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Applications 201

28 October 2002

Applications 201

28 October 2002

April 19, 2023

Applications IntroductionApplications Introduction

Ted Hanss, DirectorTed Hanss, Director

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Internet2 Mission

Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

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Internet2 Goals

Enable a new generation of applications

Re-create leading edge R&E network capability

Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

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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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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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Approach

Broad OutreachInternet2 Days, web site, application flyers

Health Sciences

Arts & Humanities

NEES, Physics,Astronomy Applications

Community

ApplicationsCommunity

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Approach

Broad OutreachInternet2 Days, web site, application flyers

MaryKratz

Ann Doyle

CharlesYun Applications

Community

ApplicationsCommunity

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Technology, Outreach, and Events

• Technology evaluation and advocacy• Prototyping• Demonstrations• Meetings• Internet2 Virtual Briefings• Flyers, testimonials, web site

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Services

Internet2 Commons

JonathanTyman

JohnKrienke

Bob Dixon (OSU, ~.1)

Megan Crabb (OSU)

Gabe Moulton (OSU, ~.5)

Key: OSU contributions underlined

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Program Managers

Help organize the flood of information

How we can help:• Connect you with Internet2 resources• Help learn from other projects• Watch for trends

What we do not do:• Run your Internet2 project• Lay wires, write code, etc.

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Knowledge Sharing

Internet2 acts as a clearinghouse to help distribute information through the community• Technical meetings• Virtual presentations

Technical Support • Software tools (monitoring, diagnostic)• Loaner hardware (Vbrick, Cakebox)• Access to expertise (working groups)

Event Planning and Organization• Coordinating meeting spaces and logistics • Providing information distribution and support (e.g.,

website and content creation for working groups)

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Applications Working Groups

•Health Sciences

•Veterinary Medicine

•Arts & Humanities

•Non-trad’l Theses

•Arts Performance

•High Energy and Nuclear Physics

•GIS

• …

•Remote Instrumentation

•Voice over IP

•Digital Video

•Videoconferencing

•ResearchChannel

•Network Storage

• …

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Engaging Applications Contacts

• Ensuring records are up-to-date

• Finding out what you need• Help with outreach to faculty (on campus, through discipline groups)

• Finding partners (people with similar interests)• Facilitating connections to grant opportunities (awareness, planning, letters of support, collaborative opportunities)

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Applications Strategy Council

• David Lassner, U of Hawaii (chair)

• Donna Cox, UIUC

• Parvati Dev, Stanford

• Mark Ellisman, UCSD

• Bob Kibrick, UC

• Clifford Lynch, CNI

• Homer Neal, Michigan

• Harvey Newman, Caltech

• Larry Rowe, UCB

• George Thoma, NIH

• Joel Tohline, LSU

• Glenn Wheless, ODU

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Arts & HumanitiesArts & Humanities

Ann Doyle, Program ManagerAnn Doyle, Program Manager

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Internet2 Performances and Distance LearningInternet2 Performances and Distance Learning

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Zukerman Interactive

A collaboration with:•Manhattan School of Music

•Columbia University•National Arts Centre of Canada

•National Research Council of Canada

Photo by R. Andrew Lepley

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Michael Tilson Thomas Conducting Conservatory

A collaboration with:•New World Symphony•Columbia University•Manhattan School of Music

Photo by R. Andrew Lepley

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Dancing Beyond Boundaries

A collaboration with:•University of Florida•University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

•University of Campinas

Photo Courtesy of Rick Hauser for DancePartners©.

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Internet2 Arts & Humanities Working GroupsInternet2 Arts & Humanities Working Groups

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Performance Archive and Retrieval

A jointly sponsored working group with:• Coalition for Networked Information• Internet2• ProQuest Information and Learning

Designed to propose standards and best practices for documenting, archiving, and retrieving the recordings of performances such as live theatre, musical compositions, and dance.

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Internet2 Performance Events Advisory Committee

The purpose of the committee is to assist in the planning of innovative events that highlight the gifts of performers and artists from our member institutions and the capabilities of Internet2 technology-enabled performances.

• Fall 2002 performance event planning• Best practices guide to multi-site performance events

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Outreach/Awareness Efforts

Working with the museum community

Ethnomusicology community

Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education

Getty Museum

L.A. Museum Educators meeting

Symphony magazine

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Expanding Membership

Cleveland Institute of Music

Cleveland Museum of Art

Manhattan School of Music

New World Symphony

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Health SciencesHealth Sciences

Mary Kratz, Program ManagerMary Kratz, Program Manager

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Scope

The scope of the Internet2 Health Sciences Working Group includes clinical practice, medical and related biological research, education, and medical awareness in the public.

