Internet2 Applications Update 6-28-03

Internet2 Applications Update

28 July 2003

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Topics

- Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting Demos Announced

- Internet2 Detective Version 3.0 Now Available

- NEESgrid Multi-Site Simulation

- Save the Date: VoIP Workshop 13-14 October

- Save the Date: Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training 16-17 October

- Internet2 Presence and Integrated Communications Working Group

- Spotlight: Dr. Marc Overhage

- Internet2 Cardiology SIG

- Security at Line Speed Workshop

- Introduction to Access Grid Troubleshooting:

An Elementary Guide for Technical Users

- SC Global Access Grid Activities in November

- Talks and Travel

+ SIGCOMM 2003

- Archives

+ Internet2 July Virtual Briefing

+ Transcontinental Poetry Reading

+ Wichita State University Member Profile

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Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting Demos Announced

Internet2 has announced the advanced networking applications demonstrations

that will be featured at the Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting, 13-16

October in Indianapolis, IN. One set of demos will run 13-15 October at

the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, location of the fall member

meeting. These demos showcase a broad range of technologies and include

participation by university, corporate, affiliate, and international

members. Several demos will highlight aspects of IP-based interactive

collaboration technologies. In addition, two performance-oriented

demonstrations will take place in conjunction with an evening gala

reception, which will be held at the Indiana State Museum on 15

October. According to Ted Hanss, Internet2 Director for Applications

Development, "I'm impressed with the breadth and caliber of the demos we're

featuring this fall. It's also exciting to see so many new applications

incorporating interactive collaboration technologies." A complete list of

the fall demos can be found on the web page below.

http://events.internet2.edu/2003/fall-mm/demos.html

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Internet2 Detective Version 3.0 Now Available

Version 3.0 of Internet2 Detective, a small easy-to-install and use

application that reveals your computer's networking abilities, is now

available. This version of the Detective incorporates improvements

suggested by feedback from the Internet2 community. Detective enables you

to determine:

- If a computer can access an Internet2 backbone network

- Whether a computer can receive multicast streams

- What bandwidth is available between any two computers that have the

Detective installed

The Internet2 Detective is available for Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP and,

as a test version, for Mac OS X. The Internet2 Detective builds on Iperf

and the Multicast Beacon developed by the National Science

Foundation-funded NLANR Distributed Applications Support Team.

http://detective.internet2.edu/

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NEESgrid Multi-Site Simulation

NEESgrid links earthquake engineering site participants in the NSF-funded

George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

project to create a national virtual earthquake engineering laboratory.

Capabilities available to NEES system users include teleobservation and

teleoperation; tools supporting publication to and use of a curated data

repository; access to computational resources and open source analytical

tools; and collaborative tools supporting experiment planning, execution,

analysis and publication. NEESgrid will provide a scalable, extensible

system by integrating experimental, archive, and numeric simulation sites,

which are connected to each other through the Abilene Network. Several

NEESgrid participants are staging a multi-site simulation of a large-scale

experiment combining physical experiments with computational simulation.

During the simulation, a structure will be divided into three parts and

tested at three locations: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

(physical test), University of Colorado at Boulder (physical test), and the

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (computational model).

Simulation participants will use the Abilene Network to demonstrate

NEESgrid's capabilities, including data management services,

teleobservation, teleoperation, and computation and simulation services.

The MOST experiment will take place 30 July 2003 at noon EDT (16.00 UTC).

Please check the MOST web site to find out how you can log in and configure

your browser to watch the experiment.

http://www.neesgrid.org/most/

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Save the Date: VoIP Workshop 13-14 October

Planning is underway for a Voice over IP (VoIP) Workshop, to be held in

conjunction with the Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting in Indianapolis,

IN. The VoIP Workshop is scheduled for 13-14 October 2003. Discussions

about VoIP deployment at Internet2 member universities will be among the

topics presented.

If you have ideas or suggestions for the program, or would like to make a

presentation, please send e-mail to the program committee at

WG-VOIP-WS-Prog@internet2.edu. A detailed agenda and online registration

will be available soon.

http://voip.internet2.edu/

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Save the Date: Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training 16-17 October

Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training will be held immediately

following the Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting, in Indianapolis,

IN. Site Coordinators are the point of contact for Internet2 Commons

videoconferencing activities at their member institutions. This training

will be taught by nationally recognized professionals in digital

videoconferencing. Hands-on training with equipment will be included. Some

of the training topics include:

- Audio and video basics

- Room/environments conditions for videoconferences

- Operating and troubleshooting procedures common to

videoconferencing systems

A detailed agenda and online registration will be available soon.

http://commons.internet2.edu/

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Internet2 Presence and Integrated Communications Working Group

