1. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC Report John Hicks TransPAC HPCC Applications Engineer Indiana University February 2, 2001

2. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Chronological list of events for 2000 Link status Future upgrades Overview

3. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC events for 2000 John Hicks was hired as the TransPAC High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) applications engineer email: jhicks@iu.edu Goals for TransPAC include working with network engineers and scientists to develop, debug, monitor, and provide analysis for international network applications. TransPAC annual report was completed and submitted to the US National Science Foundation (NSF) in July 2000 Copies are available

4. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC events for 2000 (cont.) TransPAC participated in the International Grid (iGrid) demonstration at INET2000, Yokohama, Japan 18 – 21 July 2000. IGrid featured 24 applications from 14 regions. Established Global Network Operations Center (GNOC). GNOC currently provides 24x7x365 NOC services to TransPAC, Euro-Link, MIRnet, AMPATH, STAR TAP, and Abilene. Information available at http://globalnoc.iu.edu

5. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC events for 2000 (cont.) New TransPAC Web page design, http://www.transpac.org Features include:  News items  Application database  Network Operations Center  Support services  Engineering

6. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC events for 2000 (cont.) TransPAC HPIIS Performance Review, October 25, 2000. Positive response on all HPIIS networks. Funding provided for next two years.

7. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC events for 2000 (cont.) Chris Robb was hired as the TransPAC Network Engineer. email: chrobb@indiana.edu Chris will work closely with Linda Winkler (acting network engineer, ANL) and John Hicks HPCC applications engineer and APAN counterparts. Chris will be deeply involved in application monitoring and analysis.

8. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC Link Status TransPAC was upgraded from 100Mpbs to 155Mbps (OC3) in November 2000. The current TransPAC configuration is referred to as the “TransPAC Northern Route”.

9. INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY TransPAC Future Upgrades Future upgrades include development of the “TransPAC Southern Route” and expansion of “TransPAC Northern Route”. RFP for next two years of TransPAC bandwidth to be issued in March 2001.