Scientific visualization, tiled display walls, virtual reality, and digital-twin environments.
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Digital Twins of Physical Reality
Future in Review FireSide Remote Presentation May 27, 2021
presentationvideoTerminating the GLIF at UCSD – 2013 ON*VECTOR
Presenter: Larry Smarr, Calit2 Illustrated Lecture and Remote Collaboration with UIC/ EVL. February 28, 2013
presentationCalit2: Experiments in Living in the Virtual/Physical World
Pat Ledden Memorial Luncheon Faculty Luncheon Seminar UC San Diego Faculty Club
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Calit2: Experiments in Living in the Virtual/Physical World
Invited Talk Cultivating Networked Centers of Excellence – CineGrid International Workshop 2010
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Beyond Telepresence
Opening Talk Cisco Day at the Center for Networked Systems UC San Diego La Jolla, CA
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Global Cyberinfrastructure to Support e-Research
Invited Talk e-XPO: e-Research@Monash Monash University Melbourne, Australia
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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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The OptIPlanet Collaboratory — a Global CineGrid Testbed
Invited Presentation CineGrid International Workshop 2008 La Jolla, CA
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presentationvideoSGI and Visualization
A program created by SGI featuring Larry Smarr discussing the creation of Calit2. 11/19/2008
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CineGrid: An Innovative High End Digital Media Collaboration
Presentation Sixth Meeting of the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP): The Changing Face of Innovation Arnold and Mabel Beckman Conference Center of the National Academies Irvine, CA
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The OptIPlanet Collaboratory Supporting Researchers Worldwide
Talk CineGrid Workshop La Jolla, CA
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OptIPuter Planetary-Scale Applications Overview
Opening talk CENIC ‚ Calit2 Tour La Jolla, CA
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The OptIPuter and Its Applications
Invited Talk Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, A Summer Institute, SDSC La Jolla, CA
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Global LambdaGrid Applications Driving Innovation
Acceptance Speech for Maxine Brown and Tom DeFanti Innovation Award for Experimental / Developmental Applications ‚ iGrid2005 CENIC 2006 Oakland, CA
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presentationvideoCineGrid – 4k Digital Cinema
In a demonstration that could foretell the future of videoconferencing, scientific visualization and digital cinema deployment, scientists from around the world were treated to the world’s first real-time, international transmission of super high-definition (SHD) 4K digital video.
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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presentationvideoThe Collision of Two Black Holes – NCSA Visualization
NCSA Visualization – Peter Anninos, David Hobill, Edward Seidel, Larry Smarr, Wai-Mo Suen, and Mark Bajuk.
presentationvideoNumerical Relativity: Black Hole Spacetimes
L. Smarr, D. Hobill, D. Bernstein, D. Cox, and R. Idaszak, SIGGRAPH Video Review: Visualization State of the Art, 49, (1989).
publicationSupercomputers, Workstations, And Visualization
In NCAR-41 Proceedings 1988, (Pechnomic Publishing Co., Inc.: Lancaster, PA). (1989).
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.
publicationVisualization Captures the Imagination of Physicists
L. Smarr, Computers in Physics 5, 564 (1991).
mediaThe New Explorers – WTTW Chicago
Larry Smarr highlights many areas of research being done at NCSA (National Center for Supercomputer Applications) for television program The New Explorers
publicationVisualizing Black Hole Space-times
Anninos, P., Bajuk, M., Seidel, E., Smarr, L., & Hobill, D. (1993). Visualizing black hole space-times. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications , 13 (1), 13-14. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/160673.160676es
mediaINTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; Silicon Valley’s Awesome Look at New Sony Toy – New York Times
Shown for the first time in the United States, to 1,000 software game developers, the machine suggested that the state of the art in computing is moving from the aisles of CompUSA to the shelves of Toys ”R” Us.
publicationTeleimmersion and Visualization with the OptIPuter
T. A. DeFanti, J. Leigh, M. D. Brown, D. J. Sandin, O.Yu, Chong Zhang, R. Singh, E. He, J. Alimohideen, N. K. Krishnaprasad, R. Grossman, M. Mazzucco, L. Smarr, M. Ellisman, P. Papadopoulos, A. Chien, J. Orcutt, in Telecommunication, Teleimmersion and Telexistence: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, Susumu Tachi, editor, Ohmsha/IOS Press, 25-71 (2002).
publicationThe OptIPuter: A New Approach To Volume Visualization Of Large Seismic Datasets
Graham Kent, John Orcutt, Larry Smarr, Jason Leigh, Atul Nayak, Debbie Kilb, L. Renambot, S. Venkataraman, Tom DeFanti, Y. Fialko, Phil Papadopoulos, Greg Hidley, David Hutches, Maxine Brown, Ocean Technology Conference, May 2004.
