The OptIPlanet Collaboratory
Supporting Microbial Metagenomics Researchers Worldwide

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The OptIPuter Project – Creating High Resolution Portals
Over Dedicated Optical Channels to Global Science Data

OptIPuter Software Architecture--a Service-Oriented Architecture Integrating Lambdas Into the Grid

My OptIPortalTM – Affordable
Termination Device for the OptIPuter Global Backplane

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Microbial Genomics Allow Us to Look Back
Nearly 4 Billion Years In the Evolution of Life

Marine Genome Sequencing Project –
Measuring the Genetic Diversity of Ocean Microbes

Enormous Increase in Scale of Known Genes
Over Last Decade

Current Universe of
Medium/ Large Protein Families

Calit2 CAMERA Production
Compute and Storage Complex

Calit2’s Direct Access Core Architecture
Will Create Next Generation Metagenomics Server

“Instant” Global Microbial Metagenomics CyberCommunity

Interactive Exploration of Marine Genomes  
Using 100 Million Pixels

Use of Tiled Display Wall OptIPortal
to Interactively View Microbial Genome

Use of Tiled Display Wall OptIPortal
to Interactively View Microbial Genome

Use of Tiled Display Wall OptIPortal
to Interactively View Microbial Genome

CAMERA is Partnering to Port
Metagenomic Community Software to the OptIPortal

An Emerging High Performance Collaboratory
for Microbial Metagenomics

Multiple Gigabit HD Streams Over Lambdas
Will Radically Transform Global Collaboration

e-Science Collaboratory Without Walls
Enabled by Uncompressed HD Telepresence

New Genome Wall at UWashington
Chromosomes of Marine Diatom Thallasiosira Pseudonanna

Goal for SC’07
iHDTV Integrated into OptIPortal

Rocks / SAGE OptIPortals
Are Being Adopted Globally

Intercontinental Telemicroscopy
over Lambda Network

3D OptIPortals: Calit2 StarCAVE and Varrier
Alpha Tests of Telepresence “Holodecks”

StarCAVE Panoramas

Campus Preparations Needed to Create  
Lambda “On-Ramps” to Their Campus Researchers

Current UCSD Experimental Optical Core:
Ready to Couple to CENIC L1, L2, L3 Services

Planned UCSD Production Campus Cyberinfrastructure Supporting Data Intensive Biomedical Research

Calit2/SDSC Proposal to Create a UC Cyberinfrastructure
of OptIPuter “On-Ramps” to TeraGrid Resources