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Great Plains GENI Project

K-State Students, Faculty in Electrical Engineering Helping Build Network Allowing Researchers to Test Ideas on Real Network Rather Than Computer Models

MANHATTAN, Dec 22, 2008 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --

Researchers who work on future Internet design soon will have a better tool to test their ideas with help from Kansas State University and a consortium of other colleges and universities.

K-State is part of the Great Plains Environmental Network Innovation, a group of universities in the Midwest that are part of a nationwide project to improve infrastructure for researchers working on network science and engineering experiments, including future Internet design.


Along with K-State, the group also includes the University of Kansas, the University of Nebraska and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. It is supported with optical switches from Ciena interconnected by Qwest fiber infrastructure, in collaboration with the Kansas Research and Education Network and Missouri Research and Education Network.

This group is part of a nationwide project, Global Environment for Network Innovations, that encompasses institutions from across the nation including Stanford and Washington universities. Both the national and regional groups are funded by the National Science Foundation.

Caterina Scoglio, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Don Gruenbacher, associate professor and department head of electrical and computer engineering, are principal investigators at K-State.

Scoglio said the goal of the project is to give multiple researchers a real network on which to try out new ideas.

"We need to understand how to provide a built environment where we can try our experiments," Scoglio said. "Normally we do computer simulations, but sometimes it's not close enough to reality."

Scoglio said that the project was giving K-State faculty and students the opportunity to work with well-known computer network researchers.

"This is a great opportunity for Kansas State University and the state of Kansas," she said. Scoglio credits Greg Monaco, director of the Great Plains Network, in bringing K-State on board with the project. She also said two K-State entities have helped make the university's participation possible.

"We have been able to participate in this project with the other universities because of the help and support of K-State information technology services, particularly with the help of Lynn Carlin, interim vice provost for information technology services, and James Lyall, associate vice provost for information technology services, who both helped make possible the needed fiber optic connection to the other universities."

Scoglio also said K-State's ADVANCE program, a National Science Foundation-funded project to increase the participation and advancement of women faculty in the science, mathematics and engineering disciplines at K-State, has provided assistance to the project through networking, lecture series and other collaborative opportunities.

At K-State, work on the three-year project began in September. K-State electrical engineering students working on the project from Manhattan include: Sam Hays, doctoral student; Yunzhao Li, doctoral student; Karim Morcos, master's student; Nidhi Tare, master's student; and Dylan Zehr, master's student.

From out-of-state: John Sherrell, master's student, Belton, Mo.

CONTACT: Caterina Scoglio, K-State

Tel: +1 785 532 4646

e-mail: caterina@k-state.edu

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Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, K-State

Tel: +1 785 532 6415

e-mail: ebarcomb@k-state.edu

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Duncan Cunningham Departs GPN

After approximately a year and a half, Duncan Cunningham is graduating from Kansas State University to work for Garmin in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to being an outstanding student, Duncan distinguished himself with a number of accomplishments:

  • Using Shibboleth to manage user accounts for this Wiki;
  • Setting up a GPN video server;
  • Setting up the GPN at KSU component of a distributed storage service (with MU and U Arkansas);
  • Setting up numerous registration pages, including a reusable page for our K20 distance learning events;
  • Setting up a cluster and linking it into the our Open Science Grid Virtual Organization.

Thanks to Duncan for a job well done! Welcome to Kate Adams who is taking over Duncan's position.

Gmonaco@greatplains.net 09:00, 17 December 2008 (CST)}

K-State Implements Emergency Text Messaging System

“Kansas State University has introduced a text-messaging system to alert students, faculty and staff of campus emergencies. The voluntary service, which lets qualified users register their cell phone numbers via the university's existing eProfile information system, became available Jan. 18.

‘The text-messaging system is an additional way for us to immediately inform the campus community of emergencies and to provide information on how to deal with them,’ said Thomas Rawson, vice president for administration and finance at K-State.”

In addition to the text messaging system, K-State emergency notification system includes an override of all ksu.edu Web pages, a reverse 911 telephone calling system, e-mail advisories, public police address systems, a campus public address system, tornado warning sirens, local media attention and notification for K-State staff with radios. Emergencies or crises that will warrant the use of this system include tornados, fires, chemical releases or spills, terroristic threats and active shooters. The text messaging system also informs subscribes students of school closings.