Integrated Communications combines multiple communications elements within

the context of Presence. Such elements include soft phones, 3GPP (3rd

Generation Partnership Project) based cellular phones, instant messaging,

email, voice mail, still imaging, directories, calendaring, audio

conferencing, and videoconferencing - all based on the SIP (Session

Initiation Protocol) standard and related extensions. A new Internet2

working group has been formed to explore uses of these technologies and

foster their deployment at Internet2 member institutions. All Internet2

members are invited to participate in the new Presence and Integrated

Communications (PIC) Working Group, which is chaired by Jeremy George, Yale

University <jeremy.george@yale.edu>.

http://pic.internet2.edu/

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Spotlight: Dr. Marc Overhage

Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, recently joined the Internet2 Health Science

Advisory Group. Dr. Overhage, Associate Professor of Medicine and

Investigator, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care at Indiana University,

is known for his work creating regional electronic medical records and the

application of clinical decision support at the point of care. Overhage's

research projects include the National Library of Medicine-funded

Indianapolis Testbed network for Next Generation Internet (NGI)

Applications to Telemedicine. The major goals of this project are to

convert the Indianapolis Network for Patient Care into a testbed of NGI

technologies including IP security, Quality of Service (QoS) in televideo

applications at a nursing home, and IP roaming capabilities with portable

wireless workstations (nomadic computing) in clinical settings. Another

research project is Improving Safety by Computerizing Outpatient

Prescribing, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The

goal of this project is to develop an electronic medical record-based

approach to identify adverse drug interactions in outpatients to determine

better order entry procedures for ensuring patient safety.

http://www.internet2.edu/pastspotlights.html

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Internet2 Cardiology SIG

All Internet2 members are invited to participate in the new Internet2

Cardiology Sponsored Interest Group (SIG), which has been formed to promote

the adoption of advanced Internet technology and applications by the

cardiology profession to include remote real time device control,

monitoring and supervision, fusion imaging (overlaying multi-modalities

imaging in 3D space), simulation and modeling of catheterization and

surgical procedures for the heart in order advance science and health care.

The chair for the Cardiology SIG is David Sahn, MD, Oregon Health & Science

University <sahnd@ohsu.edu>.

http://health.internet2.edu/WorkingGroups/Cardiology.html

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Security at Line Speed Workshop

Two difficult, and seemingly contradictory, imperatives are facing research

university networking: the need to enhance local network security in the

face of increased local, regional and nationwide cyberprotection needs, and

the requirement to support deployment of high-performance, advanced network

services for campus researchers using distributed computing environments.

The Security at Line Speed Workshop seeks to identify the requirements,

architectures, and best practices needed to guide future network

deployments for the research community. The Security at Line Speed

Workshop, which will take place in Chicago on 11-13 August 2003, is made

possible through an NSF grant and the assistance of the University of

Washington and Indiana University, in partnership with Internet2.

Attendance to the workshop will be limited and is by invitation of the

planning committee only.

For more information, contact T. Charles Yun <charles@internet2.edu>.

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Introduction to Access Grid Troubleshooting: An Elementary Guide for

Technical Users

The Access Grid supports group-to-group communication via high-speed

networking over the Internet. It provides high quality audio and real-time

video to provide interactive experiences for users at multiple sites. The

Access Grid Training Project provides tutorials that supply all the

information you need to set up your own Access Grid (AG) node, install and

run collaborative work sessions, produce Access Grid events, and

troubleshoot AG sessions. The newest tutorial "Introduction to Access Grid

Troubleshooting: An Elementary Guide for Technical Users," covers such

topics as the complexity of AG sessions, obstacles to troubleshooting,

sample problems, and tips and tricks.

The AG tutorials use WebCT course management software and you will be

prompted to create a login account prior to using the tutorials for the

first time.

http://foxtrot.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8900/public/AGIB/

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SC Global Access Grid Activities in November

SC Global, to be held in conjunction with the SC2003 conference 15-21

November 2003 in Phoenix, AZ, provides a multi-national and multi-cultural

venue for communication and discussion of ideas relating to high-end

computing and communications and their impact on science and society. SC

Global will link the Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center with Access Grid

(AG) nodes worldwide in anticipation of over 1,000 participants at more

than 150 locations. SC Global will feature art, music, dance, and other

innovative uses of advanced collaboration technologies, in several Showcase

events. Internet2 will partner with inSORS, an Internet2 corporate sponsor,

to make the Showcase AG events available online both during the live

presentations and in the form of an archive after the live event. In

addition, Internet2 will also have a booth in the SC2003 exhibit area.

http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/

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Talks and Travel

+ SIGCOMM 2003

Ben Teitelbaum, Internet2 Program Manager for Voice and Integrated

Communications Initiatives, will present two papers at the upcoming SIGCOMM

RIPQOS Workshop, critiquing how networking research has approached the

problem of Internet Quality of Service (QOS). The papers are entitled

"Quality of Service and Denial of Service" and "What QoS Research Hasn't

Understood About Risk." Both were co-authored by Stanislav Shalunov,

Internet2 Engineer.

SIGCOMM is the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication. The

SIGCOMM 2003 conference takes place 25-29 August at the campus of

University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/workshop/ripqos/ripqos-program.html

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