Posted by Robert Gerdes on 2013 June 3 at 10:05 AM
Leaders Enable Transformational Applications To Advance Research and Education and Benefit the Global Economy
Maastricht, The Netherlands – June 3, 2013 – Six of the world’s leading research and education (R&E) networks and two commercial partners today demonstrated for the first time a Transatlantic 100 gigabits-per-second (Gbps or one billion bits per second) transmission link for research and education between North America and Europe during the TERENA Networking Conference 2013 (TNC2013), held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. These demonstrations showcased emerging technologies and advanced applications for science, research and education.
The 100 Gbps link, called the Advanced North Atlantic 100G Pilot project (ANA-100G) will be used for engineering and testing the new transmission link, applications, resources, monitoring techniques and advanced technologies such as software-defined networking. The testing will be between as many as four open exchange points, including MAN LAN in New York City and NetherLight in Amsterdam for at least 12 months following the conference. These efforts will determine the operational requirements needed to effectively run 100 Gbps wavelengths between North America and Europe to meet the growing demand of specialized research organizations.
“This achievement shows that research and education networks are at the forefront of innovation, thereby empowering the most advanced research by universities and research institutions worldwide,” said Erwin Bleumink, chief executive officer of SURFnet – the local organizer of TNC2013. “The impact of this development however will also be seen outside academia and help stimulate the global economy.”
The R&E networks participating in the project are Internet2, NORDUnet, ESnet, SURFnet, CANARIE, and GÉANT. Ciena (NASDAQ: CIEN) is also supporting the ANA-100G pilot. Ciena is providing photonic equipment, including the recently released subsea version of the 100 Gbps WaveLogic 3 transponder. Furthermore, Juniper loaned equipment that enables some of the eye-catching demonstrations. The leaders’ announced their intentions for the pilot at the recent Internet2 Annual Meeting.[1]
Demonstrations of the intercontinental 100 Gbps link include big data transfers between Maastricht and Chicago, Illinois taking a few minutes rather than many hours over the public Internet; the “First European ExoGENI at Work” demonstration between the University of Amsterdam and the Renaissance Computing Institute in North Carolina; and “How many modern servers can fill a 100Gbps Transatlantic Circuit?”
ExoGENI is a testbed for networking and cloud computing technologies. It is funded through the National Science Foundation’s Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) project to develop and deploy integrated network testbeds. The demonstrations also include the use of multipath routing of network information, OpenFlow software-defined networking technology and other advanced technology applications. In the “How many modern servers can fill a 100 Gbps Transatlantic Circuit?” demonstration, experts show that with the proper tuning and tool, only two hosts on each continent can generate almost 80 Gbps of traffic. ESnet’s new “iperf3″ throughput beta measurement device combines the best features from other tools such as iperf, nuttcp, and netperf.
This first Transatlantic 100 Gbps link for R&E will advance high-end projects such as the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, the ITER fusion reactor in France and similar international programs. The 100 Gbps Transatlantic connection reflects two trends in scientific research: science is increasingly data driven with datasets from large-scale experiments at the tera-scale level, and these experiments are increasingly carried out by international collaborations in which researchers around the globe expect immediate access to the datasets.
The operation of this ultra high-speed link across the Atlantic Ocean also illustrates how the close collaboration between research and education networks and the commercial sector continues to evolve, with the ongoing deployment of cutting-edge networking technologies that underpin groundbreaking, globally collaborative science and discovery.
Executive quotes:
H. David Lambert, president and chief executive officer of Internet2, remarked, “Without the exceptional work of a large team of people from 10 different organizations working across nine time zones, this breakthrough for the R&E community would not have been possible. The launch of this new high-capacity link for R&E fits well with the theme of this year’s TERENA Networking Conference: Innovating Together.”
Rene Buch, chief executive officer of NORDUnet, stated “The ANA-100G collaboration shows what we can do together in a public-private partnership, which would have been impossible for any single organization to accomplish, especially taking into consideration the short time frame in which we got this first intercontinental 100 Gbps up and running.”
Greg Bell, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s ESnet, said, “This achievement shows how much research and education networks can do together, when focused on a common goal. I’m confident that our historic project will serve as a model for even greater accomplishments in the future.”
