Moderator:

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Strategies for Application-Empowered Networks

• Moderator
• Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Panelists
• Tom DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (USA)
• Larry Landweber, NSF (USA)
• Kees Neggers, SURFnet (The Netherlands)
• Harvey Newman, Caltech (USA)
• Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE (Canada)

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Strategies for Application-Empowered Networks

• E-science is data-intensive science.
• How much data are we talking about? Now? By 2010?
  Many e-science applications need to move large
  data or interact, in real time, with large data.
  What are today's networking barriers to doing
  so?
• Harvey Newman
• Bill St. Arnaud

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Strategies for Application-Empowered Networks

• From your points of view, describe
  cyber-infrastructure (in the USA) and
  e-infrastructure (in The Netherlands) and their
  networking components. What applications are
  taking advantage of new networking capabilities
  above and beyond shared networks? Larry
  Landweber
• Kees Neggers

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Strategies for Application-Empowered Networks

• Define application-empowered networks, in terms
  of both physical characteristics (is it just
  bandwidth?) and services/middleware (to handle
  latency, jitter, scheduling, etc). How do they
  compare with general-purpose RE networks (i.e.,
  those that support a wide range of applications)?
  Do we need autonomous application-specific
  networks? Why are application-empowered networks
  only now becoming available?
• Tom DeFanti
• Bill St. Arnaud

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Strategies for Application-Empowered Networks

• What are the challenges to creating
  application-empowered networks? How do we solve
  them?
• In particular, one challenge is attracting users
  how do we encourage e-scientists to use
  application-empowered networks, or any networks
  for that matter?
• Harvey Newman
• Tom DeFanti

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Strategies for Application-Empowered Networks

• How are government-funded facilities (and
  networks) today addressing the needs of
  high-performance applications? What will the
  facilities (and networks) look like 2-3 years
  from now?
• Larry Landweber
• Kees Neggers
• Bill St. Arnaud

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Strategies for Application-Empowered Networks

• Questions?

Tom DeFanti, University of Illinois at
Chicago Larry Landweber, NSF Kees Neggers,
SURFnet Harvey Newman, Caltech Bill St. Arnaud,
CANARIE