June 4, MAGPI, Internet2, and NJEDGE: Advanced Research in Medicine and the Health Sciences via High Performance Networking Gregory D. Palmer, Director Jennifer MacDougall, Applications Coordinator

2 Internet2, The Gateway to National and International Research Communities

3 Application Attributes  Interactive collaboration  Real-time access to remote resources Mark Ellisman, UCSD

4 Attributes, cont.  Large-scale, multi- site computation and data mining  Shared virtual reality  Any combination of the above Glen Wheless, Old Dominion

5 Internet2 Partnerships  International 38 R&E networks worldwide  North America  South America  Europe  Asia  Middle East  Australia  Government National Science Found. DARPA Dept. of Energy NASA Dept. of Defense National Inst. of Health NIST, (Nat’l Inst. Of Stds & Tech.)

6 International MoU Map Asia-Pacific AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) APAN-KR (Korea) APRU (Asia-Pacific) CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand) SingAREN (Singapore) TAnet2 (Taiwan) Americas CANARIE (Canada) CUDI (Mexico) CRNET2 (Costa Rica) REUNA (Chile) RETINA (Argentina) RNP2 (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama) Europe-Middle East ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) POL-34 (Poland) RCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom)

7 Application Areas Supported  Telemedicine  Arts & Humanities  Foreign Languages  International Business  Nanotechnology  Genomics  Computer Science  International Cultures  Network Technology  Addictions  Physics  Astronomy  Pharmacology  Workforce Development  Digital Libraries

8 Health Sciences Collaborations  3-D Brain Mapping - Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Dr. Jonathan Cohen, co-directs the Laboratory for Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience  Virtual Tumor Board – Univ of Washington Med. School uses Access Grid Technology to review complex pathological, radiological images by experts located in different geographic locations  BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS RESEARCH NETWORK(BIRN) A Multiscale Investigations of Animal Models of Human Diseases Pooling of Image Data across Sites to Accelerate Recognition and Understanding of Human Disease  National Digital Mammography Archive - national breast imaging archive and network infrastructure to support digital mammography using Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies.  The Visible Human - a digital image dataset of complete human male and female cadavers in MRI, CT and anatomical modes.

9 NIH-Funded PathMiner Project: David J. Foran, Ph.D. 1) National repository of digitized pathology specimens. 2) Web-based telemedicine/computer assisted diagnosis. 3) Elucidate role of protein expression in determining morphology for a spectrum of malignancies.

10 Web Telemicroscopy & Intelligent Databases 

11 CERMUSA and Rural Health  Precepting: The design of the clinic's telemedicine prototype includes a dermascope, otoscope, document camera, VCR, and a computer  Consulting In situations where a physician cannot be on site, local telecommunications provide access to diverse sites with the ability to relay images via Internet2 for expert review

12 High Performance Group-to-Group Collaboration ; 104 sites as of 6/02

13 The Research Channel  Goal: to use program content creation and manipulation processes as testing medium for analog and digital broadcast and on-demand multimedia offerings, thus providing an unusual opportunity to experiment with new methods of distribution and interaction on a global basis.

14 Eastern Orthopaedic Research Network (EastORN)  Goal to enable lifelong learning for orthopedic surgeons  Requires high speed networks for real time streaming of live surgeries  Network as a teaching aid

15 Thank You!