Science and Engineering Applications

Russ HobbyProgram Manager for Science and Engineering

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High Energy and Nuclear Physics (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

• Types of network usage:• Bulk data transfers that are extremely

resistant to data loss.• VRVS expects multicast and low-

latency/jitter networks for effective video conferencing

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http://ed.fnal.gov/

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Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

• NEES has multiple labs at various geographical locations

• NEES has it’s own IT organization, NEESit, that provides support for the community

• Internet2 works with NEESit and the NEES headquarters

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http://nees.berkeley.edu/Education/index.htm

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Electronic Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (eVLBI)

• 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.

• eVLBI 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.

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• http://www.sdss.org/

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NASA Quest

http://quest.nasa.gov/

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NEON and Earthscope• Both are in the implementation stages• Their research goals and science

plans are fairly well understood.• Using CI and advanced networks to

connect researchers, data and sensors is assumed.

• The specific ways in which advanced networking will be integrated into their project still needs to be investigated

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Oceanography

The Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks (ORION) is a program that focuses the science, technology, education and outreach of an emerging network of science driven ocean observing systems

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http://www.jasonproject.org/

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More Info

Russ Hobbyrdhobby@internet2.edu530-863-0513

science.internet2.edu

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