Matthew Scott and Niels Hersoug, DANTE joint general managers added on behalf of GÉANT, “As research and education collaboration becomes ever more global, and Transatlantic data grows exponentially, it is not sustainable operationally to continue at multiple 10Gbps connections. Therefore on behalf of our NREN partners and their users we welcome this milestone achievement, and look forward to further collaboration between research and education networks to deliver economies of scale and seamless global connectivity.”
Jim Roche, president and chief executive officer of CANARIE, said, “This project ushers in a new era in research and education networking. We don’t know exactly what the future will hold, but we do know that this Transatlantic foundation opens doors to extraordinary opportunities in innovation and research that are unconstrained by bandwidth.”
Rodney Wilson, Ciena’s senior director of external research, commented, “The research and education community relies on cutting-edge communications technology for global collaboration to achieve scientific advancements. This 100G WaveLogic 3 Transatlantic deployment illustrates the value of Ciena’s pioneering technology and our ability to optimize the interconnection of R&E Points of Presence with combined submarine and terrestrial solutions. We are proud of our part in bolstering network connectivity for development of new network applications and research network architectures.”
The TNC2013 Conference provides the ideal venue for demonstrating the high-speed connection, as the meeting is the largest and most prestigious European research networking conference. More than 600 participants including decision makers, networking specialists and managers from all major European networking and research organizations, universities, worldwide sister institutions and industry representatives attend the conference.
For more information about these global leaders, visit their websites:
Internet2: www.internet2.edu
NORDUnet: www.nordu.net
ESnet: www.es.net
SURFnet: www.surfnet.nl/en
CANARIE: www.canarie.ca
GÉANT: www.geant.net
Ciena: www.ciena.com
Juniper Networks: www.juniper.net
Media contacts:
SURFnet, Lonneke Walk, +31 302305305 (Netherlands) or Lonneke.Walk@nullsurfnet.nl
Internet2, Todd Sedmak, +1 202-331-5373 (USA) or todd@nullinternet2.edu
ESnet, Jon Bashor, +1 510-486-5849 (USA) or jbashor@nulllbl.gov
CANARIE, Wynn Anne Sibbald, +1 613-943-5432 (Canada) or Wynnanne.sibbald@nullcanarie.ca
GÉANT/DANTE, Paul Maurice, +44 1223 371362 (UK) or paul.maurice@nulldante.net
NORDUnet, Rene Buch, +45-31-19-1400 (Denmark) or rene.buch@nullnordu.net
Ciena: Paula Muezerie, +44 2070 125640 (UK) or pmuezeri@nullciena.com
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Posted by Robert Gerdes on 2013 May 22 at 3:21 PM
NVIDIA will be live streaming their GPU Technology Theater presentations which are listed on their event page at www.nvidia.com/sc12 within the GPU Technology Theater tab. There is a reasonable chance that they will also be available on-demand at http://www.gputechconf.com/gtcnew/on-demand-gtc.php a week after.
As for the CUDA sessions, unfortunately these presentations will not be recorded. So, if these are of interest, watch them live.
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Live streaming makes it possible to virtually stop by the NVIDIA booth: Stop by the NVIDIA(R) booth (#2217) or our developer event at SC12 in Salt Lake City, UT to learn about the latest advances in application and scientific discovery made with accelerated computing. Highlights include:
GPU Technology Theater Come hear from industry luminaries and experts talk about a wide range of topics on computing, advancing scientific discovery, and programming tips in the Theater. Featured speakers include: Buddy Bland (ORNL), Ian Buck (NVIDIA), Jack Dongarra (University of Tennesee, ORNL), Felice Pantaleo (CERN), and Steve Scott (NVIDIA). Talks will be offered every 30 minutes during exhibition hours in the NVIDIA booth. For a complete list of confirmed speakers please visit www.nvidia.com/sc12. Seats are limited, so arrive early to reserve your seat!
CUDA Developer Sessions Want to learn how to accelerate your application with CUDA(R) or hear what the latest GPU computing architecture from NVIDIA can do for you? Attend an NVIDIA-hosted developer session on Monday, November 12, 2012. These sessions are free and will be presented by experts in parallel programming – please register to reserve your spot. Topics:
* Get Started with CUDA
* Accelerating Your Applications with Kepler GPU Accelerators
For complete information on NVIDIA at SC12, please visit www.nvidia.com/sc12.
