CIARA FIU participates in demonstration at Super Computing Conference “SDN Optimized High-Performance Data Transfer Systems for Exascale Science”

Join us for a special workshop “SDN for Scientific Networking”, a technical half-day workshop held in conjunction with SuperComputing’15

Title: “Data Transfer in a Science DMZ using SDN with Applications for Precision Medicine in Cloud and High-performance Computing”
Time: 8:40am  – 9:00am, Nov 20th
Presenters: Nam Pho, Dino Magri, Fernando Redigolo, Byoung-Do Kim, Timothy Feeney, Heidi Morgan, Chirag Patel, Chris Botka and Tereza Carvalho

Title: “AtlanticWave-SDX: An International SDX to Support Science Data Applications”
Time: 9:20am – 9:40am, Nov 20th
Presenters: Joaquín Chung, Jacob Cox, Julio Ibarra, Jeronimo Bezerra, Heidi Morgan, Russell Clark and Henry Owen

The next generation of major science programs face unprecedented challenges in harnessing the wealth of knowledge hidden in Exabytes of globally distributed scientific data. Researchers from Caltech, FIU, Stanford, Univ of Michigan, Vanderbilt, UCSD, UNESP, along with other partner teams have come together to meet these challenges, by leveraging the recent major advances in software defined and Terabit/sec networks, workflow optimization methodologies, and state of the art long distance data transfer methods. This demonstration focuses on network path-building and flow optimizations using SDN and intelligent traffic engineering techniques, built on top of a 100G OpenFlow ring at the show site and connected to remote sites including the Pacific Research Platform (PRP). Remote sites will be interconnected using dedicated WAN paths provisioned using NSI dynamic circuits. The demonstrations include (1) the use of Open vSwitch (OVS) to extend the wide area dynamic circuits storage to storage, with stable shaped flows at any level up to wire speed, (2) a pair of data transfer nodes (DTNs) designed for an aggregate 400Gbps flow through 100GE switches from Dell, Inventec and Mellanox, and (3) the use of Named Data Networking (NDN) to distribute and cache large high energy physics and climate science datasets.

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For Caltec article please click here.

The Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC) is an annual event promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and the NationalLaboratory of Computer Networks(LARC). Over more than three decades of achievement, SBRC has become the most important national scientific event on computer networks and distributed systems in Brazil, and one of the busiest in the area of Computer Science. Every year, SBRC has attracted nearly 300 full-paper submissions, of which around 25% can be accepted. Over 700 attendees have joined the event yearly, with a large number of students working in the field.(for program clickhere)

“Innovation is useless, unless real problems for real people are resolved”. With this statement, the US network ESnet Chief Technology Officer Inder Monga marked the first day of the 16th WRNP, which was held this week, in Vitória. The event gathered the research community in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Inder Monga was guided by the question “Why innovate?” and exposed how the traffic in the academic environment has evolved historically at a faster rate than the commercial Internet. He listed the characteristics of what must be the next network architecture. The redesign should stimulate greater interaction between the infrastructure and scientific applications.

The ESnet head proposed a new model for the improvement of the network flow and pointed as an alternative the Named Data Networking (NDN). It is a new type of architecture focused on content, which was indicated by its name and no longer by its physical location, defined by a network address. For the lecturer, the organizations that operate the academic networks need to “overcome software challenges”. Facing this, ESNet invests in a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) operationalization project, focusing on automation, analysis and assurance, aiming to offer operational support to this programmable platform.

Read RNP full article here.
For details from The Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC) click here.

The Coordinators of the ANSP project, in order to reassure members of its ecosystem and all those who are already aware of the excellence of the activities of BMAs, wish to make it known that the meeting in the second semester will offer all the activities that were planned for the meetings of the first and second semesters of the year plus the second edition of the SwitchOn Workshop – São Paulo.

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Building on the success of the HotSDN (Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking) workshop, the Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) is the premiere venue for research publications on SDN. Co-locating SOSR with the Open Networking Summit (ONS) provides an opportunity for more interaction between researchers and practitioners and more influence on the networking industry. In addition, registered SOSR attendees can attend shared keynote, plenary, and panel sessions, and the social event, on June 17-18 at ONS.

SOSR will accept a mixture of short (six-page) and long (12-page) papers.  In addition to traditional research papers, we encourage the submission of papers that present (i) the design and applications of useful SDN tools, (ii) surveys of important SDN concepts, techniques, and standards, (iii) technical overviews of larger research projects, production systems, and use cases, and (iv) open-source benchmark suites or measurement data for evaluating SDN systems.  SOSR particularly values papers that present experimental results or propose novel research directions that challenge the state-of-the-art.

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Conference agenda and registration information:
http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GEC21Agenda

Hotel is the IMU Biddle Hotel and Conference Center and
reservation link is http://imu.indiana.edu/hotel/
Reservation code: GENI21

Shuttle service from the airport to campus will be provided by
GOEXPRESS shuttle. Please use the link http://goexpresstravel.com/ and
reservation code GENI21 when making your reservation.

CNERT2014 will be held in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, on October 24, 2014, collocated with ICNP2014 (http://icnp14.cs.unc.edu/workshops.html).

Each awardee will be granted up to $1,000 to cover his/her workshop registration fee and travel expenses subject to travel reimbursement. Any student, postdoc and junior faculty affiliated with a U.S. institution is eligible. Students will be given higher priority.

