1. Mark Johnson MCNC mj@ncren.net
HOPI Applications
Mark Johnson
MCNC

2. HOPI is a TESTBED - Lets try some new stuff
What are the unique aspects of HOPI?
Hybrid
Optical
Packet
Infrastructure
The “New Internet2 Network” offers a path from crazy ideas to production

3. What are the unique opportunities for HOPI?
Hybrid
At what point do we introduce hybridness?
What do we mean by hybrid?
Optical
Lots o’ 10G waves
True TDM circuits
Packet
IP service
Infrastructure
Reach
Flexibility and dynamic provisioning

4. Candidate applications categories
E-science
Techniques for improving network performance for science
Must scale to very rigorous performance parameters (throughput, delay, jitter, loss)
Scheduled vs on-demand
Gaming
Ad hoc sessions or persistent worlds?
Potentially need to scale to large numbers of users
Network performance is important for reducing period of world inconsistency
Serious games
Traffic engineering
Disaster recovery

5. Next step(s)
HOPI call for participation
Additional workshops