Title: Berkeley%20RAD%20Lab%20Center%20Proposal
1Berkeley RAD LabCenter Proposal
- Armando Fox, Randy Katz, Michael Jordan, Dave
Patterson, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica - RADS Retreat, June 2005
2Setting the Context
- Academic research trains next generation of IT
leaders AND helps expand IT market - 19 1B industries from IT research (NAE)
- Long-term, experimental research been key
- Synergy of Industrial Academic research
- Academic govt (DARPA)/industry funded (gt80 /
lt20) - 3-6 faculty, 12-24 grad student, 2-3 staff, 4-5
yrs - Berkeley SW Spice/Magic CAD programs, BSD
(Berkeley SW Distribution) Unix op. sys.,
Ingres/Postgres Relational Databases, - HW RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer),
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks),
NOW (Networks of Workstations),
3Traditional Research Funding Today
- Avg. industry research shorter term today
- DARPA exiting long-term (exp.) IT research
- 03-05 BAAs 9 AI, 2 classified, 1 SW radio, 1
sensornet, 1 reliability - Academic led funding reduced 50 in 3 years
- Faculty consultants in consortia led by defense
contractor, get grants support 1-2 students in
return - NSF swamped with proposals, conservative
- 2000 to 6500 proposals in 5 years
- IT has lowest acceptance rate at NSF (between 8
to 16) - Ambitious proposal is a negative review
- Even if get NSF funding, proposal reduced to
stretch NSF e.g., ServRADS got 3 x ?
faculty, 6 grad students, 0 staff, 3 years - (To learn more, see www.cra.org/research)
4Sustaining Innovation Engine?
- Replicate research centers based primarily on
industrial funding to train next generation of IT
leaders and expand IT market - Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) 50 grad
students - Stanford Network Research Center (SNRC) ?? Grad
students - Exciting, long term technical vision
- Demonstrated by prototype(s)
- Industry largely funds, so industry helps set
directions - N companies, where N 6
- center proposes 1st draft of new standard
- Multiple interfaces Framework, OS, server,
router,
5Existing Center Models SNRC
FoundationMember
(http//snrc.stanford.edu/40.html)
Industrial Executive Council v
Place a Researcher-in-Residence v
CTO Roundtable/Forum v v
Technical Advisory Board v v
Initiate targeted Ph.D. student mentorship program v v
Industrial Review Committee v v v v
Annual Contribution 250k 250k 50k 50k
Senior Member
AffiliatePartner
Must also endow 1 Faculty Chair 2 Grad
Fellowships (1 X 1.5M 2 x 0.3M)
6Existing Center Models BWRC
- IP put in public domain or offer no-fee,
non-exclusive licenses
ParticipatingMember
(bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/Background/Charter.htm)
Member, Board of Advisors Member, Board of Advisors v
1 Provisional Industrial Researcher (lt 2 months, no UC IP agreement) 1 Provisional Industrial Researcher (lt 2 months, no UC IP agreement) v
1 Visiting Industrial Fellow ( 2 months, sign UC IP agreement) 1 Visiting Industrial Fellow ( 2 months, sign UC IP agreement) v
Attend 2 research reviews Attend 2 research reviews v v v v
Donations Product, equipment or technology Donations Product, equipment or technology v v v v
Annual Grant Contribution 150K 150K 75K 75K 75K
Associate Member
BWRC gets ½ funding via MARCO center, funded
50 industry 50 DoD
P.M. who is also a CITRIS Founding Corporate
Member called Platinum
7Founding the RADLab Start Jan 06?
- 2.5M / yr (½ BWRC) 80 industry, 20 govt
- 5 years 25 grad students, 25 undergrads , 6
faculty, 2 staff - Looking for 3 founding companies to fund 3-5
years _at_ cost of 2 employees / year 3
founding companies to fund 3-5 years _at_ cost of
1 employee / year - Follow Berkeley Wireless Research Center model
- IP model, Board of Advisors, Participating/Associa
te Members, Industrial Fellow, Executive Director
for day-to-day operations, - Add good ideas from SNRC Targeted Mentor,
- Your good ideas go here (Design review, brain
storming, ?) - Got leads or advice? Contact one of us fox,
randy, jordan, pattrsn, shenker, stoica
_at_cs.berkeley.edu
8Overarching Mantra
- Enable a faster pace of network service
innovationthrough new distributed system
architectures that reduce operations cost by 2-3
orders of magnitude - The Challenge
- Software systems Too much information ? make
sense of it through statistical learning
control theory - Network systems Too little information ?exploit
better observation and monitoring in the network
infrastructure to drive management processes - The Payoff
- Single person can write, profile, deploy, operate
the next-generation IT business (the Fortune 1
million) - Do for Internet apps what Web did for individual
publishing