Great Plains Region

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Great Plains Region

• Arkansas Bill Ashmore
• Srini Ramaswamy
• Kansas Joe Evans
• Nebraska Janet Poley
• Rich Sincovec
• David Swanson
• North Dakota Lynn Kubeck
• Ron Marsh
• Marc Wallman
• Oklahoma Henry Neeman
• South Dakota Claude Garelik
• James Rattling Leaf
• Scott Meyer

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History of CI Collaboration

• 1980s
• MIDNET
• 1996
• Initial meeting for advanced networking
• 1997
• Great Plains Network
• Partial funding by EPSCoR
• 1st regional connector to Internet2

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Great Plains Network

• CI Evolution
• GPN gt network
• consortium for fostering research collaborations
• Grid and Cluster Computing
• Middleware and Identity Management

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Great Plains Network

• A consortium of over 20 universities
• Plus,
• Iowa State University
• University of Minnesota
• State Networks
• Corporate Affiliates
• Ciena
• Adva Optical
• Fujitsu Labs
• Strategic Partnerships
• ADEC
• 12 Tribal Colleges

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Home of

• AISEP Advanced Internet Satellite Extension
  Program
• 2000-2007 EPSCoR CI contribution
• (Pending) CI Strategic Technology Applications
  for Rural Research and Educational Development
  2008-2010

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Participation in Regional and National
Organizations

• QUILT
• Northern Tier
• National Lambda Rail
• Internet2
• Open Science Grid
• SURA
• Coalition for Academic Supercomputing (CASC)

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Driving Applications

• Earth Sciences
• Biosciences
• Bioinformatics
• Biosecurity
• High Energy Physics

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Challenges/Opportunities

• Sharing Resources
• Computation Storage
• Collaborative Software Development
• Open Science Grid Participation
• Creating Demand
• Building Competencies
• Technical Training Workshops
• Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium
• OU CI-Team Project
• Grid computing workshops
• GPN Annual Meeting
• MCBIOS Annual Meeting
• Visiting Scholar Program
• Capturing/Retaining Expertise

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Communication
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Possibilities

• Bringing TeraGrid to region (OU, UNL, others)
• Multiple Regional CI Centers
• GENI Global Environment for Network Innovation
• experimental facility
• allow experiments with radical network designs
• build new versions of the net
• Transparent Optical Transport
• Control plane and management plane for high speed
  networks
• Optical switching and substrate layer design
• Multi-level network resilience and survivability
• Heterogeneous internetworking architecture
• Virtualization of network resources.
• Cognitive networks
• Multi-layer security
• Protocol research FPGA enabled protocol
  selection and programming for research on new
  protocols.

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Great Plains GENI Testbed Configuration

• Four initial sites
• Creative Wide Area Network Solutions carrier
  backbone spectrum, dark fiber, private network
• Partnership among researchers, technical
  networking staff, corporate partners
• Opportunity for boldness and creativity!
• Contribute to evaluation of core GENI Issues

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Great Plains Initiatives Have Been and Can
Continue to be

• Partnerships between
• Faculty and staff, students and researchers
• Regional universities, tribal colleges
• US Funding Agencies
• Corporate entities attracted by regional talent
• Regional network carriers
• Great Plains Network

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• Greg Monaco, Executive Director
• Great Plains Network
• greg_at_greatplains.net