Advanced Research Computing Seminar

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Advanced Applications --Support and Other
Activities

• Advanced Research Computing Seminar
• Georgetown University
• Tuesday, February 27, 2001
• George Brett
• NLANR Distributed Applications Support Team
• (NCSA/UIUC)

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Agenda

• The National Laboratory for Applied Network
  Research
• The Advanced Applications Clearinghouse
• Quick tour of the Clearinghouse
• Some next steps
• Internet2 Initiatives

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NLANR

• The National Laboratory for Applied Network
  Research is a cooperative agreement with the
  National Science Foundation for
• Measurement and Operations Analysis Team
• network performance characterization lead by
  SDSC/UCSD
• National Center for Network Engineering
• end-to-end engineering support lead by PSC/CMU
• Distributed Applications Support Team
• user applications support/optimization lead by
  NCSA/UIUC
• The Advanced Applications Clearinghouse

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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
• Information Library Science

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Current Status

• 1460 projects
• (an active body of research with one or more
  applications)
• 899 contacts
• 750 resources
• (specific software, hardware, or technology that
  a project develops or uses)
• 13 discipline categories
• 620 institutions or organizations
• 30 countries

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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
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Clearinghouse Examples

• Examples from the Query Page
• Chart by Grid Categories
• Chart by Type
• Chart by Discipline
• Projects by Institution
• Sample Project Info
• Resources by Project
• Sample Resource Info
• Affiliations
• Survey

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Next phaseThe 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
• People to Tools for their work (kTools)
• Information about resources used by specific
  disciplines (e.g., Biologist Workbench,
  TeleMedicine, Sloan Digital Sky Survey).

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Klearinghouse visual map
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Process Map
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Working Groups and Initiatives

• There are a number of working groups and
  initiatives through which members participate in
  Internet2 activities. The following are sponsored
  by the Applications area, with Multicast jointly
  sponsored by Applications and Engineering.
• Health Sciences Initiatives
• Arts and Humanities Initiatives
• Digital Video Initiative
• Multicast Working Group
• Digital Imaging Working Group
• Voice over IP Working Group
• Distributed Storage Infrastructure Project
• Research Channel Consortium

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Selected URLs

• Measurement and Operations Analysis Team
• http//moat.nlanr.net/
• National Center for Network Engineering
• http//ncne.nlanr.net/
• Distributed Applications Support Team
• http//dast.nlanr.net
• Advanced Applications Clearinghouse
• http//dast.nlanr.net/Clearinghouse/
• The Grid Blueprint for a New Computing
  Environment
• http//www.mkp.com/books_catalog/catalog.asp?ISBN
  1-55860-475-8
• Internet2
• http//www.internet2.edu

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Contact Info

• George H. Brett II
• NCSA NLANR / DAST
• ghb_at_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/