News for and about the Internet2 community

[Greg Wood <>]

IUB, IUPUI, AND PURDUE MARK I-LIGHT ANNIVERSARY, HIGHLIGHT STATE 
UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP

Researchers to demonstrate advances in science and information 
technology enabled by I-Light at December 4 workshop; 
internationally-acclaimed Larry Smarr to keynote

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana -- In December of last year, Governor Frank 
O'Bannon symbolically launched I-Light, a fiber optic network connecting 
Indiana University Bloomington, IUPUI, and Purdue University's West 
Lafayette campus to each other, and to the national Internet2 
infrastructure. One year later, the network is already enabling 
important new research and applications while realizing cost savings for 
the campuses and the State. These achievements will be celebrated at the 
I-Light Applications Workshop, December 4, at IUPUI.

The I-Light Network was the first fully operational network of its type 
and a distinction for the State of Indiana.  "I-Light strengthens 
Indiana's growing reputation as a major center for information 
technology and telecommunications, and positions the State's research 
universities at the forefront in the development of advanced 
telecommunications applications," said Indiana University Vice President 
for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Michael McRobbie.

On December 4, researchers and technologists from IU Bloomington, IUPUI, 
and Purdue will demonstrate some of the advances in science and 
information technology already made possible by I-Light. At the first 
I-Light Applications Workshop, to be held at the IUPUI University Place 
Conference Center in Indianapolis, participants can learn how the 
I-Light network is being used for applications in advanced computing, 
visualization, and remote collaboration, and about how the I-Light 
networking environment can enrich research programs in a wide variety of 
disciplines.

The keynote speaker for the workshop is the internationally acclaimed 
Larry Smarr.

Smarr is a pioneer in prototyping a national information infrastructure 
to support academic research, governmental functions, and industrial 
competitiveness, and is the founding director of the California 
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at the 
Universities of California at San Diego and Irvine. Smarr previously 
served as founding director for both the National Center for 
Supercomputing Applications and the National Computational Science 
Alliance Presently, Smarr is a member of the President's Information 
Technology Advisory Committee.

"I-Light has allowed IU and Purdue to pool their high-end computational 
resources and create a facility with an aggregate peak capacity well 
over one trillion mathematical operations per second," noted Dr. Craig 
Stewart, IU's Director of Research and Academic Computing. "As a result, 
scientists from both universities have the ability to run extremely 
large applications, including biomedical applications used by 
researchers working in the Indiana Genomics Initiative at IU, as well as 
homeland security applications being used by researchers at Purdue."

I-Light supports highly advanced research applications and makes 
possible virtual, real-time collaborative workspaces for scientists and 
technologists on the core campuses of Indiana's major research 
universities. In addition, I-Light enables scientists and researchers to 
exchange tremendously increased volumes of scientific data.

In the year since its inception, I-Light has made possible greater 
independence in telecommunications through decreased dependence on 
telecommunication providers. "With multiple strands of optical fiber, 
I-Light increases current networking capacity by many orders of 
magnitude, providing more than enough capacity to meet demand over the 
next 10 to 20 years, " said Brian D. Voss, IU Associate Vice President 
for Telecommunications. "For example, in August of this year, IU was 
able to achieve a near four-fold increase in capacity for normal 
Internet traffic -- at no increase in cost - by leveraging I-Light and 
its connectivity and co-location with the national internet
infrastructure in Indianapolis."

This increased capacity, which is in addition to existing Internet2 
connectivity, is allocated equally between the Halls of Residence at 
IUB, the IUB campus, and the IUPUI campus and its connections to the six 
regional campuses.  As well, Purdue and the State of Indiana, via the 
Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System, were able to
obtain similar capacity improvements at no additional cost using I-Light.

The I-Light Applications Workshop provides an occasion for participants 
to explore opportunities for collaboration, research, and scholarship 
using I-Light. For more about I-Light and the upcoming workshop, see: 
http://www.i-light.org/.

Contact:
Christine Y. Fitzpatrick
Deputy Communications Officer
IU Office of the Vice President for Information Technology & CIO
317-278-1818 (voice)
317-274-4513 (fax)


---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news-+
For list utilities, archives, subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. please visit the
ListProc web interface at 

   http://archives.internet2.edu/

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news--
From LP-APPROVED-BY-MODERATOR
Return-Path: 
<>
Delivered-To: 

Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
        by basie.internet2.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38C27B4F2
        for 
<>;
 Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:43:40 -0500 (EST)
Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net 
[207.69.200.246])
        by basie.internet2.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A147B471
        for 
<>;
 Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:43:39 -0500 (EST)
Received: from dialup-209.244.229.171.dial1.washington1.level3.net 
([209.244.229.171] helo=MelyssaF.fiu.edu)
        by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1)
        id 18LvuS-0007GO-00
        for 
;
 Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:43:37 -0500
Message-Id: 
<>
X-Sender: 

X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:43:31 -0500
To: 

From: Melyssa Fratkin 
<>
Subject: AMPATH Workshop, January 2003
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="=====================_3035995==_.ALT"
X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8
Message-Tag: 1612
Reply-To: 

Sender: 

X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN

--=====================_3035995==_.ALT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


December 10, 2002

Dear colleagues:

You are cordially invited to attend the FIU-AMPATH Workshop: Fostering=20
Collaborations and Next Generation Infrastructure. This workshop, sponsored=
=20
by the National Science Foundation and Florida International University,=20
will take place in Miami on January 29-31, 2003.  The main objective of the=
=20
workshop is to create an environment for AMPATH participants, potential=20
participants and those with a regional, hemispheric or international=20
interest in the project to exchange ideas, form new and solidify existing=20
collaborations.