October 2007

Internet2, GPN and SC2007 from EARTHtimes.org

"The Internet2 demonstrations will showcase interoperability with ESnet, GEANT2 in Europe, the Great Plains Network (GPN), GRNET in Greece, HEAnet in Ireland, Merit Network, Northern Crossroads (NoX), a Nortel Network based in Ottawa, Canada, the PIONIER network in Poland, and the Phosphorus testbed at the University of Amsterdam via SURFnet's NetherLight GLIF Open Lambda Exchange in Amsterdam..." Complete story here.

South Dakota to Receive Underground Lab

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected the former Homestake mine in Lead, S.D. as the site to be developed as the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL).

The lab will affect education and research activities at several GPN universities in South Dakota.

‘Dark fiber’ gives KU and K-State a light-speed link to the world

A new agreement between the University of Kansas and Kansas State University provides researchers, students and faculty access to an unused fiber optic cable that runs alongside Interstate 70 in northeast Kansas.

“This will connect KU and K-State to the Kansas City hub of fiber optic networks,” said Denise Stephens, vice provost for Information Services and chief information officer at KU. “Whether it’s through Internet2 or National LambdaRail, the major research network, we’ll have direct access. This will enable researchers to share data, collaborate and communicate with greater versatility and efficiency.”

June, 2007

GPN2007 Markers, Milestones and New Directions

  • Find links to keynotes and individual presentations here.
  • Find list of registrants here.

GPN Blasts Off on Red by David R. Swanson, University of Nebraska

Grid computing offers the potential of enormous resources, but there are several hurdles to overcome before this promise is realized. Biochemist Yan Zhang from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) can be added to those who have seen a glimmer of this vision coming to fruition. He's used over 40,000 thousand hours (over 4 and a half years) of cpu time in the last month on the local UNL grid. He's been running genomics code called "BLAST" opportunistically on "Red", the flagship Open Science Grid (OSG) machine at UNL.

To help make the grid more accessible to researchers in the great plains, the Great Plains Network has recently formed and registered the GPN Virtual Organization (VO) with the Open Science Grid (OSG). "This was a natural extension of UNL's association with the OSG as a US CMS Tier-2 site," said David Swanson, Director of the Research Computing Facility at the UNL. GPN decided to explore the use of the OSG for both grid computing research and computationally intensive science."

It wasn't magic. Brian Bockelman, a senior graduate system administrator with the UNL CMS team, spent several sessions working with a small team of biochemists to enable their code to run on red via grid protocols. To date, Zhang is submitting jobs as a member of the GPN VO only to UNL's resources, but the results have been impressive. "The goal is to eventually use idle cycles across the OSG," remarked Bockelman. "There's several good reasons not to waste them." Over 4 years worth of reasons, as this story illustrates. </td></tr></table>


April 16, 2007

GPNgrid

Biologists at University of Nebraska Lincoln have been able to use GPNgrid and OSG to log over 37,000 hours for computing, reported Brian Bockelman of UNL to GPNgrid project members on April 6, 2007. Statistics from Open Science Grid indicate that, between March 13, 2007, and April 13, 2007, over 6900 jobs were logged on GPNgrid. During the same period, there were over 46,000 clock hours logged.

Shibboleth, Middleware and GPN Featured in Kansas State Collegian

Dena Bunnel, GPN Member Coordinator, Kansas State University, recently published an article in the Kansas State Collegian on the GPN efforts to bring together efforts at several campuses in the area of federated identity management.

Teaching Condor Grid Computing to Beginning Programming Students

This was the title of an article recently published by Professor Amy Apon and Matt Baker, University of Arkansas, in IEEE Distributed Systems Online, 8, #4, 2007. GPNgrid was also highlighted: “Beginning with our involvement in the development of a regional middleware test bed, we helped create the GPNGrid virtual organization within the Open Science Grid.

Peek Into Riverbluff Cave Via Technology (MO)

While Riverbluff Cave is much too fragile to open to the public, through the wonders of technology; Springfield, MO is sharing Riverbluff with the world. Libraries are invited to participate through videoconferencing or video streaming in “Riverbluff Cave Day,” to be held from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, April 14.

Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery

NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery is a sweeping call to reimagine: Cyberinfrastructure resources, tools and related services such as supercomputers, high-capacity mass-storage systems, system software suites and programming environments, scalable interactive visualization tools, productivity software libraries and tools, large-scale data repositories and digitized scientific data management systems, networks of various reach and granularity and an array of software tools and services that hide the complexities and heterogeneity of contemporary cyberinfrastructure while seeking to provide ubiquitous access and enhanced usability.

GPN Cyber Physical Systems project team is now forming

The GPN Research Advisory Board recommended that the GPN community become involved in the NSF Cyber Physical Systems program, possibly taking on a grand challenge in the area of either power, environmental and/or transportation management.

