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Advancing Research Collaboration: Internet2 Overview

Explore Internet2's background, history, partnerships, and focus areas to understand its role in advancing research collaboration. Learn why Internet2 is crucial for modern applications and real-time interactions.

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Advancing Research Collaboration: Internet2 Overview

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  1. www.internet2.edu

  2. Internet2: an overview HEANET Conference Heather Boyles heather@internet2.edu

  3. Outline • Background • History • Organization • Areas of Work • How we work • Relationships • E.g. with HEAnet

  4. Why Internet2? • The Internet was not designed for: • Millions of users • Congestion • Multimedia • Real time interaction • But, only the Internet can: • Accommodate explosive growth • Enable convergence of information work, mass media, and human collaboration

  5. Internet Development Spiral Commercialization Privatization Today’sInternet Internet2 Research and Development Partnerships Source: Ivan Moura Campos

  6. Why University Leadership? • The Internet came from the academic community • Stanford -- the Internet protocols • NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet • CERN -- the WWW protocols • University of Illinois -- the Web browser • Universities’ research and education mission require an advanced Internet and have demonstrated they can develop it

  7. Internet2 Universities188 Universities as of November 2001

  8. Internet2 Partnerships • Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy • Industry • Government • International

  9. 3Com Advanced Network & Services Alcatel AT&T Cisco Systems IBM Intel Corporation ITC^Deltacom Lucent Technologies Microsoft Nortel Networks Qwest Communications SBC Communications Spirent Communications WorldCom Internet2 Corporate Partners

  10. Internet2 Goals • Enable new generation of applications • Re-create leading edge R&E network capability • Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

  11. Internet2 Focus Areas • Advanced Applications • Middleware • Engineering • Advanced Network Infrastructure • Partnerships

  12. Internet2 Focus Areas • Advanced Applications • Middleware • Engineering • Advanced Network Infrastructure • Partnerships

  13. Sciences Arts Humanities Health care Business/Law Administration … Library Classroom Clinic Office Laboratory Dorm room … Different Disciplines/Contexts

  14. Interactive collaboration Real-time access to remote resources Application Attributes

  15. Remote Scanning Electron Microscope The University of Michigan

  16. Philips XL30

  17. Real-Time Tele-Operation of Remote EquipmentNorth Carolina State Universityhttp://CARL.ce.ncsu.edu/

  18. Tele-vator Excavation backhoe operated remotely over Internet2 Used in hazardous rescue situations Sophisticated two-way feedback using stereovision

  19. Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory University of Michigan

  20. Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining Shared virtual reality Any combination of the above Attributes, cont.

  21. Grid Projects

  22. What is the Grid? • Global resources available to communities of researchers • The protocols, services, and applications that enable new forms of collaboration

  23. Grid Resources Instruments Libraries Workstations People Data sets

  24. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Collaboration environment for earthquake researchers (e.g., structural engineers, geotechnical and tsunami scientists) Grid Physics Network Petabyte scale environment for data-intensive applications (Large Hadron Collider, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) Examples

  25. Grid Projects • NEESGrid • www.neesgrid.org • GriPhyN • www.griphyn.org • S/W infrastructure • www.gridforum.org • Research: Sensornets • Networked nanotechnology

  26. High Fidelity Digital Video/Audio Teaching Music University of Oklahoma

  27. Video Futures • Tele-immersive “Office of the Future” Source: University of North Carolina

  28. The Internet2 Commons • An effort to encourage and support large-scale, distributed collaboration for the research and education community • Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaboration • Supporting personal communications, meetings, conferences, and teaching and learning • For Internet2 members and their international counterparts

  29. Other Collaborative Technologies The Internet2 Commons Data Sharing Instant Messaging Voice/IP Electronic Notebooks Peer to Peer Collaboratories Others H.323 VRVS Videoconferencing Technologies AG MPEG2 Others

  30. Internet2 Focus Areas • Advanced Applications • Middleware • Engineering • Advanced Network Infrastructure • Partnerships

  31. Middleware } Applications • Authentication, Identification, Authorization, Directories, Security Advanced Network Services (Distributed Network Middleware) Advanced Physical Network Infrastructure

  32. Middleware

  33. Internet2 Middleware Initiative • Focus on core middleware as infrastructure • Interoperability • 190 universities will never buy the same software • Getting stuff implemented • Best practices • Integrate across applications • Discourage ‘islands’ of middleware infrastructure • E.g. core mware just for this grid project • Enable community to share resources • Grid, remote instruments, shared classes

  34. I2MI core middleware activities • Identifiers • Early Adopters - survey/docs about how campuses are assigning and relating identifiers • Authentication • WebISO (Web Initial Sign-on): share expertise, code • Directories • DoDHE: Dir. of Directories for HE: inter-institutional directory searching, using eduPerson and LDAP Recipe • eduPerson: an LDAP object class that includes widely-used person attributes in higher education • LDAP Recipe: promote common design • Authorization • Certificates and PKI • Internet2 PKI Labs

  35. Internet2 Focus Areas • Advanced Applications • Middleware • Engineering • Advanced Network Infrastructure • Partnerships

  36. Internet2 Focus Areas • Advanced Applications • Middleware • Engineering • Advanced Network Infrastructure • Partnerships

  37. How Internet2 works • Universities commit: • Engineering lead: connect university to rest of Internet2 community, deploy new technologies • Applications lead: support apps development on campus • Middleware architect: work with I2MI to implement middleware infrastructure • Working groups: • Of expert/interested individuals within community • Chaired by volunteer (sometimes by staff) • Staff support

  38. How Internet2 works, cont’d • Projects, e.g. Abilene • Executive team and Project team • Qwest, Cicso, Nortel • Indiana University supplies NOC • Projects, e.g. Shibboleth • IBM providing coding • Designed by MACE (volunteers from community) • Supported by Staff • Internet2 Staff • Primarily facilitate, coordinate, flywheel • ~50

  39. Internet2 Focus Areas • Advanced Applications • Middleware • Engineering • Advanced Network Infrastructure • Partnerships

  40. Industry and Government Partnerships • Industry • Goal #3: Transfer technology to commercial internet • Internet2 community provides testbed, early adopters • Government • Explore implementation of lab research • Support universities’ ability to engage in gov’t-funded research projects (with other universities, gov’t labs)

  41. Internet2 International Goals • Ensure global interoperability • of the next generation of Internet technologies and applications • Enable global collaboration • in research and education providing/promoting the development of an advanced networking environment internationally

  42. International Partners • Build effective partnerships in other countries • With organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies • Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding • Internet2 and HEAnet: August, 1999

  43. MoU in brief • Provide/promote interconnectivity between communities • Collaborate on technology development and deployment • Facilitate collaboration between members on applications • Encourage technology transfer

  44. AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) APAN-KR (Korea) ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CANARIE (Canada) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China) CUDI (Mexico) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) NORDUnet (Nordic countries) POL-34 (Poland) RCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) RETINA (Argentina) REUNA (Chile) RNP2 (Brazil) SingAREN (Singapore) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TAnet2 (Taiwan) TERENA (Europe) JISC/UKERNA (UK) International MoU Partners

  45. More Internet2 Information • On the Web • www.internet2.edu • Email • info@internet2.edu

  46. www.internet2.edu

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