Internet2 Day University of Maryland College Park, MD March 30, 2001 George Brett NLANR Distributed Applications Support Team (NCSA/UIUC) Current Internet2 Applications

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- The Global Technology Grid Networks –high performance network services Computational Resources –supercomputers, clusters, distributed computing resources Communications Resources –inter personal (1, few, many) –inter device / system Other Services –Remotely controlled research equipment –Immersive environments

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- The Grid

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- What are Advanced Applications? They deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in how we conduct research and engage in teaching and learning They require advanced networks to work c/o Ted Hanss, Internet2

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Suggested Application Categories The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Environment. Foster, Ian & Kesselman, Carl ed. Morgan Kaufman Publ. Inc. San Francisco, CA 1998 ISBN

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Different Disciplines/Contexts Sciences Arts Humanities Health care Business/Law Administration … Library Classroom Clinic Office Laboratory Dorm room …

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Some Technical Requirements The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Environment. Foster, Ian & Kesselman, Carl ed. Morgan Kaufman Publ. Inc. San Francisco, CA 1998 ISBN

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Application Attributes Interactive research collaboration and instruction Real-time access to remote scientific instruments c/o Ted Hanss, Internet2

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Application Attributes (cont’d) Large-scale, multi-site computation and database processing Shared virtual reality Any combination of the above c/o Ted Hanss, Internet2

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- 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, … Digital Video Applications

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- The ACCESS Grid Collaborations Multiple Participants Share: Applications Chat White Boards Presentations... Visualization –Group Analysis of: Scientific Data Virtual Reality Instrument Steering

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Video Futures Tele-immersive “Office of the Future” Source: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Music Teaching University of Oklahoma

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Distributed nanoManipulator University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Advanced Regional Prediction System University of Oklahoma

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory University of Michigan

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30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Special 2.5m telescope, located at Apache Point, NM 3 degree field of view. Zero distortion focal plane. Two surveys in one: Photometric survey in 5 bands. Spectroscopic redshift survey. Huge CCD Mosaic 30 CCDs 2K x 2K(imaging) 22 CCDs 2K x 400(astrometry) Two high resolution spectrographs 2 x 320 fibers, with 3 arcsec diameter. R=2000 resolution with 4096 pixels. Spectral coverage from 3900Å to 9200Å. Automated data reduction Over 100 man-years of development effort. (Fermilab + collaboration scientists) Very high data volume Expect over 40 TB of raw data. About 1 TB processed catalogs. Data made available to the public. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey c/o Prof. Alex Szalay

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- TeleImmersion The CAVE

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Immersadesk

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Virtual Temporal Bone College of Health and Human Development Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago Dept. of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery,

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Health Sciences Collaboratories – Visible Human Project Medical Middleware – Security – Electronic Health Record Mary

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Share information Facilitate use in instruction, planning, and performance Example events: – Halloween Concert – Performing Arts Presenters Conference Ann Doyle Arts & Humanties

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NEESGrid – GriPhyN – Infrastructure – Grid Projects

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NLANR An NSF Cooperative Agreement for: –Distributed Applications Support Team user applications support/optimization; lead by NCSA/UIUC –National Center for Network Engineering end-to-end engineering support; lead by PSC/CMU –Measurement and Operations Analysis Team network performance characterization; lead by SDSC/UCSD

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NLANR-MOAT Improving our understanding of service models, service metrics, and tool requirements Searching for macro-level insights into high performance internetworking

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NLANR-MOAT Focus Areas Passive Network Monitoring –OCXmon Active Measurement Program (AMP) –distribution of monitors Visualization –Cichlid

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NLANR-NCNE Assist in the establishment and use of high-performance network connections (vBNS and Abilene) Help optimize overall end-to-end performance Provide information, training, and tools to manage high performance networks

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NLANR-NCNE Focus Areas Direct engineering support –supporting campus engineers –‘on-call’ engineer to help solve problems –specialists available to answer complex questions Education and Training –NLANR/Internet2 Techs Workshops May 2001 in Lincoln, NE –multicast seminars

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NLANR-DAST Goal: to promote the use of high performance networks by –supporting users and applications developers –developing training materials and documentation –disseminating techniques to the applications development population –maintaining the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NLANR-DAST Focus Areas Support users and applications developers –general usage and availability issues –advanced applications development support –problem reporting –directory of available resources (people & apps) Training and documentation –distributed Applications Workshops –extensive on-line information targeted to application developers Apps Support Help Desk –basic users and advanced developers –problem tracking and response coordination

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NLANR-DAST Projects Applications –CACTUS - communications layer optimization of a large, distributed code. Middleware –GLOBUS - Heartbeat monitor development Performance –netlog library, viznet tools

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NLANR-DAST Advanced Applications Clearinghouse Advanced Applications Clearinghouse –A data base / inventory of projects, resources, applications, and people using high performance networks –Sources NSF vBNS Awardee Proposals Internet2 Applications Area Regional Groups: CENIC, SURA, NYSERnet Discipline Communities –Staff: 1 dBase designer / programmer / Genius 2 graduate students –Information & Library Science

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- NLANR-DAST Advanced Applications Clearinghouse 2400 projects –an activity of research or education 1500 resources –specific software, hardware, or technology that a project develops or uses 920 contacts 14 discipline categories 620 institutions or organizations 30 countries

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Clearinghouse Links Examples from the Query PageQuery Page –Chart by Grid CategoriesChart by Grid Categories –Chart by TypeChart by Type –Chart by DisciplineChart by Discipline –Report: Projects by InstitutionProjects by Institution –Sample Project InfoSample Project Info –Report: Resources by ProjectResources by Project –Sample Resource InfoSample Resource Info –AffiliationsAffiliations –SurveySurvey

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- The Klearinghouse

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- Ted’s Info apps.internet2.edu/talks/ Ted Hanss Internet Boardwalk Suite 100 Ann Arbor, MI

30 March, 2001Internet2 Day -- George H. Brett II NCSA NLANR / DAST v f Contact Info