Annual Meeting:2008
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A lot has happened this year. There has been a convergence of technologies, a convergence on the Level3 PoP, and a convergence of ideas as we pulled together several projects and proposals and planned for the future. Join us in Kansas City, MO!
Location, Dates and Time
Registration Opens at 5PM on Wednesday, May 28
Thursday, May 29, to Friday, May 30, 2008
Begins: 8:30AM May 29 and concludes at 3:30PM May 30.
Embassy Suites, Kansas City Plaza Area, KCMO
Internet connectivity in the meeting rooms AND IN YOUR HOTEL ROOM is provided free of charge, courtesy of CIENA.
Meeting Room Floor Plan
Detailed Agenda and selected presentation links
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THURSDAY |
MORELIA I |
MORELIA II |
MORELIA III |
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8:30 - 9:45 |
General Session I: Welcome GENI - Global Environment for Network Innovations Keynote by Chip Elliott, BBN, Program Manager for GENI |
NOTE: Internet connectivity in the meeting rooms AND IN YOUR HOTEL ROOM is provided free of charge, courtesy of CIENA. |
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9:45 - 10:30 |
GPN Network Update Dale Finkelson (Chair), UNL Panelists: David Farmer, University of Minnesota, David Merrifield, ARE-ON, Claude Garelik, South Dakota Board of Regents, James Deaton, ONENET, Hank Niederhelm, MORENET |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
BREAK Sponsored by Qwest |
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10:45 - 11:45 |
GPN Initiative Update Randy Stout, KAN-ED, Greg Monaco, GPN, Gordon Springer, University of Missouri, Columbia |
Traffic Engineering and Network Utilization BoF David Merrifield (Chair), ARE-ON |
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11:45 - 1:00 |
LUNCH IN VERA CRUZ ROOM |
Lunch with Chip Elliott (GENI) in Morelia II |
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1:00 - 2:00 |
General Session II: Keynote by Ty Znati, National Science Foundation |
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2:00 - 2:30 |
Bringing the Big Pipes Bill Mitchell, MORENET |
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Cyber-Physical Systems Meeting Bruce McMillin, MST This is a focused workshop, building in part on Ty Znati's (NSF Division Director) keynote presentation, to prepare for a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional Cyber Physical Systems proposal from our institutions. Bruce McMillin, Missouri University for Science and Technology (Rolla), has done a great deal of preparation with colleagues at his institution and across the GPN region to prepare for an effort of this magnitude. He has also participated in CPS Summits on behalf of NSF. You can learn more about the GPN2008 Annual Meeting at http://collaboration.greatplains.net/wiki/index.php/Annual_Meeting:2008 |
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2:30 - 3:15 |
Research Using the Big Pipes Henry Neeman (Chair), OU Panelists: James Sterbenz, KU, Claude Garelik, SD Board of Regents, & David Swanson, UNL |
Emergency Messaging Systems at GPN Campuses Rogers Davis, UALR, James Lyall, KSU, Fred Gardy, UNL, Andrew Goodenow, UMKC |
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3:15 - 3:45 |
BREAK |
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3:45 - 4:30 |
RON Business Case Model Study: How We Fit In Carol Farnham, Signa Solutions & MIDnet, Inc. |
Middleware: Shibboleth Campus Implementation Strategy Denis Hancock, MU, & Gordon Springer, MU GPN and Federated Services Greg Monaco, GPN |
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4:30 - 5:30 |
Internet2 Update Ana Preston, Internet2 |
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6:00 - 7:30 |
EVENING RECEPTION IN VERA CRUZ ROOM Sponsored by Fujitsu |
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FRIDAY |
MORELIA I |
MORELIA II |
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7:30 - 8:30 |
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GPN Corporate Affiliate and Sponsor Breakfast |
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8:30 - 9:25 |
Campus Cyberinfrastructure: Setting Up a Low Cost Statewide Cyberinfrastructure Initiative Henry Neeman, OU Update on NSF EPSCoR Cyberinfrastructure Initiative Kristin Bowman-James, KU & Kansas NSF EPSCoR |
Rural Health Care Update Brian Savory, ADVA, Randy Stout, KAN-ED |
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9:30 - 10:25 |
What is a Dynamic Circuit and How Do We Use It Dale Finkelson, UNL |
How Information Technology Can Add Value to the Campus Research Enterprise (Facilitated Discussion) Carol Farnham, Signa Solutions & MIDnet, Inc. |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
BREAK |
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10:45 - 11:45 |
General Session III: Data Networking: Past, Present and Future |
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11:45 |
Box Lunch |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Marketing Performance and Participation to Education Providers: An Introduction and Facilitated Analysis Bill Ashmore, UAF |