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History

• Started in January 2000

• National Research Council report issued in February 2000

• Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet

• National Academy Press• ISBN 0-309-06843-6

• Government Next Generation Internet (NGI) program funds university members to develop applications.

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Organization of Health Science Initiative Today

•Advisory Committee • Engage Physician leadership to set strategic direction • Provide input to Internet2 Applications Strategy Council

•Leadership Team• Healthcare and Life Sciences• Operational/procedural responsibilities

•Process Model for Work Efforts• Birds of a Feather (BoF) • Special Interest Groups (SIG)• Working Groups (WG)

•Collaboration Model • Visible Human Project Advanced Technology Demonstrations• Resource Centers for Minority Institutions – Clinical Trials Research

Network• Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)

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“The government plays a vital role” – M. Castells

•Many opportunities in research, education, and clinical applications

•Federal government major source of peer-reviewed funding

•NIH envisions growth in IT research and research needs

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Medical Middleware

• Leverage the work of Internet2 Middleware activity

• National Science Foundation funded National Middleware Initiative (NMI)

• EduPerson• Directory for Medical Campus Faculty/Staff/Students

• Functional services to deploy medical applications

• Person Identification• Authorization (Shibboleth)• Terminology Mediation• Storage Request Broker (interoperable data grids)• Order Entry

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Security and Privacy Working Group

• HIPAA Guidelines

• Security mechanisms for the medical campus• Policy Basis• Technology

• Disclosure of Personal Health Information• Privacy Board

• Review of Internet2/Educause Security Framework

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Veterinary Medical

• 22 veterinary colleges in the United States

• All 22 are Internet2 members

• Virtual Grand Rounds

• Distance Education

• Animal Clinical Trials• Robotic surgery• Medical devices

• Completed infrastructure survey of veterinary schools

• Agricultural interest (USDA)

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Visible Human Project Advanced Concepts Technology Demonstration

•National Anatomy Research and Education Network

• Visible Human Dataset is a public resource• Virtual Anatomy “toolkit” for enabling applications• Teaching resources for faculty• Multi-simultaneous access (classrooms of students task aggregate

use of network capacity)

•Anatomy curricula for medical schools, K-20, and the public

• Internet2/National Library of Medicine leadership• Two decades of investment in the Visible Human• Next Generation Internet contracts catalyst for application

development to Internet2 university members

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Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group

•Joint effort with the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT)

•Launch of the California Orthopaedic Research Network (CORN) at Internet2!

• Netcast live on 29 October from 8:45-10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

• USC, Stanford, UCLA, UC San Diego, and CENIC's CalREN

•Live surgery over Internet2• Education of medical school students• Interactive 3-D virtual reality imagery

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Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)http://birn.ncrr.nih.gov/and http://www.nbirn.net/

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Knowledge Managementhttp://nscp01.physics.upenn.edu/ndma/index.html

39“If you want a second opinion, call up my website.”

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Challenges to Health Sciences(take home message)

"The medical research revolution is happening! 

90% of data collected today will never be seen by a human eye. 

This is everyone's problem. We must manage a growing amount of

data to secure knowledge for the future."

- Michael Marron, NIH

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Sciences and EngineeringSciences and Engineering

Charles Yun, Program ManagerCharles Yun, Program Manager

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Sciences and Engineering

NEES: • Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

HENP-WG: • High Energy and Nuclear Physics Working

Group

eVLBI (Astronomy): • Electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry

Remote-WG• Cross Disciplinary Remote Instrumentation

Working Group

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NEES

Earthquake research using real buildings and computer simulations

Remote control of physical experiments requires extremely reliable and consistent network characteristics

Video will be crucial: both for conferencing and data collection

Interesting:Will start to test remote experiments in the next few months, including control and computational techniques.

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HENP

Physics has traditionally been one of the “power users” of all networks.

Physicists are generating Terabytes of data (1,000,000,000,000 or 1x1012) per experiment from the CERN lab in Switzerland.

They are working on bulk data transfers that are extremely resistant to data loss.

VRVS, a video conferencing tool, was developed by the physics community.

Interesting:HENP is working on several protocols that take advantage of parallel streams and good neighbor practices (passive QOS).

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VLBI

Astronomers collect data about a star from many different earth based antennae and send the data to a specialized computer for analysis on a 24x7 basis.

VLBI is not as concerned with data loss as they are with long term stability.

The end goal is to send data at 1Gb/s from over 20 antennae that are located around the globe.

Interesting:Successfully ran 788 Mbps sustained test between sites in U.S. Working on prototype experiment to test their ability to run data to Europe and Japan.

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Remote Instrumentation

Creating a working group to focus on the cross-disciplinary activities in remote instrumentation

Have interest from groups such as NASA, astronomers, marine researchers

Will require work from many domains – instrumentation, social/community interaction, end-to-end performance

Interesting:Remote Instrumentation WG is gaining interest from national and international researchers interested in sharing equipment.

