Canadian Government, Academic and Industry Leaders Visit UC San Diego to Forge Technology Research Relationships.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. & EDMONTON, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2004 A delegation of senior government officials and business leaders from Alberta, Canada, today visited the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. (UCSD UCSD University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) UCSD User Centered System Design UCSD Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District (Illinois) UCSD Ultra Cool Sexy Dudes ) Jacobs School of Engineering and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)2) to talk about campus-led technological innovation and potential cooperative research ventures. The delegation was led by the Hon Hon abbr (= honourable, honorary) → en tÃtulos . Victor P. Doerksen, Alberta's Minister of Innovation and Science, and included the vice presidents of research from the University of Alberta, University of Alberta, University of, at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1906, opened 1908. It has faculties of arts, engineering, medicine, agriculture, law, dentistry, education, pharmacy and pharmaceutical science, science, graduate Calgary and the University of Lethbridge, as well as delegates from the Alberta Science Research Authority and several other organizations. Dan Gatti, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Edmonton-based BigBangwidth, arranged for the Alberta delegation to visit BigBangwidth's first U.S. installation at UCSD. "This visit underscores the importance the province of Alberta, as well as its universities and companies, place on cutting-edge research and technology transfer," said Gatti. "The delegation observed how Alberta-based technology is used at UCSD, which opened dialogue on potential future projects that could be funded jointly by the US and Canada." BigBangwidth originated with research at the University of Alberta. Last November, the company won approval to deploy its next-generation lightpath technology as part of a new Grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal and networking environment -- called the OptIPuter -- on the UCSD campus. BigBangwidth's Lightpath Accelerator(TM) automatically lifts large data streams off of packet-switched networks to provide direct lightpaths to high-performance network and storage devices. The OptIPuter project is led by Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr Larry Smarr is a physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. He received both his BA and MS at the University of Missouri–Columbia and received a Ph.D. , and its chief software architect is Andrew Chien, director of UCSD's Center for Networked Systems. Smarr and Chien are both professors of Computer Science and Engineering in the university's Jacobs School of Engineering, and they both met with the Canadian contingent. "California has a rich history of successful innovation and commercialization of technologies -- an experience that we share with our Canadian colleagues," said Chien. "We are excited about a number of areas where we could collaborate with leading researchers, companies, and institutions in Alberta, and this meeting was a great step forward in tapping the synergies." About Cal-(IT)2 and OptIPuter The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology is one of four institutes created by the State in late 2000 to ensure that California maintain its leadership in cutting-edge technologies. Cal-(IT)2's mission: to extend the reach of the current information infrastructure throughout the physical world enabling anywhere/anytime access to the Internet. More than 220 professors and senior researchers from UC Irvine and UC San Diego are collaborating on interdisciplinary projects, including the OptIPuter, a five-year, $13.5 million project funded by the National Science Foundation. The southern California- and Chicago-based research teams are prototyping the OptIPuter on campus, metropolitan and state-wide optical fiber networks. www.optiputer.net; www.calit2.net. About BigBangwidth Inc. BigBangwidth provides up to 10-gigabit lightpaths directly to high-performance workstations, servers and other network devices. The Lightpath Accelerator(TM) enables file transfer for use within Grid computing, visualization Using the computer to convert data into picture form. The most basic visualization is that of turning transaction data and summary information into charts and graphs. Visualization is used in computer-aided design (CAD) to render screen images into 3D models that can be viewed from all and large file transfer. Established in 2000, BigBangwidth currently operates in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. www.bigbangwidth.com. About Center for Networked Systems The Center for Networked Systems (CNS See Continuous net settlement. CNS See continuous net settlement (CNS). ) at UCSD is an academic-industrial partnership which supports multi-disciplinary efforts across distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. , networking, and network elements. CNS is based in the Jacobs School of Engineering, and is affiliated with Cal-(IT)2. http://cns.ucsd.edu. Editors Note: Hi-res photo of the Alberta delegation visiting Cal-(IT)2 available on request. |
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