GPN Technical Networking Group
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12:30 - 1:30 |
Dynamic Lightpath Connectivity for Researchers Jeff Verrant, CIENA Additional Topics, TBD |
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1:30 - 2:30 |
Kathryn Huxtable |
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2:30 - 3:30 |
GPN Collaborative Middleware & Grid Computing Planning (BoF) |
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Abstracts
Bringing the Big Pipes by Bill Mitchell, MORENET
This session will describe the role that state and regional networks play in national networking initiatives including: aggregating traffic from the research and education community; delivering ultra-broadband last mile connectivity to Internet2 member institutions; operating Gigapops to deliver bandwidth in a cost-effective manner and providing value-added services such as peering, dynamic waves, Video-on-Demand learning object repositories; etc.
Campus and Regional Middleware, Panel Chair: Gordon Springer, University of Missouri, Columbia
Shibboleth Campus Implementation Strategy by Denis Hancock & Gordon Springer, University of Missouri
With the release of Shibboleth 2.0, Internet 2 and Educause are working with early adopters of Shibboleth to encourage as many institutions as possible to deploy Shibboleth-based identity management. With such agencies as NSF and NIH rapidly moving toward online grant management, educational institutions will need to provide acceptable credentials. Through the use of federations such as InCommon, each member operates at a specified minimum level of assurance that a particular credential will correspond to one and only one person and that any transmitted attributes are valid. By recognizing SSO credentials from a user’s home institution, the service provider does not have to maintain thousands of credentials, thus freeing it to determine whether or not the person behind the credential is authorized to use the requested resources. Issues arising from CAMP Shibboleth 2.0, held May 13-15, 2008 in Ann Arbor will be discussed, along with strategies to encourage the implementation of Shibboleth throughout the member institutions of the Great Plains Network.
- Federated Services - Get an ID, Get Assistance on Shibboleth
- Signet & Grouper (Kathryn Huxtable)
Cyber Physical Systems Mini-Workshop
This is a focused workshop, building in part on Ty Znati's (NSF Division Director) keynote presentation, to prepare for a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional Cyber Physical Systems proposal from our institutions.
Bruce McMillin, Missouri University for Science and Technology (Rolla), has done a great deal of preparation with colleagues at his institution and across the GPN region to prepare for an effort of this magnitude. He has also participated in CPS Summits on behalf of NSF.
To learn more about the CPS program, please visit http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08538/nsf08538.htm and the plan for the workshop.
Data Networking: Past, Present and Future by Rick Summerhill, Internet2
This talk will examine many of the issues that currently face the world of data networking, and in particular issues related to architecture. There are concerns that the current routed data network cannot scale to the demands of the future, where access to data continues to grow at a tremendous rate, and where users will expect thousands of high definition video channels in the near future, both on a scheduled basis as well as on demand. Point-to-point applications, providing both high definition video and high bandwidth data transfers, will also continue to grow. Whether or not the current routed network can support these bandwidth needs is a subject of debate. This talk will describe some of the current thinking within the Internet2 community for the next five years.
As Chief Technology Officer for Internet2, Dr. Summerhill is responsible for leading the technology development efforts within the Internet2 community. His duties include providing technology vision for the community and he serves as focal point for such diverse areas as dynamic circuit services and middleware. Rick's team also provides specific support for the network research area. In his previous position as Director of Network Research, Architecture and Technologies for Internet2, Rick had engineering responsibility for the Abilene network and led the Internet2 Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) project. Prior to joining Internet2 in December of 2002, Rick served as the executive director of the Great Plains Network, an advanced regional network centered in Kansas City, Missouri. He has been associated with advanced networking at the campus, state, regional, and national levels for the last twenty years. Prior to network engineering, he served on the research faculty in Mathematics at Kansas State University. Rick attended Monmouth College where he received a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics and University of Iowa where he received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics.
