1. Internet2 Fall Meeting Atlanta, GA October 29 – Nov 1, 2000 George Brett NLANR Distributed Applications Support Team (NCSA/UIUC) The Clearinghouse: a status report

2. Oct 31, 2000Internet2 Fall Mtg 00 -- ghb@dast.nlanr.net The Clearinghouse Advanced Applications Clearinghouse –A data base / inventory of projects, resources, applications, and people using high performance networks –Sources NSF vBNS Awardee Proposals Internet2 Applications Area Regional Groups: CENIC, SURA, NYSERnet Discipline Communities –Staff: 1 dBase designer / programmer / Genius 2 graduate students –Cataloger: Information & Library Science –Programmer: Computer Science

3. Oct 31, 2000Internet2 Fall Mtg 00 -- ghb@dast.nlanr.net Current Status 1431 projects –(an active body of research with one or more applications) 1050 contacts 632 resources –(specific software, hardware, or technology that a project develops or uses) 13 discipline categories 300 institutions or organizations 16 countries

4. Oct 31, 2000Internet2 Fall Mtg 00 -- ghb@dast.nlanr.net Grid Categories The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Environment. Foster, Ian & Kesselman, Carl ed. Morgan Kaufman Publ. Inc. San Francisco, CA 1998 ISBN 1-55860-475-8

5. Oct 31, 2000Internet2 Fall Mtg 00 -- ghb@dast.nlanr.net Clearinghouse Examples Examples from the Query PageQuery Page –Chart by Grid CategoriesChart by Grid Categories –Chart by TypeChart by Type –Chart by DisciplineChart by Discipline –Projects by InstitutionProjects by Institution –Sample Project InfoSample Project Info –Resources by ProjectResources by Project –Sample Resource InfoSample Resource Info

6. Oct 31, 2000Internet2 Fall Mtg 00 -- ghb@dast.nlanr.net Next phase: The Klearinghouse People to Data / Content (kBase) –Information about collections (e.g., data, meta-data, and others). People to People (kSpace) –Information about computer mediated communications tools / applications (e.g., collaboratories, conferencing). People to Tools for their work (kTools) –Information about resources used by specific disciplines (e.g., Biologist Workbench, TeleMedicine, Sloan Digital Sky Survey).

7. Oct 31, 2000Internet2 Fall Mtg 00 -- ghb@dast.nlanr.net Klearinghouse visual map

8. Oct 31, 2000Internet2 Fall Mtg 00 -- ghb@dast.nlanr.net Anecdotal Issues Lacking a coherent viewpoint… People to Data / Content (kBase) –Islands of information / data –Duplication of effort People to People (kSpace) –Adverse to spending money for commercial solutions –Incompatibility between releases People to Tools for their work (kTools) –Islands of effort –Not Invented Here –Competitive environment

9. Oct 31, 2000Internet2 Fall Mtg 00 -- ghb@dast.nlanr.net Implementation Small teams –To identify and verify content –To work with communities of interest Qualify tools (consumer reports model) Provide Horizon for end users –What’s coming? Where is it coming from? Keep the S-Curve in mind –Pioneers (alpha & beta tests) –Early Adopters (first run production) –General Market Place –Research – adoption - diffusion

10. Oct 31, 2000Internet2 Fall Mtg 00 -- ghb@dast.nlanr.net Process Map

11. Oct 31, 2000Internet2 Fall Mtg 00 -- ghb@dast.nlanr.net George H. Brett II NCSA NLANR / DAST ghb@dast.nlanr.net http://www.ncsa.edu/~ghb v. 703-248-0120 f. 703-248-0100 http://dast.nlanr.net/Clearinghouse http://www.nlanr.net/ http://dast.nlanr.net/ http://ncne.nlanr.net/ http://moat.nlanr.net/