best Poster, and the HPC Challenge and Bandwidth Challenge. In addition, SC2003 serves as the venue for presenting the Gordon Bell Prizes, which reward practical uses of high-performance computers, including best performance of an application and best achievement in cost-performance. Additionally, two special awards are presented by the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) to recognize longtime innovators in high-performance computing.

11/20/2003 HPCwire"HPC Interview with Dr. Andrew Chien, UCSD"
OptIPuter software architect Andrew Chien talks about how BigBangwidth’s technology fits into the project, in a Q&A with HPCwire at Supercomputing 2003.

11/20/2003 HPCwire"HPC Interview with Maxine Brown, Asociate Director, EVL"
HPCwire Editor-in-Chief Alan Beck’s interview with Maxine Brown, of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois-Chicago and project manager of the OptIPuter project.

11/20/2003 HPCwire"Interview with Steve Wallach, Chiaro"
In its daily coverage of Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix , AZ , the high-performance computing news service carried an interview with Steve Wallach, a key participant in the Cal- (IT)²-led OptIPuter project. HPC editor-in-chief Alan Beck asks the Chiaro Networks executive how the company’s Enstara router fits into the OptIPuter architecture; Wallach also talks about his vision for ‘supernetworking.’

11/20/2003 HPCwire"NLR Announces Lighting First Path of National Footprint"
National LambdaRail Inc, a consortium of leading U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies, announced that it successfully lit the initial segment on its national footprint between Chicago and Pittsburgh.

11/19/2003 Primeur"BigBangwidth to speed Optiputer data flows"
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. 

11/19/2003 GIGACOM"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. The project that involved the likes of Milo Medin (of @Home) rapidly evolved first into the NSFnet, and then into today’s commercial Internet.

11/19/2003 EnterTheGrid - Primeur Monthly"BigBangwidth to speed Optiputer data flows"
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.

11/18/2003 HPCwire"Cal-(IT)², UCSD Team with BigBangWidth to Speed OptIPuter"
The OptIPuter 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.

11/14/2003 HPCwire"UCSD, Cal-(IT)² and OptIPuter Researchers Will Join At SC2003"
The high-performance computing news service reports that intitute director Larry Smarr, Jacobs School dean Frieder Seible and co-PIs on the OptIPuter will be among those talking to Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix, AZ, the week of Nov. 15-21.

11/10/2003 New York Times"Europe Exceeds U.S. in Refining Grid Computing"
When the Swiss-based pharmaceutical giant Novartis needed a new supercomputer for designing drugs, the company found it already had one. It was hidden in the unused computing power the company had available in the thousands of PC’s that were already being used in its offices. Novartis used American software technology to harness the power of its office personal computers, but European and American scientists and government officials said that Europe was moving faster than the United States to capitalize on the approach, which is called grid computing.
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11/10/2003 GRIDtoday"Glimmerglass, UIC Join Forces to Develop New LambdaGrid Apps"
Glimmerglass, a supplier of Transparent Connectivity solutions, and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) announced a partnership to support the development of a new class of compute-intensive applications running on high-performance computers configured into Grids that are interconnected with fiber-optic links.

11/04/2003 Primeur"Glimmerglass and the University of Illinois at Chicago join forces to develop new LambdaGrid applications"
Glimmerglass and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have signed a partnership to support the development of a new class of compute-intensive applications running on high-performance computers configured into Grids that are interconnected with fiber-optic links. Glimmerglass is providing a System 300E Layer 1 Fiber Switch configured with Photonic Multicasting to EVL, and the partners are collaborating on Grid-related application research, proofs of concept, technical publications, and presentations.

11/04/2003 EnterTheGrid - Primeur Monthly"Glimmerglass and the University of Illinois at Chicago join forces to develop new LambdaGrid applications"
Glimmerglass and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have signed a partnership to support the development of a new class of compute-intensive applications running on high-performance computers configured into Grids that are interconnected with fiber-optic links. Glimmerglass is providing a System 300E Layer 1 Fiber Switch configured with Photonic Multicasting to EVL, and the partners are collaborating on Grid-related application research, proofs of concept, technical publications, and presentations.

12/02/2002 Chicago Tribune"Links adding up for grid computing"
Technology reporter Jon Van charts the history and current state of grid computing, and quotes Cal-(IT)² director Larry Smarr on the goals of the recently-announced OptIPuter project, led by UCSD and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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11/26/2002 San Diego Union-Tribune"UCSD in OptIPuter test"
In its weekly Technology Inc. section, the newspaper notes that Cal-(IT)² “plans to use an optical router as the heart of a campus-wide supercomputer,” with partners including IBM, Telcordia Technologies and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

11/22/2002 HPCwire"An Interview with Chiaro Networks’ Ken Lewis"
In an interview with the news service’s editor in chief, Chiaro’s CEO talks about the company’s new high-end routing platform and its initial deployment on the UCSD campus as part of the Cal-(IT)²-led OptIPuter project.

11/20/2002 Straits Times"Optiputer will share info at the speed of light"
The Singapore daily picked up the New York Times story on Cal-(IT)²’s announcement “highlighting a radical departure in the design of the fastest computers.” 
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11/20/2002 Bloomberg News"California Supercomputer to Feature Optical Lines, NYT Says"
Based on a New York Times report, San Francisco-based David Russell notes that Cal-(IT)² will use a router from Chiaro Networks. The campus-wide machine to be deployed at UCSD “will differ from many computers because the communications lines will be faster than the processors.”
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11/20/2002 LightReading.com"Chiaro Girds ‘Router’ for the Grid"
The online optical-networking site’s senior editor Phil Harvey reports on the technology that Cal-(IT)² is deploying at UCSD as part of its OptIPuter project, with the unveiling of the first optical router made by Chiaro Networks.

11/20/2002 Haaretz Daily (Israel)"Chiaro Beats Cisco, Juniper"
The newspaper’s English-language edition profiles Chiaro Networks, the company set to deliver its Enstara optical router to the OptIPuter project led by Cal-(IT)².

11/20/2002 TheMarker.com (Israel)"Chiaro Beats Cisco, Juniper to U.S. OptIPuter Grid Contract"
The Hebrew-language tech news service notes that the deal with Cal-(IT)² represents a major victory for Chiaro Networks, “the most extensively financed startup in Israeli history.” 

11/20/2002 HPCwire"An Interview with Chiaro Networks’ Steve Wallach"
At Supercomputing 2002, the high-performance computing news service’s editor-in-chief Alan Beck interviewed the Chiaro executive about how his company’s new optical router fits into the Cal-(IT)²-led OptIPuter project.

11/19/2002 Network World"High-end routers emerge"
Writer Jim Duffy notes that Chiaro Networks’ entry in the core router market is “shipping and deployed now at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology next-generation grid network, OptIPuter.” 

11/17/2002 New York Times"Supercomputer to Use Optical Fibers"
Writer John Markoff reports on Cal-(IT)²’s plan to use an optical router, designed by a Chiaro Networks, “as the heart of a campus-wide supercomputer that will be woven together with optical fibers.” 
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10/21/2002 The Scientist"OptIPuter boots up"
The British magazine quotes Cal-(IT)² director Larry Smarr as saying the NSF-funded OptIPuter project is necessary for large-scale e-science applications because the "chunks of data are so big, that trying to get them across the shared Internet is just not possible."