1. Academic Services and Emerging Technologies Mission: Provide high-quality computing and related information technology services in support of the teaching, research and outreach goals of the University

2. Academic Services and Emerging Technologies (ASET) Senior Director Kevin Morooney Applied Information Technologies (AIT) Steve Kellogg, Director Graduate Education & Research Services (GEaRS) Vijay Agarwala, Director Emerging Technologies (ET) (Devan, Leous, Shuey, WilliamsA) Communications Team (Hackett, Vacant) Financial Advisor Mel Rupert Staff Support Tracy Leitzel

3. Applied Information Technologies Networking and Advanced Systems Group (Kalbach) Networking and Advanced Systems Group (Kalbach) Enabling Technologies Group (Pishioneri) Enabling Technologies Group (Pishioneri) Software Solutions Group (Vuccolo) Software Solutions Group (Vuccolo) Digital Credential Services (Mihaly) Digital Credential Services (Mihaly)

4. Digital Credential Services Maintainer, collector and administrator of the Penn State Access Account establishes your Penn State digital identity (approx. 120,000 valid Access Accounts) used to gain access to a variety of Penn State and Internet services/resources “Record keeping” and policy for Access Account and other related accounts (course-related, research-related and for-fee service academic computing accounts)

5. Applied Information Technologies Some Services & Buzz Authentication (Kerberos) Authorization (“groups”) Friends of Penn State (FPS) PASS - Penn State Access Account Storage Space Directory Services (LDAP) Oracle Calendar ITS Windows Domain Service (Active Directory) E-mail - POP, IMAP, KPOP, Auto- Reply Messaging Service (Vacation) Virtual Private Network (VPN) UNIX Cluster Co-location center

6. Advanced Information Technologies More Services and Buzz Web Services http://www.psu.edu http://aset.its.psu.edu/ http://www.personal.psu.edu/ http://www.courses.psu.edu/ http://www.psu.edu/dept/ https://www.work.psu.edu/www.work.psu.edu/ Virtual Hosting Penn State Portal Penn State WebMail Penn State search engine (Google)

7. GEaRS Provides resources and consulting for faculty and students who require high performance computing technologies to do their research and teaching Immersive Environments Lab Access Grid Node(s) Immersadesk, Large Format Display Wall Sports Medicine VR Lab Stereo Lecture Classroon Lion-XL, Lion-XM, Lion-XO, Unisys ES7000, LION-XD, Pleiades (over 3 TFLOPS of computing power using Xeons, Opterons, Itaniums networked with Infiniband, GigE, Quadrics, BlueGene exploration, cell processor exploration) Vendor and faculty partnerships

8. Emerging Technologies Team Performs research and development in information technology for the purpose of developing, defining and promoting an information technology architecture that positions ITS and Penn State to take advantage of rapidly emerging opportunities Works with teams in peer ITS units to define projects, investigations - “We don't do ET, we find it and help it.” Retreats with ITS units are an important activity

9. ET Initiatives Open Source & Alternative Software Open Source & Alternative Software Desktop Linux Desktop Linux Apple OS X Apple OS X Computing Computing On-Demand Computing On-Demand Computing Server Virtualization Server Virtualization Digital Content Management Digital Content Management Identity Management Identity Management Biometrics Biometrics Federations Federations Multifactor Authentication Multifactor Authentication Shibboleth Shibboleth Penn State WebAccess Penn State WebAccess Integrated Communications Integrated Communications E-mail Enhancements E-mail Enhancements Media over IP Media over IP Mobile Platforms Mobile Platforms Open Source VoIP Open Source VoIP Podcasting Podcasting Networking Networking Broadband Wireless Broadband Wireless National LambdaRail National LambdaRail Wireless Networks Wireless Networks Social Software Social Software Blogging Blogging Clog Clog Collaboration and Reporting Collaboration and Reporting Sakai Sakai Storage Solutions Storage Solutions DCE/DFS Replacement DCE/DFS Replacement Fibre Channel over IP Fibre Channel over IP iSCSI iSCSI Special Projects Special Projects LionShare LionShare eAuthentication eAuthentication

10. Communications Team Helps staff talk about ASET services in ways that don't require a translator Karen Hackett Vacant

11. Hot Projects WebMail “2.0” WebMail “2.0” NLR testbeds NLR testbeds Supporting the “Virtual Organization” Supporting the “Virtual Organization” Eauthentication Project Eauthentication Project “New” cooling methods “New” cooling methods Shibboleth/Federation Shibboleth/Federation Authorization/Workflow Authorization/Workflow Active Directory Active Directory Podcasting Podcasting Lionshare Lionshare NSF proposal for research computing workshop NSF proposal for research computing workshop

12. Goals