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Internet2: Health Sciences. Mary Kratz Program Manager for Health Science Initiatives Internet2 Applications Division RCMI Symposium, hosted at Jackson State University April 25, 2002. http://www.internet2.edu/health. Internet2 Organizational Overview Advanced Applications
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Internet2: Health Sciences Mary Kratz Program Manager for Health Science Initiatives Internet2 Applications Division RCMI Symposium, hosted at Jackson State University April 25, 2002
http://www.internet2.edu/health • Internet2 Organizational Overview • Advanced Applications • Health Science Initiatives • Q and A
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 • Internet2 is focused on the Internet’s potential for our future
Challenges for Today’s Internet • Provide reliable end-to-end performance • Encourage cooperation on new capabilities • Allow testing of new technologies • Support development of revolutionary applications
Internet2 Mission • Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet. • Enable new generation of applications • Re-create leading edge R&E network capability • Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet
Leadership • University presidents/chancellors are the voting representatives • Strong Board of Directors • Advisory councils with board seats • Applications Strategy Council • Network Planning and Policy • Network Research Liaison • Industry Liaison Council
Internet DevelopmentSpiral Commercialization Privatization ANS/Core PSI MichNet Today’s Internet AOL UUNet SURANet InternetMCI NYSERNet ANS Intelligent Networks GigaBit Testbeds ARPANet NSFNet NGI MBone Internet2 Research and Partnerships Development
Membership 194 universities (yellow dots) 70 corporations 40 non-profits and gov’t affiliates
Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet Initiative Internet2 NGI Federal agency-led University-led Developing education and research driven applications Agency mission-driven and general purpose applications Building out campus networks, gigaPoPs and inter-gigapop infrastructure Funding research testbeds and agency research networks Interconnecting and interoperating to provide advanced networking capabilities needed to support advanced research and education applications
Europe-Middle East ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) POL-34 (Poland) RCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom) Americas CANARIE (Canada) CUDI (Mexico) CRNET2 (Costa Rica) REUNA (Chile) RETINA (Argentina) RNP2 (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama) Asia-Pacific AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) APAN-KR (Korea) APRU (Asia-Pacific) CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand) SingAREN (Singapore) TAnet2 (Taiwan) International MoU Map
Abilene Network -Qwest
STTL CA*net3, AARnet STAR TAP APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERnet, GEMNET, IUCC, KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, RENATER, REUNA, SURFnet, SingAREN, SINET, TAnet2, (ANSP, RNP2) SNVA GEMNET, (SINET) OC 12 NYCM BELNET, CA*net3, JANET, NORDUnet, SURFnet, TEN-551, (HEAnet) LOSA SingAREN, SINET, UNINET AmPATH (REUNA, RNP2, ETINA) CALREN2 CUDI UT El Paso (CUDI) OC 3-12 1ARNES, BELNET, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, HEAnet, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS International Transit Network
Download of “The Matrix” DVD(Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)
Advanced Application Attributes • Interactive collaboration and instruction • Real-time access to remote resources • Large-scale, multi-site computation • Distributed data storage and • data mining • Shared virtual reality • Dynamic data visualization • Any combination of the above
Video is more than TV • Realtime distribution and on-demand access to a variety of content • Broadcast quality videoconferencing • HDTV-based digital cinema, network-based studio production • Applicable to a diverse range of fields
Access Grid • Entire rooms of interaction instead of a talking head
Internet2 Commons • Encourage and support large-scale, distributed collaboration for research and education • Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaboration • Supporting personal communications, meetings, conferences, and communities • For Internet2 members and their international counterparts
Virtual Member Meeting • Studio environment: • Lights • Cameras • Wires (everywhere) • Showcased the functionality and flexibility of the concept
Teleimmersion University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois-NCSA Old Dominion University University of Pennsylvania
Immersadesk • Provides 3-D visualization of complex anatomical structures • Participants use ImmersaDesk™ systems to interact with 3-D anatomical model http://www.sbhis.uic.edu/vrml/Research/PelvicFloor/PelvicFloor.htm
http://www.gridforum.org/ NEESGrid • Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation • A “Grid” Project • Consists of 10 initial equipment sites across the U.S. addressing the needs of structural, geo- technical and tsunami researchers
Arts and Humanities • Master classes • Remote auditions • American Sign Language poetry • Non-traditional dissertations • Teleimmersion
The Scope of the Internet2 Health Science Workgroup includes clinical practice, medical and related biological research, education, and medical awareness in the Public.
Roadmap • Networking Health:Prescriptions for the Internet • National Research Council Report • Current and future Internet • Released 24 February 2000 • National Academy Press • ISBN 0-309-06843-6
Health Science Activities • Medical Middleware Working Group • MeduPerson • Security • HIPAA Guidelines • Authorization/Credentialling • Veterinary Medical Working Group • Virtual Grand Rounds • Collaborations • Visible Human Project Collaboratory • International Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT) • Application Research Networks • Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) • Clinical Trials Research Network (RCMI) • Virtual Tumor Board
Support of Community through Knowledge Sharing • Internet2 acts as a clearinghouse to help distribute information • Technical meetings • Virtual presentations • Development of demonstrations and tools • Cooperate on standards to maintain global interoperability • Technical Support • Software tools (monitoring, diagnostic) • Loaner hardware (Vbrick, Cakebox, Access Grid) • Access to expertise (working groups)
“The value of a network goes up as the square of the number of users.” Physical Network People Networking Connection to technology resources Research partnerships Help learn from each others projects Watch for trends What Internet2 does not do Run your project Lay wires, write code, etc. Metcalf’s Law
Distributed Medical Informatics Education Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Pittsburgh • Covers a broad range of fields including electronic medical records and information retrieval • Distance learning provides students with access to faculty, expertise, and other students http://www.ohsu.edu/bicc-informatics/ http://www.cbmi.upmc.edu/
Remote Instrumentation • Phillips XL30 Scanning Electron Microscope • Remote operation and Resource sharing • Now accessible to a larger audience • New teaching and learning techniques are possible
3D Brain Mapping: “Watching the Brain in Action” By University of Pittsburgh,Carnegie Mellon University,Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Anatomy and Surgery Workbench and Local NGI Testbed Network Stanford University School of Medicine • Allows students to learn anatomy and practice surgery techniques using 3-D workstations • Network testbed evaluates the effectiveness of workbench applications http://haiti.stanford.edu/~ngi/final/
http://birn.ncrr.nih.gov/and http://www.nbirn.net/Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)
Molecular Interactive Collaborative Environment (MICE)http://mice.sdsc.edu/ • Interactive 3D environment • Multiple users at different physical locations interact via the network • Collaboratively examine and manipulate a shared 3D macromolecule • Real-time
Challenges to Health Sciences(take home message) • "The medical research revolution is happening! • 90% of data collected today will never be seen by a human eye. • This is everyone's problem. • We must manage a growing amount of data to secure knowledge for the future." - Michael Marron, NIH
The BIG Picture http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Pubs/NASnews/97/09/ipg_fig1.html
Unanticipated Innovation • Lesson of the Web • Network growth and value are non-linear • New technologies enable qualitatively different uses • Users become innovators
More Internet2 Information • On the Web • www.internet2.edu • www.internet2.edu/health • Email • Mkratz@internet2.edu • info@internet2.edu • Health@internet2.edu