Applications 201
14 March 2016
28 October 2002
Applications Introduction
Ted Hanss, Director
14 March 2016
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, multisite computation and
data mining
Shared virtual reality
Any combination of
the above
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Approach
Broad Outreach
Internet2 Days, web site, application flyers
Health
Sciences
Arts &
Humanities
NEES, Physics, Applications
Applications
Astronomy
Community
Community
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Approach
Broad Outreach
Internet2 Days, web site, application flyers
Mary
Kratz
Ann
Doyle
Charles
Yun
Applications
Applications
Community
Community
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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
John
Krienke
Jonathan
Tyman
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 & Humanities
Ann Doyle, Program Manager
14 March 2016
Internet2 Performances and Distance
Learning
14 March 2016
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
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 Sciences
Mary Kratz, Program Manager
14 March 2016
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
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• Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)
“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
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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
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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 Management
http://nscp01.physics.upenn.edu/ndma/index.html
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“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 Engineering
Charles Yun, Program Manager
14 March 2016
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 Efforts
Jonathan Tyman, Program Manager
14 March 2016
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 groupto-group collaboration
• Supporting personal communications, meetings,
conferences, and teaching and learning
• For Internet2 members and their international
counterparts
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Data Sharing
Voice/IP
Electronic Notebooks
Peer to Peer
Collaboratories
Others
Videoconferencing
Technologies
The Internet2 Commons
Other Collaborative
Technologies
Instant Messaging
H.323
VRVS
AG
MPEG2
Others
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Example Activities
• H.323-based service (Managed MCUbased 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 Communications
John Krienke, Technology Writer
14 March 2016
Commons Web Services
John Krienke - jcwk@internet2.edu
commons.internet2.edu
The working formula:
1 x 1 x 1= 1
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Communications Activities
Susan Topol, Technology Writer
14 March 2016
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 topicspecific 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
Jon Zeeff, Technologist
jzeeff@internet2.edu
14 March 2016
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
RADVISION ViaIP with
MCU-100S
commons.internet2.edu
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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)
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MPEG-1 & MPEG-2
DVTS (30Mbps DV)
Real, Windows Media
Multicast and Unicast
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Netcasting Control Center
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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 Equipment
apps.internet2.edu/html/roadshows.html
• Loaner Equipment Request Form
apps.internet2.edu/html/request_form.html
• Virtual Briefings
www.internet2.edu/activities/html/briefings.html
• The Internet2 Commons
commons.internet2.edu
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More information …
apps.internet2.edu
apps.internet2.edu/talks
(these slides)
14 March 2016
www.internet2.edu
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