What is Internet2?

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What is Internet2?
www.internet2.edu

• Ted Hanss, Internet2
• 5 March 2003

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Topics

• Organization
• Applications
• Middleware
• Network Infrastructure
• International Efforts

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Organization
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Internet2 Mission

• Develop and deploy advanced network applications
  and technologies for research and higher
  education, accelerating the creation of
  tomorrows internet.

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Development Cycle
Commercialization
Privatization
Todays Internet
Internet2
Research and
Development
Partnerships
Source Ivan Moura Campos
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Internet2 Universities
206 universities 65 corporations 41 non-profits
and govt labs
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SEGPs
Sponsored Educational Group Participants
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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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Abilene Network Core Map, March 2004
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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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Middleware

• A layer of software between the network and the
  applications
• Authentication
• Identification
• Authorization
• Directories
• Security

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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Engineering Initiatives

• IPv6
• Measurement (End-to-End Performance)
• Multicast
• Quality of service
• Routing
• Security
• Topology

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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International Partnerships
Current MoU Partners
Developing Partnerships
Related Efforts in Formation
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www.internet2.edu
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How Internet2 is Making a Difference
www.internet2.edu

• Ted Hanss, Internet2
• 5 March 2003

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Internet2 Applications

• What are Internet2 applications?
• They deliver qualitative and quantitative
  improvements in how we conduct research and
  engage in teaching and learning
• They require advanced networks to work

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Different Disciplines/Contexts

• Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
• Health care
• Business/Law
• Administration

• Library
• Classroom
• Clinic
• Office
• Laboratory
• Dorm room

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Application Attributes

• Interactive collaboration
• Real-time access to remote resources

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Attributes, cont.

• Large-scale, multi-site computation and data
  mining
• Shared virtual reality
• Any combination of the above

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Digital Video
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Digital Video Applications

• Up to broadcast quality videoconferencing
• Both live distribution and on-demand access to a
  variety of content
• HDTV-based digital cinema, network-based studio
  production,

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Access Grid
www.accessgrid.org
Source Argonne National Laboratory
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Access Grid
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Music Instruction
Music instruction University of Oklahoma
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Remote Scanning Electron Microscope

• The University of Michigan

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Philips XL30
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Distributed nanoManipulator

• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

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Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory

• University of Michigan

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Massively Parallel Interactive Rendering
Environment

• University of California, San Diego
• San Diego Supercomputer Center

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Shared Virtual Environment

• Ohio State University
• Ohio Supercomputer Center

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Shared Virtual Environment
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Grid Projects
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What is the Grid?

• Global resources available to communities of
  researchers
• The protocols, services, and applications that
  enable new forms of collaboration

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Grid Resources
Instruments
Libraries
Workstations
People
Data sets
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Examples

• Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
• Collaboration environment for earthquake
  researchers (e.g., structural engineers,
  geotechnical and tsunami scientists)

• Grid Physics Network
• Petabyte scale environment for data-intensive
  applications (Large Hadron Collider, Sloan
  Digital Sky Survey, Laser Interferometer
  Gravitational Wave Observatory)

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Grid Projects

• NEESGrid
• www.neesgrid.org
• GriPhyN
• www.griphyn.org
• S/W infrastructure
• www.gridforum.org
• Research Sensornets
• Networked nanotechnology

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Internet2 Commons
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The Internet2 Commons

• Encouraging and supporting large-scale,
  distributed collaboration for the research and
  education community
• Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and
  group-to-group collaboration
• Supporting personal communications,
  meetings, conferences,
  and teaching and
  learning

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More Info ...

• www.internet2.edu
• ted_at_internet2.edu
• apps.internet2.edu/talks/
• Ted Hanss Internet2 3025 Boardwalk Suite
  100 Ann Arbor, MI 48108 1.734.913.4256

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