Internet2 Initiatives at NPS Dr. Christine Cermak Dr. Amela Sadagic Don McGregor

Agenda 1. Internet2 101 2. Internet2 at NPS 3. Benefits for MOVES and NPS

UCAID, Internet2, Abilene… UCAID: University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, 501c 3 non-profit, governs Internet2 Internet2: research consortium Abilene Network: Internet2 backbone

OC192 = 10 Gbps

Bandwidth Rates T-1 = 1.544 Mbps T-3 = 45 Mbps OC3 = 155.52 Mbps OC192 = 10 Gbps [ OC256 = 13.271 Gbps ] [ OC768 = 40 Gbps ]

Gigabit per second Points of Presence

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49 International Partner Organizations and Networks

Members, Partners, Sponsors 206 Member US universities 12 Corporate Partners: Intel, IBM, MCI, Microsoft, Nortel, Cisco, Sun… 12 Corporate Sponsors: Ford Motor Cp., HP, Polycom, Radvision, Vbrick Systems… 42 Corporate Members 46 Affiliate Members 2 Association Members

Dr. Christine Cermak

Internet2 Internet2 is intended to be a testbed that prompts the next generation of internet applications What sorts of new applications are enabled when there is high bandwidth, low latency internet access?

Why Latency is Important Interactive applications usually require fast feedback--if the ping time is over about 150 ms it starts to impinge on human reaction time. FPS gamers begin to avoid games if ping times exceed this

High Performance Computing Clusters are proliferating as cost drops. Significant clusters can be created for less than $50K, but • Smaller sites still isolated from big installations; why not develop on local cluster, send big jobs to the big clusters • Want to tie smaller clusters together into a shared resource, not isolated islands • Large shared distributed databases are important This addresses mostly the bandwidth side of I2. There are classic administrative/security/chargeback/social issues to solve. Not everyone would be happy about their cluster being used by others Re-inventing the social structures surrounding mini/mainframe culture with new technology

High Performance Computing Applications: • Graphics rendering, discrete event simulation, oceanography, meteorology, physics, large scale online databases

Access Grid Large-scale video, audio, and text (jabber) conferencing; “improve the effectiveness of distributed scientific collaborations by providing a natural and persistent virtual meeting space” This can include everything from large, dedicated rooms with wall displays to PCs with a web cam This places a greater emphasis on low latency and multicast capabilities http://portal.accessgrid.org/

Access Grid

Performance / End-to-End Diagnostics Automated detection of faults & anomalies, diagnostics, security, and performance issues Optimizing network applications often requires a guru on call, and the problem often crosses multiple administrative domains http://middleware.internet2.edu/e2ed/

An example of Internet2 application FOPCSim + VEHELO Internet2

Videoconferencing Megaconference VI: Dec 2004, 372 sites (all continents except Antartica) - est. 3000 people, 15 hours long Gigaconference: 5 Aug 2005, over 20 sites, 4 hours, showcase of high-end, high-performance videoconferencing, >1Mbps, 30 frames/s Internet2 Commons: framework for collaboration, IP collaborative technologies

Megaconference

Megaconference Megachoir

When technology is not all perfect… H.323 Art

Other initiatives and WGs Middleware: identification, authentication, authorization, directories, and security; standardization and interoperability; Shibboleth® Project (architecture, policy, technologies; open source) IPV6 Digital Video VidMid - Video on Demand Voice over IP

And before we connect… Perfect/update internal infrastructure Disseminate information within NPS: approach each department! Form interest groups within NPS Connect with other universities Internet2 and National LambdaRail (NLR): future consolidation

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