Myeloma Researchers Find New Tool for Identifying High-Risk Cases

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas - A genetic analysis model developed by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has outperformed all current clinical tests for identifying patients with aggressive multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.

March 19, 2007

The Great Plains Network Annual Meeting

May 30, 31 & June 1, 2007; Kansas City, MO; GPN 2007: Markers, Milestones, and New Directions:: GPN Turns Ten! This will be a celebration bash to mark the past and set the stage for the next 10 years! Major topic areas will include: Research and New Horizons, Security and Policy, Networking, and Collaboration and Partnerships. Keynote speakers include Ruth Pordes, Executive Director of the Open Science Grid, Ken Klingenstein, Internet2 (tentative), Mary Eileen McLaughlin, Director of Technical Operations, Merit.

Web 2.0 in Just Under 5 Minutes

Kansas State University, Kansas- Michael Wesch, assistant professor of anthropology, created a video explaining Web 2.0, the "second wave" of Web-based services allowing people to network, share and collaborate online. Wesch, who also serves as the guest editor of a special issue of Visual Anthropology Review, "Beyond e-Text," was writing about what can be done with new technology, such as blogs, wikis, video editing, Web feeds and social networking sites. He created "Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us" to describe his path through the Internet. His creation was the most popular video on the Internet surpassing Beyonce's latest pop music video.

Water Research Institute Receives $1.3M for Support of State’s Water Plan

Oklahoma State University - The Oklahoma Water Resources Board has awarded a contract valued at $1.3M to the Oklahoma Water Resources Research Institute (known as the Water Research Institute, WRI) at OSU in support of the revision of the Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan(OCWP).

KU Professor, Student Find New Variable in Common Drug Therapy Problem

University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas- A University of Kansas researcher and a pharmacy student from Newton have uncovered a potentially important variable to aid in understanding a common problem in drug therapy: why a standard dosage may not work for all patients.

Dr. Vojislav Kalanovic's VDK1000 Invention Automates Jewelry Processing

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology – South Dakota - As a professor and past chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Vojislav Kalanovic teaches students, participates in research, and helps to organize departmental priorities. Eight years ago, Kalanovic invented the first-ever robotic jewelry application. Since that time, he has come to be known as the “father of robotic applications” within the jewelry industry and has received numerous patents, awards, and accolades for his work. He has also created a fourth generation of jewelry processing machines.

January 22, 2007

PIERRE, S.D. (AP)

Governor Rounds today announced a donation will help connect the state university system to a technology upgrade that some think is needed to lure a national underground physics laboratory to the Black Hills. Rounds says the Great Plains Education Foundation is donating eight (m) million dollars for the connection to the so-called I-3 Internet. He says the universities would be connected to a dedicated ten gigabyte fiber-optic network and the hoped-for Homestake underground science lab. Rounds says the donation will further enhance South Dakota's National Science Foundation application for the lab. Homestake is one of two finalists for the 500 (m) million-dollar project. The winner is expected to be announced in April. He says the conceptual design report for the lab was submitted today.

First GPN K20 Teleconference

Held January 9, 2007. The GPN K20 Initiative brings together member institutions to extend new technologies, applications, middleware, and content to all educational sectors, as quickly and connectedly as possible.

New Nanomedicine Institute Poised to Unlock Cancer Secrets

Columbia, MO - Size does matter, but in this case, the smaller the better. With the groundbreaking of the new University of Missouri-Columbia International Institute for Nano and Molecular Medicine, MU scientists will soon be using nanoparticles, or materials that are 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, to unlock secrets to some very large problems.

Transpacific Comparison

Fayetteville, AR - As a matter of policy, both the United States and Japan try to reduce occurrences of human injury and death due to medical error. Health officials in both countries realize that to develop any successful quality-improvement program to address this problem, they must obtain accurate information on the nature, frequency and cause of medical errors.

K-STATE GRAD STUDENT RESEARCHING FUNCTION OF BRACHIAL PLEXUS IN T-REX

Manhattan, KS - Imagine pulling pieces of a puzzle out of a box and attempting to put the puzzle back together. Only in this instance, the pieces of this puzzle are between 65 to 70 million years old and you must be very careful because of their fragile state. That's what a research project that a Kansas State University graduate student has undertaken involves.