Emergency Messaging Systems at GPN Campuses
Questions to discuss:
- Do students and faculty opt-in to join the system or not. If it’s an opt-in system (sign up here to get your cell phone on the list), then what percent are opting in?
- Testing: How often do you do your tests? How do you stage them? How do you assess the results?
- What product are you using? Why did you choose it?
- How do you get new students into the system?
- When do you use the system, other than testing it?
- In the event of an emergency, what plans have you made to accommodate an avalanche of phone calls to your phone system?
- In the event of an emergency, what plans have you to accommodate increased hits to your web site?
- Have you made plans to power and accommodate news trucks (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, FOX) in the event of an emergency?
GENI - Global Environment for Network Innovations by Chip Elliott, BBN, GENI Project Director
This talk introduces GENI, the National Science Foundation's ambitious plan to build a national infrastructure suite to enable research into Network Science and Engineering for future global communications networks.
GENI has just entered a new stage in its development. Early prototyping is now beginning, which will offer illumination into its construction plans and research potential. The first round of software, hardware, and trial facilities have now been proposed by academic and industrial research teams.
This talk presents current plans for GENI, but leaves plenty of time for discussion and brain-storming, both for the eventual infrastructure suite and for prototypes that will be built in the coming year.
Chip Elliott is Project Director for GENI, a national-scale experimental facility being created by the National Science Foundation for "clean slate" research in global networking. He is Chief Engineer at BBN Technologies and an AAAS Fellow and IEEE Fellow with over 85 patents issued and pending. Mr. Elliott has served on many national panels and has held visiting faculty positions at Dartmouth College, Tunghai University in Taiwan, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Marketing Performance and Participation to Education Providers by Bill Ashmore, University of Arkansas Main Campus
The first part of this presentation will examine much of computing history. The intent is to first detect and describe some grand trends and cycles from that history, and, second, to see how support for users of computing has been affected by those eras. As we approach the present and move into what may lie ahead for computing, a conclusion will be proposed that, if valid, will be both fundamental and applicable. The second part will be dominated by full audience participation as we, together, conduct a facilitated analysis of possible deployments for "soft services". We will establish a measure of our commonalities, which I expect will be great. Finally, I hope to find a group of sufficiently motivated persons that lets us move from words into actions that will be of value to all. Come prepared to consider, comment, and enjoy!
Optical Network Control Plane and OTN Reference Charts by Jeff Verrant, et al, Ciena (Poster)
Ciena will illustrate and outline two key technologies that serve as building blocks for dynamic research network connectivity between research institutions worldwide. A key ingredient to this challenge is the optical switching and optical control plane technology which places "intelligence" in the optical layer by automating configuration, provisioning and restoration of the network. Ciena's poster submission will outline the key features of the ASON /GMPLS control plane as well as standards that support an optical control plane and how it enables mesh networking, automated neighbor discovery, configuration and restoration, and dynamic lightpath provisioning. Additionally Ciena will provide a reference chart for the ITU G.709 OTN (Digital Wrapper) standard which adds significant value in OAM&P to optical networks.
