http://www.dtc.umn.edu Andrew Odlyzko, Director Jim Licari, Industrial Liaisons Michael Olesen, Facilities and Programs AO051903-1

Create, coordinate, and promote interdisciplinary digital technology Point of Entry Communication and between the universit collaboration y and industry Mission Educate graduates for high-technology industries AO051903-2

100000 10000 1000 100 10 1 0.1 0.01 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Hard Disk Storage and Internet Traffic Hard Disk Storage Internet Traffic AO051903-3

$64 Million renovation Home to Science and Engineering Library, I.T. Dean s Office, and a student computing laboratory Over 45,000 square feet assigned to the DTC DTC Facilities AO051903-4

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 AO051903-5

Recurring funds DTC Funding 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 AO051903-6

Research Areas and Interactions Digital Design Storage Systems Recognition & Verification Graphics & Visualization AI, Robotics, and Vision Networks Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Databases, Datamining Signal Processing, Wireless AO051903-7

Current Programs and Initiatives Intelligent Storage Consortium (DISC) I/O Application File System User Component Interconnect Intelligent Layer File System Storage Component Block Storage Device System level storage architecture Consortium is up and running Currently two consortium members: StorageTek Veritas AO051903-8

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 AO051903-9

Grid Computing Current Programs and Initiatives 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 AO051903-10

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 AO051903-11

Usability Laboratory Current Programs and Initiatives State-of-the-art facility for realtime evaluations of humancomputer interactions Partnership between the Office of Information Technology and the Available to DTC Affiliate Program members AO051903-12

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 AO051903-13

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 AO051903-14

Partnership Program AO051903-15

Partnership Program Three Levels of Participation Affiliates Program Consortium Program Research Program AO051903-16

Affiliates Program General membership Partnership Program 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 AO051903-17

Partnership Program AO051903-18

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 AO051903-19

Research Program Partnership Program One-to-one contractual agreement opportunities between partners and the DTC faculty Possible proprietary research agreements between partners and DTC faculty AO051903-20