Internet2 and its Resources for Research and Education

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Internet2 and its Resources for Research and
Education
Jennifer Oxenford Associate DirectorRutgers
Cyberinfrastructure Day April 4, 2006
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What is Internet2?

• The Research and Education Network for the United
  States
• Led by 206 research universities
• Close collaborations with government NIH, NSF,
  NLM, NASA, to name only a few
• An organization that serves academic and
  technology needs at all levels of education
• A venue that brings together academics and
  scientists from all over the world

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Internet2 Mission and Goals

• Internet2 Mission Develop and deploy advanced
  network applications and technologies,
  accelerating the creation of tomorrows Internet.
• Internet2 Goals
• Enable new generation of applications
• Re-create leading edge RE network capability
• Transfer technology and experience to the global
  production Internet

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Internet2 Today
Applications
End-to-end Performance
Security
Motivate
Enable
Middleware
Services
Networks
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Keys to the Future of the Internet

• Connectivity
• Reliable
• Scalable
• High performance
• Architectural evolution
• Reach
• Ease of use, privacy, and security
• Integration with advanced applications

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Internet2 Universities206 University Members,
October 2005
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Abilene (the Backbone)
Participating institutions include 206
University members, 12 Corporate partners, 11
Corporate sponsors, 48 Corporate members, and 43
Affiliates
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Advanced Networking Organizations around the
World
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Internet2 International Partners
Europe-Middle East ARNES (Slovenia)BELNET
(Belgium) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech
Republic) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein
(Germany) FCCN (Portugal) GARR (Italy) GIP-RENATER
(France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet
(Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) Israel-IUCC
(Israel) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) POL-34
(Poland) Qatar Foundation (Qatar) RedIRIS
(Spain) RESTENA (Luxemburg) RIPN (Russia) SANET
(Slovakia) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH
(Switzerland) JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom)
Americas CANARIE (Canada) CLARA (Latin America
Caribbean) CEDIA (Ecuador) CNTI
(Venezuela) CR2Net (Costa Rica) CUDI
(Mexico) REUNA (Chile) RETINA (Argentina) RNP
FAPESP (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama)
Asia-Pacific AAIREP (Australia) APAN
(Asia-Pacific) ANF (Korea) CERNET, CSTNET,
NSFCNET (China) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong
Kong) SingAREN (Singapore) NECTEC /
UNINET(Thailand) TANet2 (Taiwan) NGI-NZ (New
Zealand) TERENA (Europe) Asia-Pacific MCIT
EUN/ENSTINET (Egypt) TENET (South Africa)
Last updated 1 October2005
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K20 Initiative

• Connect and engage K-12s, museums, libraries,
  science and cultural centers, aquariums,
  community colleges, etc.
• Increased opportunities for joint funding,
  collaboration with Higher ed, student attraction,
  enhanced learning and education

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Sponsored Education Group Participants - 34
States 9/05
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K20 Status and Growth
Organization Total - 9/02 Total - 5/04
K12 Schools 7,173 23,388
Community Colleges 551 594
Four Year Colleges and Universities 526 852
Public Libraries 1,482 2,360
Museums, Zoos, Aquariums and Science Centers 102 74
Grand Total 9,834 27,268
TODAY
35,971
677
1,002
3,325
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46,000
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What is MAGPI?

• MAGPI Defined
• MAGPI is a regional aggregation point for
  Internet2. We serve the Pennsylvania, Delaware
  and New Jersey research and education
  communities.
• MAGPI Mission
• To introduce new technology
• To collaboratively develop new applications with
  our subscribers
• To make access to these technologies and
  applications economical and sustainable

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Current Members

• Arcadia University
• Capital Area IU
• Carbon Lehigh IU
• Chester County IU
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Center for Advancing Partnerships in Education
  (CAPE)
• Delaware County IU
• DeSales University
• Fox Chase Cancer Center
• The Franklin Institute
• Johnson Johnson Pharmaceuticals
• Lafayette College
• Lehigh Carbon Community College
• Lehigh University
• Lehigh Valley Hospital

