Welcome Introductions and Overview Thomas A De Fanti

Welcome! Introductions and Overview Thomas A. De. Fanti Principal Investigator, STAR TAP Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago

Introductions STAR TAP/Star. Light Management • STAR TAP Management and Engineering • STAR TAP International Advisory Committee • HPIIS Team University of Illinois at Chicago

Introductions STAR TAP Management/ Administrative • • Tom De. Fanti, UIC Maxine Brown, UIC Laura Wolf, UIC Steve Goldstein, NSF University of Illinois at Chicago

Introductions STAR TAP Management/ Engineering • Linda Winkler, Argonne National Laboratory • Andy Schmidt, UIC • Alan Verlo, UIC University of Illinois at Chicago

Introductions STAR TAP/Star. Light Organizers • Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC – Tom De. Fanti, Maxine Brown, Jason Leigh, Andy Schmidt, Alan Verlo, Laura Wolf, Oliver Yu • International Center for Advanced Internet Research (i. CAIR), Northwestern University – Joe Mambretti, Mort Rahimi, David Carr, Tim Ward • Argonne National Laboratory – Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Charlie Catlett, Rick Stevens In partnership with: • CANARIE – Bill St. Arnaud, René Hatem • SURFnet – Kees Neggers, Erik-Jan Bos University of Illinois at Chicago

Introductions International Advisory Committee • • • Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory Tomonori Aoyama, JGN/Japan Heather Boyles, Internet 2 ITN Natasha Bulashova, Russia/MIRnet Ok-Hwan Byeon, KOREN/KREONet 2 Greg Cole, NCSA/MIRnet Manuel Delfino, CERN Harmut Richard Glaser, Brazil ANSP Shigeki Goto, APAN Alexandre Grojsgold, Brazil RNP University of Illinois at Chicago

Introductions International Advisory Committee • • • Ngoh Lek Heng, Sing. AREN Jer-Nan Juang, NCHC/TANet 2 Xing Li, CERNET Michael Mc. Robbie, Indiana U/Trans. PAC Kees Neggers, SURFnet Victor Reijs, HEAnet Ralphi Rom, IUCC Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE Dany Vandromme, RENATER Florencio Utreras, REUNA Peter Villemoes, NORDUnet University of Illinois at Chicago

Introductions HPIIS Team Consortia of American universities and National Research Networks serve to facilitate connectivity to U. S. high-performance network service providers, such as the v. BNS or Abilene. www. ampath. fiu. edu www. euro-link. org www. mirnet. org www. transpac. org Euro-Link, MIRnet and Trans. PAC receive major funding from the NSF High Performance International Internet Services (HPIIS) initiative. University of Illinois at Chicago

Star. Light: The Development of the All Optical Internet • Our “Next Generation Internet” text provides preparation for an all optical network – Powerful advanced services – Faster services provisioning – Enabling revolutionary applications Joel Mambretti and Andrew Schmidt, “Next Generation Internet: Creating Advanced Networks and Services, ” John Wiley & Sons, 1999 University of Illinois at Chicago

STAR TAP/Star. Light Major Support and Corporate Donations • Major funding provided by the National Science Foundation • Corporate donations – SBC/Ameritech – Cisco – GENUi. TY – Juniper Networks – Teleglobe University of Illinois at Chicago

STAR TAP Meeting Sponsors • Parallelldatorcentrum, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan • Global Crossing Europe • International Center for Advanced Internet Research (i. CAIR), Northwestern University • Qwest • Teleglobe USA University of Illinois at Chicago

Agenda University of Illinois at Chicago

STAR TAP/Star. Light Meeting Agenda 9: 00 -9: 35 Welcome Introductions; Meeting Goals (Tom De. Fanti, UIC) STAR TAP Annual Update (Tom De. Fanti, UIC) STAR TAP Present/Future Applications (Maxine Brown, UIC) 9: 35 -9: 45 Future Directions of the US NSF’s ANIR Division (Tom Greene, NSF) 9: 45 -10: 15 Optical Networking Initiatives STAR TAP’s Star. Light (Tom De. Fanti, UIC) SURFnet’s connections to Star. Light (Erik-Jan Bos, SURFnet) 10: 15 -10: 45 Break University of Illinois at Chicago

STAR TAP/Star. Light Meeting Agenda 10: 45 -12: 15 Optical Networking Initiatives, continued The Optical Network Evolution (Yves Poppe, Teleglobe) OMNInet (Joe Mambretti, i. CAIR/Northwestern) I-WIRE and DTF (Charlie Catlett, Argonne and Anne Richeson, Qwest Star. Light implementation (Andy Schmidt, UIC and Linda Winkler, Argonne) e. Science and Wavelength Disk Drives using CA*net 4 (Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE) Linking Broadband Wireless with Fiber Networks (Larry Smarr, Cal-(IT)2/UCSD) 12: 15 -1: 30 Lunch University of Illinois at Chicago

STAR TAP/Star. Light Meeting Agenda 1: 30 -3: 00 Evolving Applications and Network Performance European Data Grids (Fabrizio Gagliardi, CERN) Distributed Tera-mining (Bob Grossman, UIC) International Grid Communities (Gri. Phy. N, i. VDGL) (Carl Kesselman, USC/ISI) Application-Level Network Performance/Measurement Tools (Jason Leigh, UIC) Global Grid Forum, e. Grid and ap. Grid communities (Charlie Catlett, Argonne) Global NOC and STAR TAP Weather Map (Jim Williams, Indiana) MIRnet Utilization Monitoring and Reporting Software (Greg Cole, NCSA) SC Global (Maxine Brown, UIC) 3: 00 -3: 30 Break; VR-CUBE tours; signup sheets at registration desk. University of Illinois at Chicago

STAR TAP/Star. Light Meeting Agenda 3: 30 -4: 00 Optical Networking Initiatives, continued SURFnet/Star. Light connectivity implementation (Eric-Jan Bos, SURFnet) Optical Wavelengths (Gert Nieveld, Global Crossing Europe) 4: 00 -4: 20 HPIIS Team Euro-Link (Tom De. Fanti, UIC) Trans. PAC (Jim Williams, Indiana University) MIRnet (Greg Cole, NCSA) AMPATH (Heidi Alvarez, Florida International University) 4: 20 -4: 30 International Transit Networks (ITNs) Abilene ITN (Heather Boyles, Internet 2) CA*net ITN (David Macneil, CANARIE) 4: 30 -5: 00 Open Discussion on Optical Networking (Larry Smarr, UCSD/Cal-(IT)2 and Tom De. Fanti, UIC) University of Illinois at Chicago

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