1. Sciences & Engineering
T. Charles Yun
Program Manager

2. Sciences and Engineering
Applications Group
Sciences and Engineering
NEES:
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
HENP:
High Energy and Nuclear Physics
eVLBI (Astronomy):
Electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Remote Instrumentation
Applications Group
June 2002

3. NEES Earthquake research using real buildings and computer simulations
Applications Group
NEES
Earthquake research using real buildings and computer simulations
Remote control of physical experiments requires extremely reliable and consistent network characteristics
Video will be crucial: both for conferencing and data collection
Interesting:
NEES is implementing remote control, observation, data collection from devices like the centrifuge above
Applications Group
June 2002

4. Applications Group
HENP
Physic has traditionally been one of the “power users” of all networks
Physicists are generating Terabytes of data (1,000,000,000,000 or 1x1012) per experiment from the CERN lab in Switzerland
They are working on bulk data transfers that are extremely resistant to data loss
VRVS, a video conferencing tool, was developed by the physics community
Interesting:
HENP is working on several protocols that take advantage of parallel streams and good neighbor practices (passive QOS)
Applications Group
June 2002

5. Applications Group
VLBI
Astronomers collect data about a star from many different earth based antennae and send the data to a specialized computer for analysis on a 24x7 basis
VLBI is not as concerned with data loss as they are with long term stability (unlike physics)
The end goal is to send data at 1Gb/s from over 20 antennae that are located around the globe.
Interesting:
VLBI is starting a prototype experiment to test their ability to run data analysis between multiple antennae at 250Mbs and then 512Mbs
Applications Group
June 2002

6. Remote Instrumentation
Applications Group
Remote Instrumentation
Creating a working group to focus on the cross-disciplinary activities in remote instrumentation
Based on work in health sciences, HENP, NEES, and VLBI
Have interest from groups such as NASA, general astronomers and potentially marine researchers
Interesting:
Remote Instrumentation BOF is gaining interest from national and international researchers interested sharing equipment
Applications Group
June 2002

7. Area Specific Efforts International Efforts Astronomy/VLBI HENP
Applications Group
Area Specific Efforts
International Efforts
Astronomy/VLBI
HENP
Fall Member Meeting- Working Group Meetings
NEES
Remote Instrumentation (and Astronomy)
Internet2 Commons
Applications Group
June 2002

8. Past/Future Activities
Applications Group
Past/Future Activities
PAST EVENTS
March
Wayne State University (Detroit, MI)
Bradley University (Peoria, IL)
April
MIT Haystack Observaotry (Westford, MA)
May
University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
AccessNova (video, Toyko, Japan)
Remote Instrumentation (Spring Member Meeting)
FUTURE EVENTS
Participating
Joint Techs 2002
Fall Member Meeting
Attending
SPIE 2002 (Waikoloa, HI)
GGF5 (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Missing
iGrid 2002 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands )
Applications Group
June 2002