This workshop will showcase presentations and panels which have not=20
previously been covered at AMPATH Conferences, including optical=20
networking, distance learning, biosciences, and disaster management, as=20
well as demonstrations of international collaborative projects over the=20
high speed network.  Now that AMPATH is an established network, we feel it=
=20
is imperative to bring together the networking community with the=20
applications community, to improve coordination of network planning and the=
=20
pooling of resources.  We will also take this opportunity to hold the first=
=20
meetings of the AMPATH Working Groups on Astronomy, High Energy Physics,=20
Digital Video and Atmospheric and Oceanographic sciences.

AMPATH is a project of Florida International University, in support of=20
scientific research applications that involve either collaboration between=
=20
U.S. and multi-national researchers or wholly U.S.-run projects in the=20
AMPATH service area.   AMPATH's goal is to facilitate research=20
collaboration between South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean=20
and the rest of the world, to further advance U.S. science and=20
education.  For more information and to register for the workshop, please=20
see the workshop web site at http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/Miami2003.htm

We hope you will be able to join us.

Sincerely,


Julio E. Ibarra
Director, AMPATH / Advanced Research Networking



Heidi L. Alvarez
Associate Director for AMPATH




Estimado colegas:

Le invitamos cordialmente a asistir al Taller AMPATH: Fomentando=20
Colaboraciones e infraestructura de la pr=F3xima generaci=F3n. Este taller,=
=20
apoyado por la fundaci=F3n nacional de ciencia estadounidense (NSF) y=
Florida=20
International University (FIU), tomar=E1 lugar el 29 al 31 de enero de 2003=
=20
en Miami.  El objetivo principal del taller es crear un ambiente para que=20
los miembros de AMPATH, miembros potenciales y los que tengan intereses=20
regionales, hemisf=E9ricos o internacionales puedan intercambiar ideas,=20
formar nuevas colaboraciones, y fortalecer colaboraciones existentes.

Este taller ofrecer=E1 presentaciones y paneles que no han sido presentados=
=20
previamente en reuniones de AMPATH, incluso redes =F3pticas, educaci=F3n a=
=20
distancia, ciencias biol=F3gicas y gesti=F3n de desastres. Tambi=E9n habr=E1=
=20
demostraciones de proyectos colaborativos internacionales por medio de la=20
red de alta velocidad.  Ya que AMPATH es una red bien establecida, sentimos=
=20
el imperativo de reunir a la comunidad de enredamiento con la comunidad de=
=20
aplicaciones, para mejorar la coordinaci=F3n de planes de enredamiento y la=
=20
uni=F3n de recursos.  Tambi=E9n utilizaremos esta oportunidad para tener las=
=20
primeras reuniones de los grupos tem=E1ticos (Working Groups) de AMPATH en=
=20
astronom=EDa, f=EDsica de alta energ=EDa, video digital y ciencias=
atmosf=E9ricas y=20
ocean=F3grafas.

La red de AmericasPATH (AMPATH) es un proyecto de FIU, apoyando=20
aplicaciones de investigaci=F3n cient=EDfica que involucran o un a=
colaboraci=F3n=20
entre investigadores estadounidenses y extranjeros o proyectos totalmente=20
estadounidenses en la =E1rea de servicio de AMPATH.  La meta de AMPATH es=20
facilitar colaboraciones en investigaci=F3n entre Sudam=E9rica,=
Centroam=E9rica,=20
M=E9xico y el Caribe y el resto del mundo, para avanzar ciencia y educaci=F3=
n=20
en los EEUU.  Para mas informaci=F3n sobre este taller y para inscribirse,=
=20
vea al http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/Miami2003.htm.

Esperamos que pueda asistir.