• Mont. Co. Intermediate Unit
• Mont. Co. Community College
• NJEDge.Net State RE Network for N.J.
• Princeton University
• CERMUSA / St. Francis University
• Temple University
• Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital
• Tuscarora IU
• University of Delaware
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Scranton
• Villanova University
• Widener University

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Upcoming/Prospective Members

• Community College of Philadelphia
• Philadelphia School District
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Philadelphia Orchestra
• University of the Arts
• Academy of Natural Sciences
• National Constitution Center
• WHYY

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Good Things Happening in Pennsylvania

• Act 183 Creation of the E-Fund
• establishing the Broadband Outreach and
  Aggregation Fund
• The creation of Wide Area Networks that provide
  broadband connectivity to school districts
• Senate Actions 2003-2004 Regular Session,
  Thursday, November 18, 2004

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The New Jersey State Research and Education
Network
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Internet2 Capacity (yeah, its fast)
Internet2 6 Seconds
56 kbps
ISDN
DSL/Cable
T1
25 Hours
6.4 Hours
168 Hours
74 Hours
Time Required to Download2-hour Course Lecture
DVD
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Making Connections Across Technologies

• e-VLBI astronomers leverage end-to-end
  performance tools to fine-tune instrument
  connectivity
• Corporate members build on Shibboleth to
  implement authorization services in products
• Earthquake researchers routinely use the
  Internet2 Commons videoconferencing

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Inter-Disciplinary Partnerships Catalyse New Uses

• Direct Visualizations
• Data Collection/Integration
• Data Mining
• Device Intercommunication
• Haptic Immersion
• Augmented Dexterity
• Advanced Sensors
• Wireless Data Collection
• Economic Models for Reimbursement Realities

Image courtesy of Dr. Christopher Johnson,
Director of the SCI Institute
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Enhanced Surgical Planning

• Training
• Pre-surgical planning
• Interoperative segmentation
• Brain atlas
• fMRI

Ron Kikinis, M.D., Steve Pieper, Ph.D., Simon
Warfield, Ph.D. Brigham and Womens Hospital,
NIH, Harvard Medical School
Funded by NCRR/NIH
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New Methods of HealthScience Research
www.nbirn.net
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Synthetic Worlds

• Otherwise known as massive multiplayer
  interactive games
• Over 5 million inhabitants today
• Doubling every 18 months
• About 2 of the Internet-connected population age
  14-28 spend more time in the synthetic world than
  in the real world
• Linked to the real world
• Physical artifacts like playing cards
• Ebay auctions for money and resources
• Real people make real money

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PIC Simulation and Dose Calculations

• PIC Simulations to study proton acceleration
  using laser induced plasmas
• Collaborating with JAERI and NTT of Japan who
  provide computational facilities, FCCC provides
  the clinical application of this research
• Data transfer requirements of up to 10 Gb
• Goal to provide theoretical basis for laser
  accelerated proton beam radiotherapy
• Monte Carlo Studies
• Accurate dose calculation and treatment
  validation for radiotherapy
• Typical data package for remote dose computation
  is about 100-500 Mb
• Goal is to establish network based treatment
  planning and dose verification for radiotherapy

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Remote Pathology Consults

• Using DVTS (Digital Video Transport System) at 30
  Mbps, Multicast
• Pathology faculty across four regional hospitals
  can conduct regular virtual consults with
  superior high quality images and minimal delay in
  transmitted slide manipulation

Dr. Michael Feldman, UPENN Dr. David Foran,
UMDNJ
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Undersea Oceanography
Images National Geographic
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National Digital Mammography Archive
University of Toronto
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Oakridge National Laboratory
University of North Carolina
Dr. Robert Hollobeek, NSCP
Images courtesy of Dr. Robert Hollebeek, NCSA
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Changing Teaching and Learning in the 21st
Century Classroom

• What Internet2 Offers
• Real Time Collaboration
• Immediate Access to Expertise and/or Audiences
• Geographical Distribution
• Authentic Learning Environments
• High Quality, Real-Time Audio and Video
  Interaction gt Engagement

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Why Internet2?

