[nm-wg] [Fwd: [news] Building Instrument and Sensor grids over optical networks]

[Dan Gunter <dkgunter@lbl.gov>]

The web-services side of this seems related to NM-WG.

-Dan

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Subject: [news] Building Instrument and Sensor grids over optical networks
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:21:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: CAnet-NEWS@canarie.ca

For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 4 Optical
Internet program web site at http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/list.html
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[The CANARIE advanced networks workshop will feature a number of speakers
giving presentations on a number of exciting instrument and sensor grid
projects and how they will be interconnected over optical research networks
- BSA]

http://www.canarie.ca/conferences/advnet2004/index.html


CANARIE's 10th Annual Advanced Networks Workshop
November 22-24, 2004
Halifax, Nova Scotia


This year's 10th annual Advanced Networks Workshop will focus on developing
common network tool sets and services for shared access to research
infrastructure facilities across Canada using the high speed networks of
CA*net 4 in partnership with the Optical Regional Advanced Networks in each
province.

Over the past twenty years, the evolution of the Internet and continued
expansion in computational power and in data storage capacities have
revolutionized research in many fields. Building on the basic elements of
processors, software and fibre-optics, a new class of shared infrastructure,
what can be called "intelligent infrastructure", is transforming
computational and network research and leading to new distributed
architectures for data collection, storage, distribution and analysis. These
same architectures, based in part on web services technologies, are starting
to be applied in non-research applications, and could point the way to a
shared "intelligent infrastructure" supporting applications as diverse as
supply chain management and manufacturing.

A compelling need exists for a common set of research infrastructure
services to meet the collective needs of our research community to share and
effectively utilize expensive research facilities. But more importantly in
Canada, given the large investment by government in research infrastructure
it is critically important to insure these facilities are easily accessible
and available to our educational community and industry.

Most of the underlying technology will be built on the new generation of
next generation sensors and instrumentation using third wave technologies
such as web services, web work flow tools, peer to peer networks, etc. which
have the potential not only to reduce costs of using shared research
infrastructure, but also to enhance the collective scientific capability
through process re-engineering and distributed workflow of scientific and
data analysis. It will also enable Canada's significant investment in
research infrastructure to be made much more easily accessible to Canadian
industry and their own workflow and process re-engineering undertakings.

The conference will feature leading international speakers who are involved
with the cyber-infrastructure and e-infrastructure programs. Other invited
speakers will include representatives from some of Canada's major research
infrastructure projects. As well there will be a number of national and
international speakers who will be talking about the next generation
research optical networks that will be required to support these large
i-Infrastructure initiatives.

Program themes and speakers:

International Optical Research Networks
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E-science is a global undertaking by definition. How are these international
networks designed to deliver for scientists and researchers? What are the
best practices? Are they providing the support you need in your field? This
session will focus on what the best are doing, how they are doing it and
what they are planning for the future.

Speakers:

Eugene Yeh and Fay Sheu, National Centre for HPC, Taiwan
Dongkyun Kim, KREONET/KREONet2
Dr. Thomas A. DeFanti, University of Illinois
Kees Neggers, SURFnet
Victor Rejis, HEAnet


Remote Undersea i-Infrastructure Projects
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Some of the highest profile i-infrastructure projects are under water. What
is providing the impetus for the research, what results are expected, what
can we learn from these initiatives that can be applied elsewhere? What are
the challenges to setting up i-infrastructure in the ocean depths? This
session offers an opportunity to talk to the experts and get the answers to
these questions.


Web Services for Process Control and Instrumentation
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One of the main challenges in web services is creating the tools and
technologies for controlling processes and integrating web platforms. With
the new Grid web service standards, machine-to-machine e-commerce
transactions can be extended beyond the retail on-line shopping industry to
process control and manufacturing industries as well as oil and gas, pulp
and paper, distributed power, environmental industries and others. Our
speakers will talk about the challenges, the potential and the solutions.
This is an opportunity to share your ideas with them.

Speakers:

Dr. Ian Foster, Argonne
Dr. Gaetano Maron, INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
Dr. Vincent Tao - Canada Research Chair (Geomatics), York University
Dr Rick McMullen, Indiana University, Common Instrument Middleware
Architecture

Investing in Infrastructure
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There are a number of significant infrastructure initiatives under way
around the world. What are the reasons behind these investment decisions,
how do they expect the infrastructure to be used in research as well as
commercial undertakings? Where is all this leading? Talk to the people
making the decisions and attracting investment.

Speakers:

Kevin Thompson, National Science Foundation CISE/SCI
Dr. Brian Unger and Dr. Rob Simmonds, WestGrid
Dr. William R. Wing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Advanced Applications - Collaboration is Key
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Advanced networks like CA*net 4 enable experiments with next-generation
collaboration environments. Leading researchers share their results and
plans for using this unique world-wide resource in innovative ways. This is
an opportunity to learn about some of the key ideas in the drive toward a
world where being connected may be more important than being there.



















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