vBNS Workshop Georgia State University Room 600 Classroom South August 22, :00-4:00 pm

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop2 Agenda b Introduction b Overview of vBNS, Internet2 and NGI b Campus, Atl., State and Regional Initiatives b Applications b Technical Support b Dialogue b Year 1 Agenda

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop3 NSF Grant NCR b Connections to the Internet program b Collaborative effort with Georgia Tech to connect campuses to the vBNS network b Institutionally submitted proposal b $350,000 award, May 15, 1997 b Focus is to improve quality and effectiveness of meritorious applications

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop4 vBNS, Internet 2, Ngi What are They? b Link to Samir Chatterjee’s Presentation Link to Samir Chatterjee’s Presentation Link to Samir Chatterjee’s Presentation

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop5 Campus Initiatives b Buildings Must Be Upgraded FY 98: Science, Science Annex, Art & Music, Urban Life, etc.FY 98: Science, Science Annex, Art & Music, Urban Life, etc. b Inter-Building Network Needs Upgrading b vBNS Connections Will Be Expedited 100 Mbs to the Desktop100 Mbs to the Desktop We Need to Know Who Will Be Ready and WhenWe Need to Know Who Will Be Ready and When

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop6 Atlanta & Georgia Initiatives b Atlanta GigaPoP - aggregation point of services and customers vBNSvBNS ESNetESNet Emory University (proposed)Emory University (proposed) University of Georgia (proposed)University of Georgia (proposed) Commodity Internet Service Providers (?)Commodity Internet Service Providers (?)

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop7 Regional Initiatives b Southern Crossroads Southeastern GigaPoPs convening at the Atlanta GigaPoP for services and access to one anotherSoutheastern GigaPoPs convening at the Atlanta GigaPoP for services and access to one another –MCNC, Duke, NC State, U of NC - Chapel Hill, VaTech –ORNL, U of Tenn and Kentucky –U of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana –Florida SURA involvement at the coordination and political levelSURA involvement at the coordination and political level Washington, DC and Atlanta - Southeastern GigaPoPs Washington, DC and Atlanta - Southeastern GigaPoPs

Applications It’s the application, stupid…..

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop9 What’s wrong today? b Too sloooow b Inconsistent response time b Too limiting

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop10 Revolutionary Applications b “Demonstrate a wide variety of nationally important applications that cannot be achieved over today’s Internet.” NGI Initiative Concept Paper

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop11 A Flavor for the Future b Digital Libraries b Collaboration Environments b Immersion Environments b Music Instrumentation b Tele-medicine b Computation and data-intensive applications

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop12 Internet2 Exploration Areas b Quality of Service b Network-aware Applications b High Fidelity Audio and Video b Tools b Collaboration Infrastructure

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop13 Meritorious Applications, Georgia State b CHARA, McAlister b NMR Facility, Dixon b Cineon Project, Evans, Moss, Winkler, Owen b Astrophysical Hydrodynamic Flows, Wiita b Geographic IS DSS, Faust, Frost, Zin, Owen b Capability Maturity Model, Fraser, Vaishnavi b Architectures for Gigabit Multimedia Delivery, Chatterjee

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop14 Meritorious Applications, Georgia Tech b FutureNet Community Project b High Performance Computing Consortium and the Parallel Virtual Machine b Georgia Tech Lorraine, LOADS b Georgia Tech Parallel Applications

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop15 How do we get there??? b We don’t know b Creativity and ingenuity of faculty, researchers, staff and students on our campuses

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop16 Technical Support Services b What Would You Like ? ? ?

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop17 Service Menu b Consulting b Development Support

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop18 Dialogue b Questions? b Comments? b Current Collaborative Activities? b Applications Committee? b Select Showcase Application(s)? b Listserv?, Newsletter b Usage….Use It or Lose It!!!

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop19 Year 1 Agenda b vBNS and ESNet Connectivity October ‘97October ‘97 b Other Regional Connectivity October-December ‘97October-December ‘97 b Application Deployment Priorities at Georgia State b Application Demonstrations

August 22, 1997vBNS Workshop20 For More Information b b Mary Jane Casto, , b Samir Chatterjee, , b Reid Christenberry, , b Randy Palmer, ,