mediaLarry Smarr on the past and future of telepresence – Institute For The Future
At tonight’s Technology Horizons conference, Larry Smarr gave a terrific talk on the history and future of telepresence– i.e., systems that “eliminate distance between individuals who want to interact with other people and with other computers.” I’m a bit fuzzy– it was a long day, and tomorrow will be even longer– but a few notes.
mediaCalViz Studio and New Optical Link Enable Smarr to Go ?Telepresent? to NCSA Industrial Meeting – QI News
This event was held during the 2006 NCSA Private Sector Program Annual Meeting. Smarr s participation demonstrated an early use of the optical link now in place between Calit2 and NCSA to enable the latter to be persistently coupled into the 10-Gbps optical fabric that Calit2, the National LambdaRail, and CENIC are building out.
publicationInternational Real-Time Streaming Of 4K Digital Cinema
Shimizu, T., Shirai, D., Takahashi, H., Murooka, T., Obana, K., Tonomura, Y., Inoue, T., Yamaguchi, T., Fujii, T., Ohta, N., Ono, S., Aoyama, T., Herr, L., van Osdol, N., Wang, X., Brown, M., DeFanti, T., Feld, R., Balser, J., Morris, S., Henthorn, T., Dawe, G., Otto, P., Smarr, L., Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 22, Elsevier, pp. 929-939 (2006).
publicationCineGrid: A New Cyberinfrastructure for High Resolution Media Streaming
L. Smarr, L. Herr, T. DeFanti, N. Ohta, P. Otto, [invited article] Cyberinfrastructure Tech. Watch Quart., v3,#2. (2007).
publicationBuilding an OptIPlanet collaboratory to support microbial metagenomics
L. Smarr, P. Gilna, P. Papadopoulos, T. DeFanti, G. Hidley, J. Wooley, E. V. Armbrust, F. Rohwer, E. Frost, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 124-131. July 2008.
publicationThe OptIPortal, a scalable visualization, storage, and computing interface device for the OptiPuter
T. DeFanti, J. Leigh, L. Renambot, B. Jeong, A. Verlo, L. Long, M. Brown, D. Sandin, V. Vishwanath, Q. Liu, M. Katz, P. Papadopoulos, J. Keefe, G. Hidley, G. Dawe, I.Kaufman, B. Glogowski, K.-W. Doerr, R. Singh, J. Girado, J. Schulze, F. Kuester, L. Smarr, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 114-123. February 2009.
publicationThe OptIPortal, A Scalable Visualization, Storage, And Computing Termination Device For High Bandwidth Campus Bridging
NSF Campus Bridging Network/Data Workshop, April 1, 2010.
mediaUC San Diego GreenLight project
Dr. Jürgen P. Schulze describes the immersive visualization application built for the Greenlight Project.
mediaCalit2 4K 10th Anniversary Promo
Director Larry Smarr and UC San Diego Division Director Ramesh Rao reflect on the history and future of Calit2 on the occasion of its 10th Anniversary. This film was shot in 4K resolution on a RED digital Cinema camera.
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mediaDigging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science – New York Times
“Life: A Cosmic Journey,” a multimedia presentation now showing at the new Morrison Planetarium here at the California Academy of Sciences, relies not just on computer animation techniques, but on a wealth of digitized scientific data as well.
mediaDigital Culture and the Future Internet – Center for the Humanities
The Institute develops next generation of information technologies, including optical networks, information visualization, and global telepresence.
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.
mediaLook twice, cut once – University of California News
Before Sonia Ramamoorthy, M.D., chief of colon and rectal surgery at UC San Diego Health, took a scalpel to Larry Smarr, she first took a virtual tour of his large intestine. It encompassed an entire room.
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mediaFuturePatient – Larry Smarr, PhD
The full recording of computer scientist Larry Smarr presenting ten years of his personal health data on the Visualization Wall at his institute, Calit2 at UC San Diego.
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mediaWill Supercomputers Create Virtual Maps of Your Body in the Future? – Seeker
Larry Smarr has been collecting 3D visualizations and detailed data on his body for almost a decade, amassing it all into a VR medical avatar of himself.
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mediaQualcomm Institute’s Virtual Reality Cave Offers 3D Experience – KPBS Science
Researchers at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego are commemorating the second year of the Suncave. KPBS Science and Technology reporter Shalina Chatlani took advantage of the occasion to do some high-tech spelunking – or cave exploring.
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