Intel Berkeley Extreme Interconnected Systems Lablet http:www'intelresearch'netberkeley

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Intel Berkeley Extreme Interconnected Systems
Lablethttp//www.intel-research.net/berkeley

• David Culler
• UCB EECS Academic Director

Shattuck and Center, 13th floor, between BWRC and
ICSI, great view!
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New model for ind/acad collaboration

• Key challenges ahead in EECS are fundamentally
  problems of scale
• require level of investigation and of engineering
  that is beyond what is sustainable within the
  university and beyond what a company can commit
  outside product scope
• industry possesses key technology and expertise
• requires insights from many perspectives
• A new lab stucture built around deep research
  collaboration and intimate ties to the EECS
  department
• industry contributes substantial effort of high
  quality
• projects span boundaries
• faculty co-direct lab
• student / faculty cycles drive the continuous
  motion
• Operate in uniquely open fashion

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Intel Research Network of Lablets Concept

• Network of small labs working closely with top
  computer science departments around the world on
  deeply collaborative projects.
• currently Berkeley, Washington, CMU
• Complement the corporate labs
• explore off the roadmap, long range, high risk
• Complement the external research council
• drive projects of significant scale and impact
• Expand the channel
• bidirectional transfer of people, ideas,
  technology

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Mission for the Network of Labs

• Bold new form of Industry-University
  collaboration that reflects the changing nature
  of the information age.
• Conduct the highest quality research in emerging,
  important areas of CS and IT.
• Join the unique strengths of Universities and the
  company in concurrent, collaborative efforts that
  are both broad in scope and deeply penetrating in
  exploration.
• Operate in a uniquely open fashion, promoting a
  powerful, bidirectional exchange of
  groundbreaking ideas, technology, and people.
• Leadership role in the creation of new research
  ecosystems spanning the continuum from academic
  study to product development.
• Labs will be project-focused with an active,
  constantly evolving agenda involving Intel
  researchers, University researchers, and members
  of the larger research community

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Scale and structure

• Active day-to-day involvement
• 15 full-time Intel Researchers and Engineers
• 5 part-time Intel folks
• 20 faculty, students, visitors, research
  consultants
• Two-in-a-box co-directors
• University Direction Intel Director
• Report to David Tennenhouse, VP Research
• Project focused
• 6-year projects starting about every two years

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Berkeley Focus

• Extreme Interconnected Systems
• Invent, develop, explore, analyze, and understand
  highly interconnected systems at the extremes of
  the computing and networking spectrum - the very
  large, the very small, and the very numerous
• Do leading-edge Computer Science on problems of
  scale, cutting across traditional areas of
  architecture, operating systems, networks, and
  languages to enable a wide range of explorations
  in ubiquitous computing, both embedded in the
  environment or carried easily on moving objects
  and people

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Areas of Emphasis

• endonets
• dense, fine-grain networked systems deeply
  embedded in or interacting with physical
  environment
• sensor networks
• ubiquitous computing architectures
• computational fabrics, surfaces, structures
• exonets
• broad coverage networked systems at societal
  scale
• world-wide storage systems
• composable infrastructure services
• massive servers for millions of users

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Initial Projects

• Open experimental platform for Networked Embedded
  Systems Technology (NEST)
• collaborative with UCB DARPA project
• supporting 10 other DARPA projects
• Goal
• new approach to networked embedded SW
• enable research in algorithms, real-time systems,
  ...
• explore platform system architecture in new space
• Components
• Low-cost flexible wireless sensor device for
  large-scale experimentation
• Extensible Event-driven Tiny OS
• Tiny Networking Security
• FSM-based Development Environment
• Scalable, Adversarial Simulation
• Infrastructure services
• Building blocks for ubiquitous computing
• Pocket-change computing dot

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Current Research Team

• Kevin Fall UCSD, ISI, UCB, NetBoost, Intel
• high speed ip networking
• Alan Mainwaring TMC, UCB, Sun, Intel
• virtual networks, deep scalable network systems
• Anind Dey Georgia Tech, aware house
• framework for context aware applns
• David Gay UCB
• Prog. Lang. design/Imp for novel comm. layers
• Deborah Estrin, Faculty consultant
• internet, multicast, rsvp,...sensor nets
• Paul Wright, Faculty consultant
• infopad, BWRC, cybercut
• Justin Tomilson
• optimization, IEOR PhD Student

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Current Faculty Research Associates

• James Demmel Large-scale computational science
• Michael Franklin Sensor Databases
• Steven Glaser structural dynamics
• Joe Hellerstein Streaming Databases
• John Kubiatowicz planetary storage
• James Landay User Interfaces
• Jennifer Mankoff HCI
• David Patterson Architecture
• Kris Pister MEMS, Smart Dust
• Jan Rabaey Low power systems
• Satish Rao Distr. Systems Theory
• Ion Stoika Networking
• Vivek Subramanian Disposable devices
• David Wagner Security
• Kathy Yelick Parallel Languages

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Summer Interns 2001

• UCB Tiny OS team
• Jason Hill, Rob Scewczyk, Alec Woo
• UCLA directed diffusion
• Depak Ganesan, Solomon Bein
• UCB sensor database
• Sam Madden (with Michael Franklin)
• UCB IP/Infiniband SAN
• Philip Buonadonna
• UCB ocean store
• Hakim Weatherspoon (with John Kubiatowicz)
• visiting grad from Cornel other UCB grads

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Where this is going?

• Deep involvement in CITRIS
• societal sensor network infrastructure
• New networking foundations at each of the levels
• Design principles
• HW structures, OS support
• Media access, transmission control, Routing,
  Security
• Theory
• Applications
• New set of concerns
• dynamic self-organization, adaptation
• harsh resource constraints
• collective behavior
• Unique opportunity in the union
• microscopic devices (really)