Advanced Networked Applications: Campus Development & Deployment

Ted Hanss, Internet2

18 April 2002

See http://apps.internet2.edu/talks

Topics

Organization

Applications

Outreach

International Efforts

Applications

Internet2 Applications

What are “Internet2 applications”?

They deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in how we conduct research and engage in teaching and learning

They require advanced networks to work

Different Disciplines/Contexts

Sciences

Arts

Humanities

Health care

Business/Law

Administration

…

Library

Classroom

Clinic

Office

Laboratory

Dorm room

…

Application Attributes

Interactive collaboration

Real-time access to remote resources

Attributes, cont.

Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining

Shared virtual reality

Any combination of the above

Questions

Who are the campus stakeholders?

Should you focus on broadly applicable applications or narrow discipline needs?

Should you build or buy?

Should you go it alone or partner?

What resources are needed?

What resources are available?

What happens if you succeed?

Digital Video

Digital Video Applications

Up to broadcast quality videoconferencing

Both live distribution and on-demand access to a variety of content

HDTV-based digital cinema, network-based studio production, …

Access Grid

www.accessgrid.orgSource: Argonne National Laboratory

Video Futures

Tele-immersive “Office of the Future”

Source: University of North Carolina

Music Teachingover Internet2

University of Oklahoma

Music Instruction

Remote Scanning Electron MicroscopeThe University of Michigan

Philips XL30

Distributed nanoManipulator

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Shared Virtual Environment

Ohio Supercomputer Center

Ohio State University

Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory

University of Michigan

Teleimmersion

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois-NCSA

Old Dominion University

The CAVE

Immersadesk

Grid Projects

What is the Grid?

Global resources available to communities of researchers

The protocols, services, and applications that enable new forms of collaboration

Grid Resources

Workstations

Instruments Libraries

Data sets People

Examples

Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

• Collaboration environment for earthquake researchers (e.g., structural engineers, geotechnical and tsunami scientists)

Grid Physics Network•Petabyte scale environment for data-intensive applications (Large Hadron Collider, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory)

Grid Projects

NEESGrid

• www.neesgrid.org

GriPhyN

• www.griphyn.org

S/W infrastructure

• www.gridforum.org

Research: Sensornets

• Networked nanotechnology

Internet2 Commons

The Internet2 Commons

An effort to encourage and support large-scale, distributed collaboration for the research and education community

• Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaboration

• Supporting personal communications, meetings, conferences, and teaching and learning

• For Internet2 members and their international counterparts

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H.323

Oth

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VRVS

Vid

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cing

Tech

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AG

MPEG2

Others

Others

Data Sharing

Instant Messaging

Voice/IP

Electronic Notebooks

Peer to Peer

Collaboratories

Internet2 Discipline & Community Activities

Approach

Broad OutreachInternet2 Days, web site, application flyers

Health Sciences

Arts & Humanities

ApplicationsCommunity

ApplicationsCommunity Applications

Community

ApplicationsCommunity Applications

Community

ApplicationsCommunity

NEES, Physics,Astronomy

ApplicationsCommunity

ApplicationsCommunity

Applications Working Groups

Health Sciences

Veterinary Medicine

Arts & Humanities

Non-traditional Theses

Arts Performance

High Energy and Nuclear Physics

Geospatial Information Systems

…

Voice over IP

Digital Video

Videoconferencing

ResearchChannel

Network Storage

…

Other Resources

Distributed Applications Support Team

• dast.nlanr.net

Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative

International Opportunities

International Efforts

Focus on researcher partnerships working on advanced applications

Cooperate on advanced services to maintain global interoperability

Use STARTAP (Science, Technology, and Research Transit Access Point) for connectivity along with Abilene “International Transit Network”

• www.startap.net

International Transit Network

APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERnet, GEMNET, IUCC, KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, RENATER, REUNA, SURFnet, SingAREN, SINET, TAnet2, (ANSP, RNP2)

OC12 NYCMBELNET, CA*net3,JANET,

NORDUnet, SURFnet, TEN-155*, (HEAnet)

STTLCA*net3, AARnet

SNVAGEMNET, (SINET)

LOSASingAREN, SINET, UNINET

AmPATH(REUNA, RNP2, RETINA)

OC3-12UT El Paso(CUDI)

CALREN2CUDI

* ARNES, BELNET, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, HEAnet, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS

Summary

Questions

Who are the campus stakeholders?

Should you focus on broadly applicable applications or narrow discipline needs?

Should you build or buy?

Should you go it alone or partner?

What resources are needed?

What resources are available?

What happens if you succeed?

More Info ...

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