Application deadline: September 24, 2014
Notification: September 28, 2014
Content of Application:

Applications for a travel grant should contain the following:

• Biography: A brief description of the applicant, including name, mailing address, gender, title, school affiliation in the USA, address, and, if a student, current  year in degree path and when the degree is expected.
• Application:  A  brief  paragraph  explaining  why  the  applicant  is  interested in  attending CNERT2014.
• Reference  Letter:  For  student  applicants  a  letter  from  the  student’s  advisor  confirming the expected benefits to the applicant.
• Cost Estimate: An estimate  of  travel  costs   is  required. Round-trip airfare  from  the candidate’s home  airport  to  the  conference  area  airport,  number  of  nights  hotel  support the applicant expects to need, and other costs such as meals, ground transportation, etc.

The awardees must register and attend the conference in person. Payment will only be made to the awardees as long as they submit the expense report (with receipts) within 30 days after CNERT2014.

Applications should be submitted to CNERTworkshop@gmail.com.

The CNERT2014 workshop website and the latest CNERT2014 workshop program
can be found at http://icnp2014.csec.rit.edu and http://icnp2014.csec.rit.edu/program.php,
respectively. Early registration rates apply before Sept 21, 2014 (http://icnp14.cs.unc.edu/registration.html).

CNERT2014 Travel Grant applications are being accepted with a deadline of
Sept 24, 2014. Attached is the instructions for the travel grant
application. If interested, please submit your application ASAP due to the
number of travel grants are limited.

CNERT2014 TPC Committee

Bing Wang (University of Connecticut)
Kaiqi Xiong (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Mark Berman (BBN-GPO)
Thanasis Korakis (NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering)

In special reports, in the first half of September 2014, FAPESP’s News Agency highlighted the events of the 6th Biannual Meeting of ANSP (BMA6) and CineGrid Brasil 2014, which occurred together in the USP School of Medicine, in São Paulo, in the week of 25 to 29 August, 2014.
In an article dated 5 September, 2014, “The speed of the academic internet’s international connection will be doubled”, Elton Alisson outlined the 25-year history of ANSP’s network operation, marked in 2014.
In an interview, available on video, Prof. Fernandez Lopez, of the USP School of Medicine, principal researcher on the Fapesp ANSP project, and coordinator of BMA6 (ANSP 6th Biannual Meeting), explains why the current speed of data transmission has become inadequate for communication between the São Paulo academic networks and the international academic community, and he announces that, from 2015, the first academic 100 gigabits internet connection between the Southern and Northern hemispheres will be up and running. This connection, currently in beta testing, will establish a much faster communication between the current networks in the ANSP Ecosystem and research networks in the United States and other countries, via Miami.

Read Full story here.

Workshop Announcement
A limited number of spaces are available for US participants at the upcoming NSF sponsored workshop on the development of a next-generation, interoperable, federated, networking cyberinfrastructure (CI). Federation has become an important tool in building cyberinfrastructure. Multiple federated systems have grown up via parallel evolution in the GENI, Cloud and Grid communities. As distributed computing, high-performance computing, and advanced networking are brought together to solve next generation problems, it is important to identify cross-community common supporting elements and technologies for federation. The workshop will bring together a diverse group of networking and CI community leaders to discuss development of next-generation, interoperable, federated, networking CI. This process of building this CI is already underway in the form of shared and federated infrastructure operated by formal and ad hoc collaborations among researchers and infrastructure owners, however, these collaborations are in large part operating without the benefit of consensus approaches for integration and federation. Creating consensus will require discussion and research among the networking and CI community and their leaders to identify and address the challenging problems in the federation and interoperability of existing and future federated and non-federated cyberinfrastructures. We request networking and cyberinfrastructure community leaders to participate to make this workshop a success.

Call for Position Papers

Potential participants should indicate their interest through submission of a brief POSITION PAPER. Position papers will be used to gauge participants’ interests and to structure discussions during the workshop. Your position paper should relate to ongoing research or cyberinfrastructure experience. Brief papers of 1-2 pages are encouraged; papers should not exceed 6 pages. Please submit your position paper to nextgenci@eecs.utk.edu.  Position papers should be submitted by Sept. 10, and invited participants will be notified by Sept. 15.

Workshop Organizers
Victor Hazlewood, Chief Operating Officer, Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS), University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
Rob Ricci, Research Assistant Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah

Sponsorship
NSF is sponsoring the workshop including some travel funds for participants. Also, Internet2 is sponsoring the facilities for the workshop.

Travel Assistance
Travel assistance is available for a limited number of participants. Travel assistance will be coordinated through University of Tennessee following all applicable federal and university rules and regulations. For travel assistance please send email to nextgenci-travel@eecs.utk.edu.

FIU CIARA will participate in the 6th Biannual Meeting of ANSP (BMA6) in São Paulo at the University of São Paulo’s Butantã campus from 25 to 27 August 2014. This will be a special meeting commemorating the 25th anniversary of the ANSP project! As one of the objectives of the BMA is to promote closer ties and integration among the members of the ANSP Ecosystem and, in particular, among the institutions that develop innovative research projects, BMA6 will be held in conjunction with CineGrid Brazil 2014, an international conference dedicated to the discussion and dissemination of video streaming projects that require high bandwidth. The activities of BMA6 take place from 25 to 27 August and those of CineGrid on 28 and 29 August.

All the BMA6 activities will take place in the University City (USP-Butantã). On the three mornings, thematic symposiums will be developed in the István Jancsó Auditorium of the Guita and José Mindlin Brasiliana Library. Facilities in this new auditorium, in addition to the traditional features, include the capability for image capture and the transmission of IPTV.
Courses will be offered in the afternoon, in the LaSSu (Laboratory for Sustainability) building, in USP’s Polytechnic School.

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