1. Science and Engineering Applications
Russ Hobby
Program Manager for
Science and Engineering

2. High Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP)
Physics has traditionally been one of the “power users” of all networks
Physicists are generating Terabytes of data (1,000,000,000,000 or 1x1012) per experiment from the CERN lab in Switzerland
Types of network usage:
Bulk data transfers that are extremely resistant to data loss.
VRVS expects multicast and low-latency/jitter networks for effective video conferencing
Pick a few points from the bullets.
HENP helped to pioneer collaboration. They developed the tools, insisted on the roll-out of advanced features, and pushed the capabilities of networks.
HENP expanded from single locations to national projects, national to international.
As a long term partner, HENP works with almost every part of Internet2. They not only push the edges, but are workings “hands on” to develop, test and optimize current network technologies. This level of knowledge and interaction allows them to best integrate their scientific requirements with the capabilities of the network. This allows the “most science” to be accomplished with the “least level of surprise”
In a way, we learn more from our interaction with the HENP community than they do from us. They are true “power users”

4. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
NEES has multiple labs at various geographical locations
NEES has it’s own IT organization, NEESit, that provides support for the community
Internet2 works with NEESit and the NEES headquarters

6. Electronic Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (eVLBI)
Astronomers collect data about a star from many different earth based antennae and send the data to a specialized computer for analysis on a 24x7 basis.
eVLBI is not as concerned with data loss as they are with long term stability.
The end goal is to send data at 1Gb/s from over 20 antennae that are located around the globe.
VLBI is an example of a community that is newer to Internet2 than HENP. For the past few years, the VLBI community has been working to address a specific need– their research creates a large volume of data for a long period of time in disparate locations… and it all needs to be transferred back to one location for analysis.
To achieve this goal, the VLBI researchers have been working closely with several areas of the Internet2 community. They have learned a great deal in a short period of time. You can see this from their successful real-time tests (give example of the 100 Mbps, real-time, international correlation).
For the time being, they are learning from our community. We suspect, however, that they soon will be the experts who are helping to expand our collective knowledge and push the network.

8. NASA Quest

9. NEON and Earthscope Both are in the implementation stages
Their research goals and science plans are fairly well understood.
Using CI and advanced networks to connect researchers, data and sensors is assumed.
The specific ways in which advanced networking will be integrated into their project still needs to be investigated
NEON is an example of a group that will soon begin to work with with Internet2. NEON will be a national network of environmental observatories… ergo their name… National Environmental Observation Network…
Their project will have data collectors spread across large geographies and we believe that using Internet2, they will better be able to complete their science.
We have been in early contact with NEON, the goal is to introduce some of the capabilities of the network by showing what more experienced groups, e.g. HENP and VLBI, have done and are doing. Hopefully by seeing this, they will be encouraged to participate and learn more, make plans to integrate Internet2 into their projects and become advanced network users and developers.

10. Oceanography
The Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks (ORION) is a program that focuses the science, technology, education and outreach of an emerging network of science driven ocean observing systems
Pick a few points from the bullets.
HENP helped to pioneer collaboration. They developed the tools, insisted on the roll-out of advanced features, and pushed the capabilities of networks.
HENP expanded from single locations to national projects, national to international.
As a long term partner, HENP works with almost every part of Internet2. They not only push the edges, but are workings “hands on” to develop, test and optimize current network technologies. This level of knowledge and interaction allows them to best integrate their scientific requirements with the capabilities of the network. This allows the “most science” to be accomplished with the “least level of surprise”
In a way, we learn more from our interaction with the HENP community than they do from us. They are true “power users”

12. More Info science.internet2.edu
Russ Hobby
science.internet2.edu

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