UCSD Site Report to the IABSheldon Brown

Site Director

June 12 2013UMBC

Overview

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Next Generation Digital Media

Existing Projects• Client Server Systems for Next Gen Media – Virbela

and User Analytics• Future Cinema - Hybrid Multicore Systems for new

forms of Cinema• The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination

– Inaugural events, Partnership Recruitment, Imaginarium

• Open CL Physics

New Projects• Analyzing HPC tools for Robustness• Behavior of Virtual World Entities: Digenomics

Overview

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StaffingSheldon Brown, Site Director

Erik Hill, Lead Software Engineer

David Firestein, Programmer Analyst

Alex Howland, Project Manager

Vikki DeVries, Administrator

Pardis Miri, Grad Student, CS

Gina Chen, Undergrad

Kittinan Ponkaew, Undergrad, CS

Kiyofumi J Tokunaga, Undergrad, Environmental Engineering

Joey Ly, Undergrad, CS

Wes Hawkins, Undergrad, ICAM

Alexander Pakzad, Undergrad, ICAM

Affiliated Faculty, David Kirsh, Cog Sci, Erik Viire, Neurosciences, Todd Coleman, Bio-engineering, Brian Keating, Physics, Scott Makeig, Neurorscience, Ayse Saygin, Cog Sci.

Calit2• 215,000 gross square feet • Clean room including:• Circuits laboratory • Optical networking laboratory • Rooftop "antenna garden"• New Media Arts research labs:• 200-seat auditorium • Gallery, Black Box,• High Def production, motion capture,• Gamelab, spatialized audio, virtual • reality, 3D fabrication

UCSD FacilitiesUCSD Facilities• IBM z10 mainframe with the San Diego Supercomputer Center• 4 Blade QS20 Cell Cluster, QS22 Blade• 4 Dual Xeon Blades• 4 CPU Xeon Server• SDSC Storage Array• nVidia Fermi• Experimental Game Lab - quad core PC's - Nvidia 580 and Quadro 5400• 16 sided StarCAVE (immersive VR stereo surround environment)• 300 Megapixel tiled display wall• 55 screen tiled 3D Varrier screen display.• 4K cinema technology - Sony SXRD Projector, JVC 4K projection, Zaxel• 4K servers, JPEG2000 encoder/decoder, 10gb network streams, Prototype 4K

and stereo display panel prototypes• Spatialized Audio Research Lab - 26 Channel 3D sound lab• Motion Capture/Computer Vision Research Lab - 24 channel VICON motion

capture system, 3D laser scanning, structured light, multi-channel video.• VR Development Lab - variety of interfaces and display types• Optiputer network environment - Global Lambda Infrastructure• 3D Fabrication Lab - rapid prototyping and CNC machining tools

Products and Activities since last meeting.

Virtual World Exhibitions

May 3rd to June 30th : Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, RussiaJuly 18th to September 8th: Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, RussiaDecember 19th to February 16th 2014: Champs-Libres, Rennes, France

Conferences Panels Lectures• Diagnosing Unbounded Heap Growth in C++ Software. 2012,  IEEE

International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation. Luxembourg• Launch events for Clarke Center –

• Kavli Seminar Series• Future Visions• Literary Imagination• Starship Century• Neuroscience of Art

Papers:LaFayette, C., Rikakis, T. , Cox, D., Nadarajan, G., Strohecker, C., Jennings, P., Wardrip-Fruin, N., Malina, R., Brown, S., Gibb, A. 2013. SEAD: Network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design. Leonardo Journal. 46:2.

Upcoming: What If? How we might create new knowledge in our new world of possibilities.Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation , Smithsonian Institution

Website: http://chmpr.ucsd.edu

Display output is highly malleable, as demonstrated by ongoing exhibitions of underlying system for the Scalable City. From multi user desktops, to multiscreen immersive displays

Display output is highly malleable, as demonstrated by ongoing exhibitions of underlying system for the Scalable City. From multi user desktops, to multiscreen immersive displays

Zacheta Gallery – WarsawE3 – Los AngelesArs Electronica –Austria India International Center – New DelhiMuseum of Contemporary Art - ShanghaiNational Academy of Science, Wash. DCSiggraph 2007 Exploratorium – San Francisco Supercomputing 2007FILE, Sao Paulo, BrazilLos Angeles Barnsdall Art Gallery Gallery@calit2Beall Center for Art and TechnologyRio de Janeiro, BrazilKeio University3D Media Film Festival, BelgiumSPIE Festival San Jose, CACES, Las VegasSupercomputing 2009LA Freewaves, LA CAReal Fake Exhibit, CSU Sacramento

New This Year:Maison d’allieurs, SwitzerlandDutch Film Festival Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, RussiaMultimedia Art Museum, MoscowChamps-Libres, Rennes, France

SponsorsExisting Sponsors:• IBM provide dues and in-kind• Lexis Nexus – In kind membership• Digenomics – dues paying

Discussions with new members: • Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination is cultivating

founding corporate sponsors. Major partner in final stage discussions

• Ip.com – still possible member• Sony –Provided $130K of equipment in the past 6 months.

• Virbela virtual world project developed with grant from GMAC to Rady Business school

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