1. University of Illinois at Chicago Welcome! Introductions and Overview Thomas A. DeFanti Principal Investigator, STAR TAP Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory

2. University of Illinois at Chicago Introductions STAR TAP/StarLight Management STAR TAP Management and Engineering STAR TAP International Advisory Committee HPIIS Team

3. University of Illinois at Chicago Introductions STAR TAP Management/ Administrative Tom DeFanti, UIC Maxine Brown, UIC Laura Wolf, UIC Steve Goldstein, NSF

4. University of Illinois at Chicago Introductions STAR TAP Management/ Engineering Linda Winkler, Argonne National Laboratory Andy Schmidt, UIC Alan Verlo, UIC

5. University of Illinois at Chicago Introductions STAR TAP/StarLight Organizers Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC –Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Jason Leigh, Andy Schmidt, Alan Verlo, Laura Wolf, Oliver Yu International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University –Joe Mambretti, Mort Rahimi, David Carr, Tim Ward Argonne National Laboratory –Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Charlie Catlett, Rick Stevens In partnership with: CANARIE –Bill St. Arnaud, René Hatem SURFnet –Kees Neggers, Erik-Jan Bos

6. University of Illinois at Chicago Introductions International Advisory Committee Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory Tomonori Aoyama, JGN/Japan Heather Boyles, Internet2 ITN Natasha Bulashova, Russia/MIRnet Ok-Hwan Byeon, KOREN/KREONet2 Greg Cole, NCSA/MIRnet Manuel Delfino, CERN Harmut Richard Glaser, Brazil ANSP Shigeki Goto, APAN Alexandre Grojsgold, Brazil RNP

7. University of Illinois at Chicago Introductions International Advisory Committee Ngoh Lek Heng, SingAREN Jer-Nan Juang, NCHC/TANet2 Xing Li, CERNET Michael McRobbie, Indiana U/TransPAC Kees Neggers, SURFnet Victor Reijs, HEAnet Ralphi Rom, IUCC Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE Dany Vandromme, RENATER Florencio Utreras, REUNA Peter Villemoes, NORDUnet

8. University of Illinois at Chicago Consortia of American universities and National Research Networks serve to facilitate connectivity to U.S. high-performance network service providers, such as the vBNS or Abilene. www.ampath.fiu.edu www.euro-link.org www.mirnet.org www.transpac.org Euro-Link, MIRnet and TransPAC receive major funding from the NSF High Performance International Internet Services (HPIIS) initiative. Introductions HPIIS Team

9. University of Illinois at Chicago StarLight: The Development of the All Optical Internet Our Next Generation Internet text provides preparation for an all optical network –Powerful advanced services –Faster services provisioning –Enabling revolutionary applications Joel Mambretti and Andrew Schmidt, Next Generation Internet: Creating Advanced Networks and Services, John Wiley & Sons, 1999

10. University of Illinois at Chicago STAR TAP/StarLight Major Support and Corporate Donations Major funding provided by the National Science Foundation Corporate donations –SBC/Ameritech –Cisco –GENUiTY –Juniper Networks –Teleglobe

11. University of Illinois at Chicago STAR TAP Meeting Meeting Sponsors Parallelldatorcentrum, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan Global Crossing Europe International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University Qwest Teleglobe USA

12. University of Illinois at Chicago Agenda

13. University of Illinois at Chicago STAR TAP/StarLight Meeting Agenda 9:00-9:35Welcome Introductions; Meeting Goals (Tom DeFanti, UIC) STAR TAP Annual Update (Tom DeFanti, UIC) STAR TAP Present/Future Applications (Maxine Brown, UIC) 9:35-9:45Future Directions of the US NSFs ANIR Division (Tom Greene, NSF) 9:45-10:15Optical Networking Initiatives STAR TAPs StarLight (Tom DeFanti, UIC) SURFnets connections to StarLight (Erik-Jan Bos, SURFnet) 10:15-10:45Break

14. University of Illinois at Chicago STAR TAP/StarLight Meeting Agenda 10:45-12:15Optical Networking Initiatives, continued The Optical Network Evolution (Yves Poppe, Teleglobe) OMNInet (Joe Mambretti, iCAIR/Northwestern) I-WIRE and DTF (Charlie Catlett, Argonne and Anne Richeson, Qwest StarLight implementation (Andy Schmidt, UIC and Linda Winkler, Argonne) eScience and Wavelength Disk Drives using CA*net4 (Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE) Linking Broadband Wireless with Fiber Networks (Larry Smarr, Cal-(IT)2/UCSD) 12:15-1:30Lunch

15. University of Illinois at Chicago STAR TAP/StarLight Meeting Agenda 1:30-3:00Evolving Applications and Network Performance European Data Grids (Fabrizio Gagliardi, CERN) Distributed Tera-mining (Bob Grossman, UIC) International Grid Communities (GriPhyN, iVDGL) (Carl Kesselman, USC/ISI) Application-Level Network Performance/Measurement Tools (Jason Leigh, UIC) Global Grid Forum, eGrid and apGrid communities (Charlie Catlett, Argonne) Global NOC and STAR TAP Weather Map (Jim Williams, Indiana) MIRnet Utilization Monitoring and Reporting Software (Greg Cole, NCSA) SC Global (Maxine Brown, UIC) 3:00-3:30Break; VR-CUBE tours; signup sheets at registration desk.

16. University of Illinois at Chicago STAR TAP/StarLight Meeting Agenda 3:30-4:00Optical Networking Initiatives, continued SURFnet/StarLight connectivity implementation (Eric-Jan Bos, SURFnet) Optical Wavelengths (Gert Nieveld, Global Crossing Europe) 4:00-4:20HPIIS Team Euro-Link (Tom DeFanti, UIC) TransPAC (Jim Williams, Indiana University) MIRnet (Greg Cole, NCSA) AMPATH (Heidi Alvarez, Florida International University) 4:20-4:30International Transit Networks (ITNs) Abilene ITN (Heather Boyles, Internet2) CA*net ITN (David Macneil, CANARIE) 4:30-5:00Open Discussion on Optical Networking (Larry Smarr, UCSD/Cal-(IT)2 and Tom DeFanti, UIC)

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