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Area Specific Efforts

International Efforts• Astronomy/VLBI• HENP

Fall Member Meeting – Working Group Meetings• HENP• NEES• Remote Instrumentation (and Astronomy)

Internet2 Commons• NEES

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Internet2 Digital Video EffortsInternet2 Digital Video Efforts

Jonathan Tyman, Program ManagerJonathan Tyman, Program Manager

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Middleware

•MidVid AuthN/Z

•MidVid VC• SIP• H.323

•MidVid VoD

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DV Working Group

• Also known as I2DVI (Digital Video Initiative)

• A seed bed for projects that are brainstormed and released to a subgroup that proofs the concept or executes the project.

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The Internet2 Commons

An effort to encourage and support 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

• For Internet2 members and their international counterparts

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Data Sharing

Instant Messaging

Voice/IP

Electronic Notebooks

Peer to Peer

Collaboratories

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Example Activities

• H.323-based service (Managed MCU-based scheduling, training, streaming, gateway, firewall support, … )

• VRVS reflector deployment

• Loaner equipment (MPEG-2, Access Grid)

• Voice over IP

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Video on Demand

• Research Channel Working Group

• Our new VoD Server

• MPEG-2 software client

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Education and Democracy

• Education is key to vital democracy.

• Freedom of speech and privacy are principal values of education.

• Videoconferencing directly supports these values.

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Digital Video CommunicationsDigital Video Communications

John Krienke, Technology WriterJohn Krienke, Technology Writer

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Commons Web ServicesJohn Krienke - jcwk@internet2.edu

commons.internet2.edu

The working formula:

1 x 1 x 1= 1

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Communications ActivitiesCommunications Activities

Susan Topol, Technology WriterSusan Topol, Technology Writer

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Types of Communications

• Apps website: apps.internet2.edu

• Printed Infosheets

• Email Newsletters

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apps.internet2.edu

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Weekly Showcases

Highlight Technology, People, and Events.

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Request Equipment and Other Resources for Events

apps.internet2.edu/html/request_form.html

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NLANR Advanced Applications Database

Over 4,000 applications Projects and resources from more than 30 countries

Searchable from http://apps.internet2.edu

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Infosheets

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InfoKit

Infokit provides a complete collection of Internet2 information resources, including infosheets, network maps, FAQs, PowerPoint presentations, and the member list.

www.internet2.edu/html/infokit.html

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Join Our Mailing List!

Join our mailing list: apps@internet2.edu

by sending a request to ted@internet2.edu

Receive our monthly newsletter

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What’s Coming Up?

• New infosheet on Science and Engineering

• New infosheet on Astronomy and Remote Instrumentation

• New infosheet on the Internet2 Commons

• Revised infosheets for Arts & Humanities and Digital Video

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New Look for Our Website

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Mailings

• More topic-specific mailings (Digital Video, Health Sciences, etc.)

• HTML formatted mailings, in addition to plain text

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Contact Us!

• Feature your application, event, researchers, awards, etc. on our website.

• Send us your ideas for publications.

• Tell us what types of communications are most useful to you.

stopol@internet2.edu

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Loaner Equipment and

Virtual Briefings

Loaner Equipment and

Virtual Briefings

Jon Zeeff, Technologist

jzeeff@internet2.edu

Jon Zeeff, Technologist

jzeeff@internet2.edu

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Loaner Equipment Pool

Portable Access Grid node

apps.internet2.edu/html/roadshows.html

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Loaner Equipment Pool

VBrick MPEG-2 audio/video codecs

apps.internet2.edu/html/roadshows.html

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The Commons H.323 MCUs at Ohio State University

Accord MGC 100 MCU

commons.internet2.edu

RADVISION ViaIP with MCU-100S

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Using the MCUs

Three types of MCU services are available to members of the Internet2 Commons:

• Scheduled, reserved videoconferencing

• Unscheduled videoconferencing, no reservations required

• Testing videoconferencing

commons.internet2.edu

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Netcasting Services (experimental)

• MPEG-1 & MPEG-2

• DVTS (30Mbps DV)

• Real, Windows Media

• Multicast and Unicast

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Netcasting Control Center

• Flexible audio and video switching

• Rapid testing / troubleshooting

• N-way mixed protocol videoconferences

• Color correction, chroma-key

• Slides, titling

• Network monitoring

• Packet loss prevention

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Helpful Links

• Loaner Equipmentapps.internet2.edu/html/roadshows.html

• Loaner Equipment Request Formapps.internet2.edu/html/request_form.html

• Virtual Briefingswww.internet2.edu/activities/html/briefings.html

• The Internet2 Commonscommons.internet2.edu

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