At the recent GENI Engineering Conference in Washington, DC, GEC9, NLR provided the network infrastructure for several demos, including one on 'NowCasting' by the University of Massachusetts and CASA, a NSF Engineering Research Center. NowCasting uses vast amounts of streaming data produced by geographically distributed experimental radar systems to detect in real time the shifts in weather patterns that can lead to severe weather.
OpenFlow, which uses networking capabilities from NLR, was used as a substrate for several of the plenary demos including Pathlet, SmartRE and Aster*x.
Abstracts for most GEC9 demos can be found at: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/Gec9PlenaryDemoAbstracts.
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Friday, November 12, 2010 Thursday, November 4, 2010NLR speaks at international ed conference
NLR's Kurt Snodgrass, Chief Administrative and Financial Officer, spoke last week on the new, global TelePresence inter-network and the opportunities this presents for the research and education community at the 8th International Conference on Emerging e-Learning Technologies and Applications.
NLR TelePresence users Paradise Valley Unified School District outside of Phoenix and the Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia also presented.
For abstract and slides of Kurt's talk, see: http://www.nlr.net/presentations.php.
NLR TelePresence users Paradise Valley Unified School District outside of Phoenix and the Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia also presented.
For abstract and slides of Kurt's talk, see: http://www.nlr.net/presentations.php.
Transcontinental Workshop - via TelePresence on NLR
The Technical University of Kosice (TUKE) in Slovakia and Paradise Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) outside of Phoenix recently co-hosted a two-week bootcamp on Cisco networking over TelePresence on NLR. Great demonstration of how TelePresence bridges distance and time zones.
Here's the view from TUKE, to three difference PVUSD sites:
And, the view of the participant in Phoenix of the instructor across continents and the big pond to Slovakia:
Here's the view from TUKE, to three difference PVUSD sites:
And, the view of the participant in Phoenix of the instructor across continents and the big pond to Slovakia:
NLR TelePresence Exchange Links Boston, Arizona Schools
Students at Boston's John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science were able to compare course notes and talk about social media with counterparts 2,600 miles away, in Paradise Valley outside of Phoenix, Arizona over Cisco TelePresence made possible by NLR's Research and Education TelePresence Exchange.
The O'Bryant school is connected to Internet2 via Harvard University and Paradise Valley is on the NLR network.
For coverage of the demo in Harvard's Gazette, see: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/09/2600-miles-and-one-screen-apart/.
TGen: New 10G pipe into NLR, Turbocharging Life Sciences Research
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) based in Phoenix, Arizona and connected to NLR via Arizona State University, announced on Friday a new, dedicated 10-Gigabit Ethernet link to Saguaro 2, Arizona State University’s supercomputer on its main campus in Tempe.
The transfer and processing of data sets containing trillions of bits of DNA information that once took more than a week will now be done in just a few hours, accelerating TGen’s molecular research into diseases such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes and many types of cancer.
The transfer and processing of data sets containing trillions of bits of DNA information that once took more than a week will now be done in just a few hours, accelerating TGen’s molecular research into diseases such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes and many types of cancer.
CENIC, PNWGP 10Gig Link to Amazon
This past week NLR members CENIC and the Pacific Northwest GigaPoP (PNWGP) announced two 10Gbps connections to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for the use of CENIC’s members in California, as well as PNWGP’s multistate K-20 research and education community.
“The ability to use cost-effective cloud services to store and process large amounts of data is vital for researchers in many of the most active areas of research,” says CENIC President and CEO, and NLR Board Chair, Jim Dolgonas. “Collaborative research is dependent on the ability to share, and seamlessly access and manipulate data. With these new peering connections to Amazon Web Services, both the CENIC and PNWGP communities can obtain maximum speed and benefit from AWS cloud services.”
For full release, see: http://www.cenic.org/pressroom/releases/2010/FINALCENIC_Amazon_OOI.pdf.
“The ability to use cost-effective cloud services to store and process large amounts of data is vital for researchers in many of the most active areas of research,” says CENIC President and CEO, and NLR Board Chair, Jim Dolgonas. “Collaborative research is dependent on the ability to share, and seamlessly access and manipulate data. With these new peering connections to Amazon Web Services, both the CENIC and PNWGP communities can obtain maximum speed and benefit from AWS cloud services.”
For full release, see: http://www.cenic.org/pressroom/releases/2010/FINALCENIC_Amazon_OOI.pdf.
Broadband Grants Fill Commercial Gap: New York Times
A feature in yesterday's New York Times provided several examples of the expected impact to individuals, businesses and community anchors of the recently announced NTIA broadband grants, which included $62 million to NLR and research and education partners.
The grants will connect institutions like schools and hospitals in regions "that big Internet providers have bypassed because the expected revenue was too small to justify the big investments needed," according to the article.
A good read.
The grants will connect institutions like schools and hospitals in regions "that big Internet providers have bypassed because the expected revenue was too small to justify the big investments needed," according to the article.
A good read.
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