Internet2 Initiatives at NPS

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Internet2 Initiatives at NPS

• Dr. Christine Cermak
• Dr. Amela Sadagic
• Don McGregor

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Agenda

• 1. Internet2 101
• 2. Internet2 at NPS
• 3. Benefits for MOVES and NPS

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UCAID, Internet2, Abilene

• UCAID University Corporation for Advanced
  Internet Development, 501c 3 non-profit, governs
  Internet2
• Internet2 research consortium
• Abilene Network Internet2 backbone

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OC192 10 Gbps
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Bandwidth Rates

• T-1 1.544 Mbps
• T-3 45 Mbps
• OC3 155.52 Mbps
• OC9 466.56 Mbps
• OC192 10 Gbps
• OC256 13.271 Gbps
• OC768 40 Gbps

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Gigabit per second Points of Presence
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206
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49 International Partner Organizations and
Networks
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Members, Partners, Sponsors

• 206 Member US universities
• 12 Corporate Partners Intel, IBM, MCI,
  Microsoft, Nortel, Cisco, Sun
• 12 Corporate Sponsors Ford Motor Cp., HP,
  Polycom, Radvision, Vbrick Systems
• 42 Corporate Members
• 46 Affiliate Members
• 2 Association Members

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Dr. Christine Cermak
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Internet2

• Internet2 is intended to be a testbed that
  prompts the next generation of internet
  applications
• What sorts of new applications are enabled when
  there is high bandwidth, low latency internet
  access?

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Why Latency is Important

• Interactive applications usually require fast
  feedback--if the ping time is over about 150 ms
  it starts to impinge on human reaction time. FPS
  gamers begin to avoid games if ping times exceed
  this

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High Performance Computing

• Clusters are proliferating as cost drops.
  Significant clusters can be created for less than
  50K, but
• Smaller sites still isolated from big
  installations why not develop on local cluster,
  send big jobs to the big clusters
• Want to tie smaller clusters together into a
  shared resource, not isolated islands
• Large shared distributed databases are
  important
• This addresses mostly the bandwidth side of I2.
  There are classic administrative/security/chargeba
  ck/social issues to solve. Not everyone would be
  happy about their cluster being used by others
• Re-inventing the social structures surrounding
  mini/mainframe culture with new technology

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High Performance Computing

• Applications
• Graphics rendering, discrete event simulation,
  oceanography, meteorology, physics, large scale
  online databases

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Access Grid

• Large-scale video, audio, and text (jabber)
  conferencing improve the effectiveness of
  distributed scientific collaborations by
  providing a natural and persistent virtual
  meeting space
• This can include everything from large, dedicated
  rooms with wall displays to PCs with a web cam
• This places a greater emphasis on low latency and
  multicast capabilities
• http//portal.accessgrid.org/

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Access Grid
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Performance / End-to-End Diagnostics

• Automated detection of faults anomalies,
  diagnostics, security, and performance issues
• Optimizing network applications often requires a
  guru on call, and the problem often crosses
  multiple administrative domains
• http//middleware.internet2.edu/e2ed/

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An example of Internet2 application
FOPCSim VEHELO
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Videoconferencing

• Megaconference VI Dec 2004, 372 sites (all
  continents except Antartica) - est. 3000 people,
  15 hours long
• Gigaconference 5 Aug 2005, over 20 sites, 4
  hours, showcase of high-end, high-performance
  videoconferencing, gt1Mbps, 30 frames/s
• Internet2 Commons framework for collaboration,
  IP collaborative technologies

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Megaconference
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Megaconference
Megachoir
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When technology is not all perfect
H.323 Art
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Other initiatives and WGs

• Middleware identification, authentication,
  authorization, directories, and security
  standardization and interoperability Shibboleth
  Project (architecture, policy, technologies open
  source)
• IPV6
• Digital Video
• VidMid - Video on Demand
• Voice over IP

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And before we connect

• Perfect/update internal infrastructure
• Disseminate information within NPS approach each
  department!
• Form interest groups within NPS
• Connect with other universities
• Internet2 and National LambdaRail (NLR) future
  consolidation

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