University of Illinois at Chicago March 15, 1999 Tele-Immersion and High-Speed Networking Maxine Brown Associate Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory

University of Illinois at Chicago Electronic Visualization Laboratory What is EVL? 25 years at UIC Joint program between UIC Computer Science and Art & Design departments 2 directors and 12 associated faculty 10 staff 100 graduate students (24 supported) Collaborations with –NCSA Alliance –Argonne National Laboratory

University of Illinois at Chicago Electronic Visualization Laboratory CAVE Research and Development 1992—Prototype CAVE 1993—10’x10’x10’ CAVE 1994—SIGGRAPH VROOM 1995—I-WAY at SC’ —100 CAVES and derivatives worldwide —NSF funding for tele-immersion, new desktop VR devices, STAR TAP, NCSA Alliance

University of Illinois at Chicago Electronic Visualization Laboratory CAVERN Research and Development Tele-immersion will enable users in different locations to collaborate in a shared, simulated environment as if they were in the same room—the ultimate synthesis of networking and media technologies to enhance collaborative environments Tele-immersion applications must combine audio, video, virtual worlds, simulations, and many other complex technologies, requiring huge bandwidth, very fast responses, and guarantees of delivery

University of Illinois at Chicago MREN—America’s First Operational GigaPoP Chicago Area Sites Northwestern Fermi Nat’l Lab OC12 vBNS Ameritech NAP houses STAR-TAP and MREN Hub U Chicago EVL/UI Chicago Argonne Nat’l Lab MCI Ameritech UMinn UWisc UMich /MSU NCSA

University of Illinois at Chicago Supercomputing ‘95 I-WAY EVL/Argonne/NCSA planned and built I-WAY for Supercomputing ‘95 Prototyped on MREN First large-scale agency interoperability test of IP over ATM: vBNS, AAI, ESnet, ATDnet, CalREN, NREN, MREN, MAGIC, CA*NET 33 Academic, National Lab and Industry institutions; 17 sites; 61 projects First Tele-Immersion experiments

University of Illinois at Chicago I-WAY — Grid v1.0 Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure I. Foster, C. Kesselman (Eds), Morgan Kaufmann, 1999 ISBN chapters by expert authors including Andrew Chien, Jack Dongarra, Tom DeFanti, Andrew Grimshaw, Roch Guerin, Ken Kennedy, Paul Messina, Cliff Neuman, Jon Postel, Larry Smarr, Rick Stevens, and many others “A source book for the history of the future” -- Vint Cerf

University of Illinois at Chicago vBNS Logical Connectivity

University of Illinois at Chicago STAR TAP Science Technology and Research Transit Access Point

University of Illinois at Chicago What is STAR TAP (vision)? PersistentPersistent interconnection point and anchor for advanced (high-performance) networking initiatives of the USA and international partners Enabler for collaborative development of next-generation Internet applications A capability born out of frustrations of past I-WAY experience and the hopes of the G7 GIBN initiative

University of Illinois at Chicago What is STAR TAP (details)? STAR TAP anchors vBNS International Connections program STAR TAP features a large ATM switching facility run by Ameritech Advanced Data Services (AADS) with the same physical equipment as the MREN Chicago GigaPoP STAR TAP’s goal is to develop the teams, tools, system software, documentation, and human interface models to enable international-scale, multi-site collaborations

University of Illinois at Chicago STAR TAP, NGI, and Internet2 STAR TAP is part of the USA Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative STAR TAP (NGIX) connects USA agency networks like the vBNS, ESnet, NREN, and DREN to other countries and networks Internet2/UCAID/Abilene peer at STAR TAP Experimental networking is encouraged (e.g., Wave Division Multiplexing with CA*NET 3, NU, NCSA, IU, UIC)

University of Illinois at Chicago STAR TAP International Connected, Imminent, Interested APAN (Australia, China, Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand) Austria NORDUnet (Denmark, Finland, Iceland,Norway, Sweden) Brazil Canada CERN Chile France Germany Israel Netherlands Russia Singapore South Africa Taiwan United Kingdom US (vBNS, ESnet, NREN, DREN, Abilene)

University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid: The International Grid Research Demonstrations 22 demonstrations that featured technical innovations and application advancements requiring high-speed networks, with emphasis on distributed computing, tele-immersion, large datasets, remote instrumentation, and collaboration 10 countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, USA

University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid Industrial Mold Filling Indiana University (USA), Argonne National Laboratory (USA), Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), Industrial Materials Institute, NRC (Canada), Centre de Recherche en Calcul Appliqué (Canada)

University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid 3D Magneto Hydrodynamic Equations Sandia National Laboratories (USA), Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (USA), High Performance Computing Center, a division of the Computing Center of Stuttgart University (Germany)

University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid Telebot and Einstein Spacetime University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)Max Planck Institut fuer Gravitationphysik, Albert Einstein Institut (Germany), NCSA (USA), Argonne National Laboratory (USA), Washington University (USA)

University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid Taiwan Numerical Wind Tunnel National Center for High Performance Computing (Taiwan), National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), National Chioa-Tung University (Taiwan)

University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid IMS Racer Lawrence Technological University (USA), University of Michigan (USA)

University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid—The Netherlands Parallel Lighting Simulation SARA: Academic Computing Services Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

University of Illinois at Chicago International Applications-Level Networking Challenges and Opportunities Building relationships – internationalization Time zones –Asynchronous collaboration –Annotations and recording Network speeds / QoS needs Speed of light – bandwidth x latency (delay) Audio – one of the most demanding app’s. Culture – elitism/equality; industrial partners

University of Illinois at Chicago International Impact: Five Years From Now Distributed computing, simulation, data mining, and instruments will be coupled with tele-immersion over the worldwide Grid; audio, video, gesture and haptics will be integrated with latency tolerant techniques Methods for recording, editing, annotating, replaying, and broadcasting tele-immersive sessions will be perfected; avatars will help convey a true sense of tele-presence

University of Illinois at Chicago International Impact: Five Years From Now Tele-immersion is particularly critical for trans-oceanic science and engineering users Tele-immersion (CAVERN implementation) is particularly difficult and challenging as distance increases Significant participation expected by international researchers via STAR TAP, given support for applications development

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