Seminar 03A - CyberInfrastructure: What, Why, How, and Who's Already Doing It
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Session Details

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room 203

Session Type: Morning Seminar

Speaker(s)

Diane A. Baxter, Education Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego
James Kent Blackburn, Senior Scientist, California Institute of Technology
Russ Hobby, Program Manager, Internet2
Mark Luker, Telecommunications Policy Specialist-NTIA, United States Department of Commerce
Ann West, Sr. Program Manager, Internet2/InCommon, Michigan Technological University
Session convener: Rosalinda Kloberdanz, Exec. Director, Academic, Research & Learning Technologies, North Dakota University System

Abstract

Modern cyberinfrastructure (CI) creates a “distributed computer” with resources dispersed in diverse geographic and administrative domains and the network providing the “backplane” for this computer. This session will present major players in research and education CI and will offer an overview of the CI Days program under way to assist campuses in planning and implementing CI.

The CI Days program is being developed in coordination with EDUCAUSE, Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Energy (DOE). The NSF’s TeraGrid and the DOE’s Open Science Grid build on advanced networking to provide leading-edge collaborative computing infrastructure, Internet2 and NLR provide the enhanced network backplane infrastructure, and the NSF’s International Research Network Connections program offers international extensions. Internet2 also develops middleware tools to enable end users to reliably access CI resources, and EDUCAUSE addresses policy and funding issues involved with implementing and operating CI.

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