1. Northeast Tier 2 General Contacts: Jim Shank, Saul Youssef shank@bu.edushank@bu.edu, youssef@bu.edu WAN: Charles Von Lichtenberg chuckles@bu.edu LAN & Security: Augustine Abaravicyus systems@scv.bu.edu Boston University + Harvard University

2. Tier 2 build up has begun… 56 Xeon in IBM blade center 32 Xeon development cluster 9T NFS mounted disk 1 GigE to campus core 56 AMD double dual added yesterday Managed jointly with SCV group, Center for Computational Science at BU T2 prototype very expert group

3. Boston University Harvard MIT Northeastern Tufts Brown + rest of New England U.Mass MIT Lincoln labs Abilene OC48 NoX metro ring 144 fibers OC48 1 km NYC

4. 2.We’ll need to have a coherent Tier0/1/2 infrastructure for storing networking performance data, monitoring and continuous testing. Joe Metzger will tell us what to do. 1. No specific plans for dedicated peer to peer networks for T1 T2. Internet2 backbone in the process of OC48->10Gig. Some sort of relationship with NLR, HOPI anticipated. 3. We can anticipate some sort of management QoS infrastructure particularly for high priority activities. Ultralight, TeraPath, + ? 4. We also need to have some sort of Tier 1/2 coherence in security infrastructure. 5. Joint planning with MIT CMS re WAN & Ultralight collab.might be a good idea. What I’m taking back to Boston…