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Scalable Information Infrastructure and the Research University Community

This article discusses the lessons learned on scalability from the growth of the Internet, the current state of the Internet, and the requirements for a future Internet. It emphasizes the need for bigger pipes, capacity allocation, core and application-enabling middleware, and exemplary applications. The role of the research and education community in creating leading-edge network capability, implementing required middleware, and enabling new applications is highlighted. The article also discusses the scalability agenda, including the comprehensive instrumentation of the high-performance network environment and engagement with users, infrastructure providers, and computer science network researchers.

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Scalable Information Infrastructure and the Research University Community

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  1. Scalable Information Infrastructure and theResearch University Community SC99 19 November 1999 Portland, Oregon Douglas Van Houweling President & CEO, Internet2/UCAID DVH@Internet2.edu

  2. Lessons on Scalability from the Internet • Has grown more than 100% per year since 1985 • Non-hierarchical • Based on evolving & open standards • Bottom-up innovation • Includes small to large-scale testbeds

  3. Internet Development Spiral Commercialization Privatization ANS/Core PSI MichNet Today’s Internet AOL UUNet SURANet InternetMCI NYSERNet NGI Intelligent Networks GigaBit Testbeds ARPANet NSFNet Internet2 MBone NTON vBNS PartnershipTestbeds Research and Development

  4. The Internet Today • Hundreds of millions of users • Web, email, low-quality audio & video • Applications adapt to underlying technology • Important, not mission-critical uses • Scale orders of magnitude beyond the design point

  5. Tomorrow’s Internet • Billions of users and devices • Convergence of today’s applications and services with real time rich media environments • New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges) • Mission-critical uses

  6. Tomorrow’s Internet Requires • Bigger pipes • Capacity allocation & assurance • Core middleware • Application-enabling middleware • Exemplary applications

  7. Our Role • Create leading edge R&E network capability • Implement required middleware • Enable new generation of applications • Provide the platform for scalability research • Transfer technology andexperience to the global Internet

  8. We Hold the Key • High performance applications • Middleware innovations and deployment • Progressively larger testbeds • Relationships with government and industry • Research capability to discover, diagnose, and innovate in response to scalability challenges

  9. The Scalability Agenda • Comprehensively instrument the high performance network environment • Apply advanced processing, storage, data analysis and modeling tools • Engage three communities • Users • Infrastructure providers • Computer Science network research

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