Posted by Robert Gerdes on 2013 May 22 at 3:06 PM
Highlight includes:
- Using the TOP500 to trace and project technology and architecture trends
- The TOP500 is a treasure trove of information on the leading edge of high performance computing. It was used in the 2008 DARPA Exascale technology report to isolate out the effects of architecture and technology on high performance computing, and lay the groundwork to project how current systems might mature through the coming years. Two particular classes of architectures were identified: “heavy-weight” (based on high end commodity microprocessors) and “lightweight,” (primarily BlueGene variants), and projections made on performance, concurrency, memory capacity, and power. This paper updates those projections, and adds a third class of “heterogeneous” architectures (leveraging the emerging class of GPU-like chips) to the mix.
SC11 Proceedings in ACM at http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/cms/indexes/descriptions/acm andhttp://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2063384&picked=prox
Posted by Robert Gerdes on 2013 April 10 at 4:43 PM
XSEDE Upgrades Network to Internet2’s 100G Network
17 Supercomputers and 8,000 Scientists Benefit By Using Nation’s Fastest Research & Education Network
WASHINGTON, D.C.—April 10, 2013–Internet2, operator of the nation’s fastest research and education network, and XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, announced today that XSEDE has migrated and upgraded its network backbone infrastructure to the Internet2 Network. The upgrade allows XSEDE to use Internet2’s new 100G (Gigabit Ethernet)-enabled and 8.8-terabit-per-second optical network, platform, services and technologies.
XSEDE is a National Science Foundation-supported project that brings together 17 supercomputers, visualization and data analysis engines, and data storage resources along with data collections, computational tools, and services to support science and engineering research and education across the United States. More than 8,000 scientists regularly use XSEDE to complete thousands of research projects supporting more than 2,000 publications annually.
“Advanced networking is critical to XSEDE in order to support the researchers and educators who are making innovative use of our computing, data, and visualization resources that are distributed across the country,” said XSEDE project director John Towns. “Our partnership with Internet2 enables us to continue to provide advanced, powerful, robust services for discovery and innovation.”
Internet2 and the XSEDEnet networking group will work together to configure a private network between the XSEDE service provider sites across the shared backbone. A majority of sites will connect to the nearest Internet2 Advanced Layer 2 Service node at 10G and share bandwidth across a 100G backbone with other participants. Initially, Indiana University and Purdue University will have 100G connections.
“This is an extremely important milestone that advances the strategic alignment between the high performance computing and Internet2 communities,” said Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie. “Having the massive computational capabilities of XSEDE coupled directly to the most advanced network capabilities with the broadest reach among the U.S. and global research communities is of critical importance to the success of XSEDE.”
“XSEDE will now be able to provide the fastest research and education network in the nation to more than 8,000 scientists who regularly use some of the fastest supercomputers in the world,” said Internet2 President and CEO H. David Lambert. “Our new network allows researchers to conduct the latest scientific research in ways that they have not been able to do previously. I am excited to hear about future research impacting society from scientists using XSEDE resources and our new network.”
With the migration to Internet2, new sites can be easily added to the XSEDE backbone through connections to Internet2 Advanced Layer 2 Service nodes. In addition, the upgrade also eliminates the potential bottleneck between Denver and Chicago associated with the prior XSEDE backbone architecture. The new network infrastructure is expected to enable the development of new applications, such as an XSEDE-wide File System (XWFS), which will allow the increasingly very large files required by researchers to be moved rapidly between XSEDE sites.
About XSEDE
XSEDE, the most advanced, powerful and robust collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world, is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data and expertise. The five-year, $121 million project is supported by the National Science Foundation. More about XSEDE: https://xsede.org.
About Internet2
Internet2® is a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. Internet2 provides a collaborative environment for U.S. research and education organizations to solve common technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research, and community service missions.
Internet2 consists of more than 220 U.S. universities, 60 leading corporations, 70 government agencies, 38 regional and state education networks and more than 100 national research and education networking partners representing more than 50 countries. Internet2 offices are located in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Emeryville, Calif.; and Washington, DC. For more information, visit www.internet2.edu.
Media contacts:
Todd Sedmak, 202-331-5373 or todd@nullinternet2.edu, Internet2
Trish Barker, 217-265-8013 or tlbarker@nullillinois.edu, XSEDE
Posted by Robert Gerdes on 2012 November 25 at 8:13 PM
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – November 15, 2012 – Globus Online and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) today announced a new collaboration to help scientists better manage the growing amounts of data they need to move, share, and analyze worldwide.