November 20, 2006

The National Human Genome Research Institute

(NIH: NHGRI) announced the results of the recent competition for support of its three large-scale sequencing centers, strengthening efforts to use the power of DNA sequencing to unlock the genomic secrets of human diseases. Also today, NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large-scale, systematic approach to identify important genomic changes involved in cancer. One center will be located at the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, MO. See Article

MU Researcher Uses Radio-Like Device to Learn About Health and Disease

Columbia - Steven Van Doren, associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia, uses NMR technology to better understand the structure and movement of proteins, particularly those that contribute to cancer, emphysema, aneurysms and atherosclerosis, which cause heart attacks and strokes. The information, he said, can be used for pharmaceutical development. Van Doren's research team in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) also uses the technology to study proteins that plants use to fight infections. See Article

KU architecture students win ‘Home of the Year’ for second time

Lawrence - For the second time in three years, Architecture magazine has named a house designed and built by 20 University of Kansas architecture students as “Home of the Year.” The students are enrolled in Studio 804, taught by Dan Rockhill, professor of architecture. Their house, Modular 3, was completed in May. Perched on a hilltop at 534 Riverview Ave. in the historic Strawberry Hill neighborhood in Kansas City, Kan., the dwelling will be featured in the magazine’s November 2006 issue. Studio 804’s first modular house won the top award in 2004. See Article

Microsoft Donates Data Technology to University of Arkansas

Fayetteville - The Sam M. Walton College of Business and its information systems department at the University of Arkansas and Microsoft Corporation have formed a joint venture to establish a consortium of universities around the world. Consortium institutions will have the ability to leverage large-scale real datasets (for example, Sam's Club and Dillard's Department Stores) on an enterprise-level Microsoft SQL Server 2005, which is part of the technology gift that Microsoft has donated to the University of Arkansas. Now, Students in the Enterprise Systems Initiative of the Walton College and around the world will benefit from the Microsoft software, hardware and curricula. See Article

National Institutes of Health ranks UND College of Nursing 11th nationwide

Grand Forks - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently ranked the University Of North Dakota College Of Nursing 11th among the country’s top 100 nursing programs in terms of research funding. It’s the first time for UND on this list, which includes leading schools such as Johns Hopkins University, the University of California, and Yale University. See Article

November 13, 2006

MIDNet Award to the University of Arkansas to Support GPN Collaborative Middleware Project

An award from MIDnet, Inc. to the University of Arkansas will be used to purchase storage resources that will augment the research capabilities of several research projects and expand the capabilities of GPNgrid.

Ciena Corporation to Sponsor The First Great Plains Network/GENI Workshop

The workshop will occur at Kansas State University on November 30, 2006. The objective of the workshop is to identify common interests and devise a plan for participating together in NSF's upcoming GENI initiative.

NSF Announces Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure Program.

See Funding News.

Former US Secretary of Defense

Donald Rumsfeld, to Present Landon Lecture at Kansas State University – Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 11:00am, the lecture will be in Bramledge Coliseum. Check here for more information, or to listen to the lecture online (Live).

University of South Dakota’s Student Newspaper Earns a Pulitzer Prize

VERMILLION, S.D. - The University of South Dakota is pleased to announce that its student newspaper, the Volante, has been recognized as one of the nation’s best weekly college newspapers by winning a National Pacemaker award for 2005-06. Editor-in-chief Jenny Pohlman accepted the award on Saturday, Oct. 28 in St. Louis on behalf of the entire staff. This award marks the sixth time The Volante has earned a National Pacemaker, which is often referred to as the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism.

Building a Better Online Community

Researchers find characteristics that affect people's intent to participate in Web-based communities: COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Internet has been both praised for increasing social discussion and criticized for decreasing face-to-face interaction, but a new University of Missouri-Columbia study may help increase online social interaction if Web designers and operators take note. The study found several characteristics that make people more likely to contribute to online communities, including the presence of a moderator and messages that are interactive and posted at a slow rate.

October 30, 2006

  • MIDNet has awarded $24,000 to the GPN Middleware project for the purchase of storage resources that will augment the research capabilities of several research projects.
  • New UNL computer science center named for Schorrs—Lincoln, Neb., October 21, 2006—University of Nebraska alumni June and Paul Schorr III of Lincoln have been honored by their son and daughter, Paul "Chip" Schorr IV and Melissa Condo, both of New York City, with the naming of a new computer science center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  • KU professor brings lessons from European energy policies back to United States — If, as the cliché says, a reporter’s knowledge is a mile wide and an inch deep, then Martin Rosenberg is digging farther into the ground. Rosenberg, a lecturer in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas, is deepening his knowledge of alternative energy sources and why the United States could take notes from European nations.

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