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This workshop at Georgia State University introduced vBNS, Internet2, NGI, and campus initiatives to improve application quality. Explore collaborative efforts, technical support, and future application areas. Join the dialogue on network advancements and meritorious projects.
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vBNS Workshop Georgia State University Room 600 Classroom South August 22, 1997 2:00-4:00 pm http://www.gsu.edu/vbns
Agenda • Introduction • Overview of vBNS, Internet2 and NGI • Campus, Atl., State and Regional Initiatives • Applications • Technical Support • Dialogue • Year 1 Agenda vBNS Workshop
NSF Grant NCR-9710442 • Connections to the Internet program • Collaborative effort with Georgia Tech to connect campuses to the vBNS network • Institutionally submitted proposal • $350,000 award, May 15, 1997 • Focus is to improve quality and effectiveness of meritorious applications vBNS Workshop
vBNS, Internet 2, NgiWhat are They? • Link to Samir Chatterjee’s Presentation vBNS Workshop
Campus Initiatives • Buildings Must Be Upgraded • FY 98: Science, Science Annex, Art & Music, Urban Life, etc. • Inter-Building Network Needs Upgrading • vBNS Connections Will Be Expedited • 100 Mbs to the Desktop • We Need to Know Who Will Be Ready and When vBNS Workshop
Atlanta & Georgia Initiatives • Atlanta GigaPoP - aggregation point of services and customers • vBNS • ESNet • Emory University (proposed) • University of Georgia (proposed) • Commodity Internet Service Providers (?) vBNS Workshop
Regional Initiatives • Southern Crossroads • Southeastern GigaPoPs convening at the Atlanta GigaPoP for services and access to one another • MCNC, Duke, NC State, U of NC - Chapel Hill, VaTech • ORNL, U of Tenn and Kentucky • U of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana • Florida • SURA involvement at the coordination and political level • Washington, DC and Atlanta - Southeastern GigaPoPs vBNS Workshop
Applications It’s the application, stupid…..
What’s wrong today? • Too sloooow • Inconsistent response time • Too limiting vBNS Workshop
Revolutionary Applications • “Demonstrate a wide variety of nationally important applications that cannot be achieved over today’s Internet.” NGI Initiative Concept Paper vBNS Workshop
A Flavor for the Future • Digital Libraries • Collaboration Environments • Immersion Environments • Music Instrumentation • Tele-medicine • Computation and data-intensive applications vBNS Workshop
Internet2 Exploration Areas • Quality of Service • Network-aware Applications • High Fidelity Audio and Video • Tools • Collaboration Infrastructure vBNS Workshop
Meritorious Applications, Georgia State • CHARA, McAlister • NMR Facility, Dixon • Cineon Project, Evans, Moss, Winkler, Owen • Astrophysical Hydrodynamic Flows, Wiita • Geographic IS DSS, Faust, Frost, Zin, Owen • Capability Maturity Model, Fraser, Vaishnavi • Architectures for Gigabit Multimedia Delivery, Chatterjee vBNS Workshop
Meritorious Applications, Georgia Tech • FutureNet Community Project • High Performance Computing Consortium and the Parallel Virtual Machine • Georgia Tech Lorraine, LOADS • Georgia Tech Parallel Applications vBNS Workshop
How do we get there??? • We don’t know • Creativity and ingenuity of faculty, researchers, staff and students on our campuses vBNS Workshop
Technical Support Services • What Would You Like ? ? ? vBNS Workshop
Service Menu • Consulting • Development Support vBNS Workshop
Dialogue • Questions? • Comments? • Current Collaborative Activities? • Applications Committee? • Select Showcase Application(s)? • Listserv?, Newsletter • Usage….Use It or Lose It!!! vBNS Workshop
Year 1 Agenda • vBNS and ESNet Connectivity • October ‘97 • Other Regional Connectivity • October-December ‘97 • Application Deployment Priorities at Georgia State • Application Demonstrations vBNS Workshop
For More Information • http://www.gsu.edu/vbns • Mary Jane Casto, 651-4558, mjcasto@gsu.edu • Samir Chatterjee, 651-3886, schatter@gsu.edu • Reid Christenberry, 651-3470, reid.christenberry@gsu.edu • Randy Palmer, 651-1565, rpalmer@gsu.edu vBNS Workshop