As partners, the organizations plan to develop joint outreach and educational programs designed for small and medium science collaborations that have not traditionally used data transfer tools and advanced networking as part of their workflow, but who will soon require these capabilities as their data volumes increase. ESnet and Globus Online will also pursue coordinated research efforts aimed at better integrating their services to make it easier for scientists to set up efficient end-to-end data transfers.
The collaboration brings together two leading organizations that have successfully tackled the challenge of data transfer and sharing from two different perspectives. ESnet is the Department of Energy’s high performance science network that interconnects the nation’s research laboratories, supercomputing centers and experimental facilities. Built on GridFTP, Globus Online provides an easy-to-use, highly reliable online file transfer and sharing service that researchers can use from their desktop or integrate into their scientific application. Globus Online has become a primary on-ramp for researchers to access high performance networks like ESnet for rapidly sharing data with collaborators or to use remote computing and scientific instrument facilities.
“In this new era of data intensive science impacting nearly all research disciplines, data transfer and sharing tools, and high performance networks are becoming indispensible enablers for scientific discovery,” said Greg Bell, Director of ESnet. “Rather than forcing scientists—especially those without IT expertise—to piece together the myriad tools they need to move their data effectively, we are partnering with Globus Online to provide education on a holistic set of capabilities that can be easily adopted and used right away.”
One ESnet-developed strategy that has been very helpful to scientists coping with rapidly increasing data volumes is the Science DMZ. The Science DMZ calls for a high performance Data Transfer Node, or DTN, which is a dedicated system explicitly built for high performance data transfers. Scientists have achieved incredible data transfer performance when coupling the Globus Online file transfer service with the use of a DTN.
In August 2012, Gary Bates at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Lab in Boulder, Colo., saw the benefits of a Science DMZ first-hand. Until the Boulder Network Operations Center (BNOC) built a Science DMZ, data trickled through the firewall at 1-2 megabytes per second. Using Globus Online and a newly configured data transfer node, Bates transferred 273 files with a total size of 239.5 gigabytes in just over 10 minutes. “Whoa! Transfer from NERSC to the BNOC data transfer node using Globus is screaming!” Bates wrote. He calculated his transfer rate to be about 395 megabytes per second, or over 3 gigabits per second. “I’ve never gotten anything close to that before.”
“This example demonstrates the natural synergy between Globus Online and ESnet, highlighting how a high performance, modern network architecture combined with a sophisticated file transfer and sharing service can work together to enhance scientific productivity and make new modes of discovery possible,” said Ian Foster, co-lead of the Globus Online service.
About ESnet
ESnet provides the high-bandwidth, reliable connections that link scientists at national laboratories, universities and other research institutions, enabling them to collaborate on some of the world’s most important scientific challenges including energy, climate science, and the origins of the universe. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science and located within the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides scientists with access to unique DOE research facilities and computing resources.
About Globus Online
Globus Online is software-as-a-service for research data management. Globus Online provides a reliable, high-performance file transfer service for easily and securely moving big data between resources, such as supercomputing facilities, cloud storage systems, campus clusters, lab servers, or personal computers. The service also enables data on existing storage systems to be shared with users at multiple organizations, without specialized software or expensive cloud storage. Designed specifically for researchers, Globus Online is recommended by dozens of institutions and high-performance computing facilities worldwide. Globus Online is an initiative by the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, and is supported in part by funding from the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. For more information, visit www.globusonline.org.
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Posted by Robert Gerdes on 2012 November 25 at 8:08 PM
BERKELEY, Calif.—-(Nov. 13, 2012)–As scientific research becomes increasingly data-intensive and globally collaborative, the ability to quickly and reliably share enormous data sets is critical to challenges as diverse as finding cleaner energy technologies, understanding climate change and investigating the nature of our universe.
To accelerate such discovery, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) is now operating the world’s fastest science network, serving the entire national laboratory system, its supercomputing centers, and its major scientific instruments at 100 gigabits per second – 10 times faster than its previous generation network. ESnet is managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
“In January, 1983, the Internet was launched into operation on a 50 Kb/s ARPANET backbone. 30 years later, ESnet backbone speeds are two million times faster,” said ESnet Policy Board member Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist and Internet pioneer. “Terabit speeds are in sight and faster aggregate speeds can be anticipated. Talk about riding a rocket!”
