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Recent National Park Service Interactive events 2010 Annual MeetingHere is the meeting page, with pictures of some of the participants.
NSF Workshop on HPC Center Sustainability
The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for an open discussion among High Performance Computing (HPC) center directors, campus information officers and campus research officers on the topic of the sustainability of research computing centers. Organizing Committee
2010 Network Technical Planning Committee ReportHere is a Power Point presentation of the results. GPN Second 10 Gigabit Connection Is ActiveI am pleased to report that the 2 10g connection is up and passing CPS traffic for MO, NE, OK and IA. MN and WI requested not to move from their current backup connection through GPN to provide redundancy for them. KanREN and ARE-ON (via OneNet) will contact the GPN NOC when they are ready to transition. Here is the utilization graph Bill Mitchell GPN to Double Internet2 Capacity on Behalf of MembersGPN is the first to sign with Internet2 to take advantage of the new pricing for bandwidth. This will enhance the regional R&E community and help to offset commodity Internet costs through the Internet2 Commodity Peering Service. Read the entire press release here! MCBIOS Graduate Student Award WinnersGPN was a sponsor for the 2010 MCBIOS (MidSouth Computational Biology and BioInformatics Society) Graduate Presentation Awards at the Annual MCBIOS Conference held at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas. You can see the list of winners and paper abstracts here. 2010 Best TED Talks on TechWatch the 2010 Best TED Talks on Tech FCC Broadband FilingQuoting Rob Vietzke of Internet2: Dear Colleagues, Attached is the final filing made to the FCC on the national broadband plan. This was filed this evening by Internet2, NLR, Statenets, The Quilt, 22 State and Regional Networks and HIMMS. Through your input in the community calls last week and the dozens of suggestions and improvements offered by many of you since the draft was distributed, this document has improved immeasurably. With luck, it will echo strong sentiments within the FCC in favor of our community and provide a path for future successes. (Of course, that will come through additional hard work to solidify these recommendations in to policy.) The document is, in itself, a testament to the leadership, collaboration and intensity this community offers the country. Rob
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National Park Service Panel Interactive EventDecember 1, 2009: National Park Service Panel. National Park Service representatives discussed online educational options with teachers. Organized by the GPN K20 Initiative. KSU Beocat Computing Resources in the NewsLargest academic research supercomputer in Kansas is Beocat at K-State. http://www.k-state.edu/beocat/ Leveraging the Silent StimulusMike Abbiatti, Executive Director of ARE-ON, says that Unfortunately, in many states high speed infrastructure, while it exists, has not been publicized or has been mislabeled as either another utility or as a stealth resource only available to a select number of special researchers. Learn more from Mike on this topic at http://www.wcet.info/2.0/index.php?q=node/1283 and start a conversation. Contact him at Mike dot Abbiatti at Areon dot net. High Performance Wireless Research & Education NetworkTake a look at the HPWREN video to see what's possible across a large swath of Southern California. The Power of Invention: University of NebraskaCheck out the video on The Power of Invention at the Science360 web site. 2009 GPN Annual MeetingThe Annual Meeting was held in Kansas City May 28th and 29th. There were over 70 attendees, and many presentations. The two keynote addresses and all of the presentations were recorded and are now available for viewing. The links to the streaming video are here. If the presenter has sent their slides, they are also available. Bridges 2009 MeetingThe 2009 Bridges meeting was held in Kansas City May 27th and 28th. The information about the meeting can be found here. The outcomes can be found here. K12 Interactive Distance LearningFebruary 24, 2009: Brown v Board of Education Interactive Distance Learning Event. Watch the video of this historic, online event celebrating one of the most historic decisions in Supreme Court history, overturning the myth of "Separate but Equal" education, and a landmark in the civil rights movement at Read comments from viewers like you: http://collaboration.greatplains.net/blog and http://collaboration.greatplains.net/k20. GPN on FacebookGPN has a Facebook presence for those of you who are devotees of social networking: You can search for and join Great Plains Network. You can also add Great Plains Network as a social network on your profile. Once your request to join is received one of several system administrators will approve your request. You can find discussions and events (e.g., GPN2009) associated with GPN. Greg Monaco 21:16, 11 February 2009 (UTC) Great Plains GENI Project Q1 ReportThe Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation Quarter 1 report is now available at [1]. Gmonaco@greatplains.net 13:49, 7 January 2009 (CST) GPN Cyberinfrastructure Brainstorming SummitThe Great Plains Network Cyberinfrastructure Summit brought together campus CI providers and users from GPN member institutions to learn from one another, to discuss how best to support one another in our CI efforts and to develop a roadmap to advance CI locally and regionally across GPN. You can find all the work products from the summit at this location: 2008 GPN Cyberinfrastructure Summit. Gmonaco@greatplains.net 10:00, 16 December 2008 (CST)
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