The University of Pennsylvania hosted
Internet 2 Awareness Day on Monday, March 15, 1999 for a select
group of faculty, students and researchers from Penn and other
local schools at the Sheraton University City Hotel to promote
awareness about Internet 2 - both what it is and how it can advance
research here at Penn. (Read a recent article titled The Future of
Computing by University President Judith Rodin on Internet
2 and PennNet21.)
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What is Internet 2?
- Internet 2 is a
collaborative effort led by over 130 universities in the United
States working with industry and government to develop advanced
Internet technology and applications vital to the research and
education missions of higher education.
- Why use Internet 2 over the
Internet?
- The Internet 2
project's mission is to "facilitate and coordinate the
development, deployment, operation and technology transfer of
advanced, network-based applications and network services to
further U.S. leadership in research and higher education and
accelerate the availability of new services and applications on the
Internet."
- How will Internet 2 benefit
you?
- Applications for
Internet 2 range from the humanities to the sciences. Research that
requires interactive collaboration and instruction, real-time
access to remote scientific instruments, shared virtual reality, or
multi-media services can benefit from Internet 2
connection.
- Related Activity on Penn
Campus
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- Penn is also a participant in The QBone Project
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- Penn is one of only
13 Internet 2 members who are participating partners in the first
round of the QBone effort, the effort that will very likely be the
first to bring real quality of service networking to a large Wide
Area Network.
Schedule of Events
There is no charge to attend however, we encourage you to
register on-line.
Internet 2 Awareness day is by invitation only.
| 8.00 - 9.00 am |
Registration and Refreshments |
| 9.00 - 9.40 am |
Introduction and Welcome
James O'Donnell, Judith Rodin, Robert Barchi |
| 9.40 - 10.15 am |
Ted Hanss, Internet 2 Director of Applications
Overview
of Internet 2 Project Engineering Efforts
In this talk, Dr. Hanss will provide an overview of
Internet2's formation, current structure, membership status,
and network engineering efforts |
| 10.15 - 10.30am |
Robert Hollebeek, Physics Dept.
The History
of vBNS on Penn Campus
Prof. Hollobeek will describe some of the early work by the
National Scalable Cluster Project (NSCP) on linking together
clusters of processors to attack data intensive problems and why
networks play a key role in this work. He will describe the role
played by members of the Penn community in the earliest stages of
the National Science Foundation program to establish new research
infrastructures like NSCP for applications using high speed
networks. Penn and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) were
the first two nodes to communicate and collaborate after access to
the "very-high-speed backbone network services" (vBNS)for
Universities was begun in 1996. vBNS is a forerunner of Internet2
and Next Generation Internets. He will also highlight some of the
special applications in data mining which have been investigated
using the NSCP infrastructure at Penn and UIC through the
high-speed networks made possible by the NSF connections program.
Our economy is seeing rapid growth due to new technologies in data
storeage, management and knowledge discovery, and future research
and teaching in Universities and other organizations will rely
crucially, and benefit greatly from these new developments. |
| 10.30 - 10.45 am |
Break |
| 10.45 - 11.15 am |
Dave Farber
The Future of High Performance Networking |
| 11.15 - 11.45 pm |
George Strawn, NSF
National Science Foundation's Role in Internet 2 |
| 11.45 - 1.00 pm |
Lunch Break
* Main Lunch, International House, S. America and Africa Rooms,
(Boxed Lunches Provided)
* Mike Palladino - Institutional Collaboration, Sheraton Hotel,
Chestnut Room, (Invited Lunch) |
| 1.00 - 1.30 pm |
Ted Hanss, Internet 2 Director of Applications
Existing
Applications
Dr. Hanss will provide summaries of some illustrative
applications, describing the sort of advanced applications efforts
underway by Internet2 members. |
| 1.30 - 2.00 pm |
Deke Kassabian, ISC Network Engineering
Access
to Internet 2 from Penn's Networks
In this session, researchers at Penn will see how their computers
can reach Internet2 resources. The talk will include a brief review
of PennNet (Penn's data networks), MAGPI (the regional
Internet2 GigaPop being coordinated by Penn), and the national
networks that are serving as Internet2 backbones. |
| 2.00 - 2.15 pm |
Rebecca Bushnell, SAS and Mike Ryan, Penn Library
The English Renaissance in Context
In the last ten years, Renaissance scholars have sought to strip
away three hundred years of editing from early literary texts in
order to consider them in their original printed forms and to
analyze their transmission over the centuries. At the same time,
the
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