• The student who will enter medical school in 5
  10 years can absorb multiple channels of
  information

Dynamic charts
Second screen
Communal note taking
lecture
messaging
Slide courtesy Parvati Dev, Stanford
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Rich Multimedia Libraries The Research Channel
http//www.researchchannel.org
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Rich Multimedia LibrariesTeachers Domain - WGBH
http//www.teachersdomain.org
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Rich Multimedia Libraries NSDL National
Science Digital Library

• http//www.nsdl.org/

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Lehigh University Remote Scanning Electron
Microscopy
http//www.lehigh.edu/inimagin/
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International Collaborations Leni-Basso / Group
Motion DanceCo.

• DVTS
• Keio University in Tokyo and Montgomery County
  Community College, Blue Bell, PA
• Live rehearsal and critique of Rondo

http//www.magpi.net/Sept16.html
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Game Film Project

• Interactive Game Film Project
• Used Access Grid
• Apple Servers run out of MAGPI
• Access Grid support by Penn Video Network
• International University Collaboration between 13
  schools

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Distributed Medical Simulation

• CERMUSA/St. Francis University partnering with
  USUHS and others
• Using DVTS (Digital Video Transport System) at 30
  Mbps, Multicast
• Medical Education and Distributed Patient
  Simulations

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Immersive Segmentation
3-D medical simulation based on the virtual human
project Distributed interactive collaborative
segmentation Evaluating hosting the dataset
locally on MAGPI for regional access by
schools/hospitals
Dr. Steven Senger, Univ. of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Scientific Visualization Project
http//visu.uwlax.edu/NGI/ImmSeg.html
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High Performance Group-to-Group Collaboration
150 sites worldwide
http//www.accessgrid.org/
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Internet2 DV Guide http//db.arts.usf.edu/dvguide
/default.asp
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ARENA Atlashttp//arena.internet2.edu/
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NLANR http//dast.nlanr.net/AAD/

• Over 4,000 applications
• Projects and resources from more than 30
  countries
• Developed by UIUC, funded by NSF
• Also searchable from http//apps.internet2.edu

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I2 Working Groups, SIGs, BoFs

• Health Sciences
• Medical Middleware
• Veterinary Medicine
• Arts Humanities
• Arts Performance
• High Energy and Nuclear Physics
• Geospatial Apps
• Orthopaedic Surgery
• Radiology
• Bioethics (proposed)
• Astronomy

• Voice over IP
• Digital Video
• VidMid VC
• VidMidVoD
• ResearchChannel
• Network Storage
• Presence Integrated Communications
• Teaching Learning

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Federated Authentication

• Scalable, decentralized infrastructure
• Critical to a broad range of initiatives
• Being adopted and implemented
• Industry
• International partners
• Middleware is an increasingly enabling element
• Examples

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Middleware

• A layer of software between the network and the
  applications
• Authentication
• Identification
• Authorization
• Directories
• Security
• middleware.internet2.edu

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Internet2 Middleware Initiative

• Internet2 community has unique needs and
  capabilities
• Middleware Architecture Committee for Education
• Early Harvest and Early Adopters
• Internet2 PKI Labs
• Shibboleth (authentication)
• Computational middleware (Beta Grid)
• Medical middleware
• Directories

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Get and Stay Involved

• Talk with your campus IT folks and local
  Internet2 liaisons to MAGPI
• Seek/be faculty/student champions
• Follow and join MAGPI K20 User Group/Forums
• Sign-up for MAGPI PD or VC Training
• Host/attend an Internet2 Event
• Participate in Virtual Events - Megaconference,
  Gigaconference, Keystone, etc
• Send me feedback/updates/inquiries
• Have a virtual beer with other I2 champions

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The MAGPI K20 Support Network

• K20 User Group and Virtual Forums
• Tri-State Database
• K20 Portal
• K20 Newsletter
• Training
• Videoconferencing/I2 Commons Training
• Curriculum Integration/Professional Development

http//www.magpi.net/k20network.html
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More Information

• http//www.magpi.net
• http//www.magpi.net/k20network.html
• http//k20.internet2.edu
• http//www.internet2.edu
• http//www.cilc.org
• httpwww.megaconferencejr.org
• http//www.researchchannel.com
• http//www.teachersdomain.org

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QA - Thank you!

• Contact Info
• Jennifer Oxenford
• jmacdoug_at_magpi.net
• 215-898-0341

www.magpi.net