Sponsored by the National Science Foundation GENI Welcome ! GENI Engineering Conference 6 Salt Lake City Chip Elliott November 17,

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 2 November 17, 2009 GENI Engineering Conferences Meet every 4 months to review progress together GEC 5: July 20-22, 2009 in Seattle, Washington GEC 6: This is the Place GEC 7: March 16-18, 2010 in Chapel Hill, NC With many thanks to Ilia Baldine and Jeff Chase! Subsequent Meetings, open to all who fit in the room –Held at regular 4-month periods –Geographic rotation through US (central, east, west) –Held on / near university campuses – volunteers? –Travel grants for participant diversity (US academics only)

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 3 November 17, 2009 Many thanks to our host University of Utah University of Utah –Dr. Stephen Hess, VPIT/CIO –Dr. Steve Corbató, Director of Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Initiatives School of Computing –Rob Ricci, Flux Research Group Everyone who created the GENI demo space

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 4 November 17, 2009 Conference plan Lunch 12:00 – 1 PM Plenary Talks & Demos TuesdayWednesday Cluster Outbriefs / Comment Time / Wrap-Up Breakfast 8-9 AM

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 5 November 17, 2009 Thank you to the new Working Group Chairs! Campus / Operations, Management, Integration, & Security Ron Hutchins Ivan Seskar Jim Williams Experiment Workflow and Services Jeannie Albrecht Jim Griffioen Control Framework Jeff Chase Rob Ricci Instrumentation & Measurement Paul Barford Note that working groups have been slightly tweaked since last GEC; check your agenda.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 6 November 17, 2009 Introducing Dr. Stephen Hess Chief Information Officer University of Utah Dr. Suzanne Iacono Senior Science Advisor and GENI Program Director Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) National Science Foundation