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University of Minnesota
Welcome to the Digital Technology Center
Industrial Affiliates Open House May 2, 2003
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Andrew Odlyzko, Director Jim Licari, Industrial
Liaisons Michael Olesen, Facilities and Programs
http//www.dtc.umn.edu
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Open House Schedule
830 900 a.m.   Registration and
continental breakfast reception in room 401 of
Walter Library 900 915 a.m.  Welcome by
Andrew Odlyzko, DTC Director Jim Licari,
Assistant Director for Industrial Liaisons 915
945 a.m.  Grid Computing - Jon Weissman
945 1015 a.m.  Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology - Yiannis Kaznessis 1015
1045 a.m. Morning break 1045 1115
a.m.  Data Mining and Databases - George Karypis
1115 1145 a.m.  Graphics and Visualization -
Gary Meyer
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Open House Schedule
1145 a.m. 130 p.m.  Laboratory tours,
demonstrations, and poster presentations
throughout the Digital Technology Center 1145
1215 p.m. Lunch in room 401 1215 1230
p.m. Keynote in 402 Kate Rubin, MHTA 130
200 p.m.  Intelligent Storage Architectures -
David Du and Tom Ruwart 200 230
p.m.  Wireless Communications - Georgios
Giannakis 230 300 p.m.  Afternoon break
300 330 p.m.  Networking - Zhi-Li Zhang
330 400 p.m.  Distributed Robotic Teams
- Nikos Papanikolopoulos 400 415
p.m.  Closing remarks
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Mission
Communication and collaboration between the
university and industry
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Mission
Communication and collaboration between the
university and industry
Create, coordinate, and promote interdisciplinary
digital technology
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Mission
Communication and collaboration between the
university and industry
Create, coordinate, and promote interdisciplinary
digital technology
Educate graduates for high-technology industries
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Mission
Communication and collaboration between the
university and industry
Create, coordinate, and promote interdisciplinary
digital technology
Point of Entry
Educate graduates for high-technology industries
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DTC Facilities

• 64 Million renovation
• Home to Science and Engineering Library, I.T.
  Deans Office, and a student computing laboratory
• Over 45,000 square feet assigned to the DTC
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Gifts to the DTC

• ADC Five Chairs and an endowment for graduate
  student fellowships
• Unisys Supercomputing equipment
• Ted and Linda Johnson Established Digital
  Design Consortium
• 3M Networking equipment
• IBM Supercomputing and data storage equipment
  

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DTC Funding

• Recurring funds
• 12 Faculty appointments tied directly to the DTC
  
• Technical Support for DTC faculty and
  researchers
• Administrative support for researchers and
  programs

• Other funding sources
• Research grants
• Seed funding for select initiatives
• Consortium fees
• Affiliates membership fees

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Research Areas and Interactions
Systems Recognition Verification
Digital Design
Storage
AI, Robotics, and Vision
Graphics Visualization
Networks
Bioinformatics Computational Biology
Databases, Datamining
Signal Processing, Wireless
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Current Programs and Initiatives
Digital Technology Center Intelligent Storage
Consortium (DISC)

• System level storage architecture
• Consortium is up and running
• Currently two consortium members
• StorageTek
• Veritas

I/O Application
File System User Component
Interconnect
Intelligent Layer
File System Storage Component
Block Storage Device
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Current Programs and Initiatives
Digital Design Consortium (DDC)

• Application of graphics and visualization
  tools to design processes
• Developing new tools
• 3D Visualization
• Interactive color designing system
• 2nd DTC consortium initiative

Digital scanner on the Northrop Mall
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Current Programs and Initiatives
Grid Computing

• Uses processing power of student lab PCs for
  data analysis and visualization
• Researchers from Institute of Technology,
  Academic Health Center, and Office of
  Information Technology
• Funded by National Science Foundation

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Current Programs and Initiatives
Summer Bioinformatics Institute

• Developing bioinformatics skills and interests
  in 16 undergraduate interns
• Faculty from Academic Health Center, College of
  Biological Sciences, and Institute of Technology
• Funded by National Science Foundation and
  National Institutes of Health
• DTC instrumental in obtaining funding

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Current Programs and Initiatives
Usability Laboratory

• State-of-the-art facility for real- time
  evaluations of human- computer interactions
• Partnership between the Office of Information
  Technology and the
• Digital Technology Center
• Available to DTC Affiliate Program members

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Current Programs and Initiatives
Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation
and Advanced Computation

• High-performance computation and visualization
• Supports over 1,600 U of M researchers
• Resources includes IBM, SGI, Sun and
• Unisys Systems
• Professor Donald Truhlar, Director

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Current Programs and Initiatives
Laboratory for Computational Science and
Engineering (LCSE)

• 3D visualization of large-scale
• data sets
• Home of the PowerWall
• Integrating Unisys supercomputer
• using Microsoft operating system
• Part of the Grid Computing project
• Professor Paul Woodward, Director

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Partnership Program

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Partnership Program

• Three Levels of Participation
• Affiliates Program
• Consortium Program
• Research Program

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Partnership Program
Affiliates Program

• General membership
• Yearly meeting to review DTC research and
  latest trends in digital technology
• Quarterly members E-mail updates
• Reduced fee access to Usability Laboratory
• A 10,000 per year fee

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Partnership Program
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Partnership Program
Consortium Program

• Formal agreement/contract
• Intellectual Property (IP) rights
• Participation in DTC seed funding and external
  grants
• Must be an Affiliates Program member to
  participate
• Fees vary by Consortium 50K per year
• Residency Program

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Partnership Program
Research Program

• One-to-one contractual agreement opportunities
  between partners and the DTC faculty
• Possible proprietary research agreements
  between partners and DTC faculty

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Summary

• Exciting opportunities for interactions
• Transfer of knowledge and ideas to enhance
  Minnesotas digital technology position
• Additional information
• DTC folders
• Office hours 1230 to 130 p.m. in room 487