1. “CAMERA Goes Live!" Presentation with Craig Venter National Press Club Washington, DC March 13, 2007 Dr. Larry Smarr Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

2. PI Larry Smarr Paul Gilna Ex. Dir. Announced January 17, 2006 $24.5M Over Seven Years

3. Calit2 CAMERA Production Compute and Storage Complex is On-Line 512 Processors ~5 Teraflops ~ 200 Terabytes Storage

4. The Calit2 CAMERA Metagenomics Site is Now Active http://camera.calit2.net/

5. CAMERA Global Ocean Sampling Page

6. CAMERA is Already in Use Worldwide Users from over 40 Institutions in North America, Europe, and the South Pacific –Including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K. –> 240 Research Scientists, Postdocs, and Students

7. Use of Tiled Display Wall OptIPortal to Interactively View Microbial Genome Acidobacteria bacterium Ellin345 Soil Bacterium 5.6 Mb

8. Use of Tiled Display Wall OptIPortal to Interactively View Microbial Genome Source: Raj Singh, UCSD

9. Use of Tiled Display Wall OptIPortal to Interactively View Microbial Genome Source: Raj Singh, UCSD

10. NW! CICESE UW JCVI MIT SIO UCSD SDSU UIC EVL UCI OptIPortals OptIPortal Calit2 Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Connects Remote Microbial Researchers with OptIPortals CAMERA Servers