A Real-time Groundwater Monitoring Network for Drought Impact Assessment by Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska - Lincoln (Poster)
A state-wide groundwater-level monitoring network (funded by USDA) is currently being deployed by a multi-disciplinary research group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Over 50 observation wells have been chosen across Nebraska for their ability to detect the onset, magnitude and recovery of hydrological drought. The groundwater level of these observation wells are measured and transmitted every 15 minutes to the base station located at the UNL through a satellite network. The GOES satellite channels are used for the reliable sensing data transmission. The architecture of the network consists of four main components: data acquisition unit, data transmission unit, data retrieving unit and data processing unit. For the data acquisition unit, Keller Acculevel submersible level transmitter is chosen for accurate groundwater level monitoring over a wide range of temperature. For the data transmission unit, we chose Sutron Satlink2 multi-satellite transmitter with integrated datalogger. Up to 4 analog outputs from the data acquisition unit can be converted to the digital data and packaged for satellite transmission, which indicates that additional sensors can be included in the data acquisition unit for combination sensing. In addition, the sensing frequency of each sensor in the data acquisition unit can be dynamically configured by Satlink2 according to the sensing fidelity requirement. The data transmission unit is deployed at each observation well inside a weather-proof steel enclosure. For the long-term real-time monitoring task, both the data acquisition unit and the data transmission unit are powered by the 12V, 30AH Gel Battery charged using a solar panel. Considering the possible transmission failure due to the wireless channel error, each satellite transmission contains the current sensing data with the last 3 sensing data as the transmission redundancy. All the sensing data are sent from the observation well to the NOAA Wallops Command and Data Acquisition (CDA) station through different GOES satellite communication channels. A data retrieval system is designed to run on the base station located at UNL so that the data packets can be collected from CDA and decoded into readable sensing data. Because Wallops CDA station only stores the sensing data for up to 30 days, the data retrieval system also need to maintain and update a local database to store the historical groundwater level data. Based on the sensing database, a data processing system is design to support the drought impact assessment and the public data access through a web portal. The project website is located at http://snr5.unl.edu/realtimewater/
RON Business Case Model Study: How We Fit In by Carol Farnham, Signa Solutions & MIDnet, Inc. Exec. Director
- In the spring of 2007, The Quilt and MIDnet, Inc, began a collaborative project to document the business models of research and education optical networks. Specifically, the two organizations were interested in collecting information on organizational structure, governance, management and operations, initial funding sources, cost recovery methodologies, services and service pricing strategies, outreach, lessons learned and future directions. Seventeen R&E network organizations have been interviewed so far and an overview of the findings will be presented.
Rural Health Care, Panel Chair: Brian Savory, ADVA Optical Networking
- Brian Savory, ADVA
- Randy Stout, KAN-ED
Setting Up a Low Cost Statewide Cyberinfrastructure Initiative by Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma
In response to recent changes in the solicitation for the National Science Foundation\'s EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement program, Oklahoma has established the Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative, a cooperative agreement among the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University to provide centrally-owned cyberinfrastructure not only to each other\'s researchers, but also to researchers at academic institutions statewide, as well as government agencies, non-governmental organizations and commercial firms. This talk will examine how to set up a statewide cyberinfrastructure using existing resources and/or external funding.
Poster Info
30 x 40, easel provided and backing
Cost
- Graduate Student: $ 50
- GPN Member Institution Attendance: $100
- Meeting Sponsor: Free
- All Others: $200
Planning Committee
- Amy Apon, University of Arkansas
- Cort Buffington, KANREN
- Claude Garelik, South Dakota Board of Regents
- Del Johnson, South Dakota State University
- Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma
- Gordon K Springer, University of Missouri
- Janet Poley, ADEC
- Bill Ashemore, University of Arkansas
- Greg Monaco, Great Plains Network
Registration and Presentations
Call For Panels/Presentations/Poster Sessions
Presentation registration link
Meeting Registration
- Meeting registration link Hosted by MORENET
Hotel Registration
Please contact the Embassy Suites at 1-800-EMBASSY or 816-756-1720.
Group Rate Name: Great Plains Network
Online Group Rate Name: GPN
Sponsors
Join the Fun: Become a Sponsor, Become a Corporate Affiliate Member
I am certain you can understand how important our organization is to the region and to our university members. I know you also appreciate how difficult and costly this event is to put on. But I am certain you also appreciate that this event is singularly important to our membership base which is growing every year. That is why this meeting affords you the opportunity to meet with top decision makers in IT from the GPN region.
I’d like to see your company represented both in person and as an acknowledged sponsor for our Annual Meeting.
GPN offers a variety of sponsorship opportunities that give you the chance to showcase products and services to high-level, targeted decision makers. Sponsors gain visibility for their companies and demonstrate support of critical, advanced networking & high-performance computing research and development. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to sponsor an event and reach senior research faculty, network and computing engineers and administrators, graduate students in computer science, and representatives from business and industry.
Greg Monaco, GPN Executive Director
P.S.
You can have even more fun as a GPN Corporate Affiliate member -- the benefits go on the whole year through!
Greg