“The upgrade, funded by DOE’s Office of Science, comes just in time,” said ESnet Director Greg Bell, who also leads Berkeley Lab’s Scientific Networking Division. “ESnet traffic doubles every 18 months, roughly twice as fast as the commercial Internet. Based on analysis of its traffic over the years and future plans, the amount of data carried by ESnet will reach over 100 petabytes per month by 2016. That’s because we’re moving into a new era of extreme data, and scientific discovery in many fields depends on data mobility. ESnet is becoming something more than a network infrastructure – it’s now an extension of the experimental facilities it serves, and a vital component in the process of discovery.”
“Like many other scientific disciplines, cosmology is increasingly reliant on collecting, sharing and analyzing massive datasets, whether from instruments launched into space, from ground-based telescopes or detailed simulations,” said Berkeley Lab cosmologist Peter Nugent and member of the team that won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. “Advanced networking, much like advanced computing, is a critical component for the broad collaborations that are behind many discoveries. ESnet’s move to 100G connectivity is especially important as projects like the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and Dark Energy Survey generate unprecedented amounts of data, which is stored at Berkeley Lab and then served up to the global research community.”
ESnet partnered with Internet2, the advanced networking and technology community that connects America’s universities and research institutions and extends connectivity to research networks worldwide, to deploy its 100 Gbps network over a new, highly-scalable optical infrastructure that the two organizations share for the benefit of their respective communities.
“Big Data science and collaborative research are the current and future reality,” said Internet2 President and CEO Dave Lambert. “Through this key partnership, 100G technologies are extended throughout the national research infrastructure – creating a much richer and more robust national and global scientific collaboration environment – from which new innovations will be born, great challenges facing all of society will be confronted, and discovery will be accelerated.”
To pave the way for the production network, last year ESnet announced the completion of a 100 Gbps prototype network—funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—which connected the three leading DOE Office of Science supercomputing sites as a proof of concept. With the 100 Gbps national network now in full production across its entire footprint, the ESnet team is moving to upgrade individual lab connections to enable them to take even greater advantage of the speed and capacity of the backbone.
“100 Gbps is just the beginning,” Bell said. “Because we can scale far beyond that capacity on the underlying optical platform we have invested in with Internet2, ESnet will continue to serve DOE science for years to come.”
Media contact: Jon Bashor, 510-501-2230
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About ESnet
ESnet provides the high-bandwidth, reliable connections that link scientists at national laboratories, universities and other research institutions, enabling them to collaborate on some of the world’s most important scientific challenges including energy, climate science, and the origins of the universe. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science and located within the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides scientists with access to unique DOE research facilities and computing resources.
About Berkeley Lab
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory addresses the world’s most urgent scientific challenges by advancing sustainable energy, protecting human health, creating new materials, and revealing the origin and fate of the universe. Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab’s scientific expertise has been recognized with 13 Nobel prizes. The University of California manages Berkeley Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. For more, visit http://www.lbl.gov.
About the DOE Office of Science
DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov.
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Posted by Robert Gerdes on 2012 October 10 at 5:12 PM
Schedule:
Tuesday, October 16, 1 PM – 5 PM
Wednesday, October 17, 9 AM – 5 PM
Thursday, October 18, 9 AM – 5 PM
Lunch will be provided for the Wednesday and Thursday sessions.
Location: Busch Campus
Instructors:
Kirk Jordan (IBM)
Sophia Wen (IBM)
Vipin Sachdeva (IBM)
In March of this year, the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) obtained an IBM Blue Gene /P Supercomputer for useby the Rutgers Community. This supercomputer, dubbed “Excalibur”, has 2048 quad-core processors, for a total of 8192 compute cores. Excalibur provides 28 TFlop/s of performance, making it the most powerful computer at Rutgers University. In order to promote the use of this new computational resource in the Rutgers Community, RDI2 will be hosting a Blue Gene/P Boot Camp.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for users (application developers) to learn how to get started and to take advantage of the Blue Gene/P for their codes. This will be accomplished through some brief lectures to introduce different topics and as much hands-on effort with IBM consultants guiding the participants on their codes. This allows participants to obtain as much experience using the compilers, tools and techniques on their own codes as possible.
