WPI and Internet2

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WPI and Internet2
Worcester and Central Massachusetts Accelerating
the New Economy

• Thomas J. Lynch III, Ph.D.
• Vice President for Information Technology
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• tlynch_at_WPI.edu http//www.WPI.edu
• 23 March 2001

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Whats going on?. Waves of Power

• Mid 1800s Electric Power
• Key enabling technology
• 1st Industrial Rev gt Physical Abilities
• Mainframe System Era
• Limited users focus on scientific and
• business computation
• Personal Computers
• Computers for the masses focus on
• personal productivity, entertainment
• Merging computing communications
• Networking
• Mission connect the world
• Focus on collaborative workgroups
• The Next Thing Media-rich CONTENT for the
  information society
• Requires a new generation of software/hardware
  applications
• 2nd Industrial Revolutionabout knowledge, value,
  mental abilities
• Universitiesknowledge creation, dissemination,
  learning businesses

Source Waves of Power, David Moschella, AMACOM
American Management Association, NY, NY, 1997,
pg. 98.
Source The Age of Intelligent Machines, Ray
Kurzweil, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
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Mission

• Facilitate and coordinate the development,
  operation and technology transfer of advanced,
  network-based applications and network services
  to further U.S. leadership in research and higher
  education and accelerate the availability of new
  services and applications on the Internet.

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Internet2 Project Goals

• Network CapabilityRecreate leading edge Research
  and Education network, services
• QoS and middleware control packet latency,
  jitter multicast E2E
• Distributed storage, digital video, PKI,
  security, directories, monitoring
• ApplicationsEnable a new generation
• Video conferencing, simulation, VR,
  teleimmersion, collaboratories
• Visible human, GenBank, weather, music, drug
  discovery,
• Rapid Technology TransferNew services and
  applications to the global production Internet
  and broader educational community
• Corporate partners, sponsors, members lead the
  way
• Community roles via regional networks, gigaPoPs

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Internet2 Membership (March 2001)

• 186 Universities and colleges
• 74 Corporations
• Must be sponsored and have a research project
• 43 Affiliate members (Government labs,
  non-profits)
• 5 Secondary Education Group Participants
• State education networks Michigan, Missouri,
  Oregon, Virginia, Washington, K-12, community
  colleges, museums, libraries
• Internet 2 going mainstream!
• 39 International partner networks / orgs.
• 7 Americas 10 Asia-Pacific 22 EU Middle East

http//www.internet2.edu
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Why Would You Join I2?

• Be a player Prestige Knowledge
• Access to the newest, high-performance networking
  infrastructure and educational applications of
  technology
• Collaboration, remote devices, distance learning,
  video
• Bandwidth, QoS, cost containment
• Differential competitive advantages
• Advance your research, product development
  agenda
• Recruitment and retention of high-quality
  researchers, faculty, technical staff

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Internet2 on CNN

• High-tech musical collaboration
• Application themes
• Collaboration at a distance (6 cities)
• Access to remote musical experts/teachers
• Geographically distributed production
• Recording, research, sharing ideas
• High-quality, real-time audio and video

What I1 did with communication, I2 may do with
collaboration!
WPI Virtual Orchestra Virtual Alden
Memorial/Theater
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WPI I2 Research Areas
NSF Meritorious Applications

• Spacecraft electric and chemical propulsion
• Massively parallel computing
• Improved web performance through caching
• Data mining
• Surface metrology
• Non-invasive imaging for stroke research and
  Atherosclerosis
• Distributed computing, cryptography, and wireless
  LANs
• Vehicle crashworthiness research
• Fire protection engineering through distributed
  education and research
• Metal processing
• Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) Toolkit
• Global project centers

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Corporate RD Opportunities

• Applications
• Distance learning and instructional management
  systems
• Distributed computing, storage, ASP architectures
• Digital libraries, e-multi media, content
  channels
• Digital cinema, e-movie distribution
• Collaboratories, virtual labs with access to
  scarce, remote devices
• Video conf., teleimmersion, virtual reality
  environments, caving
• Middleware and network development
• Quality of service digital audio/video
  distributed network storage security
  (identification, authentication, authorization)
  collaboration tools (white boards, chat)
  scalable, secure directory services multicast
  file systems instrumentation and measurement of
  wide-area applications end-to-end support
  toolkits for remote control of instrumentation
  standards development IPv6, network-layer
  issues, transport layer support for high-speed
  flows high-speed wireless
• Much more ...

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Goddard I2 GigaPoP
Allan Johannesen General Manager aej_at_wpi.edu
Connectivity for Central New England
Dual OC-48 2488 Mbit/s ATM Gigabit Ethernet
Backbones
WPI Metro West
WPI Worcester
OC-12 622 Mbit/s ATM
I2 gigaPoP
RBOC, CLECs, ISPs
RBOC, CLECs, ISPs
RBOC, CLECs, ISPs
NEESCom Building
OC-3 155 Mbit/s scaling to OC-48 2488 Mbit/s ATM
or higher
189 Participants 48 Connectors 34 Connections to
20 Peer Nets
NYC

• OC-48 2488 Mbit/s scaling to
• OC-192 9953 Mbit/s SONET

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WPI I2 Networking Video

• Jim Dittami (remote access, collaboration)
• NMR, Worcester State, Med Research
• Julie Mullen (comp grid, shared resource)
• High Performance Supercomputing
• Pfizer, Bob Volkman (corp collaboration)
• National UG Fellows Program
• Corporate Research Collaboration
• Kristin Wobbe (use I2 in classroom/teach)
• PET Enzyme Project
• Web related research Use of NIH SW programs
• Tom Lynch (apps, DV, E2E, MW)
• Advanced Networking and I2 themes

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More Information

• Goddard GigaPoP contacts
• WPI Allan Johannesen, GM, aej_at_wpi.edu (508)
  831-5434
• Tom Lynch, tlynch_at_wpi.edu [phone]
• NEESCom John DeStefano, desteph_at_neescom.com
  [phone]
• Useful Links
• http//www.internet2.edu Heather Boyles
• http//www.cise.nsf.gov/anir/ NSF advanced
  networks
• http//www.ngi.gov Next Generation Internet
• http//www.wpi.edu WPI
• http//www.neescom.com NEESCom
• http//www.qwest.net Abilene Network
• http//www.nortel.com Corporate Partner