university of illinois at chicago welcome! introductions and overview thomas a. defanti principal...

University of Illinois at Chicago

Welcome!Introductions and Overview

Thomas A. DeFanti

Principal Investigator, STAR TAP

Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory


IntroductionsSTAR TAP/StarLight Management

• STAR TAP Management and Engineering

• STAR TAP International Advisory Committee

• HPIIS Team


IntroductionsSTAR TAP Management/ Administrative

• Tom DeFanti, UIC

• Maxine Brown, UIC

• Laura Wolf, UIC

• Steve Goldstein, NSF


IntroductionsSTAR TAP Management/ Engineering

• Linda Winkler, Argonne National Laboratory

• Andy Schmidt, UIC

• Alan Verlo, UIC


IntroductionsSTAR TAP/StarLight Organizers

• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC– Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Jason Leigh, Andy Schmidt,

Alan Verlo, Laura Wolf, Oliver Yu• International Center for Advanced Internet Research

(iCAIR), Northwestern University– Joe Mambretti, Mort Rahimi, David Carr, Tim Ward

• Argonne National Laboratory– Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Charlie Catlett, Rick Stevens

In partnership with:• CANARIE

– Bill St. Arnaud, René Hatem• SURFnet

– Kees Neggers, Erik-Jan Bos


IntroductionsInternational Advisory Committee

• Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory• Tomonori Aoyama, JGN/Japan• Heather Boyles, Internet2 ITN• Natasha Bulashova, Russia/MIRnet• Ok-Hwan Byeon, KOREN/KREONet2• Greg Cole, NCSA/MIRnet• Manuel Delfino, CERN• Harmut Richard Glaser, Brazil ANSP• Shigeki Goto, APAN• Alexandre Grojsgold, Brazil RNP


Introductions International Advisory Committee

• Ngoh Lek Heng, SingAREN• Jer-Nan Juang, NCHC/TANet2• Xing Li, CERNET• Michael McRobbie, Indiana U/TransPAC• Kees Neggers, SURFnet• Victor Reijs, HEAnet• Ralphi Rom, IUCC• Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE• Dany Vandromme, RENATER• Florencio Utreras, REUNA• Peter Villemoes, NORDUnet


Consortia of American universities and National Research Networks serve to facilitate connectivity to U.S. high-performance network service providers, such as the vBNS or Abilene.

www.ampath.fiu.eduwww.euro-link.orgwww.mirnet.orgwww.transpac.org

Euro-Link, MIRnet and TransPAC receive major funding from the NSF High Performance International Internet Services (HPIIS) initiative.

IntroductionsHPIIS Team


StarLight: The Development of theAll Optical Internet

• Our “Next Generation Internet” text provides preparation for an all optical network– Powerful advanced services– Faster services provisioning– Enabling revolutionary

applications

Joel Mambretti and Andrew Schmidt, “Next Generation Internet: Creating Advanced Networks and Services,” John Wiley & Sons, 1999


STAR TAP/StarLightMajor Support and Corporate Donations

• Major funding provided by the National Science Foundation

• Corporate donations – SBC/Ameritech– Cisco– GENUiTY– Juniper Networks– Teleglobe


STAR TAP MeetingMeeting Sponsors

• Parallelldatorcentrum, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan

• Global Crossing Europe

• International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University

• Qwest

• Teleglobe USA


Agenda


STAR TAP/StarLightMeeting Agenda

9:00-9:35 WelcomeIntroductions; Meeting Goals (Tom DeFanti, UIC)STAR TAP Annual Update (Tom DeFanti, UIC)STAR TAP Present/Future Applications (Maxine Brown, UIC)

9:35-9:45 Future Directions of the US NSF’s ANIR Division (Tom Greene, NSF)

9:45-10:15 Optical Networking InitiativesSTAR TAP’s StarLight (Tom DeFanti, UIC)SURFnet’s connections to StarLight (Erik-Jan Bos, SURFnet)

10:15-10:45 Break



10:45-12:15 Optical Networking Initiatives, continued The Optical Network Evolution (Yves Poppe, Teleglobe)OMNInet (Joe Mambretti, iCAIR/Northwestern)I-WIRE and DTF (Charlie Catlett, Argonne and Anne Richeson, Qwest StarLight implementation (Andy Schmidt, UIC and Linda Winkler, Argonne)eScience and Wavelength Disk Drives using CA*net4 (Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE)Linking Broadband Wireless with Fiber Networks (Larry Smarr, Cal-(IT)2/UCSD)

12:15-1:30 Lunch



1:30-3:00 Evolving Applications and Network Performance European Data Grids (Fabrizio Gagliardi, CERN)Distributed Tera-mining (Bob Grossman, UIC)International Grid Communities (GriPhyN, iVDGL) (Carl Kesselman, USC/ISI)Application-Level Network Performance/Measurement Tools (Jason Leigh, UIC)Global Grid Forum, eGrid and apGrid communities (Charlie Catlett, Argonne)Global NOC and STAR TAP Weather Map (Jim Williams, Indiana)MIRnet Utilization Monitoring and Reporting Software (Greg Cole, NCSA)SC Global (Maxine Brown, UIC)

3:00-3:30 Break; VR-CUBE tours; signup sheets at registration desk.



3:30-4:00 Optical Networking Initiatives, continued SURFnet/StarLight connectivity implementation (Eric-Jan Bos, SURFnet)Optical Wavelengths (Gert Nieveld, Global Crossing Europe)

4:00-4:20 HPIIS TeamEuro-Link (Tom DeFanti, UIC)TransPAC (Jim Williams, Indiana University)MIRnet (Greg Cole, NCSA)AMPATH (Heidi Alvarez, Florida International University)

4:20-4:30 International Transit Networks (ITNs)Abilene ITN (Heather Boyles, Internet2)CA*net ITN (David Macneil, CANARIE)

4:30-5:00 Open Discussion on Optical Networking (Larry Smarr, UCSD/Cal-(IT)2 and Tom DeFanti, UIC)

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