Prerequisite: Previous experience parallel programming with MPI. Experience parallel programming with OpenMP is optional.
This is NOT an introductory course in parallel programming.
Some of the topics covered will include:
1. Getting started on the Blue Gene
2. Compiler overview
3. Hardware and software design philosophy
4. Profiling, tracing and debugging
5. Performance scaling
6. Application tuning
7. Using the MASSV and ESSL libraries
A more detailed agenda is available at
http://rdi2.rutgers.edu/sites/rdi2/files/img/Agenda_RDI2_BlueGeneWorkshop_Oct2012.pdf
For more information or to register for this workshop please e-mail Prentice Bisbal (prentice.bisbal@nullrutgers.edu). Additional details (location, etc.) will be provided upon registration.
Posted by Robert Gerdes on 2012 October 2 at 11:04 AM
Internet2 NET+ eduroam service to offer wireless Internet access for professors, students, and staff
Philadelphia—-Oct. 2, 2012-—Internet2, a consortium of the nation’s leading research and education institutions, plans to offer the eduroam wireless Internet service to more than 220 of Internet2’s universities and research labs, and to all other universities and colleges throughout the United States. The announcement was made today at the 2012 Internet2 Fall Member Meeting in Philadelphia.
Professors, students and staff at the nation’s largest research universities and labs will have easy and secure access to network connectivity across their own campus, and when visiting other participating institutions, by simply opening a laptop, or activating a smartphone or other portable device.
Internet2, in a partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of Tennessee – Knoxville has assumed support for the deployment of eduroam in the United States. Through this partnership, Internet2 is working with the NSF to broadly increase the deployment of the eduroam service. Eduroam, which started as an international project in Europe, involves many National Research and Education Network organizations.
“Professors, students and staff at Internet2 member universities will be able to roam their fellow campuses without the hassle of gaining Internet access,” said Internet2 CEO and President H. David Lambert. “This is a great example of the University of Tennessee’s visionary support of eduroam being deployed in the United States and NSF’s leadership for providing seed funding to enable Internet2 to expand this service to Internet2’s universities and labs.”
The service is provided as an Internet2 member benefit as part of the annual membership fee. Higher educational institutions that are not Internet2 members are invited to join the service for an annual fee. Universities interested in subscribing and deploying the Internet2 NET+ eduroam wireless service should email netplus@nullinternet2.edu for assistance.
Eduroam allows travelers from academic institutions to gain network access with minimal configuration and no need for the visited institution to explicitly grant access. This benefits faculty visiting labs, people traveling for conferences and collaborative work, students studying abroad, visitors attending sporting activities, and others roaming Internet2 campuses. There are thousands of eduroam hotspots to join, without hassle or data roaming charges.
“I am thrilled with this announcement,” said Jack Suess, vice president and chief information officer of University of Maryland, Baltimore County and former chair of Internet2’s Applications, Middleware, and Services Advisory Council (AMSAC). “This is a major milestone because AMSAC passed a resolution asking Internet2 to take the lead in seeing eduroam broadly deployed in the United States’ R&E community.”
This service works without the need to gain guest credentials on arrival to an eduroam-enabled campus. The connectivity is instantaneous, and the user authenticates the infrastructure. A user’s credentials are not revealed to the institution visited, but instead are only revealed to the person’s home institution, which provides an extra measure of comfort for visiting users. The technology provides a simple and automatic guest provisioning system, a secure wireless connection, encryption and authentication through WPA2-Enterprise standards.
Internet2 NET+ Services create a platform tailored to the needs of the Internet2 community, are cost and administratively effective, and leverage the Internet2 100G Network and InCommon identity management services. There are now 29 providers and 150 universities in the program. Internet2 NET+ Services and the Internet2 Network enable transformational solutions for education delivery and provide better-yielding solutions for university business functions – helping higher education institutions remain competitive nationally and globally.
Before an Internet2 NET+ Service is offered to the Internet2 community, it is put through a series of increasingly rigorous tests. Each phase brings the service closer to production, until it is made available to all eligible institutions. A complete listing of the 29 Internet2 NET+ Services and the development phase of each service can be found at www.internet2.edu/netplus. For more information about Internet2 NET+ eduroam, visit www.internet2.edu/netplus/eduroam.