Atentamente,


Julio E. Ibarra
Director, AMPATH / Advanced Research Networking


Heidi L. Alvarez
Associate Director for AMPATH




Melyssa Fratkin
AMPATH International Development

301-529-5397 (cell)

--=====================_3035995==_.ALT
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<html>
<div align=3D"right">December 10, 2002<br><br>
</div>
Dear colleagues:<br><br>
You are cordially invited to attend the <i>FIU-AMPATH Workshop: Fostering
Collaborations and Next Generation Infrastructure. </i>This workshop,
sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Florida International
University, will take place in Miami on January 29-31, 2003.&nbsp; The
main objective of the workshop is to create an environment for AMPATH
participants, potential participants and those with a regional,
hemispheric or international interest in the project to exchange ideas,
form new and solidify existing collaborations.&nbsp; <br><br>
This workshop will showcase presentations and panels which have not
previously been covered at AMPATH Conferences, including optical
networking, distance learning, biosciences, and disaster management, as
well as demonstrations of international collaborative projects over the
high speed network.&nbsp; Now that AMPATH is an established network, we
feel it is imperative to bring together the networking community with the
applications community, to improve coordination of network planning and
the pooling of resources.&nbsp; We will also take this opportunity to
hold the first meetings of the AMPATH Working Groups on Astronomy, High
Energy Physics, Digital Video and Atmospheric and Oceanographic
sciences.&nbsp; <br><br>
AMPATH is a project of Florida International University, in support of
scientific research applications that involve either collaboration
between U.S. and multi-national researchers or wholly U.S.-run projects
in the AMPATH service area.&nbsp;&nbsp; AMPATH's goal is to facilitate
research collaboration between South and Central America, Mexico and the
Caribbean and the rest of the world, to further advance U.S. science and
education.&nbsp; For more information and to register for the workshop,
please see the workshop web site at
<a href=3D"http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/Miami2003.htm"; eudora=3D"autourl"><font=
color=3D"#0000FF"><u>http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/Miami2003.htm</a><br><br>
</u></font>We hope you will be able to join us.&nbsp; <br><br>
Sincerely,<br><br>
<br>
Julio E. Ibarra<br>
Director, AMPATH / Advanced Research Networking<br>
<br><br>
<br>
Heidi L. Alvarez<br>
Associate Director for AMPATH<br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
Estimado colegas:<br><br>
Le invitamos cordialmente a asistir al <i>Taller AMPATH: Fomentando
Colaboraciones e infraestructura de la pr=F3xima generaci=F3n</i>. Este
taller, apoyado por la fundaci=F3n nacional de ciencia estadounidense (NSF)
y Florida International University (FIU), tomar=E1 lugar el 29 al 31 de
enero de 2003 en Miami.&nbsp; El objetivo principal del taller es crear
un ambiente para que los miembros de AMPATH, miembros potenciales y los
que tengan intereses regionales, hemisf=E9ricos o internacionales puedan
intercambiar ideas, formar nuevas colaboraciones, y fortalecer
colaboraciones existentes. <br><br>
Este taller ofrecer=E1 presentaciones y paneles que no han sido presentados
previamente en reuniones de AMPATH, incluso redes =F3pticas, educaci=F3n a
distancia, ciencias biol=F3gicas y gesti=F3n de desastres. Tambi=E9n habr=E1
demostraciones de proyectos colaborativos internacionales por medio de la
red de alta velocidad.&nbsp; Ya que AMPATH es una red bien establecida,
sentimos el imperativo de reunir a la comunidad de enredamiento con la
comunidad de aplicaciones, para mejorar la coordinaci=F3n de planes de
enredamiento y la uni=F3n de recursos.&nbsp; Tambi=E9n utilizaremos esta
oportunidad para tener las primeras reuniones de los grupos tem=E1ticos
(Working Groups) de AMPATH en astronom=EDa, f=EDsica de alta energ=EDa, vide=
o
digital y ciencias atmosf=E9ricas y ocean=F3grafas. <br><br>
La red de AmericasPATH (AMPATH) es un proyecto de FIU, apoyando
aplicaciones de investigaci=F3n cient=EDfica que involucran o un a
colaboraci=F3n entre investigadores estadounidenses y extranjeros o
proyectos totalmente estadounidenses en la =E1rea de servicio de
AMPATH.&nbsp; La meta de AMPATH es facilitar colaboraciones en
investigaci=F3n entre Sudam=E9rica, Centroam=E9rica, M=E9xico y el Caribe y =
el
resto del mundo, para avanzar ciencia y educaci=F3n en los EEUU.&nbsp; Para
mas informaci=F3n sobre este taller y para inscribirse, vea al
<a href=3D"http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/Miami2003.htm"; eudora=3D"autourl"><font=
color=3D"#0000FF"><u>http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/Miami2003.htm</a></u></font>=
.
<br><br>
Esperamos que pueda asistir.&nbsp; <br>
&nbsp;<br>
Atentamente,<br><br>
<br>
Julio E. Ibarra<br>
Director, AMPATH / Advanced Research Networking<br>
<br><br>
Heidi L. Alvarez<br>
Associate Director for AMPATH<br>
<br><br>
<br>
<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
<font face=3D"Rockwell">Melyssa Fratkin<br>
AMPATH International Development<br>
<br>
301-529-5397 (cell)<br>
</font></html>

--=====================_3035995==_.ALT--

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news-+
For list utilities, archives, subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. please visit the
ListProc web interface at 

   http://archives.internet2.edu/

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news--