About Internet2
Internet2® is a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. Internet2 provides a collaborative environment for U.S. research and education organizations to solve common technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research, and community service missions. For more information, visit www.internet2.edu.
For media assistance, contact Todd Sedmak at 804-497-0282 or todd@nullinternet2.edu.
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Posted by Robert Gerdes on 2012 October 2 at 8:06 AM
Philadelphia—-Oct. 1, 2012—-The nation’s first 100G open, national-scale, software-defined network—built to support advanced services and cloud applications—is now available to spur new waves of innovation in education, research and industry.
Internet2, operator of the nation’s fastest, coast-to-coast research and education network, announced today at the Fall 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting in Philadelphia that their new 100G-enabled and 8.8 Terabit per second optical network is operational for member institutions.
“We are excited about officially launching the new capabilities of the nation’s first 100G open, national-scale, software-defined network through massive collaboration with our partners in government and business that will be used by Internet2 members to help solve practical, far-reaching problems that benefit society,” said Internet2 CEO and President H. David Lambert. “We look forward to seeing the collaboration of our community using this dynamic network to advance education, transform university business models, and accelerate global Big Data collaborative research outcomes. When we equip the research and education community with great technology and no barriers to innovation, that’s when they start creating the future.”
The new capabilities now available on the Internet2 Network include:
An upgraded Advanced Layer 3 Service, that will provide extraordinary broadband capabilities for science, medicine and education not only to the higher education community, but also to hundreds of thousands of community anchor institutions through partnerships with regional networks and Internet2′s United States Unified Community Anchor Network (U.S. UCAN) project.
A nationwide 100Gbps Software Defined Network offering both production services like the Layer-2 Open Science, Scholarship and Service Exchange built in partnership with Indiana University and support of new network innovations through software defined networking support.
Over 8.8 Tbps of optical network capacity through 88, 100 Gbps-waves that are delivered in a unique partnership, between Internet2 and the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) that will share this capacity and operations of the infrastructure to advance national programs.
Internet2′s members also can leverage the new Internet2 Network to deliver Internet2 NET+ Services and keep pace with the exponential growth in Big Data science being driven by the nation’s collaborative researchers in labs and universities.Internet2 NET+ Services currently offers 29 cloud services to college campuses nationwide that are cost-effective, easy to access, simple to administer, and tailored to the unique needs of the research and education community. The new network and cloud services enable transformational new solutions for education delivery and provide better-yielding solutions for university business functions—helping higher education institutions remain competitive nationally and globally.
Working with its regional network partners, Internet2′s U.S. UCAN project will utilize the newly upgraded 100G-enabled Internet2 Network to allow advanced networking features for more than 200,000 of the country’s community anchor institutions, including libraries, hospitals, K-12 schools, community colleges, and public safety organizations. The network infrastructure will support advanced applications, such as HD and multi-cast video distance learning and telemedicine. The upgraded network was predominately funded through the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.
About Internet2
Internet2® is a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. Internet2 provides a collaborative environment for U.S. research and education organizations to solve common technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research, and community service missions. For more information, visit www.internet2.edu.
Media contact: Todd Sedmak, (202) 331-5373 or todd@nullinternet2.edu.
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Posted by Robert Gerdes on 2012 September 2 at 10:54 PM
September 12, 2012,
1:00pm to 2:30pm CT
The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is working
with the various experimental and computing facilities, science
communities and collaborations it connects to help optimize their
science data transfers and resolve data mobility issues. One of its most
successful strategies is the “Science DMZ” model, a network design which
helps ESnet-connected sites optimize local network resources to offer
the highest levels of performance for science data transfers.
One of the key Science DMZ components includes a Data Transfer Node
(DTN) running software that is designed for efficient, reliable data
transfers. Globus Online is a robust, high-performance data transfer
tool that is ideal for deployment on a DTN in a Science DMZ, and is
currently ESnet’s top recommended tool for wide-area network file
transfers. This webinar will provide an overview of a Science DMZ, and a
demonstration of the most frequently used Globus Online features, tips &
tricks, and Q&A for integrating these tools into the scientific workflow.
Speakers:
* Steve Tuecke, Deputy Director, Computation Institute and Globus Online
Project Lead
* Brian Tierney, Group Leader, Advanced Network Technologies, ESnet and LBNL
Registration: https://www.globusonline.org/esnet-webinar/
